Meeting Bobbye Seymour

JAMES BANKS · From: Mineola,TX USA

I attended the memorial service yesterday for Billy Braddy. There I got to meet Bobbye Seymour. I have e-mailed him several times in the last couple of years. I must say, he is one super nice guy. He told my pastor we were old friends even though we had just met in person. He did try to get me in trouble a bit. I had just told him I operated sound at the church and he told the pastor I had told him I ran things around there. Bobbye, it was a real pleasure to meet you in person. Thanks for your time
James

Rick Garrett · From: Tyler, Texas

Bobbe is all aces for sure James. Not meaning to high jack your thread here but when I met him in Nashville Tn. he treated me as though he had known me all my life. Great guy and one of my favorite pickers.

Rick

Sonny Priddy · From: Elizabethtown, Kentucky, USA, R.I.P.

But Don't Let Him Around your Fried Chickin. Ha. Just Had To Put That In Bobbie. SONNY.

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Charles Curtis · Posted 21 Sep 2005 9:24 am

I think Bobbe helps a lot of us in the "steel" world. I am grateful.

Pat Burns · From: Branchville, N.J. USA

Bobbe is a helluva guy...I emailed him that I'd read this topic about what a good guy he was, and he told me that he was looking forward to seeing me at my memorial service, too!

JAMES BANKS · From: Mineola,TX USA

You didn't highjack the thread. You just re-enforced all I have heard about him. Reece Anderson was also there. He remembered me (as sound man) from his performance in Quitman in August. He is also a super nice guy. He told me to be sure and come by and say hello in Dallas in March.
JB

[This message was edited by JAMES BANKS on 21 September 2005 at 11:28 AM.]

Bobbe Seymour · From: Hendersonville TN USA, R.I.P.

James, thank you very much, you were the pleasant one though!
I was so glad that so very many of Billy Braddy's friends and fellow western swing players showed, many I hadn't seen since my early MSA days in Dallas.
This was also the first time that Tom Morrell, Maurice Anderson and I were under the same roof since the first 6 months of the fusion of the MSA company. I wish Tom could have been in better health.
I flew my little Piper Archer into the Mesquite airport and Mr. Anderson picked me up and we drove the 80 miles together out to the memorial service, one of the shortest trips for that distance I ever had. My treatment by Maurice and the MSA crew was like McCarther's return to the Phillipines, couldn't have been better. Many great things will be forthcoming from this visit.
This was an emotional memorial service, cried a lot, laughed at some of Billy's famous old antics, went to his house with Billy's wife Pat, and Maurice, Al Posey, and many of his old friends and got to meet many members of Billy's family that I hadn't met before.
How could such a sad circumstance be so emotionaly wonderful? I guess you'd have to have known Billy Braddy to know. He was a great player, but an even more astounding person, My life is greatly blessed by having known him. It looks like his wonderful children will carry on his legacy.
Mr. Al Posey,Mr Charles Tilly, Maurice, Bud Carter, Jr. Knight, all Billy's family and so many others, Like you Mr.Banks, made this such a wonderful service.
Pat Braddy, we'll all love your forever, kiss Barney (Billy's doggy) for me.

Bobbe

P.S., Maurice, the words "Thank you" aren't enough.

Bobbe Seymour · From: Hendersonville TN USA, R.I.P.

I thank you all for the wonderful personal comments Charles Curtis, you nut!
Pat Burns, you are so great and funny and have brought me so many laughs in the last several years that your memorial service would be a very rough one for me.
Charles C., you ain't doin' to bad your self!
The older I get, the longer I'm on this forum, the more I seem to love and appreciate every one of you.
Bobbe

Al Marcus · From: Cedar Springs,MI USA (deceased)

I met Bobbe Seymour at tha HOF fundraising show in Grand Rapids a few years ago.(I dont remember the exact year).

We were at the back of the hall, and talked while he was waiting to go on and play. You know what????He didn't get to play !!

They ran overtime and he had to fly back to TN. Boy was I upset about that, but he seemed to take it calmly. I really enjoyed talking to him. A super nice guy.....al

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Reece Anderson · From: Keller Texas USA, R.I.P.

The memorial for Billy Braddy was a beautiful ceremony and I felt blessed and at peace to be there to witness something so beautiful and reverent.

After the memorial while surrounded by so many friends of Billy, Bobbe and myself, I felt as though we were all taking part in a celebration of the life of a wonderful man who touched so many people's lives in a positive way.

The composure and inner strength of Billy's wife Pat, and all the Braddy family was inspitational, and left me in both tears and awe.

After the ceremony Pay invited Bobbe and I to their home along with others, and Pat proudly showed Bobbe and I their beautiful home in which there were signs of love and a wonderful life all around.

Billy was absolutely convinced he would win his battle, so much so he had just poured concrete around his house, had bought a new computer and new amp, along with other things which Pat made us aware, all of which were proudly displayed.

Billy had professed to me he was convinced he would win his battle during a phone conversation only a short time before his final visit to the hospital.

One of the last things he said to me was, "don't worry about me Reece, I'm in the best of hands, and I'll be fine no matter what happens"!

A special thanks to Bobbe for making the trip with me and for holding me up emotionally. It was such a blessing for me to be with so many friends and feel the love of each and every one.

It was a day which will remain with me forever, and one which I'm sure brought a smile to Billy's face.

Farewell my dear friend Billy. I take great comfort in knowing you are in the Holiest of hands now, and at peace........

Lyle Clary · From: Decatur, Illinois, KC9VCB

Were it not for our common love of the steel guitar, we would not have met some of the nicest people in the world this year. I include you at the upper 5 percentile on that list Bobbe. And by the way Bobbe, never let it be said that I am not good enough to carry your guitar case. I did, remember Benton?

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Joe Shelby · From: Walnut Creek, California, USA

I'm one of those many that Billy Braddy's
kindness touched. When I came to Dallas in
1980, I was a just a scared young pup a long
way from home. Dallas, at that time was full
of clubs, and nearly every one had a great
steel player. I played in a band called Rolling Country. We toured a lot, but any night we stayed in town it was honky tonkin'
we would a-go-go.
Billy was the weeknight guy at the Belle Starr, and he didn't know me from packing
peanuts. But everytime I came in there, he
would cordially (gentleman that he was) ask
me to sit in.
More sadness...Gary Hogue was the other steel
player holding court (with Donnie McDuff) at
the Belle Starr. Again, another guy who didn't know me from Adam, but was just the sweetest soul and a monster player.
I'll not soon forget the kindness of both these guys.

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