I saw Billy Connelly's Route 66 last night on PBS. This part left me astonished. The guy even owns 50 Fender Coronados. And lap steels... rooms full of them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TXqKkcdqCw
Great series... it was on here some time back... he found some remarkably off-beat bits of Americana... great stuff... I recently picked up a "World tour of Scotland" boxed set of his, in VCR format...
Pardon the general question, but...where do I know Rob Lurvey from?
His voice, his image are both so familiar, but I can't place exactly where I've seen him before.
BTW, thanks for the clip...awesome stuff.
Steve
Is it me or does he look a bit like Leo F...
I figured out who he reminded me of: James Barber - The Urban Peasant
(http://i814.photobucket.com/albums/zz62/ack1961/JamesBarber.jpg)
(I may need a vacation - this would have kept me up all night)
I had never heard of him before. Not a lot on Google aside from the Billy Connelly connection, but he did put out a book with DVD (http://www.vintageandrare.com/product/Guitar-Collector-Rob-Lurvey-2011-19031) last year and here's (http://www.gearwire.com/lap-steel-collector-guitarshow.html) a little story on him at the Chicago Guitar Show in 2007.