Oklahoma Stomp featuring Jeremy Wakefield playing Speedy West's Restored Bigsby Pedal Steel Guitar 

This reminds me of a concert that we played when I was an instructor at Roger's State College. The audience included Speedy West, Leon Mcauliffe and Eldon Shamblin. We opened with Oklahoma Stomp and it got counted in at about double the speed at which I could play it. I somehow hacked my way through it and at the end of the show Speedy came up and introduced himself and shook my hand. He was a real gentleman.

Historical instrument in the hands of a master! "Speedy's" up there smiling for sure! Fantastic playing from Jeremy Wakefield

How nice to see this milestone instrument after all those years. And it sounds really great. Big THANKS to Deke !

Jeremy Wakefield is my old friend from high school and a superb musician 👍🏾

Excellent pickin!!! I've never seen a 3 necker!! If I could play steel like that I'd never leave my house 🤠

VERY interesting instrument, the dawn of pedal steel! Here it's being played as a traditional console, not hearing any pedal changes. My understanding is that early instruments used pedal change to lock into another tuning. How far we've come! My 12 string with 7 pedals and 5 knee levers can morph into crazy stuff that I don't even know what to do with yet. BUT- with all that, very often I just lock right knee right into C6 (B6 on U-12) and have a blast with western swing! Whole different type of playing with lots of jumping around the neck and Bar bends. When men were men! And Speedy was tops!

He used to tell us how much he regretted selling that guitar. I know how happy he would have been to see it restored and being played!!

Wow can Deke really swing on that bass or what ? Excellent musicians !

What a wonderful testimony of great musicians on a classic tune and historical instrument. Super cool.

Love the sound of this pedal steel, what a great instrument! The musicians are awesome too!

That sounds freaking amazing. Hell yes.

sounds great jeremy! what a great story behind this.....

Deke really knows how to drive that bass. tighter than two coats of paint

WOOW! THAT STEEL SOUNDS EXACTLY LIKE ON THAT OLD "SPEEDY" RECORDINGS !!! SURE NICE ! :O) :O) :O)

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Jeremy & Dave are a lot like Speedy West & Jommy Bryant. Finding Speedy's ax reminded me of my '57 Strat, purchased at O.K. Houck Piano store in Memphis TN in November 1957 for a hundred fifty bucks with a case. She disappeared in Hawaii sometime after I started making a living as a bassist. Wish there was a way to track her down.

..nice....gotta like this........if ya like steel

Yes sir !!

I still kick myself for not going over to watch this

I'd be interested to know the story on the steel. Where was it found, who restored it? Clinesmith?

Ah Haaaaa, turn around that JAZZ.

I noticed in the new sponge bob movie they made new music of Jeremy's style to match the show well, unlike the other two films witch did neither the third movie upholds the musical spirit of SpongeBob SquarePants with the classical steel guitar making new ost for the movie and possibly the show

What is the exact tuning you're using for this? Thanks!

Great story! Any more info on who the other side men here are? Is that Dave Biller on guitar, hiding behind Deke?

I cannot see any string rollers either end. Is this really a pedal steel?

Jeremy Wakefield also worked on music for SpongeBob.

SpongeBob brought me here