And so that show had to be practiced every Friday the night before, see, and it had to be practiced because there were no re-takes, no edits, it was a total live show, commercials and all. They sponsored that so now it was network fed from Nashville. And then we’d have, like sometimes the NBC network would broadcast a segment right from the Grand Ole Opry stage, and that would be the Prince Albert Smoking Tobacco. We’re just sitting there waiting our turn, and then Bill Monroe comes out, now we step forward, other people step back and get out of the way and the announcer’s over on the other side with his own booth and microphone, and he reads the commercials live, right there, everything’s done live, right from that stage. We play with George Morgan or Bill Monroe. So Roy Acuff is the main focus here, and then he brings out George Morgan and Bill Monroe on his segment. But these other people sitting there that were going to be-like their leader, like George Morgan, was going to come out and be a guest on this thirty minute Roy Acuff presentation. And they would be seen from the audience, but Roy Acuff being up front, naturally the focus was on him and his music at that time. Just like maybe at my grandfather’s house, that’s exactly the way it was. There were stage hands on the side because the backdrops were all changed like there might be a barn scene in the background, like kind of a barn and a country scene, and maybe Roy Acuff would be out front doing the show then, and people were sitting around on benches, just talking. And so, when you got ready to do a Grand Ole Opry show, and I mentioned a while ago how people were just sitting around and talking. George Morgan would have his own musicians that he traveled with, you see. Jim: Yeah, because you see, all the different groups, like Bill Monroe had his own group. So there were a lot of musicians who would be gathered for one of these performances. Joe: And could you tell me a little bit more about the Opry and what that was like. But the Grand Ole Opry was a show, a radio show. WLAC, that’s where the musicians were, and that’s where things were run, from there, see. Jim: So at WSM radio, that’s where the Grand Ole Opry was run from. Jim: I wanted to see where the musicians were. Joe: You just wanted to go and talk to the people. But I don’t remember going to the Grand Ole Opry and buying a ticket. You couldn’t just go unless you bought a ticket. Jim: No, I didn’t even go to the actual Grand Ole Opry itself at all. Joe: So that first time that you went to Nashville, did you go to just talk to the people at the Opry or did you go to actually watch a performance.
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