Road Cage

danke for your lines…  hey   always appreciate your stories and memories..

Buddy    danke

jimmy lived in my house for 14 days when we all were touring together

germany and england..  i still see him ride through town on my mothers bycycle, with his cane on his side, ( he had leg probs.) that time.. and his only german words were beer beer beer.. 3 words…  and … wieniesssssssss..

if you llisten to the show…  listen to the song   my baby jill… he sings there and tells all about it… smile

We were just watching Easy Rider for the millionth time and it occurred to me that one of the first songs used on the soundtrack was an instrumental version of Ray Price’s “You Done Me Wrong”. The original session had Jimmy Day playing steel. 6/8 little number - just killed me when I was a kid. I thought, “How did he get THAT stuff??”

I was rehearsing a show for the Ian Tyson Show in Toronto, Canada in early 1971 just before I left for Marin County, CA w/New Riders. Willie was the main guest and he brought Day with him (a rarity at the time). I asked Jimmy to play something for the crew - he did, and just blew them away!

Two years later, he was in Northern California, hanging around my house - drunk, totally fucked up and broke, begging for drugs and money. He ended up back in Nashville, somehow got sober a few years later, along with Paycheck and Waylon (and Jones, too!). Then, to Texas as I recall…bc

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Mess around with this link. Randy California of Spirit was the first rock guy I knew of who used one, they were made in S. California. A surf-style effect as I heard it then, then Emmons who was out with Roger Miller in CA at the time picked one up - he came back to Nashville with the idea that he could ‘build’ a string section, string-by-string with this gizmo with eyes to capture more session work in Nashville studios (!).   Weird.   Of course, I heard Surfari’s music in it and was catching onto Led Zeppelin, Ritchie Blackmore, Cream in the mid sixties, etc. so I took it there. Then, Nashville got more involved and bought it out thru Sho-Bud although Emmons was out of that company for years at that point. Then, when Sho-Bud was going under, Gibson bought them out including the Boss Tone. I had been getting endorsement comps all the time from Sho-Bud then Gibson, then it went away. Till you came along!!   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_(Spirit_album) Check out ‘Girl In Your Eye’. This was the use of Randy playing sitar which got me headed in the direction where you now find me!