Does anyone know Ned Davis whereabouts?

Hap Young · Post by **Hap Young** » 4 Feb 2002 7:29 pm

Ned use to play with Jerry Lee and for Eddie Rabbit.

Bobby Boggs · Post by **Bobby Boggs** » 4 Feb 2002 7:52 pm

Hap:
Sorry to say that Ned passed away several years ago.

Hap Young · Post by **Hap Young** » 4 Feb 2002 8:43 pm

Thanks Bobby. He was a good player.

Larry Bell · Post by **Larry Bell** » 5 Feb 2002 6:32 am

Ned also played for the Oaks -- That was where I met him.

I have his '71 Emmons D-10. (boy was THAT a BASKET CASE -- Ned knew how to use 'em UP) Mike Cass rebuilt it and it's a honey.

RIP, Ned

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2000 Fessenden S-12 8x8, 1969 Emmons S-12 6x6, 1971 Emmons D-10 9x9, 1971 Dobro

Bobby Boggs · Post by **Bobby Boggs** » 5 Feb 2002 3:04 pm

Larry, if you own the one they sold on E-bay.I played that guitar when it was new and I was but a boy.Ned was with Jerry Lee and he had a couple of days between gigs.He stayed with my folks.I was 10 and in hog heaven.Nice memories. bb

Kenny Forbess · Post by **Kenny Forbess** » 6 Feb 2002 2:35 pm

Then Bobby, you might remember that guitar being set up Emmons on the pedals and Day on the LKL & LKR---meaning Left lower & right raising the Es.
It was that way when Ned got it from the factory, he played it that way for years and when he lived here in Memphis, he got (talked) into changing the 2 knees around ,
he commented he liked it lots better.

Ned was a good musician, only wanted a guitar and a wire(he called it),no effects.

One of the pickups went south on it, he borrowed one to use till he got his rewound, it came back and they never swapped them out ,I know where that pickup is ,if anyone is interested,I'll email you the guy's ph #.

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kenny
66 Emmons 8&7
D-10 Derby 9&8

Bobby Boggs · Post by **Bobby Boggs** » 6 Feb 2002 9:09 pm

Kenny.
I was only ten and had one lever on a finger tip Sho~Bud.The only lasting memory I have about trying to play the guitar was how uncomfortable I was.Could barely reach the pedals.Ned was the first pro player I was exposed to on a personal level.He was wild and crazy and not a good role model for a 10 year old kid.But it was cool for me to get to hang out with him.He stopped in most every time Jerry Lee was in our area. bb

Larry Bell · Post by **Larry Bell** » 6 Feb 2002 9:53 pm

Kenny,
I have that guitar. The C6 neck had a dual coil -- not humbucking -- pickup on it and one of the sides was shorted out -- read about 9,000 ohms. Sounded bad and had no volume. I replaced it with a single coil I found on the Forum. That guitar really sings -- both necks -- but the E neck especially.

I agree about Ned. He was a fine musician. Very tasteful -- a little bit of that Jimmy Day attitude. I like that.

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Larry Bell - email: larry@larrybell.org - gigs - Home Page
2000 Fessenden S-12 8x8, 1969 Emmons S-12 6x6, 1971 Emmons D-10 9x9, 1971 Dobro

Kenny Forbess · Post by **Kenny Forbess** » 7 Feb 2002 9:26 am

Oh yeah, another thing about Ned,
he used his picks on the middle fingers,
I think he did that because he also played guitar and he just naturally had that finger style when he started playing steel.

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kenny
66 Emmons 8&7
D-10 Derby 9&8

Hap Young · Post by **Hap Young** » 7 Feb 2002 2:17 pm

Can anyone tell me if Ned ever recorded anything. Sure would like to get an album if he did.

Paul Warnik · Post by **Paul Warnik** » 12 Feb 2002 4:28 pm

Hap-I do not know if Ned did any recording while with Eddie Rabbitt but he did appear in Eddie's video of the song "On Second Thought" which was a hit in the early 90's and it is one of my favorites because Ned is shown on the steel break playing Pee Wee Whitewing's first Bigsby triple neck which was loaned out for the video shoot-I am now the proud owner of that guitar-I talked to Ned about it the both times that we met-he was here twice in 1993 to play gigs with Eddie Rabbitt and the band I was playing in opened the show for them both times that summer-Ned came over and checked out my '66 bolt on Emmons D-10 and he told me that the top neck on his rosewood Emmons was tuned to D9th-I still have a picture of us two together on stage-sorry that he has passed away now[This message was edited by PAUL WARNIK on 12 February 2002 at 04:42 PM.]

Larry Bell · Post by **Larry Bell** » 12 Feb 2002 6:24 pm

That's interesting, Paul. I met Ned in '90 or maybe '91, once at an Eddie Rabbit show and once at an Oak Ridge Boys show. He was playing a Sho-Bud when I saw him and he mentioned the rosewood push-pull but I never saw the guitar. Then I ended up with it. Small world.

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Larry Bell - email: larry@larrybell.org - gigs - Home Page
2000 Fessenden S-12 8x8, 1969 Emmons S-12 6x6, 1971 Emmons D-10 9x9, 1971 Dobro

Paul Warnik · Post by **Paul Warnik** » 12 Feb 2002 7:38 pm

Larry B-yes it is a small world-I'm sure that if Mike Cass rebuilt that guitar it is fine-he has worked on all of my P/P Emmons-I have not been to your fair city since visiting the late Ted McCarty at Bigsby Accessories when I bought out all the Bigsby stuff-He was a great man-By the way I stopped for lunch a few times at the Burger King there in Kalamazoo-but I did not see Elvis Presley there

Kenny Forbess · Post by **Kenny Forbess** » 12 Feb 2002 8:02 pm

Larry,
I mailed you some info,
Kenny[This message was edited by KENNY FORBESS on 13 February 2002 at 06:48 AM.]

Larry Bell · Post by **Larry Bell** » 13 Feb 2002 6:47 am

Thanks, Kenny. I'll do some research on the date of that tune -- mid 70s is about right.

Paul, I had lunch with 'The King' at 'The King' just the other day. I'll tell him you said hi.

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Larry Bell - email: larry@larrybell.org - gigs - Home Page
2000 Fessenden S-12 8x8, 1969 Emmons S-12 6x6, 1971 Emmons D-10 9x9, 1971 Dobro