my favorite guitar player of all time is Reggie Young! I grew up on a farm 12 miles from Littlefield ,Tx. I opened up for Waylon when i was 19yrs. old playing in a local band and he played a home town concert! Ralph Mooney was playing steel at the time. I bought my gasoline for my old truck @ Waylon's brother James' Exxon filling station. Now it is a beer barn and memorabilia store called Waymore's! I can't help but thing of home everytime i hear Waylon sing! Robbie, that's a cute kid!
I visited Waymore’s and actually donated a few things to the collection. My autographed tour book and I made two welcome signs that look like Waylon’s guitars. One looks like the Tribute Tele he’s playing here and the other the older ones that he played for many years. James drove me around Littlefield showing me stuff about Waylon and told me some funny stories.
The little guy dancing in the video is my now 15 yr old son, Carson Turner. I'm the steel player in front of the horns. Waylon loved Carson very much. We were family, not want to be's like some that claim to be "On The Inside".
Yep, it seemed to come alive when Reggie powered up his amp, what a great player what a great sound this guy had,, Played on "In the Ghetto" a grea guitar lick
There will ever be another Waylon. I think he is wonderful. I am proud Jessie got him off of drugs. He is one of a kind. I think him Hank Jr sung great together .I wish he was still alive.Never got meet in person.You're one the best Waylon.
You didn't read his book! He went "cold turkey" and got himself off the drugs! Jessie was always there in the background, but he told her, "I got myself on to the drugs and I'll get myself off them."
No maam Jessie didn't do that cause they were together for years before he went cold turkey to give her and Shooter the man they deserved. Love all aspects of Waylon and his music, even before the "outlaw" stuff. And don't know if you realize it but the only thing he and the M othera did that got them labeled as outlaws was to shove it at Nashville and play, sing and act natural! Then the drugs took Waylon over. Jessie, Willie, Tompall didn't go hogwild on drugs, Waylon went to the extreme!
The sax man is the well named Jim Horn. He helped my friend Dick load up an amp in '63 when Jim was a Rebel- backing Duane Eddy in England. He's a big man all right.
I'd rather listen to one of Waylon's rough rehearsal sessions than a polished stage show of one of the corporately manufactured (so called) Country Music stars today. I would have gladly paid a couple hundred bucks to be sitting over in the corner in a folding chair.
Saw that on many road cases in the 70's and 80's. I was there. I mixed monitors and was one the audio engineers on a live country radio show every saturday night second only to the grand ole opry for live on air performances. We had Waylon about every other year. some times twice a year. Was called the WWVA Wheeling Jamboree USA. a 2500 seat theatre with a radio station and a 50,000 watt transmitter. those were the days my friends. I thought they would never end.
To Dumb for New York City To Ugly for LA. This is The Waymore Blues Band in it's full glory with Wes Delk at FOH and Greg Kane on Monitors with Rex Frazier as tech for WAYLON, you see him sitting down front. WAYLON, Jessi, Rance, Barny, Carter, Reggie, Jenny Lynn, Robby, Steve, Charlie, Jim, Jigger the best band ever!!
Just accidentally discovered this clip while I was knocking around RU-vid looking for something else. So I'm sitting here sucking coffee down at 9:30 in the morning on the Fifth of July thinking, "Jesus, what a GREAT band." And I scroll down and sidemen start popping up in the comments, and then, whadaya know? Here come the roadies. Props to everybody on the crew, AND in the band. I saw somebody comment on a completely unrelated post the other day, "It's worth being old now to have been young then." True story.
THEY SAY WAYLON KILLED THREE DRUMMERS, TWO BASS PLAYERS, EIGHTEEN FIDDLE PLAYERS, SIX HORN PLAYERS, AND ONE SOUND MAN DURING HIS CAREER - YOU GET EM WAYLON! ROFL! I MISS WAYLON!
I enjoy the telephoto lens used to record this. I have one minor suggestion. If you get the opportunity to capture a piece of history again make sure you are so far away that we can’t see what your videotaped we only hear it. Awesome video, It took me a minute to realize you were going for the nose bleed section video while you were 7’ away from Waylon.
No offense, steel player.... but without Ralph Mooney it's just not the same. Waylon & horns do not match. BUT obviously Reggie Young is/was a genius. Waylon too.🎸🎻
