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What famous steel player was your biggest influence when you started playing steel?

Poll ended at 6 Jul 2018 10:41 am

Leon McAuliff
0
No votes
Jerry Byrd
0
No votes
Bud Isaacs
1
1%
"Little" Roy Wiggins
1
1%
Jimmy Day
0
No votes
Buddy Emmons
9
13%
Maurice Anderson
2
3%
Jerry Garcia
2
3%
Sneaky Pete Kleinow
2
3%
Jay Dee Maness
3
4%
Lloyd Green
10
15%
Hal Rugg
0
No votes
Paul Franklin
1
1%
Buddy Cage
2
3%
Robert Randolph
0
No votes
Jeff Newman
2
3%
Tom Bradshaw
1
1%
Herb Remington
1
1%
Ben Keith
0
No votes
Doug Jernigan
1
1%
Tom Brumley
3
4%
other (specify in a reply)
13
19%
other (specify in a reply)
13
19%
 
Total votes: 67
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Mike Neer
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Sol Hoopii
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Kevin Fix
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Jess Hurt from Toledo, Ohio. He was big friends with Scotty.
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Bob Russell
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Ralph Mooney! How could you leave him out?? :eek:
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Chris Schlotzhauer
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Gary Carpenter
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Donny Hinson
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Post by Donny Hinson »

When I was starting out, I'd guess these guys affected me most, and for these reasons:


Ralph Mooney.....for his "out of the box" approach
Pete Drake.......for his imagination and simplicity
Buddy Charleton..for his smoothness and creativity

Stu Basore.......just because
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scott murray
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Garcia and Drake when I first started. Followed by Mooney and Green, eventually overtaken by Emmons
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Craig A Davidson
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My two influences were two fellows from around my hometown. When I first got into steel guitar I had no idea who Buddy Emmons, Lloyd Green,Hal Rugg, and Weldon Myrick were. The guys I knew about were Milt Campbell from Oelwein,Iowa and Lefty Schrage from West Union, Iowa. My first famous influence would have had to been Don Helms.
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Steve Hitsman
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Initially Garcia, but it didn't take me long to find more meaningful influences
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Let's try this again

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Sorry that I botched the first poll so badly. Let's try this again: viewtopic.php?t=333125
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