Recorded on the road from Zane Beck's Scranton home to Fort Smith Regional Airport on Thursday 15 September, 1977. The recording is unfortunately marred by the ambient road noise but is possibly significant in outlining Zane's career to that date. Zane & his wife Faye put me up at their home and I went home to Australia with Zane's personal guitar which enabled me to get into his tuning which I play to this day.
There are extensive notes in the YouTube description as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHvhs4w4DWw
Zane Beck Interview
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Hi Frank. The Zane Beck interview happened in 1977 when I was on one of my annual leaves from the domestic airline TAA for whom I worked. 6 weeks was what we got back then which was a lot more generous than the US leave entitlements which I believe was on average 2 weeks.
I travelled with a tape recorder rather than a camera.
Same trip got
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHeCTfuf6wo
& I recorded most of the '77 St Louis Show apart from Buddy Emmons famous "Live in St Louis" segment.
Julian's interview was part of a 6 month stint in the USA from October 1, 1978 to April 1, 1979 after I quit my job. Three months in Little Rock & then Atlanta, Savannah, up to Boston (in the '67 Buick Electra I bought from a blind drummer - it was his means of getting to gigs driven by others). Flew then to San Francisco and then back to Sydney. The exchange rate was favourable for the Australian dollar back then and I was just able to survive pursuing the steel guitar "dream".
I travelled with a tape recorder rather than a camera.
Same trip got
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHeCTfuf6wo
& I recorded most of the '77 St Louis Show apart from Buddy Emmons famous "Live in St Louis" segment.
Julian's interview was part of a 6 month stint in the USA from October 1, 1978 to April 1, 1979 after I quit my job. Three months in Little Rock & then Atlanta, Savannah, up to Boston (in the '67 Buick Electra I bought from a blind drummer - it was his means of getting to gigs driven by others). Flew then to San Francisco and then back to Sydney. The exchange rate was favourable for the Australian dollar back then and I was just able to survive pursuing the steel guitar "dream".
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Thank you for your posts Graham. Really enjoy hearing these folks!
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