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Topic: fire on the mountain |
Daniel McKee
From:
Corinth Mississippi
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Posted 17 Dec 2010 5:09 pm |
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| what kind of pedal steel was used on fire on the mountain by the marshall tuucker band. |
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Andy Sandoval
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Bakersfield, California, USA
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Posted 17 Dec 2010 5:33 pm
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An out of tune one...just kiddin. I believe Toy Caldwell played a p/p Emmons in the earlier days. That intro just doesn't sound right to my ears when played too perfectly.  |
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Doug Earnest
From:
Branson, MO USA
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Posted 17 Dec 2010 6:16 pm
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Our friend Bari Smith would probably know for sure.
I play it the same way Toy did. But I keep trying to get it right. |
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Matt Elsen
From:
Deer Harbor, Orcas Island, WA
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Posted 17 Dec 2010 10:09 pm
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| Not sure what steel he played on the recording, but when he passed through the Bay Area in the mid-seventies he told me he had been playing a Marlen for a little while. |
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Brett Day
From:
Pickens, SC
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Posted 19 Dec 2010 7:10 pm
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There was a video on YouTube awhile back of a live performance of "Fire On The Mountain" and Toy was playin' an Emmons D-10.
Brett |
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Stu Schulman
From:
Ulster Park New Yawk (deceased)
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Posted 22 Dec 2010 10:43 am
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| Andy Sandoval wrote: |
| An out of tune one...just kiddin. I believe Toy Caldwell played a p/p Emmons in the earlier days. That intro just doesn't sound right to my ears when played too perfectly. |
I agree with Andy there's something about that intro as sour as it is,It's one of those defies the laws and is just cool the way it is,A trademark. 
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chris ivey
From:
california (deceased)
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Posted 22 Dec 2010 11:29 am
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| sad but true. i had to laugh at andy's answer also. |
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Mark van Allen
From:
Watkinsville, Ga. USA
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Posted 22 Dec 2010 11:18 pm
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| I think of FOTM in the same way as JG's "Teach Your Children"- not perfect in intonation or execution, but original and catchy parts that make the songs immediately recognizable. I think both of them attracted many, many players to the pedal steel. |
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Jack Stanton
From:
Somewhere in the swamps of Jersey
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Posted 23 Dec 2010 5:07 am
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| I had the opportunity to jam with Toy Caldwell when he wandered into a club in NYC we were playing ( maybe 1979, 1980?), and he told me he had the exact same guitar as me, a black D-10 p/p Emmons. |
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chris ivey
From:
california (deceased)
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Posted 23 Dec 2010 10:23 am
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....so for those of you who have been brainwashed into believing that the black emmons p/p is the 'best' sound you can get...'tone to the bone'...'tone monster'..'that sound'....
maybe not everything you read is true. |
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Jim Lindsey (Louisiana)
From:
Greenwell Springs, Louisiana (deceased)
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Posted 23 Dec 2010 4:47 pm
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Hi, Daniel ... Back in the 1970's (I'm guessing it was 1977 or 1978) I had the privilege to meet and talk a bit with Toy Caldwell after a gig and I asked him about his steels ... he told me that he had two Emmons guitars, a black one that he mostly used as his "road guitar" and a blond lacquer one that he used mainly for recording and practice. While we talked I asked him which steel he used on "Fire On The Mountain" and "Searchin For A Rainbow" and he said "it was probably Old Blondie" that he'd used on those recordings.
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Matt Elsen
From:
Deer Harbor, Orcas Island, WA
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Posted 23 Dec 2010 4:55 pm
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Sometime in the mid-seventies, on one of their first tours through the Bay Area, the band did a call-in stint on one of the local radio stations.
I called up, and to my amazement actually got through. I asked Toy a couple of questions on the air, among them: what steel guitar was he playing at the time?
Toy's answer: "A Marlen" |
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