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Topic: Mystery pedal steel guitarist? |
Andy Volk
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Boston, MA
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Posted 4 Aug 2017 3:00 am |
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Anyone recognize this fellow?
From Univ. of Texas Digital Collections:
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| Color photograph of a steel guitarist at the Texas Folklife Festival in September of 1975. The steel guitarist is seated on a small chair playing the steel guitar and wearing a white shirt, jeans, tan leather boots, and a dark brown cowboy hat. Members of the band are visible behind him as they okay under a striped canopy. |
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David Nugent
From:
Gum Spring, Va.
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Posted 4 Aug 2017 5:10 am
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| If someone could enhance the photo, he appears to be wearing a name tag pinned to his shirt. Also, note his distinctive method of holding the bar, with his thumb positioned along the side of the neck. |
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 4 Aug 2017 11:41 am
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Unlike the movies, I don't know of any technological way to actually make the existing image clearer. You can enlarge it, but it's still unreadable..
Maybe someone will recognize him..  |
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Larry Petree
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Bakersfield. Ca. USA
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Posted 4 Aug 2017 12:02 pm steel player
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| Looks a lot like a great player named Kenny Tranthum. He played a lot here in the Bakersfield CA area, and moved back and forth to Texas. He was also a great singer and six string player. This is my guess, and probably wrong? |
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Ian Worley
From:
Sacramento, CA
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Posted 4 Aug 2017 1:01 pm
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| David Nugent wrote: |
| If someone could enhance the photo, he appears to be wearing a name tag pinned to his shirt. Also, note his distinctive method of holding the bar, with his thumb positioned along the side of the neck. |
I believe it says "BILL" in capital letters. Yes I know, there will be a dozen posts to follow that dispute this. The forum would be boring without a lot of pointless debate.
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Chris Lucker
From:
Los Angeles, California USA
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Posted 4 Aug 2017 1:42 pm
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I make out the letters
E n c y c l o p e d i and either an a or an o.
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Chris Lucker
Red Bellies, Bigsbys and a lot of other guitars. |
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Ian Worley
From:
Sacramento, CA
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Posted 4 Aug 2017 2:13 pm
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| Come on Chris, it's clearly a "q" |
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Lee Baucum
From:
McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
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Posted 4 Aug 2017 2:14 pm
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| I don't know his name; however, I'm pretty sure he and I went to different schools together. |
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Ian Worley
From:
Sacramento, CA
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Jon Light
From:
Saugerties, NY
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Posted 4 Aug 2017 2:33 pm
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Not that hard to make out. How do you do?
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Andy Volk
From:
Boston, MA
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Posted 4 Aug 2017 4:20 pm
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It was Sam, Sam Antonio.
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Tony Glassman
From:
The Great Northwest
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Posted 4 Aug 2017 4:37 pm
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| Well, apparently his initials are M,S & A. That should narrow it down some. |
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Richard Sinkler
From:
aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 5 Aug 2017 8:14 am
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| Tony Glassman wrote: |
| Well, apparently his initials are M,S & A. That should narrow it down some. |
Mr. sam Antonio?
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Don R Brown
From:
Rochester, New York, USA
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Posted 5 Aug 2017 8:57 am
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| Andy Volk wrote: |
| It was Sam, Sam Antonio. |
I think he enjoys small boats. I've heard Sam Antonio rows. |
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