The Emery's Memories collection is from over 50 years of interviews recorded by Ralph Emery! This channel is a place you can go to listen to hours and hours of one on one interviews with over 125 country stars! Great to listen to on long road trips or back and forth to work.
When are you going to show the full shows, these clips are great but the full shows are better, they have some great Aussie artists and also people like Marty Robbins?
Everyone rates buddy emmons as the best as he was, but even he had nothing on speedy west and I don't think nobody ever will. Speedy is the king and Buddy is the prince.
Hi, can you please tell me where you got the clip from please? I am trying to find some footage of the Wagon Wheelers which were also on Country Style but am having trouble finding any. Thanks :)
There ain't no pedals on this here steel my friend, he was arguably the biggest of the last generation of steel before pedals took over. I play and admire both, what I don't admire is the sudden disappearance of the non-pedal instruments, and even moreso as the pedal players weren't obligated to drop it, the disappearance of all the exciting steel guitar tricks we see from Speedy here in such a short few minutes! Bouncing the slide going up the neck, tone control manipulation, use of harmonics for excitement, all that stuff. My career is as an upright bassist and I'll tell ya I exploit everything I can to be more exciting than the instrument wants to be, we lost that aspect of the steel guitar when the pedals put the showmen out of work. A damn shame; I think there's more than enough room for both
Likely his influence was more indirect and subtle as an innovator and experimentalist in a still primitive era. Of course his direct connection with Leo Fender as in house test pilot made him invaluable with the development of a lot of the gear the 60s and 70s guitar gods utilized to reach the top of the mountain. Speedy and several other unsung heroes built that mountain. Swing that thang, Speedy!
So many memories with these guys from the late 70's to 1980. Jeff and I were working together at the Big Yak, which is mentioned in this interview. Good times indeed.
my all time favorite singer songwriter but first n foremost a man who stayed true to himself till his last breath n that's hard to come by these days for sure .....absolutely miss his shows and always will.
They'd still be influenced by Jimmy Bryant, Charlie Christian, Chuck Berry, etc..... They're literally two different instruments. Sorry, aside from possibly Jeff Beck, I don't think Speedy had any great influence on those players.
I just got turned on to this artist. Speedy West rules. Where would the great guitarists of the '60s, 70s and 80s be without Speedy. Speedy is the man!
Lol to the man that asked "Who would name their child 'Speedy'?" That's excellent and very funny. That wasn't Daddy's given name.🤣 Tauni Oakley(daughter)
I love the guitarists from the '60s and 70s but they don't have shit over Speedy West. What an innovator. Where would Hendrix, EVH and SRV be without Speedy?
I'm sure they'd be just fine, considering there are plenty of guitar heroes from the same time who they likely looked up to more so than Speedy. Love Speedy West, but I really don't think he had a lot of influence or a large effect on any of those guitarists. All of those guys come out of the blues...
Speedy, custom altered his steels himself.......all pedal steel players would compete to see who had the latest innovations to their instruments....same as the electric guitar players and their amplifiers..........Speedy had some awesome mods to his pedal steels.
