Question about Buddy Emmons

Mitch Ellis · Post by **Mitch Ellis** » 8 Dec 2010 7:09 pm

Are there any photo's or vidieo's of Mr. Emmons' last public performance? Mr. Emmons, if you are reading this post, I would like to say "hello" and that I hope that you are doing well. Happy retirement!
Mitch

Tim Sergent · Post by **Tim Sergent** » 8 Dec 2010 11:20 pm

I hope he hasn't played his last public performance....somehow I feel like a few thousand steel guitarists are gonna agree.

Mitch Ellis · Post by **Mitch Ellis** » 9 Dec 2010 10:38 am

Me too, Tim. But after all, he has retired and I assume that means no more public performances. I've met Mr. Emmons, but have never had the chance to hear him play live. Since he's retired, maybe he'll invite me over for coffee. You know....show me a few licks....give me a few tips....let me take the Blade for a spin .....

Or maybe not.

Mitch

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 9 Dec 2010 12:36 pm

Mitch, "retired" is a reversible state.

Tim Sergent · Post by **Tim Sergent** » 9 Dec 2010 1:12 pm

Yes...that just means that now he can come out and play "just for fun".

joe long · Post by **joe long** » 10 Dec 2010 5:26 pm

I really miss his imput on this forum a lot.

Hook Moore · Post by **Hook Moore** » 10 Dec 2010 7:12 pm

Texas Troubador reunion show might have been the last show at this point..I borrowed this pic from my friend Lynn Owsley's website.
Hook

Tommy White · Post by **Tommy White** » 10 Dec 2010 9:13 pm

I listened to Buddy's black album "Emmons Guitar Inc." today for the first time in 12 years. It was as if I had new ears! The touch, tone, taste,knowledge, creativity, articulation and correctness in which Buddy played is astonishing , and that was over 40 years ago.
At such a young age, Buddy had designed the benchmark for pedal steel guitars, how it should be played, and recorded the quintessential pedal steel guitar LP with the coolest album cover of all time to boot.
The "World's Foremost Steelguitarist" is appropriate and fitting to Buddy, still today.
Happy Holidays everyone!
TW

John Macy · Post by **John Macy** » 10 Dec 2010 9:49 pm

Well said....

Cal Sharp · Post by **Cal Sharp** » 10 Dec 2010 10:30 pm

Yeah, Tommy.

Bo Borland · Post by **Bo Borland** » 10 Dec 2010 11:22 pm

Norbert Dengler · Post by **Norbert Dengler** » 11 Dec 2010 12:47 am

there`s been many great ones over decades but buddy is buddy!

my most listened player...

Norbert Dengler · Post by **Norbert Dengler** » 11 Dec 2010 12:51 am

just watch this...
file:///Users/norbertdengler/Desktop/YouTube - I Just Destroyed The World Buddy Emmons.html

Norbert Dengler · Post by **Norbert Dengler** » 11 Dec 2010 12:53 am

sorry, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFuYmuZpFiw

Hook Moore · Post by **Hook Moore** » 11 Dec 2010 5:35 am

Very true Tommy !

Russ Hicks · Post by **Russ Hicks** » 11 Dec 2010 9:43 am

WHAT TOMMY SAID

John Davis · Post by **John Davis** » 11 Dec 2010 10:12 am

And then some>>>:)

chris ivey · Post by **chris ivey** » 11 Dec 2010 10:40 am

indubitably!

i have just been revisiting the 'steel guitar jazz' album, which buddy said he wasn't all that thrilled about. from before the black album...buddy's essence was very clear and intact to me at that time. and he didn't have any buddy emmons records to learn from.

mind boggling!

chris ivey · Post by **chris ivey** » 11 Dec 2010 10:44 am

........and he had 'that emmons tone' way back then....before the emmons guitar was developed.

Bill Ford · Post by **Bill Ford** » 11 Dec 2010 12:26 pm

chris ivey wrote:........and he had 'that emmons tone' way back then....before the emmons guitar was developed.

I thought he was playing a PP Emmons on that album, promoting the new line of guitars.

Bill

chris ivey · Post by **chris ivey** » 11 Dec 2010 12:58 pm

bill..i was referring to the 'steel guitar jazz' album....recorded in 1963.

Bill Ford · Post by **Bill Ford** » 11 Dec 2010 1:02 pm

Apologies Chris,
Foot in mouth, brain not in gear. Senior moment...Bill

Stephen Gambrell · Post by **Stephen Gambrell** » 11 Dec 2010 2:19 pm

Ford----YOU had a senior moment? You IS a walkin'-talkin' senior moment!

Mitch Ellis · Post by **Mitch Ellis** » 11 Dec 2010 10:50 pm

Thank you all for the reply's. And Hook, thanks especially for the great photo! Is Mr. Emmons still playing the Zum Hybrid? When he and Mr. Lashley created the push-pull Emmons, I wonder if they realized at that moment just what they had created and the impact it would have in the world of steel guitars? Does anyone know what ever happened to the first push-pull that they made? I remember reading somewhere that Mr. Emmons thought that it was a beautiful steel and unlike anything that he had ever seen.
Mitch

Marco Schouten · Post by **Marco Schouten** » 12 Dec 2010 7:09 am

I play the song Greensleeves almost everyday. Sometimes I have the feeling that I played it really well. But then, listening to Buddy's version on the Black Album puts me back to reality. That touch, tone and expression....................it's from another world.