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Charles Davidson
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Posted 24 Sep 2007 12:05 pm |
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Saw something in the Sunday paper about his new CD,at least he promised NOT to go on tour.Don't know why I'm SURE he needs the money,Don't you know.
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Charles Davidson
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Phenix City Alabama, USA
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Posted 24 Sep 2007 12:08 pm
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Sorry,this should have been in the humor section.Don't you know.
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Theresa Galbraith
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Posted 24 Sep 2007 3:25 pm
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Garth is cool! 
I love Trisha's new single also. |
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Darvin Willhoite
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Roxton, Tx. USA
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Posted 24 Sep 2007 7:00 pm
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I fail to grasp the mentality of a lot of folks on this forum. If I'm not mistaken, Garth always had a steel player in his band, exposing the steel guitar to millions. Which was probably responsible for lots of steel players working in other bands.
A lot of the same folks that diss Garth, think Marty Stewart hung the moon and stars, and he hasn't had a steel in his band for several years.
I thought this forum was about steel guitar, not who we personally like or dislike.
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Darvin Willhoite
MSA Millennium, Legend, and Studio Pro, Reese's restored Universal Direction guitar, a restored MSA Classic SS, several amps, new and old, and a Kemper Powerhead that I am really liking. Also a Zum D10, a Mullen RP, and a restored Rose S10, named the "Blue Bird". Also, I have acquired and restored the plexiglass D10 MSA Classic that was built as a demo in the early '70s. I also have a '74 lacquer P/P, with wood necks, and a showroom condition Sho-Bud Super Pro. |
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Charles Davidson
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Phenix City Alabama, USA
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Posted 24 Sep 2007 9:15 pm
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Take a cold shower and cool off guys,posts in the MUSIC section sometimes have NOTHING to do with the steel guitar.Just think how boring it would be if we all liked the same thing,would never be ANYTHING to debate,don't you know.
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 25 Sep 2007 7:17 am
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Darvin, I don't believe I ever got a gig just because Garth had a steel player in his band, however, I do know that he was in constant rotation on all the DJ's lists in places where I used to work .....
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Dave Van Allen
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Souderton, PA , US , Earth
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Jim Eller
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Kodak, TN (Michigan transplant)
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Posted 25 Sep 2007 2:30 pm
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I thought Steve McClure played steel for Garth from almost beginning to end??
BTW, whatever happened to Steve??? |
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Alvin Blaine
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Picture Rocks, Arizona, USA
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Posted 25 Sep 2007 4:15 pm
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| Darvin Willhoite wrote: |
I fail to grasp the mentality of a lot of folks on this forum. If I'm not mistaken, Garth always had a steel player in his band, exposing the steel guitar to millions. Which was probably responsible for lots of steel players working in other bands.
A lot of the same folks that diss Garth, think Marty Stewart hung the moon and stars, and he hasn't had a steel in his band for several years.
I thought this forum was about steel guitar, not who we personally like or dislike. |
I think the animosity against Garth isn't about what instrumentation he uses or doesn't use. It's more about how he thinks of music, and how he uses music as just another marketing tool for himself.
He could have been just as successful as a car salesman, a sports figure, a politician, or about anything else. For Garth it's not about the music it's about him.
Now on the other hand Marty Stuart is all about the music. If you ever get a chance to talk with him, all he talks about, thinks about, and breaths, is music. I really doubt you will ever see Marty Stuart declare his "retirement" from music. |
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Donny Hinson
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Posted 25 Sep 2007 5:15 pm
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I'm a bigger Garth fan than most people in this area. He's talented, but some of his "antics" (the same antics that entertained and won over the younger folk) only served to alienate him from most of the older generation. As one reviewer put it
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| And if all this wasn't enough, along came Garth Brooks to change things once again. While Brooks dressed the part in his signature western wear with that gigantic belt buckle, he took country yet farther again from its roots. He introduced arena rock theatrics with himself swinging from a rope onstage... |
Young people seem to like "off the wall" stuff... like jumping all over the place, swinging from ropes, busting up guitars, and using laser light-shows and pyrotechnics. The older and more conservative country crowd is not entertained or impressed by these "circus-like" activities.
In the world of pop entertainment today, you have to choose. You can be reserved and command an air of "respectability", or...you can be rich.
You can't do both. |
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Kevin Hatton
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Buffalo, N.Y.
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Posted 25 Sep 2007 5:39 pm
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| Alvin, thats an excellent point. Garth Brooks is not in Marty Stuart's league as a country musician. Garth Brooks is in it strictly for the money and his personal ego. When he can't have the number one song on the country radio charts he retires. Then when he does make a CD he doesn't tour because he's waiting to see if its time for his come back. I've opened for Marty Stuart twice. Both times Kenny Vaughan remembered me because I was the guy who played The Tom Brumley guitar (ZB Custom). Both times he made it a point to talk to me extensively about Buck Owens and how much Marty and the band are into Buck Owens. Marty Stuart was playing with Lester Flatt at 13 years old and with Johnny Cash at 19. Garth Brooks is a studio and marketing creation. |
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Mike Winter
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Portland, OR
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Posted 25 Sep 2007 6:25 pm
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| What Alvin and Kevin said...plus he partnered with Wal-Mart...please... |
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 25 Sep 2007 6:52 pm
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"In the world of pop entertainment today, you have to choose. You can be reserved and command an air of "respectability", or...you can be rich.
You can't do both."
I don't know - George Strait isn't doing too bad .... |
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Charles Davidson
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Phenix City Alabama, USA
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Posted 25 Sep 2007 7:21 pm
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Be careful fellows your mental competence may be questioned here.There is nothing fake about Marty,he's the REAL deal,not only was he a child prodigy,but promotes the music much more than himself.And no I don't HATE Garth,I'm sure he's a very nice man,just never liked his music or his antics,Leave the guitar smashing,stage acrobatics,rope swinging,to the professionals such as maybe David Lee Roth,at least in his prime he was good at it.Don't you know.
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Hard headed, opinionated old geezer. BAMA CHARLIE. GOD BLESS AMERICA. ANIMAL RIGHTS ACTIVIST. SUPPORT LIVE MUSIC !
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LJ Eiffert
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California, USA
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Posted 25 Sep 2007 8:15 pm
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| Hello Mr. Darvin Willhoite,The forum is about steel-guitar and it's player.,but,education to the fools who don't know,but,nit pick make's them happy to run themself down.Garth's a real up to dated cool person,but,he has no power of running this Music-Business.He have's people to answer to just ask Trisha,his Girls.You guys on Garth,get a little air or you might get rain. Leo J.Eiffert,Jr. & Pigeons |
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Charles Davidson
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Phenix City Alabama, USA
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Posted 25 Sep 2007 8:52 pm
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Had a hard time interpreting,but seems you suggest we may get some rain THANKS,we really need it.By the way I have'nt questioned any one's intellectual status,nor do I think they are a fool if they disagree with me,Don't you know.
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Hard headed, opinionated old geezer. BAMA CHARLIE. GOD BLESS AMERICA. ANIMAL RIGHTS ACTIVIST. SUPPORT LIVE MUSIC ! |
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LJ Eiffert
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California, USA
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Posted 25 Sep 2007 10:30 pm
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| Hello Charles Davidson,Hey you got it,interpreting!No matter how good or bad things are in Music,it just goes round & round and we all get rain. I guess it's a good thing some of us lived long enought to talk about.You sure this is how Hank Williams made it in this Music Business?,People talking about him or was it his records. Leo J.Eiffert,Jr.& Pigeons with Clip Wings |
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Charles Davidson
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Phenix City Alabama, USA
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Posted 26 Sep 2007 12:20 am
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Being old enough and from Hanks neck of the woods,saw him a few times when I was a child,when he was playing little country school houses etc.before the rest of the world knew who he was,and yes people talked about him,pro and con[the same way they did Elvis years later].But he had something you see very little of today.Being an almost illiterate country boy from the backwoods of Alabama,he had the GOD given talent of being a phenomenal lyricist [and with the help of Fred Rose]wrote songs that are as new today has they were 57 years ago.Go in any big record shop and his records are still selling over a half century after his death.Fifty years from now if this world is still here as we know it now[which I doubt it will be]do you really think there will be a section of Garth Brooks,Kenny Chesney,Big and Rich,or Cowboy Troy,for sale,don't think so.The few short years Hank was here he did'nt need studio tricks,8 or 10 tractor trailer's full of equipment,laser shows,several distorted Les Pauls,a stack of keyboards,to cover an inadequate performance,just a little four piece band and he could drive a packed auditorium into a frenzy.Come to think of it,it's almost sacrilegious to mention Garth and Hank in the same sentence,I'm sorry,don't you know.
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Hard headed, opinionated old geezer. BAMA CHARLIE. GOD BLESS AMERICA. ANIMAL RIGHTS ACTIVIST. SUPPORT LIVE MUSIC ! |
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Jim Eller
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Posted 26 Sep 2007 6:03 am
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OK. All that said.
Whatever happened to Steve McClure???
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Donny Hinson
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Posted 26 Sep 2007 7:59 am
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| Barry Blackwood wrote: |
"In the world of pop entertainment today, you have to choose. You can be reserved and command an air of "respectability", or...you can be rich.
You can't do both."
I don't know - George Strait isn't doing too bad .... |
True. But you have to remember that George (and a few other still-hot country performers) really "made it" long before the current trend of wild-acting "hat singers" came about - back when country music was still rather reserved. I'm pretty convinced that audiences (the really big audiences, that is), want something more spectacular nowadays. Whenever I hear someone talk of a big concert they've seen recently, their memorable aspects usually aren't centered around just singing and musicianship, but rather more on the "show" that's built around the act. The vast amount of atendees can't appreciate talent, but they do always respond to a "spectacle". |
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 26 Sep 2007 9:00 am
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| True as well, Donny. Also, unlike most, I can appreciate (today's) talent AND respond to the "spectacle" as well - by changing channels with lightning fast speed and precision. |
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Leslie Ehrlich
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Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
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Posted 26 Sep 2007 3:57 pm
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| Music is something that is to be heard, not seen. And there are some Kiss tunes that I actually like to listen to. |
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Theresa Galbraith
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Goodlettsville,Tn. USA
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Posted 26 Sep 2007 4:48 pm
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| We all can change the channel if we want to. |
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Randy Phelps
From:
California, USA
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Posted 26 Sep 2007 7:28 pm
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| Alvin Blaine wrote: |
I think the animosity against Garth isn't about what instrumentation he uses or doesn't use. It's more about how he thinks of music, and how he uses music as just another marketing tool for himself.
He could have been just as successful as a car salesman, a sports figure, a politician, or about anything else. For Garth it's not about the music it's about him.
Now on the other hand Marty Stuart is all about the music. If you ever get a chance to talk with him, all he talks about, thinks about, and breaths, is music. I really doubt you will ever see Marty Stuart declare his "retirement" from music. |
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Charles Davidson
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Phenix City Alabama, USA
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Posted 26 Sep 2007 10:10 pm
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Jim,sorry you are being ignored,Sorry I don't know what happened to Steve,Somebody help Jim out.Don't you know.
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Hard headed, opinionated old geezer. BAMA CHARLIE. GOD BLESS AMERICA. ANIMAL RIGHTS ACTIVIST. SUPPORT LIVE MUSIC ! |
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