Country All-Stars play Hank Williams

Bobby Lee · Post by **Bobby Lee** » 11 Sep 2000 10:30 pm

We're doing our annual Hank Williams show this Sunday, Sept 17, 7:30 PM at the Sebastopol Community Center. I'll be playing the Stringmaster, which I've set up to Don Helms' E6th and Jerry Byrd's C6th just for the occasion.

This is always a great show. I hope to see a few steelers there.

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Dave Zirbel · Post by **Dave Zirbel** » 12 Sep 2000 7:43 am

If I get back from my gig at the Rancho Nicasio in time, I'll swing by.

Dave Z

C Dixon · Post by **C Dixon** » 12 Sep 2000 8:58 am

bob,

I wish you much fun and pleasure with this. I think the idea is great.

Much good luck with it friend,

God bless you always,

carl

Patrick Ickes · Post by **Patrick Ickes** » 12 Sep 2000 10:30 pm

Damn!!!!!
I'm way to busy.

Pat

Bobby Lee · Post by **Bobby Lee** » 12 Sep 2000 11:38 pm

Me too, Pat. There are a lot of gigs happening this weekend and next. If there were two of me, I could have booked 4 gigs this Saturday. It's really weird!

Bobby Lee · Post by **Bobby Lee** » 15 Sep 2000 6:03 pm

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Dave Zirbel · Post by **Dave Zirbel** » 18 Sep 2000 7:48 am

Hey everyone, b0b was outstanding as always! Good show. Way to go b0b!

Dave

Bobby Lee · Post by **Bobby Lee** » 18 Sep 2000 10:50 am

It was fantastic. Nearly all of the seats were filled, and everyone greatly appreciated the show. There were lots of cheers (not just applause - CHEERS!), and there was some applause after solos, etc. Jim Corbett's daughter played Minnie Pearl just great - you could swear Minnie was right there with us. And Steven Kallai on fiddle was superb. It was his first gig with us, but he's already sounding like he's been playing with us for years.

The show was actually a surprise benefit to help pay medical expenses of one of our singers, Mike Phillips. I don't know how much the total was that we gave to Mike, but he was all teary-eyed during the break. He couldn't remember the words to Cold, Cold Heart went he got back on stage - he was pretty overwhelmed by it all. When he came up for his first song, I thought the roof was going to come off the place. I thought cheers like that only happened at sporting events!

Two steel players (that I know of) showed up - Larry Jones and Dave Zirbel. They were impressed by the sound of my Stringmaster. I kept noth necks turned on for the whole show, and that seemed to make a more even tone than switching necks on and off.

I gave Larry my "cheat sheets" of intros after the show. He has a Fender just like mine. I've posted those charts in the Tablature area of the Forum.

Hey Herb, how did your show go?

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Herb Steiner · Post by **Herb Steiner** » 18 Sep 2000 11:19 am

Thought you'd never ask, b0b!

My show went great, though I had to set up two complete steel rigs. Cornell Hurd, up first with a 25 minute show, wanted me to play my regular rig ('65 Emmons thru Evans) for our arrangements, so I did that. Then, after a break, the house band (which was excellent, Lisa Pankratz on snare, Billy Horton on bass, Paul Skelton on guitar, and amazing Erik Hokkanen on fiddle) set up and I played my Bigsby Reissue through my 1956 Standel 25L15 (only 25 watts, but the tone!!!... sheesh!).

And I was a little hesitant and embarrassed at first since Ricky Davis was literally 6 inches away from me watching every freakin' move I made! Talk about "under the microscope!?"

Then followed the entire Austin alt./trad. country contingent, each doing 2-4 HW songs with the no-rehearsal band winging it for each number, from 9pm to 1:45am with 1 20 min. break.

"Phew!"

However, due to the amazing knowledge base onstage, especially Paul Skelton and Erik Hokkanen, everything came off great. I had several vapor locks and screwed up some important solos, but Paul and Erik rescued me most of the time.

Though I set up the Bigsby with the pedals, I eschewed their use all night. Both Alvin Crow and Wayne Hancock (who has a real problem with me playing pedal steel

) demanded I play pedalless. So I did the whole gig on the C6, no pedals (D on top).

The event was a benefit for the Texas Folklife Resources Association. The place was packed with the usual array of under-30 trad. country, rolled-up-jeans retro-hipsters, and their sexy mamas, dancing to everything from the slowest ballads and Luke the Drifter gospel tunes to the snappiest Hank novelty tunes. Soloists got applause after good rides. And the bar was so crowded you couldn't get a beer.

So it was a regular night in Austin, all told, pretty good for a Sunday.

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[This message was edited by Herb Steiner on 18 September 2000 at 12:22 PM.]