The Steel Guitar Forum Store 

Post new topic Bill Hankey RIP
Goto page Previous  1, 2
Reply to topic
Author Topic:  Bill Hankey RIP
Stu Schulman


From:
Ulster Park New Yawk (deceased)
Post  Posted 25 May 2019 2:19 am    
Reply with quote

Rest in Peace Mr Hankey!
_________________
Steeltronics Z-pickup,Desert Rose S-10 4+5,Desert Rose Keyless S-10 3+5... Mullen G2 S-10 3+5,Telonics 206 pickups,Telonics volume pedal.,Blanton SD -10,Emmons GS_10...Zirctone bar,Bill Groner Bar...any amp that isn't broken.Steel Seat.Com seats...Licking paint chips off of Chinese Toys since 1952.
View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail

Dave Mudgett


From:
Central Pennsylvania and Gallatin, Tennessee
Post  Posted 25 May 2019 6:27 am    
Reply with quote

I'm very sorry to hear about Bill. He was a unique character and certainly loved steel guitar. I know he had a lot of challenges the last several years, I hope he's in a better place now. My condolences to his family.
View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail

Tiny Olson

 

From:
Mohawk River Valley, Upstate NY
Post  Posted 28 May 2019 1:12 pm    
Reply with quote

Although I've not spoken to Bill recently, he and I were friends of quite a number of years. I always found Bill to be a genuine and friendly person.

I met him in the early-mid 80s at The Home Club. That's the location he used to hold his Mass Bash, Steel Guitar Shows. That establishment also hosted name country acts back then and that's how I first met Bill. We were there doing a show and he was in the audience. He came and talked to me for quite some time and we've been friends ever since.

In answer to a question asked earlier in this post, I wouldn't say that Bill was quite as intense, verbally in person as he was on this Forum. Nonetheless, it was obvious when you conversed with him that he was a person of high IQ. I always enjoyed my visits with him very much.

I'm sorry to hear of Bill's passing. My prayers and deepest sympathies go out for Bill, Beth and all his friends and family.

Sincerely,
Chris "Tiny" Olson
View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail

Chris Brooks

 

From:
Providence, Rhode Island
Post  Posted 29 May 2019 8:59 am    
Reply with quote

Bill wrote a laudatory review of my playing after one of those Western Mass jams in the early 80s. Thanks, Bill.

Chris
View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail

Roger Rettig


From:
Naples, FL
Post  Posted 29 May 2019 1:51 pm    
Reply with quote

I'm with b0b - I disagreed with almost everything he ever wrote but I have missed his rambling and verbose posts in recent times.

He was an asset to the Forum and our community even if interpreting his threads often took more time than I was prepared to spend.

RIP, Bill.
_________________
Roger Rettig - Emmons D10s, Quilter TT-12, B-bender Teles and old Martins.
----------------------------------
View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail Visit poster's website

John Brabant

 

From:
Calais, VT, USA
Post  Posted 18 Oct 2020 4:15 am    
Reply with quote

I am just seeing this nearly a year and a half after Bill Hankey's passing. Very sad to see. Tiny Olson reminded me of the venue where he would hold those steel guitar gatherings. I attended one of those back around 1991 or 92. It was somewhere just south of the VT border near Adams, MA as I recall. I got myself on a mailing list and remember receiving yearly notices of these gatherings with Bill's name on the return address, written in pen and ink as I recall. This is where I first met Jerry Fessenden and Sam Hudson. Anyway, how does that Lucky 7 gizmo attach to the changer? Having a hard time making it out on my laptop screen. Looks like it does away with the bend on the 3rd string to reduce likelihood of string breakage. Does anyone have any better pics or pics of what other manufacturer's do along these same lines? And whatever became of Bill's slanted fretboard idea, did it go into production?
_________________
John Brabant
1978 Emmons D-10 P-P
View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail

Craig Stock


From:
Westfield, NJ USA
Post  Posted 18 Oct 2020 11:20 am    
Reply with quote

I would propose to have a memorial section on the forum to notice members that have passed with a small bio to remember them by, could be totally voluntary.

So many of these guys have been a great part of my life, some I have met, others only through the Forum, just a thought.

I miss Moon (from Alaska), Eric Reid, Chris Ivey, Gene Jones, Billy Tonneson, The Big E, and so many others
_________________
Regards, Craig

I cried because I had no shoes, then I met a man who had no feet.

Today is tomorrow's Good ol' days
View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail Visit poster's website

Don R Brown


From:
Rochester, New York, USA
Post  Posted 19 Oct 2020 9:04 am    
Reply with quote

Craig Stock wrote:
I would propose to have a memorial section on the forum to notice members that have passed with a small bio to remember them by, could be totally voluntary.



Unless I'm mistaken, that's exactly what we already have right here. "Obituaries and remembrances of steel guitarists, their friends and families" is how the index describes this sub-forum.
_________________
Many play better than I do. Nobody has more fun.
View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail

Rich Peterson


From:
Moorhead, MN
Post  Posted 27 Oct 2020 9:40 am    
Reply with quote

Saddened to hear he has passed. Enjoyed his posts.
View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail

Andrew Goulet


Post  Posted 13 Nov 2020 9:05 pm    
Reply with quote

I'm sad to hear of Bill's passing. His posts could be real poetry.
View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail Visit poster's website

Lee Baucum


From:
McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
Post  Posted 14 Nov 2020 9:14 am    
Reply with quote

Quote:
Anyway, how does that Lucky 7 gizmo attach to the changer?


I've often wondered the same thing.

Take a close look at the changer on a Williams guitar.

Bill designed his changer fingers that way many years ago.
_________________
Lee, from South Texas - Down On The Rio Grande

There are only two options as I see it.
Either I'm right, or there is a sinister conspiracy to conceal the fact that I'm right.


Williams Keyless S-10, BMI S-10, Evans FET-500LV, Fender Steel King, 2 Roland Cube 80XL's,
Sarno FreeLoader, Goodrich Passive Volume Pedals, Vintage ACE Pack-A-Seat
View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail

David L. Donald


From:
Koh Samui Island, Thailand
Post  Posted 5 Jan 2021 3:40 am    
Reply with quote

Another true character of the steel world Bill will be missed.
I met up with him one night in Mass at a jamboree, and he was as entertaining in person and on steel as he seemed on forum.
A great loss for the heart and humor of the pedal steel.
RIP Bill Hankey
_________________
DLD, Chili farmer. Plus bananas and papaya too.

Real happiness has no strings attached.
But pedal steels have many!
View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail Visit poster's website

Fred Glave


From:
McHenry, Illinois, USA
Post  Posted 30 Jan 2021 10:32 am    
Reply with quote

Bill always offered an odd take on things, but I liked him. He is now in D9 heaven.
_________________
Zum Encore, Zum Stage One, Fender 2000, Harlan Bros., Multi-Kord,
View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail


All times are GMT - 8 Hours
Jump to:  

Our Online Catalog
Strings, CDs, instruction,
steel guitars & accessories

www.SteelGuitarShopper.com

Please review our Forum Rules and Policies

Steel Guitar Forum LLC
PO Box 237
Mount Horeb, WI 53572 USA


Click Here to Send a Donation

Email admin@steelguitarforum.com for technical support.


BIAB Styles
Ray Price Shuffles for
Band-in-a-Box

by Jim Baron
HTTP