| Subject: | Re: [RESOGUIT-L] Tunings ?? | | Date: | , January 5, 2008 04:38:23 (+0100) | | From: | tower.op <tower.op @.......net>
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Right before Webb Pierce's "Slowly" was released, Bud Isaacs released an
instrumental single, a knockout version of "The Waltz You Saved For Me."
I think it was the "B" side of "Skokiaan," a pop instrumental of the day -
1950's.
And you are right, Richie -- I wuz there, and the steel players did dislocate
some wrists trying to get that sound.
About the same time, 1953, I met "Deacon" Anderson, a Beaumont, Texas,
steel player, backstage at an "East Texas Jamboree" performance in Beaumont.
He had a 6 or probably 8 string single neck lap steel, with the equivalent of a
Scruggs tuner on the side of the head to change the tuning of one string. He
did not change it while playing, just between songs.
Deacon wrote one hit song, "Rag Mop," that probably bought him a LOT of new
strings.
Steve Bartlett
reso-man@comcast.net wrote:
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> Hey Howard,
>
> I don't think Bud Isaacs had a 12 string tuning tho? I thought he
played "Slowly" for Webb Pierce on a 8 string Bigsby with possiby two or
at the most three pedals on it......and everyone went nuts trying to
figure out what they were listening to!
...
I wonder where that Bud Isaacs Bigsby is today? I'm sure over on the Steel
Guitar List they'd know......
>
> Richie (still tryin' to stay warm, lol.)
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