Growning Up In Tulsa, "Perks"

Randy Beavers · Post by **Randy Beavers** » 28 Jun 2007 7:17 am

Here are a couple of photos I thought I'd share with everybody. The first one is Speedy West and myself when I was 13. The second is me and Gene Crownover at Cains Ballroom standing under a picture of Bob Wills when I was 12. Let the zingers begin!

Al Miller · Post by **Al Miller** » 28 Jun 2007 7:31 am

Great suit Randy !!

Love ya
Boo Miller
P.s what kinda guitar is that?

Kevin Hatton · Post by **Kevin Hatton** » 28 Jun 2007 7:54 am

Thats what I call experience. Priceless.

Bill Hatcher · Post by **Bill Hatcher** » 28 Jun 2007 8:14 am

Looks like you had a cooler guitar than Speedy! Did he try to trade you out of it?

Larry Petree · Post by **Larry Petree** » 28 Jun 2007 8:15 am

Randy what a great start you got at a great age. It sure has paid off for you, and I am glad for your success.
I first heard of you from Zane Beck, who predicted you would someday be one of the great steel players. He was right, Larry Petree

Randy Beavers · Post by **Randy Beavers** » 28 Jun 2007 9:37 am

Yep... that's my old ZB. That guitar would be a '68 model. I still have it! Of course I think I still have that blue suit also.

Mike Black · Post by **Mike Black** » 28 Jun 2007 9:57 am

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Randy Beavers · Post by **Randy Beavers** » 28 Jun 2007 10:30 am

While I'm showing off my old ZB's... The blonde ZB is a '66 model. Can anyone guess who is setting behind it?

Larry King · Post by **Larry King** » 28 Jun 2007 10:41 am

Randy....in 1981 when I was interviewing/auditioning steel players for a job in Cozumel , Gene applied for it. However , he was beginning to be in poor health and I decided against it. I was a fool. Stupid too !!!!!!

Alan Harrison · Post by **Alan Harrison** » 29 Jun 2007 4:46 am

Hi Randy....Where was the Cimmeron Ball Room located in Tulsa? When I was in High School in Kansas back in the early "50's", a bunch of us went to Tulsa to see the Great "Leon" and his Western Swing Band but I can't remember where it was located realitive to Cain's Ball Room.

Love the pictures of the old ZB's, Wish I still had my "69" D-10. alan

Jerry Lee Newberry · Post by **Jerry Lee Newberry** » 29 Jun 2007 4:51 am

Thanks for sharing!!!!!!!!!

Donna

Darvin Willhoite · Post by **Darvin Willhoite** » 29 Jun 2007 7:36 am

I'll bet the old ZB still sounds great, does the blue suit still fit?

(couldn't resist)

I had a 12 string ZB for several years, but I really never got used to the universal tuning, and it was too hard to change the setup to experiment. So, I got rid of it and stayed with a D10.

Casey Lowmiller · Post by **Casey Lowmiller** » 29 Jun 2007 11:58 am

Who's sittin' behind the blonde Z.B.???

Mike Black · Post by **Mike Black** » 29 Jun 2007 12:03 pm

Randy Beavers · Post by **Randy Beavers** » 29 Jun 2007 2:37 pm

Alan, I never did get to go to the Cimmaron Ballroom. It burned down I believe in the early 60s. I can get info from my Mom. It was close to Cains though.

Nope, that's not Gene Pooler. Gene played a Wright Custom guitar. I really figured someone would know who that is.

The first picture with Speedy and I, notice the smoke between his ring and little finger! Back then he wouldn't play without one even if he didn't smoke it. It was for show! My how times have changed.

Herb Steiner · Post by **Herb Steiner** » 29 Jun 2007 2:46 pm

Beavster
I'm gonna make a wild hair guess... is it Jim Murphy?

Randy Beavers · Post by **Randy Beavers** » 29 Jun 2007 3:02 pm

Herb, I thought for sure you'd know this.

How about a clue? He's originally from New York and now lives close to you.

Jim Taylor · Post by **Jim Taylor** » 29 Jun 2007 3:02 pm

Those are great pictures! I hope you get to do the same for some other young and upcoming pedal steel players. They make great memories.

Larry Petree · Post by **Larry Petree** » 29 Jun 2007 3:17 pm

Randy, could it be Dicky Overbey? Larry Petree

Mike Shefrin · Post by **Mike Shefrin** » 29 Jun 2007 3:21 pm

Randy, great photos.Thanks for sharing. Is it Rick Price sitting behind the blonde ZB?

Randy Beavers · Post by **Randy Beavers** » 29 Jun 2007 3:42 pm

That's Rick!

He was just out of the service and went to work for Stonewall Jackson. The band I was in opened for them at Cains Ballroom. After the show Saturday night Stonewall flew back to Nashville and the band picked up a club job in town for the next week. My dad would go over and pick Rick up at the hotel and drop him off at the house for the day. We'd set around and play all day then at night I'd go sit in with Rick and the band at the club. I learned a whole pile of new material that week!

Rick was playing a permanent Sho-Bud then.

Alan Harrison · Post by **Alan Harrison** » 29 Jun 2007 5:13 pm

Wow, I've been looking for years for a photo of my old ZB and was going through some of my mothers old photos and there it was.
Looks like I was demonstrating the "CLAW" tecnique for the right hand. I guess I had been playing (or not) for about three years or so when this was taken. I bought this guitar from Larry Petree in Bakersfield around 1973.

Herb Steiner · Post by **Herb Steiner** » 29 Jun 2007 5:49 pm

Wow! I'd seen photos of Rick around that time, but I just didn't peg that one. Of course, I didn't really get to know Rick until about 20 years later.

Casey Lowmiller · Post by **Casey Lowmiller** » 29 Jun 2007 5:50 pm

Tell us about your Z.B. and tell us about those amps in the pic!!!

Alan Harrison · Post by **Alan Harrison** » 29 Jun 2007 6:18 pm

Casey, the one on the right is a Sho Bud, I don't remember the model, I bought it from Larry Petree. He might remember the model. I know It was built in Arkansas and the first night I had it on stage, it blew up and spent the next two months at the Factory in Arkansas. The one on top of the Leslie unit is one that I built. I moved to Bakersfield about the time that Mosrite was going out of business and would go by their warehouse and buy the amplifiers and speakers for about $35 for the two, then build the cabinets and sell them for $175. I built at least four of them. I do know that one of them is still being used by a fellow in China Lake California as a lead guitar amp.

Not much to say about the ZB, it was 8 floor and had 5 knee levers of which one of the LKR levers was not hooked up so I removed it. It was Clear finish on the top and the cherry finish on the front.

I still have the 1963 SG Standard which in the picture and it is about 98% of new condition. Wish I still had the ZB. (I know your from Wichita, My wife and I are from Pratt.)

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Growning Up In Tulsa, "Perks"

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