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Topic: Thanks---Duane Marrs & Jeff Surratt |
Eddie Malray
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South Fulton, Tennessee, USA
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Posted 15 Jul 2004 7:07 pm |
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| A few days ago a couple of friends an I paid a visit to Duane Marr's steel guitar shop. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Duane and Jeff for thier gracious hospitality . Even though they were very busy, they took the time to show us many of their projects and new designs. It was a very enjoyable and educational visit. So---- Duane and Jeff----THANK YOU VERY MUCH. If anyone is thinking of a new steel in the future and really don't care for the "same old same old", you should look into one of Duane and Jeff's Sho-Bud rebuilds. You would have one of the most beautiful steels ever built,that great Sho-Bud sound, and a modern changer that is second to none. I would love to have one built myself but I understand their back-log is quite extensive. I'm pushing 63 years of age and had bypass surgery a few years ago so I don't make any long term plans. If I were a lot younger, I'm sure it would be worth the wait. So, once again Jeff and Duane---------Thanks.---------Eddie Malray_________ PS Bobbe Seymour, If you happen to read this, we came by your place also but you were out of town. Sorry we missed you. Someone said you had gone to Texas to buy a new "Millenium"------What ever that is. Sounds like some kinda lawn mower or a weed eater. |
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Eric West
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Portland, Oregon, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 15 Jul 2004 7:17 pm
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I have my Old Professional in for the turn around, and I imagine it'll be most if not all of a year, but I'm sure it will be well worth it.
I"m certainly planning on a trip to N Town to pick it up and hope to see my buddy Bobbe too.
As it is I'm just working steady day/weekend jobs, and time is flying as it has for the last twenty years.
I"m not familiar with all the newfangled steel guitars out there nowadays.
Some of them work out, some probably won't.
A lot of it, like Sho~Bud, has to do with people like Shot and Buddy, and how well they treated people.
EJL
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Stephen Gambrell
From:
Over there
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Posted 15 Jul 2004 9:59 pm
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"Some of them work out, some probably won't."
I dunno, Eric, most of the new steels out there are very well made, and guys like Del Mullen, Bruce Zumsteg, John Fabian and Bud Carter, Jerry Fessenden, and the few others who build steel guitars are working their butts off to put out the finest guitars they possibly can. Even the much-maligned-but-still-appreciated-by-some-Millenium is one man's idea of improving the instrument!
Gene Fields at GFI is CERTAINLY bringing something new to the table.
So maybe some of these guitars will turn out to be Hendersons, Excaliburs, even Indians, if I may use a motorcycle analogy. Still great machines, even if ignored by the "masses."
Not a nicer guy out there than John Fabian.
Not a better friend, nor more knowledgable salesman, than Bobbe Seymour. |
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Roger Shackelton
From:
MINNESOTA (deceased)
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Posted 16 Jul 2004 11:39 am
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Will they build a S-12U, 7 X 5 from scratch?
What about the price?
Roger |
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Eric West
From:
Portland, Oregon, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 16 Jul 2004 5:45 pm
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Well. SG, I am familiar with almost all of them.
I still like the Sho Buds. Mostly it's the string, pedal, and neck placement.
Some of them were mechanical nightmares.
Some of them will outlive both of us, let alone our hair.
No matter what, I imagine I'll still gig with my bush whipped PIII. Kind of like an old strat or tele.
It's just my guitar
EJL
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Stephen Gambrell
From:
Over there
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Posted 16 Jul 2004 11:32 pm
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"Me and my guitar, always in the same mood,
I am mostly flesh and bones, and he is mostly wood.
Never does grow impatient with the changes I don't know-
And if he can't go to heaven, maybe I don't wanna go." |
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Roger Rettig
From:
Naples, FL
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Posted 17 Jul 2004 5:10 am
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God bless JT! |
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Eric West
From:
Portland, Oregon, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 18 Jul 2004 7:21 pm
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Got a dog named David
Got a bird named Dinah
Got a birthmark on my thigh
In the shape of Mainland China
Got a somewhat southern accent
'Cause I come from Carolina..
Love it.
EJL |
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