St Louis Convention Players

Tony Dingus · Post by **Tony Dingus** » 10 Jun 2012 7:50 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu6CMEe0GLQ

I just stumbled on this looking for Randy Beavers you tubes.

Tony

Tony Dingus · Post by **Tony Dingus** » 11 Jun 2012 7:01 am

I just found another thread that has this and another you tube on the convention players. You can close this one.

Tony

Henry Matthews · Post by **Henry Matthews** » 11 Jun 2012 11:00 am

Brings back some memories of what it used to be like at St. Louis. Not that there aren't great pickers now but something back then just added a special sparkle seeing seeing some of the guys that were the inovators of steel as we see it now. I was also new to the steel guitar which made it that much more exciting. Never be like that again. Thanks for the link, haven't seen that.

Sam Conomo · Post by **Sam Conomo** » 11 Jun 2012 2:42 pm

hi tony ,
do you know what year that was.
sam.

Tony Dingus · Post by **Tony Dingus** » 11 Jun 2012 3:24 pm

Sam, I don't know. Marcel Parijs started a thread on the convention players that I didn't see until after I started this thread. There might be more info there. This is great to see clips of the convention back in the day.

Tony

Sam Conomo · Post by **Sam Conomo** » 11 Jun 2012 5:55 pm

if it was 1987 ,i was there ,would like to find out.
sam.

Henry Matthews · Post by **Henry Matthews** » 11 Jun 2012 6:09 pm

I was there and remember the show very well but don't know what year but had to be in la te 80's.

Jim Smith · Post by **Jim Smith** » 12 Jun 2012 5:41 pm

In one of those videos, Wally Murphy was tearing it up on the D-11 Dekley I built him. That would have been 1979 or 1980.

Henry Matthews · Post by **Henry Matthews** » 12 Jun 2012 6:34 pm

That convention was 1986. That is the year Shot Jackson was inducted into hall of fame. First year I went to convention. The video of Wally Murphy looks to be older than the others but he was there the year I went but don't remember what he was playing. Scotty has on same suit in both videos I found so think both were 1986. I also remember Hal playing the jazz set with horns. Sara was born in November of 69 which would make her almost 17 at that show.

Paul King · Post by **Paul King** » 15 Jun 2012 3:02 pm

The year was definitely 1986. It was my second visit to the convention, the first being 1981. Shot Jackson was inducted into the Hall Of Fame and the players on bottom line guitars was fun to watch. Speedy West started all of the fun when he pointed at the ground wanting Buddy Emmons on his elbows. It was a moment I will never forget. I also remember the red jacket Buddy Emmons was wearing. My last visit was in 1991.

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