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Topic: Lloyd Green with Faron Young |
Tommy Minniear
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Logansport, Indiana
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Bobby Boggs
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Upstate SC.
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Posted 15 Dec 2011 11:03 pm |
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| You're right on both counts. Thanks for the link. |
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Rick Schmidt
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Prescott AZ, USA
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Posted 15 Dec 2011 11:21 pm
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| Great! |
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Roger Crawford
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Griffin, GA USA
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Posted 16 Dec 2011 7:59 am
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| Is that the guitar Bobbe mentioned? I think he said Faron owned it and Lloyd played it while on the road with him. After Lloyd had enough of life on the road with Faron, he took the guitar and left it on Faron's front porch with a note that said "I quit"! |
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Frank Freniere
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The First Coast
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Posted 16 Dec 2011 4:50 pm
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Wowee! That was great!
Is Faron playing a Fender? That's a weird-looking headstock. |
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Diane Diekman
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South Dakota, USA
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Posted 17 Dec 2011 6:38 am
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Here's what Lloyd told me when I interviewed him for Faron's biography:
We played the Opry on Saturday night, and I asked Faron, "You haven't said anything about the plane tickets. What time do we leave tomorrow?" He said, "I can't take you. I can't afford to take you." I just simply said, "Well, then I won't be here when you get back [from Hawaii]." [He said,] "Take my guitar and leave it at the house."
I was playing a triple-neck Bigsby he'd bought for Joe Vincent. That's what I'd been using the entire time. I couldn't afford a real nice guitar in those days. It was a very expensive Bigsby steel guitar, triple-neck.
So I did. On the way out to town, Dot and I went over Faron's house. Hilda answered the door, and I said, "Faron asked me to drop this by." She said, "Just set it here." That's the last I saw of Hilda or Faron for many years.
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Diane Diekman
Sioux Falls SD
Author of "Live Fast, Love Hard: The Faron Young Story"
Author of "Twentieth Century Drifter: The Life of Marty Robbins" |
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Tommy Minniear
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Logansport, Indiana
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Posted 17 Dec 2011 11:16 am
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| Frank Freniere wrote: |
Wowee! That was great!
Is Faron playing a Fender? That's a weird-looking headstock. |
Frank,
Over the years I seem to recall seeing three different artists with this style of flat top guitar: Faron, Carl Smith, and I think Webb Pierce played one for awhile. As near as I can make out on a couple old photos I've studied the name on the headstock appears to be, "Gay" or something close to that. |
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Dave Alfstad
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Indianola, IA USA
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Posted 18 Dec 2011 2:56 am
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| Yes, Faron is playing a Frank Gay guitar. He built fancy guitars for many artists in the 50's and 60's. They are very cool to look at, but they don't look like they'd sound very good. Does anybody have firsthand info on how they sounded? |
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