It would come off sounding more like Cousin Jody with Brother Oswald and the boys.Īnother question. Sometimes the producers would say these were the same settings they used with Buddy on such and such recording. I soon realized there was no way to make my guitar sound like a Bigsby or a Sho-Bud by just changing the settings on the board. If my steel didn’t sound like Jerry Byrd or Buddy Emmons, I could get pretty upset but I tried not to show it.
Bobbe, when you started doing sessions, did you mind producers changing your tone a lot to sound like different things? It may have, however the main style all the producers and country singers wanted was that plain old hillbilly steel guitar that sounded a lot like bad dobro.Īnother question.
Playing many different styles I thought would put me ahead of most steel players. I started realizing after hearing Chet and Merle that Nashville may be a lot better place for me to launch my career. Pretty soon I had most of the local guitar players banging on my door telling me how great I was. None of the guitar players I worked with could really play a true thumb style guitar so I worked on that until I could perfect it. The west coast rock ‘n roll version of this kind of music turned out to be much better in some ways and worse in others. If I had started my career in the middle of the United States I could have been right there with the originators of rock ‘n roll when they all started. Being a great musician, he had no belief that the skiffle band I was with would ever amount to anything. I ended up leaving the band because of my father’s insistence on staying in school and studying so I could support myself later in life. Yes I was ashamed of it and still am, however I realize now that there are people copying some of the licks I did on steel guitar and many are copying what our lead guitar player did. I wasn’t really liking what I had to play, but all the groups that I played in were Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash sounding groups, but it was rapidly turning into Gene Vincent and the Blue Caps music. Rockabilly was bad hillbilly music played even worse, however it turned into something that everybody loved when our lead singer Gene Vincent shook his leg and acted like Elvis did on his first trip to the area.
Now when I look back at those first years in Portsmouth and Norfolk, Virginia sometimes making long trips as far away a Suffolk, I realize now that I was playing so poorly that it could definitely be called rockabilly. I see now that they have received recognition and permanent status in the Rockabilly Hall of Fame. It was Gene Vincent and the band later became the Blue Caps. One of the first bands that I played with was a teenie-bop band. I thought for awhile that I would shy away from answering questions, however many of you have said it has done you a lot of good in your playing and others of you say that there’s quite a parallel between what I would do in my early days and what you are doing and have gone through. Here are some more questions and answers.
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