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Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 9:25 am
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Jimmy Bryant's son, John, maintains his Dad's MySpace page and often posts in some various Telecaster forums.

He talks about how when they were wrapping up a session with Speedy West, that Leo Fender stopped by and suggested they track a tune called "The Night Rider". Speedy was for it, but Jimmy had never played it (or so the story goes), but they recorded it anyway and this is how it came out :

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Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 6:42 pm
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Can't keep up with him for over 10 seconds... Jimmy's playing turns my brain around :roll:


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Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 7:21 pm
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I love Jimmy Bryant's playing, especially the material with Speedy West. It's mindboggling how good and innovative Bryant was. That music holds up well today as far as I'm concerned.


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Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 5:40 pm
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mhhayes wrote:
I love Jimmy Bryant's playing, especially the material with Speedy West. It's mindboggling how good and innovative Bryant was. That music holds up well today as far as I'm concerned.


Stratosphere Boogie is another really good one! 8)

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=am ... fwxqthldje

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I have the "Stratosphere Boogie" album in a CD. It's just fantastic playing! Jimmy was very talented! :)


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I have that one too!
But I admit I don't listen often now.. it's too serious music to be listening to all time (in other words, makes me quickly realize how terrible I am with the guitar). :roll:


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Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2010 11:04 am
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Iago wrote:
I have that one too!
But I admit I don't listen often now.. it's too serious music to be listening to all time (in other words, makes me quickly realize how terrible I am with the guitar). :roll:


Be inspired and not feel bad. :wink:

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Miami Mike wrote:
Be inspired and not feel bad. :wink:


Wise words!

Sure, it's humbling to know that Bryant didn't start playing guitar until he began recuperating from shrapnel injuries during WWII (he was a fiddle prodigy as a child), but that for me is part of the charm. He had a kind of reckless audacity about his playing that I find very inspiring. On top of that, the music just sounds fun.


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mhhayes wrote:
Miami Mike wrote:
Be inspired and not feel bad. :wink:


Wise words!

Sure, it's humbling to know that Bryant didn't start playing guitar until he began recuperating from shrapnel injuries during WWII (he was a fiddle prodigy as a child), but that for me is part of the charm. He had a kind of reckless audacity about his playing that I find very inspiring. On top of that, the music just sounds fun.


Thanks for that info. I didn't know about the fiddle. He knew how to pick that Tele though.

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There's a funny story about Jimmy that I recollect reading from "Fender The Inside Story" book written by Forrest White..

In the mid-50's, Jimmy made a visit to the Fender factory and Forrest White found him walking around the plant, drinking beer, chatting with the employees during their work time etc. Forrest, recently nominated plant manager, asked him politely to not disturb the employees during their work and to go to the reception and wait until Leo could attend him.

Jimmy got mad and complained - "I'm Jimmy Bryant and I play your damn #$%&casters, and I do what I want! If you wanna tell me what to do I will stop playing your $%#$ guitars!" (or something along these lines).

Forrest told him - "I'm glad you play our guitars, but still, alcoholic beverages are not allowed here, you have to take it out and wait in the visitors room until someone can attend you. You have to follow the rules here whether you play our guitars or not"

Jimmy looked to Forrest like if he couldn't believe what he had just heard. He trashed the beer can and apologized. From that day on they were great friends.


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Miami Mike wrote:
Iago wrote:
I have that one too!
But I admit I don't listen often now.. it's too serious music to be listening to all time (in other words, makes me quickly realize how terrible I am with the guitar). :roll:


Be inspired and not feel bad. :wink:


I think it's a mixed feeling between good and bad... reminds me to always feel humble or something at least :lol:


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Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 6:30 am
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Iago wrote:
There's a funny story about Jimmy that I recollect reading from "Fender The Inside Story" book written by Forrest White..

In the mid-50's, Jimmy made a visit to the Fender factory and Forrest White found him walking around the plant, drinking beer, chatting with the employees during their work time etc. Forrest, recently nominated plant manager, asked him politely to not disturb the employees during their work and to go to the reception and wait until Leo could attend him.

Jimmy got mad and complained - "I'm Jimmy Bryant and I play your damn #$%&casters, and I do what I want! If you wanna tell me what to do I will stop playing your $%#$ guitars!" (or something along these lines).

Forrest told him - "I'm glad you play our guitars, but still, alcoholic beverages are not allowed here, you have to take it out and wait in the visitors room until someone can attend you. You have to follow the rules here whether you play our guitars or not"

Jimmy looked to Forrest like if he couldn't believe what he had just heard. He trashed the beer can and apologized. From that day on they were great friends.


Interesting. I've never heard that one.

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Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 2:37 pm
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...and it's available on Google Books :


http://books.google.com/books?id=DywWEa ... Story&cd=1

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