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	Pasco: Driver waives her right to speedy trial
		West, admittedly high on drugs when the accident happened on Nov. 21, is charged with manslaughter by culpable negligence.
		West was driving north on U.S. 41 in Land O'Lakes when she crossed the center line and ran head-on into a car carrying Mercer, 54.
		West's next court appearance, another pretrial hearing, is scheduled for Sept. 26 in the Dade City courthouse.
	www.sptimes.com /News/072701/Pasco/Driver_waives_her_rig.shtml (328 words)

	Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant -- A Double Serving of Swing Music! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		West was among the first to turn the pedal steel -- itself a relatively new innovation -- into a country/western instrument.
		West and Bryant were well-known session musicians in the late Forties and early Fifties.
		West may not have been the first pedal steel player, but he invented a vocabulary for the instrument that was so far beyond its normal range that nobody to this day has equaled it.
	www.greenmanreview.com /speedy.html (821 words)

	Dave's Diary - 20/11/03 - Speedy West
		Speedy and Jimmy's final recording session for Capitol, as a team, was October 9, 1956.
		West and Bryant, known as the Flaming Guitars, played on Los Angeles sessions for many artists country and non-country as well as recording five albums on their own.
		Back in the spring of 1960, Speedy was asked to report to a small studio in L.A. where an unknown singer from Washington and her husband were to arrive to record.
	www.nucountry.com.au /articles/diary/november2003/201103_speedy.htm (1216 words)

	Steel Guitar by Speedy West
		West's sometimes histrionic and cartoon-like playing is easily recognizable and comes out of his total command of the instrument.
		West's innovative use of bebop licks and phrasing is certainly heard often on this 1960 solo record for Capitol.
		And thankfully, West never overdoes the guitar pyrotechnics; his occasional zinger and slinky-toy flourishes are always dropped strategically.
	www.mp3.com /albums/73034/summary.html (336 words)

	Our People - 25th Anniversary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		To her great surprise, 20 years later, Gill is still with Speedy and is now based at St Helens as Personal Assistant to Colin Brindle, MD of the northern region, which now comprises 60 outlets, as well as Speedy Hire Direct.
		Speedy Survey opened two additional outlets in Derby and Glasgow in that year and we are about to open in Exeter and west London.
		Speedy delivered on its promise by investing in lots of new equipment and, at the annual pay review, the bonus share is the best I and the staff know, but you only get out what you put in.
	www.speedyhire.plc.uk /ourpeople.htm (4755 words)

	Jelly review: Speedy West and Jimmy Bryant
		West and Bryant's sound is rooted in the country-swing style of The Texas Playboys and Roy Acuff's Smokey Mountain Boys, with some Les Paul and a little Spike Jones thrown in for effect.
		West and Bryant were without a doubt the brightest stars in a genre that has all but vanished.
		Speedy West, pedal steel guitar; Jimmy Bryant, lead guitar; Billy Strange, rhythm guitar; Les Taylor, piano; Cliffie Stone, bass; Pee Wee Adams, drums; Al Williams, bass; Billy Liebert, piano; Roy Harte, drums; Jimmie Widener, rhythm guitar; George Bruns, bass.
	www.jellyroll.com /02/west_bryant.html (320 words)

	::: Country2.com ::: música y estilo country, en español ::: NOVEDADES > Noticias
		Speedy intentó copiar el estilo de Joaquin pero pronto se dio cuenta que lo que tenía que hacer era desarrollar su propio estilo.
		Speedy duró 5 meses en la banda debido al comportamiento errático de Spade (debido a sus problemas con el alcohol) que despedía a sus músicos fulminantemente para volver a recontratarlos después.
		Speedy se unió a la banda de western swing de Herbert "Hank" Penny poco después, donde podía ser más creativo a la hora de tocar.
	www.country2.com /artistas/hall/speed.htm (2352 words)

	SPEEDY WEST - Obituary
		West was born January 25, 1924 in Springfield, Missouri.
		West was far ahead of his time and remains one of country music's all-time legends.
		Speedy had drive and was 'full of vinegar' as steeler Ernie Hagar - the best Speedy West disciple - once put it.
	www.bear-family.de /tabel1/meldungen/nachrufe/west_speedy_e.htm (718 words)

	Salon Arts & Entertainment \| Sharps & flats (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Session men Speedy West and Jimmy Bryant hot-licked Hollywood -- and escaped the long arm of Nashville.
		"West of Samoa" is other-worldly, with strange bird sounds emanating from West's pedal steel.
		West and Bryant were fortunate to live and work in Los Angeles, far from the powers that be in Nashville.
	www.salon.com /ent/music/review/1999/06/17/speedy (408 words)

	Speedy West has died (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Speedy was a resident of the Tulsa area and I had the opportunity to meet him a couple years ago.
		Posted At Speedy and Jimmy were just the absolute greatest; and, for some 40+ years, I have been trying to play guitar within one percent of their talent.
		Jimmy and Speedy are sorely missed and are playing in eternal peace in Jesus' Band in Heaven.
	porterwagoner.com /forums/Porters_Message_Board/posts/11639.html (208 words)

	Blog of Death: Speedy West
		Wesley Webb "Speedy" West, a steel guitar pioneer, died on Nov. 15.
		West's interest in music began in childhood when his father bought him a Hawaiian guitar.
		West was the first country music steel-guitarist to use pedals.
	www.blogofdeath.com /archives/000614.html (249 words)

	Steel guitarist Speedy West dies @ Top40-Charts.com - 40 Top 20 & Top 40 Music Charts from 25 Countries
		West and Bryant became the core of Capitol Records' studio band.
		Wesley Webb West was born in 1924 in Springfield, Mo., and followed music to California, where he played live shows with Spade Cooley and Cliffie Stone.
		West later worked for the Fender guitar company and served as master of ceremonies at steel guitar conventions.
	top40-charts.com /news.php?nid=6011 (290 words)

	SPEEDY WEST & JIMMY BRYANT FLAMIN´ GUITARS LP-Size 4-CD Box with Book/ 4-CD Box im LP-Format mit Buch ...
		West’s and Bryant’s futuristic instrumentals, recorded for Capitol from 1950 through 1956 made them two of country’s most admire and innovative musicians, even if the public knew little of them.
		Speedy could play sweetly and melodically, but explosive flamboyance became his trademark.
		Speedy West und Jimmy Bryant waren ihrer Zeit weit voraus.
	www.bear-family.de /tabel1/backor/internat/w/west_speedy/speedy_west_&_jimmy_bryant.htm (402 words)

	A Prairie Home Companion from American Public Media: All About The Music
		Speedy West came to California to find fame and fortune as a musician, a path chosen by many others before and after him.
		Born Wesley W. West on January 25, 1924, to a musically inclined family, Speedy started singing and playing guitar at a young age, and in the mid- 1940s was playing the steel guitar in jam sessions broadcast on KWTO radio in Springfield, Missouri.
		Speedy worked at a dry cleaner during the day and played steel guitar in the clubs at night.
	prairiehome.publicradio.org /features/aatm/2003/11 (1784 words)

	Medialunchbox - Music : Stratosphere Boogie: The Flaming guitars Of Speedy West and Jimmy Bryant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		These 16 sides were selected from the more than 50 that guitarist Bryant and pedal steel player West cut in Los Angeles between 1951 and 1956, when they were also most in demand as country--and occasionally pop--session men.
		West's slashing, muscular steel lines send out sparks, while Bryant's bop-influenced, breakneck guitar cuts clean as a scalpel.
		There is a CD put out by a european company of about 30 tracks of stuff from his days on the tennesee ernie ford show that are hands down much better than this material.
	www.medialunchbox.com /ItemId/B000002Z93 (437 words)

	Country Standard Time: Jimmy Bryant, December 2003
		West, about 25 when he and Bryant met when playing down the street from each other in separate bars, was already a first-call studio musician at Capitol in 1949 and was one of the first steel guitarists to make the switch to pedal steel guitar, which offered greater sonic possibilities than the earlier non-pedal models.
		The year after Bryant's death Speedy West's musical career was ended by a stroke.
		West contented himself with a growing reputation as an honored guest at steel guitar conventions around the country.
	www.countrystandardtime.com /jimmybryantFEATURE.html (1662 words)

	Speedy West : Entertaining Comments (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		If you agree with me that nobody ripped it up quite like Jimmy Bryant and Speedy West, "Flamin' Guitars" is a must have.
		I started out with the Bryant and West starter kit "Stratosphere Boogie: The Flaming guitars Of Speedy West and Jimmy Bryant" and was so amazed that I wanted my ears to listen...
		The songs that you might think you already have versions of are different recordings than those on the Speedy and Jimmy...
	queerpopculture.com /entertainment/artistsearch_Speedy%20West/mode_music (306 words)

	Jimmy Bryant Was Born On This Date In 1925
		West Coast western swing vocalist/bandleader Tex Williams heard him and phoned the club one night to invite Jimmy to record with him.
		They were the nucleus of Capitol's West Coast country music “house band,” featured on numbers such as Tennessee Ernie Ford's rollicking 1950 hit “Shotgun Boogie,” sessions with singer Ella Mae Morse, and many more.
		They did scores of dates with other artists, and for several years were the busiest country sidemen on the West Coast, a point of intense pride for Jimmy.
	www.tcmradio.com /news/March/Mar5e.htm (742 words)

	* Dusted Reviews - Speedy West *
		Steel guitar pioneer Speedy West’s music, with its enthusiastic energy and sense of uncurbed optimism, might well be the zenith for this eclectic musical synthesis.
		More to the point, Speedy, with his trick-bag steel guitar glossalia — skittering chromatic runs, explosive sonic crashes, plangent vibrato, and wah-wah mute effects — should take his rightful place in the lineage of inventive, ground-breaking electric guitarists who have celebrated and exploited the creative and technological alchemy between instrumental technique and electronics.
		But, of course, this one is really all about Speedy West’s inventive and always surprising steel, with its sensuous slides and neuron-tingling electricity conjuring up sounds and images of fast, streamlined trains and big-finned cars moving in style through a world of desert highways, cowboy sunsets, and languid Pacific shorelines.
	www.dustedmagazine.com /reviews/2212 (424 words)

	The Jimmy Bryant Story
		West Coast western swing vocalist/ bandleader Tex Williams heard him and phoned the club one night to invite Jimmy to record with him.
		The Bryant/ West sound was, according to Cliffie Stone, "immediately accepted by many radio stations because they were hot instrumentals, there was no vocal, and a lot of the stations used them for themes, for opening a radio show, before the news, after the news.
		Speedy recalls that the problem was the same as Cliffie Stone's: Jimmy's experimentation simply got the best of him.
	personal.riverusers.com /~debed/tjbs.htm (3402 words)

	Tom Bradshaw's Pedal Steel Guitar Products (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		In the late '40s and early '50s Speedy West was the hottest thing going.
		Most could recognize the lead guitar sounds, but Speedy's aggressive and explosive delivery was truly different and unforgettable.
		Speedy is another player in a class apart from any general style of music.
	www.songwriter.com /bradshaw/awest.html (356 words)

	Pittsburgh Blues Society Review \| Speedy West and Jimmy Bryant - Stratosphere Boogie, and Swingin on the Strings
		Speedy West and Jimmy Bryant - Stratosphere Boogie, and Swingin on the Strings
		In fact, the famous intro to almost all of those old WB toons was the magical steel of, you guessed it, Speedy West.
		Speedy assaults his Fender Pedal Steel with a vengeance that will never be matched.
	www.axiomx.com /PittsburghBlues/speedy_jimmy.htm (213 words)

	Speedy West, Jr. and Jeana Freeman on CountryReview.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		His new CD, Speedy and Jeana, with partner Jeana Freeman, is a fantastic mix of rockin' country, blues, and country ballads.
		Speedy has been performing with Jeana for the past few years, and their first song written together is "100 Miles", which details their start as a duo.
		Speedy Jr., who is the son of the legendary Hall of Fame steel guitarist Speedy West and who has twice appeared in Guitar Player reader's poll, plays extraordinary guitar and steel guitar solos that leave the listener in awe.
	www.countryreview.com /SpeedyWestJr (322 words)

	Speedy West - The Steel Guitar Forum
		Speedy was one of the major reasons I felt compelled to learn to play this monster we all love.
		Speedy is one of my heroes and after meeting him years ago I can tell you he is one fine guy.
		Speedy was like a mentor to me, if there is such a thing as a world class steel guitarist being a mentor to a piano player, and for that I will always be very grateful.
	www.steelguitarforum.com /Forum14/HTML/001452.html (2152 words)

	detail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Wesley Webb "Speedy" West, whose innovative steel-guitar licks made him one of the best on the instrument, died Saturday.
		West was born in Springfield, Mo., and moved to the West Coast following World War II.
		Taking a cue from recording star Alvino Rey, who introduced the pedal-steel guitar to pop audiences, West had a custom instrument that featured three necks and four pedals.
	zebro.everperfect.com /blacknapkins/Detailid.asp?ID=2019 (175 words)

	The Speedy West story
		The following story is based on extensive interviews I conducted with Speedy at that memorable time (the tapes are in my library).
		told me in '87 that he let Speedy go with Cliffie because he knew that Stone was the right guy to help Speedy explode on the Country music scene.
		Speedy had found his way (bar shivers, whistles) and Jimmy Bryant brought along his feeling for Jazz, the two combining their astonishing virtuosity to create incredible numbers such as
	perso.wanadoo.fr /rockin.paul/steel_guitar_whizz.htm (1186 words)

	Steel Guitarist Speedy West died 11/15/03 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		After his West Coast studio days, West toured Nevada showrooms with his own band and then, in 1960, moved to Tulsa to manage a new warehouse for Fender, the giant guitar maker.
		Despite the fact that he had to wear insulated clothing, including a rubber glove, and take 27 painkillers a day just to bring his pain down to a tolerable level, West continued to be a major presence at steel-guitar conventions and other musicians' get-togethers all over the country until his health began to fail.
		He is survived by his wife, Mary West; a daughter, Tauni Oakley of Broken Arrow; a son, Gary West of Bethany, a vocalist and guitarist who performs in the Oklahoma City area under the name Speedy West Jr.; and three grandchildren.
	www.texasplayboys.net /_disc5/00000066.htm (572 words)

	VH1.com : Speedy West : Biography
		One of the greatest virtuosos that country music has ever produced, Speedy West bridged the western swing and rockabilly eras with eye-popping steel guitar.
		Adept at boogie, blues, and Hawaiian ballads, West played with an infectious joy and daring improvisation that, at its most adventurous, could be downright experimental.
		It's doubtful whether anyone could collect all of Speedy's solos under one roof, but it was his sessions of the 1950s and early '60s -- especially those with Jimmy Bryant -- that found his genius at its most freewheeling and dazzling.
	www.vh1.com /artists/az/west_speedy/bio.jhtml (180 words)

	SUNDAZED MUSIC - PRESS QUOTES
		The West Coast Telecaster whiz Jimmy Bryant wasn't just one of the most dexterous, daring, and inventive pickers in country music.
		Bryant played on thousands of recording sessions during the '50's with his longtime partner, the pedal steel guitarist Speedy West.
		On these three discs of instrumentals, both solo and with West, his flights of experimental fancy reach stratospheric heights.
	www.sundazed.com /scene/reviews/j_bryant_review.html (477 words)

	Speedy WEST Jimmy BRYANT JASMCD3515 Jasmine CD Hasmick Promotions 604988351521 There's Gonna Be A Party... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Speedy WEST Jimmy BRYANT JASMCD3515 Jasmine CD Hasmick Promotions 604988351521 There's Gonna Be A Party...
		On this collection, Speedy West seems very much at home during the amiable interplay with Tennessee Ernie Ford, and of whose band he was a key member during 1950s pre-recorded broadcasts.
		His status meant that Speedy always got to play at least one solo per show, but Jimmy Bryant was an occasional guest and was thus to be heard less often.
	www.hasmick.co.uk /jascd-3515.html (170 words)

	Tower Records - Swingin' On The Strings: The Speedy West &... - Speedy West/Jimmy Bryant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Personnel: Speedy West (pedal steel guitar); Jimmy Bryant, Billy Strange, Jimmy Widener, Eddie Kirk (guitar); Billy Liebert (accordion, piano, organ); Merrill Moore, Les Taylor (piano); Cliffie Stone, Al Williams, Deuce Spriggens, George Bruns (bass); Roy Harte, Pee Wee Adams, Muddy Berry (drums).
		This second volume celebrating the music of guitarist Jimmy Bryant and pedal steel guitarist Speedy West is as essential as the first (STRATOSPHERE BOOGIE).
		West's playing was ferociously inventive in a manner that makes him a western swing counterpart to Jimi Hendrix.
	www.towerrecords.com /product.aspx?pfid=1509399 (276 words)

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