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Dale Foreman
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Posted 20 Oct 2019 7:38 am |
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Another great Louisiana musician passes. Jerry was from Eunice Louisiana and had been spending a lot of time in our area revisiting a lot of us older musicians. He was a great player and an even better person. RIP Jerry!
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Godfrey Arthur
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Herb Steiner
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Posted 22 Oct 2019 11:05 am Re: Jerry McGee
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| Dale Foreman wrote: |
| Another great Louisiana musician passes. Jerry was from Eunice Louisiana and had been spending a lot of time in our area revisiting a lot of us older musicians. He was a great player and an even better person. RIP Jerry! |
Gerry was the son of Dennis McGee, one of the legendary Cajun fiddlers of all time, and one of the first to be commercially recorded.
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Dale Foreman
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Crowley Louisiana, USA
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Posted 22 Oct 2019 1:51 pm Re: Jerry McGee
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| Herb Steiner wrote: |
| Dale Foreman wrote: |
| Another great Louisiana musician passes. Jerry was from Eunice Louisiana and had been spending a lot of time in our area revisiting a lot of us older musicians. He was a great player and an even better person. RIP Jerry! |
Gerry was the son of Dennis McGee, one of the legendary Cajun fiddlers of all time, and one of the first to be commercially recorded. |
You’re absolutely right, I failed to mention this.ðŸ¤
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Godfrey Arthur
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Posted 22 Oct 2019 2:53 pm
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Looking through pre-British invasion 1960's eyes, when the gods that ruled the airwaves were guitar players like Nokie Edwards, Hank Marvin, Gerry was right in there among the sanctified, a then, exalted position to occupy.
The fact that Gerry eventually took Nokie's place in The Ventures for a spell, is key.
Although Gerry was wont to play down his role as lead for the illustrious Ventures, he is still remembered for that position, more so in Japan as were The Ventures themselves.
And while in Japan this October, days before he passed at 81 doing what he loved to do, he was still wrangling "Wipe Out!"
Yet anyone who watched The Monkees' TV series were treated to Gerry's guitar work on that song along with other unknown hired-gun work of the period that many of us heard growing up.
https://youtu.be/96A0uyFWQHs
Gerry did sessions with the Wrecking Crew and working as sideman for many known artists of the day.
Hopefully a proper discog of Gerry's work will be assembled, as even Gerry himself lost track of some of his own contributions.
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Paddy Long
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Posted 22 Oct 2019 2:54 pm
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I had the great pleasure of getting to play with Gerry back in the early 80's on the Thats Country TV show out here in NZ - I was the staff steel guitarist, and we had Gerry over as a guest on one of the run of programmes. Fabulous player and great guy -- and it was nice to keep in touch with him via FB etc over the years ... saddened to hear of his passing in Japan, but I guess it was rather appropriate that he was on stage at the time !! RIP Gerry
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Godfrey Arthur
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Posted 22 Oct 2019 5:43 pm
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| Paddy Long wrote: |
| I had the great pleasure of getting to play with Gerry back in the early 80's on the Thats Country TV show out here in NZ - I was the staff steel guitarist, and we had Gerry over as a guest on one of the run of programmes. Fabulous player and great guy -- and it was nice to keep in touch with him via FB etc over the years ... saddened to hear of his passing in Japan, but I guess it was rather appropriate that he was on stage at the time !! RIP Gerry |
Thanks for the throw-back Paddy!
Here's a tribute video for Gerry.
https://youtu.be/6evrDQdijHQ
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