Who has played steel for Elvis ?

Pete Finney · Post by **Pete Finney** » 10 Aug 2009 2:44 pm

A Pete Drake quote about working with Elvis:

“He and I used to sit and play after the sessions were over; he loved the steel guitar. We’d sit for hours after all the other musicians would leave; he’d sit and play the piano or play guitar and sing.”

Louie Hallford · Post by **Louie Hallford** » 12 Aug 2009 7:12 pm

Unfortunately, I woke up right in the middle of the first song and couldn't get back to Vegas or get back to sleep either.

basilh · Post by **basilh** » 13 Aug 2009 2:11 am

BobbeSeymour wrote: Many folks say I put Elvis where he is today,

That's a 'Rotten' thing to say Bobbeee !

And Low Down as well..

Bobbe Seymour · Post by **Bobbe Seymour** » 13 Aug 2009 6:41 am

That's what I told them Basil, they should't have said it!

Bobbe

Bent Romnes · Post by **Bent Romnes** » 13 Aug 2009 6:51 am

basilh wrote:
BobbeSeymour wrote: Many folks say I put Elvis where he is today,
That's a 'Rotten' thing to say Bobbeee !
And Low Down as well..

Basil, Bobbe, It must be an attractive place to be though, people are just dying to get there....

Joachim Kettner · Post by **Joachim Kettner** » 13 Aug 2009 7:15 am

John Hughey on I'm movin'on the album, where
Cold Kentucky Rain is on. There is no steel on the latter.

Ray Montee (RIP) · Post by **Ray Montee (RIP)** » 15 Aug 2009 1:33 pm

I'd be very interested for the sake of the JBFC.... to learn what songs/albums that JERRY BYRD purportedly recorded. Never heard of this before so am most interested.

Mitch Drumm · Post by **Mitch Drumm** » 15 Aug 2009 8:13 pm

Ray:

Here is the session log regarding Jerry Byrd. It looks like an overdub session at which Elvis may not have been present?

http://tinyurl.com/lcnoor

Ray Montee (RIP) · Post by **Ray Montee (RIP)** » 15 Aug 2009 8:25 pm

Many thanks Mitch............

I sure appreciate your information. Nice of you.

John Floyd · Post by **John Floyd** » 15 Aug 2009 9:30 pm

I've Sat on Bill Staffords Parents Front Porch in Gulfport Ms. in The 1970's And Looked Across Pass Road to a neighborhood Grocery Store where Elvis used to frequent around 1953 before his Sun Record Days. I've had several Gulfport Musicians including Bill Stafford tell me that Elvis worked the Bars in the Gulfport - Biloxi area before he was the "overnight success" in Memphis on Sun Records.

Bill Stafford may very well be the First Elvis Steeler, probably around 1953 in that time frame. I know Bill had a break in his Naval Service around that time, later on went back in the Navy and retired around 1973. Bill Showed me all the Newspaper Clippings about Elvis being on the Gulf Coast Around that 1953 Time Frame. Elvis also Dated a Girl in Bill Staffords parents, Handsboro Ms neighborhood. Who knows, Elvis may have left some woods colts on The Gulf Coast

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 16 Aug 2009 4:51 pm

Mitch Drumm wrote:Ray: Here is the session log regarding Jerry Byrd. It looks like an overdub session at which Elvis may not have been present?
http://tinyurl.com/lcnoor

Ray: That's the one I was referring to. I guess, unless anyone has contact with one of the others at the session, or a recording engineer present, we shall probably never know whether Elvis was present too.

Ray Montee (RIP) · Post by **Ray Montee (RIP)** » 19 Sep 2010 10:19 am

posted in ERROR.

Sorry.

Ted Solesky · Post by **Ted Solesky** » 19 Sep 2010 4:33 pm

Terry, Zane was a good friend. He told me in the 50's he was in a band where the the band leader didn't like pedals. So Zane came up with idea of knee pedals. The band leader didn't notice.?

basilh · Post by **basilh** » 19 Sep 2010 5:05 pm

Ted Solesky wrote:Terry, Zane was a good friend. He told me in the 50's he was in a band where the the band leader didn't like pedals. So Zane came up with idea of knee pedals. The band leader didn't notice.?

Seems someone's lost, Sat-Nav may help, or THIS

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 12 Jun 2019 12:42 pm

Jack Stoner brought this subject up again, so it's a good time to look at it anew.

The Steel Guitar Forum

Who has played steel for Elvis ?

I played with Elvis in Vegas for short time in late 1960,s

On WHAT TUNES.....................did he play?

Many thanks to you!