Al Marcus'
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This is my Great Grandson watching me play my old S10 Sho-Bud with 5 pedals and 5 knee levers. This was in a house I rented for the winter season in Florida, about 1993.
Here are some pictures of when I was in Florida and played the 3 months season at a private resort club. They had cocktails and dancing Tues and Thurs, from Jan. through March. Packed house every night, we all had a good time. Drinks for all were compliments of the Club. The Club Owners were great people and danced all night with the rest of them, 7 pm to 10pm. Most of the people staying there were from Canada.
The was "The Pines Indian Harbor Beach Apartments and Tennis club". The band was called "The Geritol Three" two guitars , steel, and a drum machine. We played everything from 1920 pop , old standards, big band stuff, and even some country songs. I really enjoyed it.
The leader was the guy with the Wig, 78 years young, the Lead guitar player was, 67 years young, and I was the youngest at 65 years! How about that! The leader was a retired Postmaster from Georgia. They were very good musicians and the leader sang too. That was the winter of 1986-87 in Florida. I spent a few winters there. My daughter and her kids all lived around the state.
This pix was taken by Clayton Lyons at the Christmas Dinner and Jam for the LT Zinn's Michigan Steel Guitar Club at Mt. Pleasant, MI on my 80th birthday Dec. 10, 2001. It was about 100 miles from my home and my son went with me to keep company. I was the last to play and I played "Here's that Rainy Day" and "Unforgettable". I missed the last one in 2002 due to bad weather. I had planned to play "Body and Soul", "Laura"and "the Nearness of You" on my E6 "Real Universal" S12.
From the Michigan Steel Guitar Club, newsletter.
Issue #8 Oct/ Dec 2001, Trufant Michigan Steel Guitar Jam.
"The unflapable Al Marcus showed up with a new guitar and was having some difficulty adjusting to it, so he simply sat down to Clayton Lyon's LeGrande II and ripped out "Unforgetable" and a couple of other big-band tunes with beautiful chord work on the C6th tuning and on a unfamilier guitar to boot! Al always makes the difficult stuff look so easy."
This was part of Tim Rowley's report of the Jam in Trufant. I had a new Guitar E9/B6 and I wasn't used to it. So Clayton kindly let me play his Emmons, it played nice and smooth. There is a lot of top notch steel players showing up at Trufant every year, Everybody gets to play, usually 2nd Sunday in October.
Here I am, in a recent picture, playing my MSA S12, "Universal" model, with E6. I am playing at the community center at Sparta, Michigan, with Pete Domier and the band...al
Some of My Recent Guitars:
MSA Sunburst "The Universal"
Me and My MSA Millenium
This is my MSA Millenium S12 with 9 pedals and 5 knee levers. It is sure a finely engineered guitar and and a very high quality Pedal Steel guitar.
Here I am at the Trufant jam, 2005. Playing my Sho-Bud.
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