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Jerry Overstreet


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Louisville Ky
Post  Posted 18 May 2021 11:51 am    
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I know I've seen this answered somewhere, but can't find it.

On an episode of Hee Haw, the bass player is playing an electric bass but with the neck straight up in the fashion of an upright bass. Looked kind of awkward as he seemed to be always adjusting it.

I'm guessing he was formerly an upright player...just wondering who he is.

Dunno what year, but Lynn Owsley was on steel.
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Bill Cunningham


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Atlanta, Ga. USA
Post  Posted 18 May 2021 7:54 pm    
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Junior Penada, no doubt.
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Jerry Overstreet


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Louisville Ky
Post  Posted 18 May 2021 8:22 pm    
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OK. Thanks Bill.
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Bill Hatcher

 

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Atlanta Ga. USA
Post  Posted 21 May 2021 10:48 am    
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i used to play a lot of bass on gigs. i had a 1963 fender jazz bass with a factory installed metal peg hole next to the endpin. i did not have the peg, but you could make one easily by taking a length of rolled steel the size of the peg hole and then grinding the end to a safe point. then when you got ready to play, you just inserted the rod/peg in the hole in the end of the bass and the bass stood straight up and you played it like an upright. it also had the four factory individual adjustable mutes under the bridge cover.

im not surprised at an upright player back in the day playing electric like that. thats the way my old fender started out.

i sold that bass many years ago when i started building my own instruments. sold it to the guy who started out on the first road trips with patty loveless. used to see him playing it on tv a lot back in the day.
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Jerry Overstreet


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Louisville Ky
Post  Posted 21 May 2021 11:11 am    
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I had forgotten how he was supporting it, but it looks like it's just the strap as he keeps having to adjust it.

I found the video of the show where I saw this. 1977. Waltz Across Texas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr8VFRgpWOc
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