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Topic: Can you identify different guitars used by your favorite |
S.M. Johnson
From:
Oregon, USA
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Posted 23 Mar 2011 8:06 pm |
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I just noticed something on the JERRYBYRD-FANCLUB.com
that I hadn't noticed during any of my previous visits to the site.
There's one page that has about a dozen videos of Jerry Byrd playing various makes of steel guitars. I find it next to impossible to detect any difference in the guitars' sounds. I've always understood that the guitar/amp combo is the most important factor in an artists sound.
How about you? |
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Charles Davidson
From:
Phenix City Alabama, USA
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Posted 23 Mar 2011 8:48 pm
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I'm NOT that good. My favorite picker is Mr. Seymour,But would'nt have a clue what he was playing if I could'nt see it. He could take a 2 by 4 strung with haywire and play better than most. YOU BETCHA,DYK?BC.
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Johnny Cox
From:
Williamsom WVA, raised in Nashville TN, Lives in Hallettsville Texas
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Posted 23 Mar 2011 9:50 pm
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I can't even tell which guitar I'm playing. I've done a few record sessions in the past 40 years and when I hear the records if I don't remember what guitar I played I can't tell by listening. I have a cd of a bunch of songs that I did at one particular studio always using the same amp but different guitars. Zumsteel, MSA Millennium, MSA Legend, Sho- Bud permanent and no one has been able to tell me correctly which guitar is which. In fact I have had several people tell me I was playing a push pull Emmons. I have not played a push pull on a record since 1978. I had an email a few weeks ago complimenting my sound on a particular record. The person writing me said, "Your tone was great, I'm sure you played your Zum". He wanted to know what pickup I was using. I had to write him back to tell him that it was a True Tone pickup but that the guitar was my MSA Legend. The gentleman had difficulty believing it was not a Zum. I hold to the thought that many people listen with their eyes and not their ears. "Black guitars after all do sound better"!!!
I don't think so. 
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Johnny "Dumplin" Cox
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Olli Haavisto
From:
Jarvenpaa,Finland
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Posted 23 Mar 2011 11:10 pm
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I played an album session years ago which was done in two sessions, almost a year apart.
First session: Emmons LL,108 pup, Sansamp pre, Korg rev.
Second session: Zumsteel, 910 pup, Evans pre, Rocktron rev.
The record came out a year after the second session. No way I could tell for certain which tunes were on the Zum or the Emmons....
edit. I`m not implying that I`m my favorite player
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Olli Haavisto
Finland
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Norman Boling
From:
Paragould Arkansas, Philadelphia TN USA
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Posted 24 Mar 2011 2:49 am The sound
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If you are playing one of the many good guitars available I do believe the rest is in the hands and the mind.
Problem is, mine are not connected yet. But they will be in time.
I don't believe I've ever tried to play an instrument that offers the freedom to develop your own sound that a pedal steel does.
I know what sounds good to me but I'm not sure I could explain it.
There's a sound in my mind I want to achieve and that's what I'll work toward. If others like it? that's good too but I'm the one that has to listen to it.  |
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Brett Day
From:
Pickens, SC
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Posted 24 Mar 2011 10:07 am
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I can tell if Gary Morse is playin' on a Dierks Bentley song if I hear a classic type sound, meaning Sho-Bud. One example is on "Lotta Leavin' Left To Do".
Brett |
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Bill Bailey
From:
Kingman, AZ
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Posted 28 Mar 2011 11:50 pm Guitars
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Bret, I bet Gary is playing the Desert Rose on Dirks song. He has a herd of Desert Rose Guitars. 
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Bill Bailey
Kingman Arizona
2014 Mullen G2 D 10 8+5 Black
92 Emmons Lashley LeGrande D-10
Two Nashville 400 Amps and Nashvill 112. |
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Bo Borland
From:
South Jersey -
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Posted 29 Mar 2011 12:16 am
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| Many times you can identify the player by his style, attack, vibrato, his musical knowledge, etc, but hardly ever by the steel he was playing. |
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Brett Day
From:
Pickens, SC
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Posted 30 Mar 2011 2:31 pm Re: Guitars
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| Bill Bailey wrote: |
| Bret, I bet Gary is playing the Desert Rose on Dirks song. He has a herd of Desert Rose Guitars. |
Hey Bill, I remember on Dierks' second record featuring "Lotta Leavin' Left To Do, he played a Sho-Bud-it was listed in the credits but I'm not sure if he played Sho-Bud on "Sideways". |
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Bill Bailey
From:
Kingman, AZ
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Posted 30 Mar 2011 10:35 pm Desert Rose
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Thanks Bret,
I stand corrected. Take care man.
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Bill Bailey
Kingman Arizona
2014 Mullen G2 D 10 8+5 Black
92 Emmons Lashley LeGrande D-10
Two Nashville 400 Amps and Nashvill 112. |
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