Night Life Buddy and Ray Price

Ken Fox · Post by **Ken Fox** » 23 Sep 2012 11:25 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21TI7vlOdh4

Probably been posted before, but if you missed it then this is a real treat. What a band!!! Buddy does it like no one else can.

Ken Fox · Post by **Ken Fox** » 23 Sep 2012 11:26 am

Another from the same show:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BtaQq4Z ... ure=relmfu

Richard Tipple · Post by **Richard Tipple** » 23 Sep 2012 2:09 pm

Buddy Emmons,,a living legend,,,,
I never met him,,dont know why he gave up playing,,
never got that story

Paul King · Post by **Paul King** » 23 Sep 2012 4:48 pm

I sure miss seeing Buddy play as well. There comes a time when people retire and just do not want to work. Thanks for posting the second video, I had not seen that one.

Erv Niehaus · Post by **Erv Niehaus** » 24 Sep 2012 7:25 am

I think the passing away of his wife had a lot to do with it.

Charlie Moore · Post by **Charlie Moore** » 26 Sep 2012 8:23 am

Great...what kind of a changer was that in a Emmons guitar never seen one like it...CM

Jack Stanton · Post by **Jack Stanton** » 26 Sep 2012 9:42 am

Charlie,
That's the short key head Legrand he played in the early 80's

Charlie Moore · Post by **Charlie Moore** » 26 Sep 2012 10:59 am

Thanks Jack It looked like or close to a HW Mullen where the strings cross the axle..thanks for the come back...CM

Daniel Policarpo · Post by **Daniel Policarpo** » 27 Sep 2012 2:50 am

When you can crack Ray Price up with a couple of licks.... From what I gather, Emmons didn't give up playing, he is not playing in as public a capacity as he once did. I started to understand what steel guitar was all about by watching him play on old tapes of ET and the Texas Troubadors. He always looked like he had an ace up his sleeve, and that never really stopped coming. The steel doesn't lend itself to a lot of stage persona, but Emmons is a force, and watching tapes of his enthusiastic performances is infectious. He helped showed us how, now we got to carry it on.

chris ivey · Post by **chris ivey** » 13 Oct 2012 10:03 am

richard..i wouldn't call 'slowing down a bit' after 50 solid years of leading the pack in his legendary manner 'giving up playing'. that's an insensitive and careless thing to say.

i don't know why, but that bugs me for you to put it that way. someday hopefully you'll learn to respect the incredible truth of this phenomenon.

Bill Moran · Post by **Bill Moran** » 13 Oct 2012 8:20 pm

If Buddy had been a doctor and not a steel guitar player sickness would of been a thing of the past. What a great mind. Glad I was able to enjoy your music.

Roger Rettig · Post by **Roger Rettig** » 14 Oct 2012 5:06 am

I have this amazing clip 'bookmarked'.

If I'm ever asked to explain to a non-steel-playing musician what all the fuss is about when we lavish praise on Buddy Emmons then I'll just play them this!