I only saw him once. He was at the same sparsely attended Billy Joe Shaver gig as I at some dive in Nashville in the mid '80s. Billy Joe invited him on stage to play a couple of songs with him. Billy's teenage son Eddy handed him his guitar and Dickey plucked it a few times, shook his head, thrust it back at Eddy, and returned to his seat without saying a word. Eddy continued to accompany Billy Joe for the next couple of songs while furiously tuning his guitar. Eddy eventually motioned to Dickey to come back and take his guitar and Betts did so and played with Billy Joe for a bit before handing the guitar back to Eddy.
I have thought Dickey was the biggest ass in the world for treating a kid like that ever since then up until I checked Wikipedia for a link to
Eddy for this post. I had no idea he taught the kid to play, but it showed. Eddy could really play.
RIP Billy Joe
RIP Eddy
RIP Dickey
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