Johnny Cox & MSA

Tommy White · Post by **Tommy White** » 30 Oct 2005 8:13 am

My dear friend Johnny Cox and his lovely sweet wife Joan delivered my new MSA Millenium (tons o'tone) and SuperSlide to me at the Opry this weekend. The guitars are even better than I anxiously anticipated.Incredibly beautiful craftmanship and as usual for MSA, ready to play right out of the box! I'm a very happy camper.
Special thanks to Johnny, Kyle, Sonny, Stan and Reece, my great friends at MSA.

Sidney Malone · Post by **Sidney Malone** » 30 Oct 2005 2:13 pm

Those MSA's do sound awesome, even with a hack like me playing them. I can't wait to hear what your able to get out of them!! Nothing less than astounding I'm sure!!

Plus there's none better than Johnny Cox to put 'em together and set 'em up to perfection!
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MSA Millennium S-12U
Walker Stereo Steel
Hilton Pedal

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Butch Foster · Post by **Butch Foster** » 30 Oct 2005 4:52 pm

Tommy, what a great job you did on " Making Believe".

Dave Burr · Post by **Dave Burr** » 31 Oct 2005 1:07 pm

Cool! Tommy, What color are your new MSA's?

Respectfully,
Dave Burr

Rex Thomas · Post by **Rex Thomas** » 31 Oct 2005 1:55 pm

NOW we're talkin'!

Bobby Lee · Post by **Bobby Lee** » 31 Oct 2005 2:15 pm

Is it red?

Bill Ford · Post by **Bill Ford** » 31 Oct 2005 2:21 pm

Red is good !!!! Bill

Jack Stoner · Post by **Jack Stoner** » 31 Oct 2005 2:24 pm

That "green" is pretty bright!

Steve Dodson · Post by **Steve Dodson** » 31 Oct 2005 3:06 pm

Great job Tommy,your playing and Tone was great. And who said only Black guitars sound good?

Tommy White · Post by **Tommy White** » 31 Oct 2005 5:33 pm

Bobby Lee,
You're a little stinker! ha-ha
By the way, my new MSA M3 is black, cause we all know they sound better.
Oh, and can you do something about that hideous tie I'm wearing?

Junior Knight · Post by **Junior Knight** » 1 Nov 2005 3:29 am

Tommy,
Glad to see you back in the MSA family!
A great guitar for a great player! And as we all know...black IS the better tone!!!
Take care and God Bless Ya, Junior.

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Bb is where it's at!

Darvin Willhoite · Post by **Darvin Willhoite** » 1 Nov 2005 5:50 am

I think red, white, and blue sounds better; or cherry sunburst, or??? Of course they all sound better with someone else playing them. LOL

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Darvin Willhoite
Riva Ridge Recording

Terry Wood · Post by **Terry Wood** » 1 Nov 2005 6:22 am

Great looking steel! Thanks for sharing!

MSA and their steels were always great!

Another Great reason for Maurice "Reece" Anderson and Julian THarpe for induction into THE STEEL GUITAR HALL OF FAME!

Terry J. "Woody" Wood
3 nails + 1 Cross = 4 Given

Johnny Cox · Post by **Johnny Cox** » 1 Nov 2005 7:36 am

Tommy, it is always great to see you and your lovely wife Teresa. This time it was even more special. What a thrill to build one of my all time heroes a new guitar. Welcome home to the MSA family.

Johnny

Al Marcus · Post by **Al Marcus** » 1 Nov 2005 9:54 am

That MSA M3 sure has got all the features a guy would want on a guitar.

I miss not being able to get the Opry on tv anymore and watching Tommy play...al

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Dave Burr · Post by **Dave Burr** » 1 Nov 2005 10:00 am

Check out the pics of Tommy posted on MSA's website. http://www.msapedalsteels.com/html/msa_family.html

Respectfully,
Dave Burr

Mark Eaton · Post by **Mark Eaton** » 1 Nov 2005 10:26 am

And I don't doubt for a minute that with the workmanship and design involved, the MSA M3 is worth every penny.

But they ain't exactly givin' those puppies away-for the price, it darn well better have all the features a guy would want on a guitar, Al!

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Mark

Mark Eaton · Post by **Mark Eaton** » 1 Nov 2005 10:39 am

I checked out those photos on the website-I hadn't seen Randall Currie's new paisley trimmed black MSA. Pretty cool!

One of the benefits of playing for a successful artist like Brad Paisley. I know a guy that used to be in his band, he said with Brad you travel in style.

One of only a handful of mainstream country singers that I like. Brad is a top-notch singer/songwriter and serious Telecaster picker, and Randall (Randle?) Curry is one fine steeler.

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Mark

Bill Simmons · Post by **Bill Simmons** » 1 Nov 2005 11:31 am

What a great killer combination...Tommy White and the new MSA! Hey Tommy, since I could never get Johnny Cox to leave his home door open at night when I lived in TX so I could steal his MSA, maybe you will since I live only 3 hours away from you now(Birmingham)! HA Congratulations on purchasing your new MSA.

Bob Snelgrove · Post by **Bob Snelgrove** » 1 Nov 2005 12:52 pm

Did you guys hear Randle Currie this weekend playing his with Brad Paisley. I'm a huge Randall fan but always found his live tone a little bright to my liking, but, the new MSA was really warm and punchy..... sweeeet

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Mark Eaton · Post by **Mark Eaton** » 1 Nov 2005 1:51 pm

Didn't hear him, Bob. Where would we have heard him?

I think they came through town about 90 minutes north of me pretty recently at Konocti up at Clear Lake, but I had to be somewhere else at the time.

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Mark

Bob Snelgrove · Post by **Bob Snelgrove** » 1 Nov 2005 2:45 pm

Sorry, Mark

The GOA tv show, Sat. night

bob

Frank Parish · Post by **Frank Parish** » 1 Nov 2005 3:20 pm

That guitar that Randle has is by far the best looking guitar I've seen yet and his playing is right there with it.

Pat Coyne · Post by **Pat Coyne** » 5 Nov 2005 10:52 am

Great pic of Tommy...but what we need is someone to put up the pic from his first album..i think he was around 15yr old? What a gentleman and married to a great lady. Thanks for being a great ambassador of the steel guitar.

Bob Snelgrove · Post by **Bob Snelgrove** » 16 Nov 2005 7:40 am

Tommy

What pickups did you go with?

thx

bob