JERRY REED
This page is dedicated to Jerry Reed
Hubbard
March 20th, 1937 - August 31st, 2008
A promotional sticker from RCA Records which was issued at the time that the movie "Smokey and the Bandit" was released.
Jerry greets the audience in Douglasville, Georgia
In September 1982 I had the pleasure to fulfil a dream when I got the chance to see one of my idols, Jerry Reed, in concert. I was on holiday in America when I got a call from Jerry's manager, Frank Rogers, to tell me that he had made arrangements for me to see Jerry in concert in Douglasville, Georgia. I was down in Panama City Beach, Florida at the time and drove about 400 miles or so to get to see the show. Some of the photographs from that memorable night are on this page.
Jerry sings "Patches" and the audience loved it when the band played "East Bound and Down"
"The Devil Went Down To Georgia"
"She Got The Goldmine"
"The Man With The Golden Thumb" featuring some wild guitar pickin'
A fan presented Jerry with a cake that said "Welcome Snowman" and had a model Trans-Am car flying across the top!
Jerry plays Hank Garland's "Sugarfoot Rag"
"Amos Moses"
"When You’re Hot, You’re Hot"
"A Thing Called Love"
The end of the show - which I sat through twice!
Leaving the stage with a tight hold on that Fender Telecaster
Jerry being escorted from the stage by a local police officer
This is a sew on patch I received from Jerry that advertised the album "When You're Hot, You're Hot." I did get several of these given to me but, over the years, gave them all away to dedicated Reed fans.
This Gator belt buckle was a treasured gift to me from Jerry
An autograph for an officer from the Douglasville Police Department
…and my concert ticket - still intact!
The quality of the three photographs immediately above are not as good as the others but, as they are from the same session, I thought I would include them here.
A happy man - with my signed photograph
As you may know, the official Jerry Reed website closed down some time ago but Jerry's last record label was R2KRecords and there are sites run by dedicated fans - such as Hot A' Mighty by Pat Teachey, in the United States.
The autograph says "Hang in there, Stan!"
If you click on the music note you can listen to the radio station jingle Jerry recorded for me in June, 1974.
The excellent band of musicians, that
backed Jerry Reed at this concert, were known as the Thompson Station
Congregation.
Guitarist
Kerry Marx - he's the man with the beard and
playing a Fender Stratocaster - has provided me with the names of the
rest of the band. They are Ric McClure on drums, Duncan Mullins
on bass, Bob Patin on keyboard, Mike Wyatt percussion, Buddy Blackmon on
banjo and guitar and David Blackmon on fiddle and guitar. The band
started in 1981 and Kerry joined in August of that year, Duncan the
following January. Duncan, Mike and Kerry left early the next year and
the remainder over the following seven years.
So how come the Thompson Station Congregation name? Well, Jerry came up
with it because at one time his
management had offices at a place called Thompson Station, in Tennessee,
which made me go through my scrapbooks again to find a few photographs
I took when I made a visit there in September, 1982.
a
b
c
d
e
f
g
Click on the thumbnails to see larger versions
Details of the thumbnail photographs are (a) My
rent-a-car outside the Thompson Station office (b) Front
view (c) The lake and grounds (d) Frank Rogers' Grammar guitar and
the RCA dog
Nipper (e)
Another view of the lake and gardens (f) me in the office, wearing my
Gator belt buckle, and (g) playing
one of Jerry's Gibson guitars!
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