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Topic: Who has played steel for Elvis ? |
Pete Finney
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Nashville Tn.
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Posted 10 Aug 2009 2:44 pm |
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A Pete Drake quote about working with Elvis:
“He and I used to sit and play after the sessions were over; he loved the steel guitar. We’d sit for hours after all the other musicians would leave; he’d sit and play the piano or play guitar and sing.” |
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Louie Hallford
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denison tx
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Posted 12 Aug 2009 7:12 pm I played with Elvis in Vegas for short time in late 1960,s
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| Unfortunately, I woke up right in the middle of the first song and couldn't get back to Vegas or get back to sleep either. |
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basilh
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United Kingdom
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Posted 13 Aug 2009 2:11 am
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| BobbeSeymour wrote: |
| Many folks say I put Elvis where he is today, |
That's a 'Rotten' thing to say Bobbeee ! 
And Low Down as well..
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Bobbe Seymour
From:
Hendersonville TN USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 13 Aug 2009 6:41 am
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That's what I told them Basil, they should't have said it!
Bobbe |
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Bent Romnes
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London,Ontario, Canada
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Posted 13 Aug 2009 6:51 am
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| basilh wrote: |
| BobbeSeymour wrote: |
| Many folks say I put Elvis where he is today, |
That's a 'Rotten' thing to say Bobbeee !
And Low Down as well.. |
Basil, Bobbe, It must be an attractive place to be though, people are just dying to get there....
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Joachim Kettner
From:
Germany
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Posted 13 Aug 2009 7:15 am
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John Hughey on I'm movin'on the album, where
Cold Kentucky Rain is on. There is no steel on the latter. |
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Ray Montee
From:
Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 15 Aug 2009 1:33 pm On WHAT TUNES.....................did he play?
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| I'd be very interested for the sake of the JBFC.... to learn what songs/albums that JERRY BYRD purportedly recorded. Never heard of this before so am most interested. |
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Mitch Drumm
From:
Frostbite Falls, hard by Veronica Lake
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Posted 15 Aug 2009 8:13 pm
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Ray:
Here is the session log regarding Jerry Byrd. It looks like an overdub session at which Elvis may not have been present?
http://tinyurl.com/lcnoor |
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Ray Montee
From:
Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 15 Aug 2009 8:25 pm Many thanks to you!
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Many thanks Mitch............
I sure appreciate your information. Nice of you. |
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John Floyd
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R.I.P.
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Posted 15 Aug 2009 9:30 pm
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I've Sat on Bill Staffords Parents Front Porch in Gulfport Ms. in The 1970's And Looked Across Pass Road to a neighborhood Grocery Store where Elvis used to frequent around 1953 before his Sun Record Days. I've had several Gulfport Musicians including Bill Stafford tell me that Elvis worked the Bars in the Gulfport - Biloxi area before he was the "overnight success" in Memphis on Sun Records.
Bill Stafford may very well be the First Elvis Steeler, probably around 1953 in that time frame. I know Bill had a break in his Naval Service around that time, later on went back in the Navy and retired around 1973. Bill Showed me all the Newspaper Clippings about Elvis being on the Gulf Coast Around that 1953 Time Frame. Elvis also Dated a Girl in Bill Staffords parents, Handsboro Ms neighborhood. Who knows, Elvis may have left some woods colts on The Gulf Coast  |
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Alan Brookes
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Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 16 Aug 2009 4:51 pm
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| Mitch Drumm wrote: |
Ray: Here is the session log regarding Jerry Byrd. It looks like an overdub session at which Elvis may not have been present?
http://tinyurl.com/lcnoor |
Ray: That's the one I was referring to. I guess, unless anyone has contact with one of the others at the session, or a recording engineer present, we shall probably never know whether Elvis was present too.  |
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Ray Montee
From:
Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 19 Sep 2010 10:19 am
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posted in ERROR.
Sorry. |
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Ted Solesky
From:
Mineral Wells, Texas, USA
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Posted 19 Sep 2010 4:33 pm
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| Terry, Zane was a good friend. He told me in the 50's he was in a band where the the band leader didn't like pedals. So Zane came up with idea of knee pedals. The band leader didn't notice.? |
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basilh
From:
United Kingdom
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Posted 19 Sep 2010 5:05 pm
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| Ted Solesky wrote: |
| Terry, Zane was a good friend. He told me in the 50's he was in a band where the the band leader didn't like pedals. So Zane came up with idea of knee pedals. The band leader didn't notice.? |
Seems someone's lost, Sat-Nav may help, or THIS |
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Alan Brookes
From:
Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 12 Jun 2019 12:42 pm
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| Jack Stoner brought this subject up again, so it's a good time to look at it anew. |
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