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Topic: Buddy Emmons on 1975 Roy Head track |
Dan Tyack
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Olympia, WA USA
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Posted 13 Jan 2011 1:45 pm |
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I've been looking for this song for years, and I just found it on YouTube. Buddy played on a Roy Head album in 1975, when he was experimenting with multiple pickups on a pedal steel. The first time I heard this cut ("The Most Wanted Woman in Town"), I said, holy cow, I've got to get a second pickup for my steel. THat only happened a few years ago, but it was Buddy who put it in my head.
Listen to the turnaround on this song! Funky! |
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Jody Cameron
From:
Angleton, TX,, USA
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Posted 13 Jan 2011 2:11 pm
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Wow! Awesome Dan! Thanks for posting. I've worked with Roy on several occasions. Randy Cornor, myself and some of the other Houston session guys we work with just re-cut this tune with Roy last year on his new CD entitled "2010". We cut it in Houston at Sugarhill studio.
Our arrangement is somewhat different, in fact I have never heard this cut in my life! Buddy is absolutely "the man". I loved his work on this, but, then again, I love everything Buddy's ever done.
I may try to post a link to the new version if I can figure out how.
Thanks again for posting. JC |
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Jeff Keyton
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Texas, USA
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Posted 13 Jan 2011 9:00 pm
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| I second the thanks on posting that link. I'm currently reading a book called "House of Hits" about the studio where that was recorded. All sorts of stuff got recorded there -- the early George Jones, Floyd Tillman, Chantilly Lace, 13th Floor Elevators,Freddy Fender at the time of that Roy Head recording and etc. etc. Herb Remington it seems was the de facto house steeler for years when the studio was called Gold Star (not to be confused with the Cali studio of that name). Sorry to get off track. I saw Roy play in Austin a few years ago on a package show with Barbara Lynn and Archie Bell, but Roy didn't do much country in that set. |
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Rick Collins
From:
Claremont , CA USA
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Posted 14 Jan 2011 9:44 am
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Yes Dan. Thanks for that.
Remember, Big E is not only the best in execution, but he's also the most innovative.
...know how so many pedal players sound alike on the E9th tuning?
Big E always creates something unique. |
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 14 Jan 2011 10:38 am
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| It's a wonder you heard E at all, with that scratchy fiddler hogging the track. |
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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Dave Mudgett
From:
Central Pennsylvania and Gallatin, Tennessee
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Posted 14 Jan 2011 12:33 pm
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Yes, definitely "Treat Her Right" Roy Head.
Way cool, big Roy Head fan here. Like the best of the early rock and roll and rockabilly singers, at heart he's also a fine country singer. Lots of great stuff on youtube - almost all of it worth tracking down. Good steel guitar on many of the 70s country tunes, but this one is particularly fine. |
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Ken Byng
From:
Southampton, England
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Posted 14 Jan 2011 1:54 pm
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| Doug Beaumier wrote: |
I'm curious about Big E's turnaround at 1:36. At first I thought it was one steel guitar with two pickups and total left-right separation, but now I'm thinking it's two pedal steel tracks (overdub) panned left-right because the parts are slightly different at the end of the riff. It sure does sound good!
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Doug - you are right. There is a slight difference in synchronisation that gives away that it is an over dub. Nice break though.
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Joachim Kettner
From:
Germany
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Posted 14 Jan 2011 2:10 pm
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| Roy Head- Living For A Song, features Jimmy Day on a couple of songs, and the title song was written by him also. |
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Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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Dan Tyack
From:
Olympia, WA USA
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Posted 14 Jan 2011 10:09 pm
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| I'm not particularly a Roy Head fan, but Buddy's playing on that cut put a sound in my head that took me 30 years to get. |
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Dan Tyack
From:
Olympia, WA USA
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Posted 14 Jan 2011 10:10 pm
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| Ok I just saw that youtube clip that Doug posted, now I am a fan! |
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Dennis Olearchik
From:
Newtown, PA
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Posted 15 Jan 2011 8:02 am
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| Wow, Roy had some wild movin' & shakin' goin' on! |
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Jim Smith
From:
Midlothian, TX, USA
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Joachim Kettner
From:
Germany
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Posted 15 Jan 2011 10:48 am
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| Blue Eyed Soul. Isn't that the term that was used to describe this style? |
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Paddy Long
From:
Christchurch, New Zealand
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Posted 15 Jan 2011 1:44 pm
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I got to play on a TV show in the mid 80's with Roy Head doing that exact song ... great stuff ...Roy was very acrobatic in his performance  doing somersaults and back rolls etc and he loved to throw the mic about on the end of the mic lead hehe !!!
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Jeff Evans
From:
Cowtown and The Bill Cox Outfit
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Posted 29 Jan 2011 2:44 am Post-Vitalis, Dry-Look Era
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Interesting cut. Part of the bridge melody is not unlike "A Different Kind of Flower."
Pinky Rangs and Tobaccer
. . . would've been a nice album title. |
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Chris Schlotzhauer
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Colleyville, Tx. USA
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Posted 29 Jan 2011 6:29 am
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"Treat Her Right" was written by Austin's Gene Kurtz, former bass player for Dale Watson.
Roy had a top hit with that song when the Beatles "Yesterday" knocked it off the top.
Roy doesn't have good things to say about the Beatles |
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Ernie Renn
From:
Brainerd, Minnesota USA
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Posted 29 Jan 2011 6:29 pm
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It's Buddy doubling himself using the Pentad pickups on the "Tank Tone" setting. It was an out of phase type sound.
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www.BuddyEmmons.com |
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Jeff Keyton
From:
Texas, USA
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Posted 29 Jan 2011 7:23 pm
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| I know this off the OP's track a little -- but, I run into Gene Kurtz, (mentioned in Chris's post above) here in town every now and then. He told me "Treat Her Right" was about a cow. |
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Mark van Allen
From:
Watkinsville, Ga. USA
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Posted 30 Jan 2011 11:45 am
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Even with the pickups being out of phase, that turn sounds (tonally) like a lot of other double tracked steel I've heard. I've wondered for years why pedal steel sounds more phasey than regular 6 sting when double tracked. I used to think it might be the additional higher harmonics, but I just don't know.
For instance, the double tracked dobro parts on the "Nashville Bar Association" album. Acoustic instruments, but huge and phasey on the DT parts. |
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Chris Schlotzhauer
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Colleyville, Tx. USA
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Posted 30 Jan 2011 2:10 pm
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| Jeff Keyton wrote: |
| I know this off the OP's track a little -- but, I run into Gene Kurtz, (mentioned in Chris's post above) here in town every now and then. He told me "Treat Her Right" was about a cow. |
Haha I remember some story about that song. Was it originally named "Feed Her Right"? |
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Ernie Renn
From:
Brainerd, Minnesota USA
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Posted 31 Jan 2011 12:24 am
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I asked Buddy to be sure. And of course I'm here to clarify. It is the Tank Tone, but not on the Pentad. It was on the basket weave 12 string pushpull. Here, I'll let Buddy explain...
"It's the out-of-phase sound but the snapping sound of the G# string at the end of the solo tells me it was recorded with the single 12 basket weave P.P. (The one) I used on the Flying Fish Rainbow album. That guitar had two pickups and was capable of the tank tone sound of the Pentad pickup.
The snapping effect was acquired by setting the pickup close enough to the strings to produce the sound when wanted by applying extra downward pressure to the bar. Also the tuning was E13th, which accounts for the way I chose to use the unison intervals in the solo. The E13th tuning had a C# for the fifth string, so it was much easier and more effective to get the sound by using string 5 along with string 6, pedal down."
And there you have it. 
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Ernie
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Dan Tyack
From:
Olympia, WA USA
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Posted 31 Jan 2011 7:11 am
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Thanks for confirming that, Ernie and Buddy. I thought it was the rainbow album guitar, since it was released at about the same time, and has 'that sound'.
Now I'm trying to figure out why I bought the album in the first place (since it was a pleasant surprise when I heard Buddy on it). Probably because it was in the $.25 bin at the used record store. 
It's a great sound, and just one more example of Buddy's creativity and innovation. |
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Andy Sandoval
From:
Bakersfield, California, USA
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Posted 31 Jan 2011 9:11 am
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| Doug Beaumier wrote: |
| Not to change the subject... but Roy Head could really "bust a move" back in his rock daze, kinda like James Brown ---> CLICK |
I think I dislocated my sacra cracker jack watchin that one. |
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