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SGR September 2015 Sept. “Official Publication of the Southwestern Steel Guitar Association” 2015 Hello Everyone... Board of Directors: !This is a special edition of the “Steel Billy Easton, Chairman Guitar Rag”, dedicated to the memory of Buddy Troy Porter, Vice Chairman Emmons. As I am sure you know, we lost Buddy to a heart attack on July 21, 2015. We are all Otto Shill, Secretary feeling a huge loss of this steel guitar icon. Every time we sit down to play this instrument, Peggy Porter, Treasurer his influence is apparent; his great music, his Fred Justice, Events Director advancement of building techniques, his bringing awareness of the steel guitar to new This newsletter is published genres of music, the development of new monthly from P.O. Box 1128, tunings and pedal changes, and the list goes on Globe AZ. 85502 and presents and on. Further into this newsletter, you will find information for the members of the SWSGA, a 501(c)(3),non- some thoughts and anecdotes about this giant Billy Easton & Buddy Emmons profit organization. in our steel guitar world. His legacy will live on. Editor: Bill Tauson !Another great friend and guitarist, Al Bruno, died August 21, 2015, due to a respiratory ailment. All played lead guitar for many stars, worked for Dick Clark, Conway Twitty, and many others. He also played lead guitar in our staff Events: band at the SWSGA convention a few years ago. Al was a wonderful man and 2015 SWSGA we will miss him. Fall Jam at the !Scotty’s International Steel Guitar Convention is being held in St. Louis Sheraton Crescent on September 3rd, 4th & 5th. I will be there, representing the SWSGA, and will Hotel in Phoenix be playing on Friday afternoon. If any of you will be there, please look me up November 14th. and say hello. 2016 SWSGA Steel !Our fall jam has been scheduled for Saturday, November 14, 2015, at Guitar Show the Sheraton Crescent Hotel. We will be meeting in the Crestview Room, the building on the southwest corner of the hotel property. As always, we will be !The 2016 show is loading in around 8:00 a.m, break for lunch, and close around 4:00 p.m. Come scheduled for January and join in or just listen and enjoy. There’s no admission charge, and you need 14th, 15th & 16th. Your not be a member of the SWSGA. The only requirement is that you have a good Board of Directors are time!! already hard at work to make this another great !Our annual show is scheduled at the Sheraton Crescent Hotel on show. January 14th, 15th & 16th, 2016. Your directors are working hard to ensure that !Mark your this show gets bigger and better every year. We are busy lining up the best in steel guitar players, teachers, vendors and all the things that go with our calendar and watch for celebration of the steel guitar. updates in the Steel Guitar ‘Rag’. !We hope to see you at any or all of the activities going on in your https://www.facebook.com/pages/ SWSGA! Southwestern-Steel-Guitar- Association/190941210922336? !!!!!!!Billy Easton, Chairman fref=ts In Memory of Buddy Emmons !Without a doubt, Buddy’s contribution to the steel guitar world is so vast, that it’s difficult to put into words. So many people touched by such an influence. So many wonderful stories. !There are many great steel guitar players, but there was something unique about Buddy’s playing. His touch, timing, creative ideas and challenges The list goes on and on. !For many years to come, Buddy will be remembered every time we hear a song, graced with his steel guitar. And every time we hear his unique playing sound and style, we’ll stop and say, “that’s Buddy!” !It would be difficult to include all the great comments and stories about such a man. Below are just a few. I encourage you to visit the Steel Guitar Forum and enjoy more of them. Buddy Emmons !Although Buddy and I never hung out on a regular basis, we always stayed in touch. !In 1968, he loaned me a black push-pull Emmons guitar to play when I went to work with Buck Owens in 1969. That started a love affair with the “Emmons Guitars” and Buddy Emmons that has lasted over 45 years. I am doing a solo album on which I did one of Buddy’s songs called, “Blue Jade”. Buddy did get to hear the album in it’s rough mix state. He said that he really liked it. Rest in Peace my old friend! !!!!!!!!!!JayDee Manses !In the early 80’s, I had picked up a new VCR camera and recorder. Buddy was giving a concert at Hopsinghs in Santa Monica, Calif. I got there early and was driving around, finally finding Hopsinghs, parked around the back and got out of my car loaded down with the new gear. Who steps out of the van next to me, BUDDY EMMONS. I had met Buddy before in Nashville so we exchanged pleasantries and walked in the back door together. The sound man saw me and thought that I was with Buddy so he asked me if I would like to take the audio input out of the sound board. I, of course said, “yes!” Due to my inexperience, I put the recording on extra long play and the recording came out a bit garbled. So it goes for good intentions. !!!!!!!!!!Jim Palenscar !In the late 60’s, the band I was with attended the DJ convention in Nashville. We were visiting the “ShoBud Company” where instruments were set up and we were invited to play. The steel was a keyless ShoBud prototype. I was trying to figure out the tuning when an arm reached over my shoulder and helped me with the tuning. I looked up and it was BUDDY EMMOMS!!! He was so helpful and friendly. Needless to say a real shock and a lasting memory for me. He was and always will be the inspiration for my musical endeavors. !!!!!!!!!!Frank Carter !Like everyone else, I followed Buddy Emmons as closely as I could and revered everything he ever played. I first saw him at a county fair in Arthur, Illinois in the early 1960’s when he was playing for Ernest Tubb. He had the first ShoBud I ever saw and after the show, I approached him and asked him about it. He was very generous with his time and information. I told him I would be in Nashville in the next few weeks and he advised me to see Shot Jackson. Well, I did hook up with Shot at the old ShoBud store on Broadway. He said that I could meet him at the stage door to the Opry that night, which I did. He took me backstage and left me there all evening. I was in a rehearsal room with the Texas Troubadour band and watched as Buddy put a high G# string on his ShoBud just before going onstage. I met him several times after that, but that night backstage at the Opry is forever emblazoned in my mind. !!!!!!!!!!Billy Easton Page 3 Steel Guitar ‘Rag’ Professor Twang’s E9 Grab Bag! Hi fellow steelers, John McClung here (aka Mr. Twang / Professor Twang) coming to you from Olympia, WA. For questions about this lesson, or inquiries about private Skype lessons, write to me at: [email protected], or phone me at 310-480-0717. I welcome suggestions for topics for this column! http://steelguitarlessons.com Buddy Emmons: an appreciation It’s already been a month since the passing of technical innovations that Buddy came up with: steel guitar legend and genius Buddy Emmons, splitting a single “Bud Isaacs” pedal into our now- but the void he leaves behind feels larger to me standard pedals A and B; adding the “chromatic” now more than ever. !at’s because I’ve been strings on the high end of E9; and perhaps most listening again to his many re - important, his engineering ideas cordings, watching youtube that led to revolutionary pedal steel videos, and re-reading some of changers that could both raise and the many tributes to Buddy lower a string, as evident in Sho- online. !e more I read, the more Bud steels, then later in Emmons I learned about what a multi- “push-pull” steels. dimensional talent Buddy truly He was also an early user of a D was. note as the highest pitched string Here are some great write-ups on the C6 tuning, replacing the about Buddy and his importance high G note which he found too to the steel guitar: thin-sounding and didn’t use much at all. Buddy himself writing about his ideas for I tend to think of the lever change lowering pedal steels: string 6 from G# to F# as an Emmons change, http://www.buddyemmons.com/TEGuitar.htm though I’m not sure if that’s historically accurate. Tributes from various sources: All of this is in addition to his musical http://nodepression.com/article/buddy- innovations and versatility. Do you recall the "rst emmons-appreciation time you heard his “Steel Guitar Jazz” album? http://blogs.tennessean.com/tunein/2013/08/ Released in 1963 when Buddy was just 26 years of 25/peter-cooper-on-music-a-salute-to-steel- age, did it make you want to throw in the towel guitar-pioneer-buddy-emmons/ and give up playing? I’m grateful I didn’t hear that until I was already well on my steel guitar path, http://www.npr.org/2015/07/30/427800540/b which began in 1972, I’m pretty certain I wouldn’t uddy-emmons-the-pedal-steel-guitarist- have had the guts to tackle the instrument, with who-taught-everybody-to-play the bar set that high.
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