I know Fast Eddie Taylor as, “Uncle Eddie”. He married my Great Aunt Violet and he was one of my favorite people when I was a child. He died when I was in college but I have so many memories of him. I still have several of his cue balls and some other memorabilia. I loved watching this and seeing him again!

@4:31 the sound of a vintage fully wood shaft is priceless!

until about 3 weeks ago I had not heard of Eddie Taylor. Then I clicked on the KZfaq video of him being inducted into the Hall of Fame and after listening to so many other champions that I HAD heard of talk about how great Eddie was I became greatly intrigued. Since then I've learned quite a bit about Mr. Taylor and from what I have gathered he actually was as great as they say he was. I could listen to him talk about pool all day long and wouldn't be bored for one second. That far away look in his eyes as he relives his life when he was young and tells his story is priceless. What a treat to watch this video. Compare the tenor of his stories to the way Minnesota Fats tells his early day stories. All he does is brag about all the famous people he knew and how great he was/is. Many thanks to Max Eberle for posting it so glad I subscribed to your channel.

What a honor to have seen this. I'd read about Eddie in a pool magazine years ago. Thank You!

I've already watched this over a year ago, but had to watch it again.

I'm from Shreveport La, and growing up i had met Mr Taylor on more than one occasion. I had also met Buddy Hall and many other world class players for that matter. However Eddie Taylor is the best player i have ever seen throughout my life that was as humble and professional with zero animosity or cockiness ad all. That in itself is as rare as his ability with a cue

I love pool and all the pool players throughout history. Even Earl. God bless you all for infinity! Thanks for your inspiration !

Thanks for a great post.....this game has an amazing history

“If you don’t have a pool stick use a broom or a mop” that’s the most old school shit I ever heard I LOVE IT! 😂😂 hell yeah

Thanks for putting this up, great video. Not just for Eddie but seeing all the other players talk about him.

Pretty amazing that at his age in this video, he has such a clear memory of dates, and, the names of people. Very clear.

This is a gem of a video

This video is a treasure!

An awesome interview with a pool player legend... Loved hearing Eddie's insights into pool, hustling, life on the road, and the characters and other pool players he encountered along the way...especially loved his final remarks, something like, "no regrets...not all roses, but many good times...wouldn't change a thing." How many of us will be able to say that...a great life indeed. Thank you.

30:04, such a beautiful, humble thing to say. No one of this generation would ever think of such a creative idea.

What a talent this man had, great to watch, discipline in excercising day in day out, much respect.

One of my pool hero's growning up glad I got a chance to meet him one of the nicest people along with Buddy Hall who along with Mary Kenniston and the late N.Y. Blackie were my closest friends in the pool world

There is no better way to realize how great a player is/was than to listen to other VERY great players talk about that player and many great players did just that in this video, (talked about how great Eddie Taylor was). Eddie Taylor is phenomenal during the shooting of this video. It's difficult to realize just how great this guy probably was based on what I witnesses him do in this video. He's basically shooting blind due to his poor eye sight caused by his advanced age and the banks he makes are just incredible. Based on what he showed me I have no trouble believing this man was the best player in his generation. Even above Mosconi, Greenleaf, Lassiter, etc. Lastly, look how Eddie is dressed here. Back when he played the competitors dressed very formally. Not only that, the people who came to watch them were in their "Sunday Best" attire. While I do not agree with shooting pool with long sleeves I do wish the players today would take a lot more pride with the way they dress during pool tournaments. 3:59 there are a couple of young women who are scantily clad for 1993. They both act like they have single digit IQ's and it's patently obvious to me that the way they are acting is as fake as a 3 dollar bill and it's only done because they think men (the ones spending most of the money here) are attracted to this type of stupid little girl persona. It's displeasing and depressing to see them act like this; well to me at least.

Eberle Bathroom Noises Presents: A great time in Pool history.

What an awesome video! Thank you for introducing me to this legend!

thank god someone filmed this. otherwise hed be forgotten and unknown. genius player. and it is GENIUS, its chess only harder

I truly enjoyed this film !!

This was excellent. I'm from Knoxville and the pool scene isn't what it used to be ever since the poker craze a decade or so ago. It's making a comeback though and there's still one pool hall that has snooker, two tables actually. Thanks for sharing, I knew hardly anything about Eddie till now.

Max, Thank You, that was a real pleasure to watch.

What a great player. FINALLY, got to see him bank some shots. I love the game and I strive to be great bank pool player ,myself. I will get there with passion and trusting my drills. Bank Pool for life!

Thank you Max, I really enjoyed this video. Learned a lot of history that would never be told again. Great job!

Thx for posting Max

Thanks Max. Great lessons for all of us.

So many great players all in the same place. What a super video.. thank you !

That was soooogood, really enjoyed his stories..

This video had me on the edge of my chair for the complete length of the video. This is such a treasure. I'm so glad someone had the sense to interview Mr. Taylor in his later years. This oral history of pocket billiards and what living a pool life was like so long ago would have been lost forever.

Wow! This is so amazing! Thanks Max! 🍻❤️

My mind is blown!!

Thanks for posting this Max

What a GREAT Production about and interview with Eddie Taylor. He is one of the very few 'old' players I never met .... that I know of anyway ;-) Many thanks for sharing. I truly miss the great straight pool days of the 60's and 70's up in the north east. I got quite an interesting education during the winter of '69/'70 hanging out at Joe Russo's Gold Crown Billiards in Trenton, N.J.

awesome, thanks for putting this up

thank you Max ... i love the stories

Great video thanks for sharing

Amazing to watch!

Thanks for making this happen, Max.

What an inspiration love this

I'm 73 years old and snuck in pool halls from 14 years old. I will shoot pool as long as I'm able to get around the table. Like MR TAYLOR said, wouldn't change a thing. The REAL POOL HALLS ARE GONE ALONG WITH THE REAL PLAYERS. Thank you for the way it was!!

Thank you max👊🏾❤️👀

Enjoyed every single word- what a great story teller of the days back when……Thanks for sharing.

This is great. Thanks.

What a great and heart warming video of a great man.....who also happened to be a great billiards player! I think who you are as a man is more important than any accolades you receive in life and it's readily apparent that Eddie was a good guy and someone you could look up to and try and emulate, both in and out of a billiards hall. A true gentleman that I would have been honored to have met, had I had the chance to do so. I started going through your Pro Billiards Academy lessons today and your lesson on strokes mentioned to watch this video and see his stroke because it was so good. Didn't think I'd really watch the whole thing, and yet I didn't get out of my seat and was glued to my computer screen until the very end. Thanks for posting it Max and for mentioning it in your lessons. Very inspirational and for the next week or two I'm going to try and get my stroke (both the basic and dropping the shoulder, stance and grip as well) as good as yours. And maybe someday, I can get it close! Cheers! Kila

This is so enjoyable

What a legend and your a legend too

That was great thanks for posting! I grew up in Rochester and played everyday at Empire Billiards till Irving Crane would come in to practice.. About that time Mike Sigel was just getting great and he and Mr. Crane would battle for hours. Irv was such a distinguished gentleman with an awesome command at the table. He used to drive Mike crazy, he'd run two hundred and leave him safe, beat him to the shot and run another hundred...Mike got so he would do the same back to him...what a great lesson it was watching them shoot 14.1.

eddie taylor way past his prime would still beat todays top bank pool players---thats how utterly dominant he was....... best bank pool player of all time..........

Awesome video

mr taylor banging the cue stick around like its a toy and today it would be worth probably upwards of $8000

my dad and i played there in shreveport. beautiful pool room.

A legend especially here in Knoxville TN

How I've never heard of this man is a travesty. Such a great player! Thank you.

Hey Max that's an awesome video! I have an old Willie Jopling one pocket video in which he mentions Eddie as the greatest bank pool player. I now see why!! Thanks for making that video possible!

Love it. Ty

Ronnie Allen told me one time a story about eddie and Harold Worst. How eddie refused to play harold worst anything but bank pool. Much respect to eddie. But from what i heard mr.worst was the greatest to ever live and only played pocket billards for 6 or 7 years. And didnt begin to play pocket billards to he was 32 years old. Look at the record books what harold worst did why he was dieing from brain cancer then see who the greatest all around player to ever live!

Video was great I was in Vegas when won I didn’t, get. To go was hopping to see him the next year winning he was to get a pass but no seen a lot of the other players really enjoyed video Thank You

Great video awesome stroke n knowledge of the game Eddie Taylor a legend never be forgotten I wonder if they saw Efren Reys what would the old timers say? Including my dad

Like a boss!

Those banks were a masterclass of banking 😮

Great loved it

thx again

💖 THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH MR. EBERLE FOR SHARING THIS VIDEO - I HAVE ALWAYS WANTED TO SEE & HEAR WHAT MR. TAYLOR LOOKED & SOUNDED LIKE - I HAVE ALWAYS WANTED TO HEAR ABOUT THE LIFE & TIMES OF " THE KNOXVILLE BEAR " MR. TAYLOR - THIS VIDEO IS BEYOND MY HIGHEST EXPECTATIONS !! - TO SEE & HEAR MANY OF THE GREATEST PLAYERS OF MANY FACETS & GENERATIONS OF POCKET BILLIARDS IS TRULY A BLESSING I CHERISH - WHEN I WAS YOUNG I WANTED TO BE A PROFESSIONAL POOL PLAYER - WHEN ALL MY FRIENDS WERE WATCHING / PLAYING VARIOUS SPORTS LIKE FOOTBALL & BASEBALL - I WAS WATCHING THE LIKES OF BUDDY HALL & EARL STRICKLAND PLAY ON THE TELEVISION - BEFORE THE INTERNET I WOULD WATCH ARCHER & REYES ECT ... I WOULD BEG MY GRANDMOTHER FOR A HIGH QUALITY POOL CUE WHEN MY FRIENDS WANTED NINTENDO GAMES - NOW AROUND 25 YEARS LATER - WATCHING THIS VIDEO - IT TOOK SUBSTANTIAL WILLPOWER TO STAY HOME INSTEAD OF GOING TO THE POOL HALL - I HAVE HAD THE HONOR AND PRIVILEGE OF GETTING TO KNOW AND BEING AROUND SOME GREAT HALL OF FAME PLAYERS I WATCHED ON TELEVISION AS A CHILD - LIKE NICK VARNER & BUDDY HALL - I CHERISH THOSE MOMENTS AND MEMORIES - I CAN THINK OF NO OTHER SPORT WHERE INDIVIDUALS IN A HALL FAME ARE SO EASILY ACCESSIBLE & APPROACHABLE THEN IN OUR GREAT SPORT - MANY TIMES I HAVE SAT AND TALKED TO THESE FINE PEOPLE IN A POOL HALL SOMEWHERE IN AMERICA - WE HAVE ATE TOGETHER AND EXCHANGED PLEASANT CONVERSATION - GOD BLESS THIS GREAT SPORT IN ALL IT'S MANY FACETS - FROM ONE POCKET TO NINE BALL - FROM STRAIGHT POOL TO BANKS - FROM THREE CUSHION TO EIGHT BALL - AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN - GOD BLESS EVERYONE I HAD THE HONOR TO LEARN FROM - GOD BLESS EVERYONE I HAD THE HONOR TO WATCH PLAY - AND GOD BLESS EVERYONE I HAD THE HONOR TO PLAY - THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS TO THIS GREAT SPORT MAX !! - MAY THE RULER AND GREAT ARCHITECT OF THE UNIVERSE PROTECT AND BLESS YOU AND YOURS ALWAYS THROUGHOUT ETERNITY - SO MOTE IT BE 💖

This is a fantastic and fascinating story for anyone who likes the game of pool! I do wish they asked what kind of stick he uses and whether or not the new fangled equipment matters or not. Thanks for making this video!

He is an amazing pool player and person! Definitely, the best banker of all time! Maybe, the best all around too. Either Eddie, Harrold Worst or Efren...3 Best of All Time!!

Thank you very much for sharing this - I love watching the ole' time greats - never heard of this gentleman - MAN what amazing display of billiards, phenomenal!

In the early 1960s Eddie was living in the back of Cue Time Billiards in Lodi NJ. Jersey Red for weeks and weeks would lay on the floor and say " he's coming, he's coming", referring to Eddie Taylor and then the day came. He walked in as a perfect gentleman. I will make this story short. He was in NYC and got robbed, car, money, jewelry. I was 18 years old and only a c+ player at that time. I became his friend and drove him into the city to play. In music they say "there is Bach" and then every one else. Well I can say for certain there is Eddie and then every one else and I saw all the greats play many, many times. I will clear up a miss quote from that time period. I racked the balls when Eddie strung 32 banks NOT RUN. Frank Paradise made a cue for Eddie with Eddie's name in clear plastic on the bottom. 20 ounces, linen wrap, and bell ferrule. Eddie grabbed 15 balls and scattered them on the table moving them away from the jaws. He the ran 14 banks leaving a thin cross side bank to break the rack. He hit it with low cue ball and broke the rack wide open, like a bomb went off. Tip tapped a couple of balls out of the jaws again and ran another 14 leaving the same cross side bank to break the rack and broke them wide open. He ran 4 more and handed Frank Paradise the cue and said "I don't like it, it makes a ticky sound". The reason for the sound was the plastic sleeve at the bottom. This is first hand knowledge of this incident. Paramus Richie Brown. PS I told this story a thousand times and my friend John Bender of www.Johnbendercues in Kinnelon New jersey will verify this story and many others.

very much appreciate this upload Max! let me know if youre ever in philadelphia looking for a game! haha

Nifty video!

Hey Max, hope everything is good. Great video

good advice sir

I would like to Bank everyone for coming.

Thanks Max

Great video,I have an old vhs tape called the real fast Eddie and its a video of Eddie Taylor

Great video. 2:53 where can I find a table this size for my kid?

Thank you...!

Thanks!

His bit about the fats giving him a compliment by admitting he didnt beat ET is awesome

I love hearing the balls drop into the pocket. Thanks for the vid

Love you all

thx max

Excellent video Max I knew most all those great players as mentors ,thanks for sharing and I’ll pass it along .

Mentioning Charleston WV.. that was really really cool! I'd like more information on that history? It's where I'm from.

All the best Eddie God speed Big Mike Baltimore Md.

pool history you never heard before

Hey max do you know of any vids where somebody runs a rack of banks?

1 2 3 and straight back! Love it thank you for putting this up.

thanks thanks thanks Max .Pietro Roma

No regrets, that says it all!!

God he RULES

Sake or socky? That cat is the most special guest of all these videos 😂

Wow my dad bought me a small pool table like that the balls were like large marbles at bout 7 years old I had a small cue bout 2 1/2 inches then at like 10 years old I graduated to big table got a bigger cue by age 12 I was beating all my uncles!!! They were in their 30s I see a lot of shots that I used to do as a kid my dad was a good teacher he beat me slow ha!ha! I could shoot straight very good I had good eye hand coordination I could cut balls, bank, and play position. Me n my dad watched the world of sport competition when Minnesota fats n willie Mosconie played it was funny n fun to watch. I’d like to try to get back playing n even enter tournaments its never left me . I was born n raised in L.A, now I live in Chicago I’m now 54 good times R.I.P dad

I really miss sitting down and talking with the old man and I really did enjoy him teaching me how to play pool I remember playing him and all of the older generations all of the older generation did teach me a lot I really am thinking about going back and playing pool again but if I do play pool again like I want to do I will dress like I am supposed to dress when you play pool not a lot of people know there is a dress code for when you play pool by Rules by the real rules they have address to I love and miss you all you all are in my prayers

any 3 cushion player is a beast in 'bank game'...

poor Fats, he died 3 years after this. You can see in his voice and appearance he wasn't doing so good. Didn't know he was such a sweet heart, wouldn't hurt a mosquito. Actually did a lot for stray animals. Only thing he should have went vegan, plant based. He'd still be alive today, having had so many highly preventable heart problems (animal flesh = plaque in arteries). He died of congestive heart failure a day before his birthday.

Has anyone who is watching this vid ever play golf on a pool table. Maybe it was just a game we played around my home town. It was a good gambling game.

I met Jay Swanson swannee in the navy in San Diego I would love to see some videos of him playin somebody I can't find any where can you show me were I can find thank you max

I love the old timers. I would of loved to played with them.