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Topic: Town Hall Party |
Gary Jones
From:
Mount Vernon, Wa
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Posted 1 Mar 2024 12:18 pm |
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 Can someone tell me who the steel guitar player in this photo is? |
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Steve Hinson
From:
Hendersonville Tn USA
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Posted 1 Mar 2024 2:54 pm
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I think it's Billy Mize...the only CA steel player I ever saw playing a cable Fender standing up...
SH |
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Gary Hoetker
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California, USA
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Posted 1 Mar 2024 8:51 pm
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| Yep. It’s the late and immensely talented Billy Mize. What an era that was!! |
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J R Rose
From:
Keota, Oklahoma, USA
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Posted 4 Mar 2024 8:26 am
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I don't think he his standing up all the way. Hard to tell but looks like tall wooden stool. Also he has right foot on a volume pedal, would be hard to stand up. I used to have a long time friend who has passed (R.I.P.) now but he would know. I think he was living in the Modesto area when he was in Ca. and went to see Billy Mize a lot. My friend was also a great steel player of that day and time. No Pedals but was learning pedals.
He could do more without pedals than most modern day pickers.
Cannot remember what years he was in Ca. but had to be forty's or early fifty's. J.R. Rose
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Lee Baucum
From:
McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
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Posted 4 Mar 2024 10:39 am
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Off Topic: I really enjoy looking at all the (now) vintage guitars and amplifiers in these old photos.
~Lee |
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Jack Hanson
From:
San Luis Valley, USA
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Posted 4 Mar 2024 11:30 am
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| Lee Baucum wrote: |
| I really enjoy looking at all the (now) vintage guitars and amplifiers in these old photos. |
Me too! The old clips from Town Hall Party (and Tex Ritter's Ranch Party -- virtually the same thing) are a gas to watch on YouTube. I remember seeing some of those shows when I was a little kid in the Mojave when my dad worked for the USN at NOTS in China Lake. The first steel guitar I ever saw was either played by Mize, the great Marion Hall, or Buddy Merrill with the Champagne Music Makers (sponsered by the Dodge Boys).
Well they come from near they come from far to hear Marion Hall play the steel guitar...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eJUQZYfyqk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF05gVe47S4 |
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