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Topic: Buddy Merrill -Quad neck-hopping! |
Jeff Strouse
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Jacksonville, Florida, USA
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Josh Cho
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New York, NY (orig. Honolulu, HI)
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Posted 14 Aug 2009 2:58 am |
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Thanks for sharing that, Jeff.
I think we all know how hard it is to smile and look up once in a while, even when playing licks that are much easier than those that Buddy was pulling out at such a young age.
A true virtuoso!
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George Piburn
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The Land of Enchantment New Mexico
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Posted 14 Aug 2009 6:46 am edited
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Last edited by George Piburn on 17 May 2012 8:24 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Bill Leff
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Santa Cruz, CA, USA
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Posted 14 Aug 2009 7:17 am
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Looks like he was about 15 years old. Amazing!
Love the sound of that outside neck with the bass tuning. |
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Rick Collins
From:
Claremont , CA USA
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Posted 14 Aug 2009 7:23 am
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Great execution!
...best "Fender steel guitar sound" I've heard since I first heard Johnny Sibert play in person when I was a boy. |
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Brad Bechtel
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San Francisco, CA
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Posted 14 Aug 2009 7:38 am
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This video also gives a good tutorial on how to do the bar crashes, "doo-wah" effect, etc. that I typically associate with Speedy West's playing.
Thanks for sharing that!
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Brad’s Page of Steel
A web site devoted to acoustic & electric lap steel guitars |
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Jerry Hayes
From:
Virginia Beach, Va.
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Posted 14 Aug 2009 9:05 am
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In the early eighties I was working 6 nights a week at the DJ Ranch in north Long Beach, Ca. Our Sunday afternoon & Monday night band was Danny Michaels and the Rebel Playboys which featured Buddy Merrill on his D-10 Emmons pedal steel. I used to leave the house early on Sunday so I could catch a couple of their sets before we went to work.
On one Sunday I heard Buddy play a very beautiful rendition of the old pop standard "Once in a While" on his C6th neck and he did such a beautiful job that I wanted to learn it myself. I asked him about what pedals he used for a couple of the chord voicings and he showed it to me. He was/is a very nice person and a great steeler. As everyone probably knows, he's one helluve six string player too........JH in Va.
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Don't matter who's in Austin (or anywhere else) Ralph Mooney is still the king!!! |
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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Billy Tonnesen
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R.I.P., Buena Park, California
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Posted 14 Aug 2009 2:03 pm
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| Back in the pre-pedal multi-necked Steel Guitars, Buddy, Myself and many others on the West Coast incorporated jumping necks as a way of playing. Usually the tunings were differen't voicings of chords and passages. As demonstrated by Buddy when you went to a bridge of a song you could get better chords and passages by jumping necks. Noel Boggs and Leon McCauliff also jumped necks as needed. |
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Jimmy T. Vaughn
From:
Porter, OK
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Posted 15 Aug 2009 5:32 am
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Yea, you would think of all the new steel builders in the world that one of them could give us back that tone of a Stringmaster,I would sure buy one tomorrow.
JV |
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Jon Nygren
From:
Wisconsin, USA
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Posted 15 Aug 2009 6:39 am
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| A big part of that tone is the tube amps guys were using then....just my opinion of course. |
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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Blake Wilson
From:
Boulder CO, USA
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Posted 15 Aug 2009 9:24 am
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Speaking of Buddy, I just picked up his "Beyond the Reef: The Hawaiian Guitars of.." LP for a dollar at the local thrift shop, unplayed in mint condition. Great stuff. I was initially perplexed at the complexity of some of the arrangements, but then realized that the plural "guitars" in the title is apt: there is quite a bit of overdubbing going on. Not to knock it, it just made me wonder if I had ever really heard that approach before.
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Charley Wilder
From:
Dover, New Hampshire, USA
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Posted 16 Aug 2009 9:52 am
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Thanks Jeff. I watched the Welk show just because of him. What a great musician! And remember you're not supposed to play a Tele in a big band, right?  |
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George Keoki Lake
From:
Edmonton, AB., Canada
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Posted 19 Aug 2009 9:09 pm
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Anyone notice Lawrence Welk coaxing Buddy to SMILE ? Seems all the musicians, entertainers on that show had to pass the "smile" requirement. Gads, for Buddy it must have been tough to think about smiling while pulling off all that great stuff on that quad Stringmaster...
Also, notice the Network or possibly Lawrence blocked out the "FENDER" name on his guitar ? Guess they figured it was free advertising.  |
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William Hoff
From:
Missouri, USA
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Posted 20 Aug 2009 3:02 am
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| Man those strings on the far neck are huge!! I wonder what that neck is tuned to? |
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Larry Bales
From:
Las Vegas, NV.
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Posted 26 Aug 2009 1:29 pm
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| I had the pleasure of working in the Danny Michaels band with Buddy. He was a joy to work with and a super guy. Sorry to note the passing of Buddy's wife a few days ago. I introduced them to each other where we were working at George's Roundup in Long Beach CA. |
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