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Bobby DeMoss - Pedal Steel Guitar performer.
Bobby comes from a musical family. Both his parents played
with bands around the Kansas City area, as well as his two sisters. When Bobby
was around 6 years old he was watching the drummer in his sisters’ all-girl
band. She was pretty good. He decided he wanted to become a band drummer, so he
got together three empty Crisco containers with the plastic lids and tied them
together with some rubber bands. For drum sticks he got two of his dad’s welding
rods, and every time the band practiced he would play along with his new drum
set. After observing this a few times, his dad decided that maybe the drum set
that was on sale at Western Auto was a good future investment for developing his
new-found talent. Well, he wound up playing drums all over town for 18 years
with such groups as the Midwesterners, Missouri Valley Boys, and Larry Goodwin.
He began to look for other ways of musical expression and
took up bass guitar. He played bass professionally for about six years on the
country circuit performing with many Kansas City area bands, as well as backing
several Nashville artists such as Faron Young and Nat Stucky.
During his six years as a bassist, Bobby was also learning
steel guitar and discovered that steel guitar was what he wanted to play all
along. He started attending all of Jeff Newman’s steel guitar seminars and
learning all he could as quickly as he could.
Bobby has played pedal steel guitar with many Kansas City
area bands and artists such as Jimmy Lynn and the Jokers, Larry Goodwin, Last
Chance, Uptown Country Band, Goldrush, Clayton Howerton and the Western All
Stars, The Tuna Boat Band, Carlene Hall and the 61 Country Band, Breakin New
Ground, Bill Boswell and the Border Line Band and too many others to list.
Bobby has also backed such artists as Freddy Fender, Vern Gosden, Johnny
Rodriguez, Johnny Lee, Jim Ed Brown and Helen Cornelius, and Barbara Fairchild
to name a few.
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Bobby has performed on several opry shows such as the Cass
County Opry, Northtown Opry, Glen’s Opry, The Sundowners Country Music Show and
now at the Middle Creek Opry Show. He has been asked to go on the road with
such artists as Connie Smith and Joe Diffy and received many awards for best
band and top 25 musicians in the area.
Bobby and his wife, Rita, have been married for 22 years
and have a daughter, Lisa, 20, who is currently attending college.
Bobby has owned and operated three recording studios and
operated a live sound company around the Kansas City area. They were American
Star Audio, Heartland Recording, Stone River Productions, and has his own
record label, GSA Records. He has engineered and recorded many local bands and
entertainers. He has completed many albums to his credit. He works as a
supervisor for a large national product service company and continues to play
and record music wherever and whenever needed.
Bobby continues to love God, his Family, Electronics and
Music.
Bobby says, “Right now I am performing with the finest
musicians ever, and I am enjoying all the top notch musical talent and just
plain outright fun. Bill and Brenda are the best and so are the rest of the
folks out here at the Opry. This show is a keeper, and if you haven’t been out
to see it, you need to because you’re going to have to go all the way to Branson
to see anything even close to this one…just outrageous talent.”
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