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Topic: Talking Steel Guitar |
Don Kona Woods
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Hawaiian Kama'aina
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Tom Pettingill
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California, USA (deceased)
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Steve Ahola
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Concord, California
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Mike Neer
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NJ
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Posted 8 Sep 2011 3:51 am |
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I have a talk box that I bought for steel guitar, but it is hard to get it right. I've been messing with it a little more in an effort to sound like Joe Zawinul (who used a vocoder and created his own language) than Pete Drake. I have one of the good ones, too: an early Dean Markley with an Altec driver.
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Frank James Pracher
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Michigan, USA
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Posted 8 Sep 2011 5:07 am
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Pete Drake is great.
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Andy Sandoval
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Bakersfield, California, USA
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Posted 8 Sep 2011 6:29 am
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| Peter Frampton had the most commercial success with the talk box I think. |
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Mike Neer
From:
NJ
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Posted 8 Sep 2011 6:42 am
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The greatest talk box artist of all-time was Roger Troutman. I don't think anyone could touch him, but he used a keyboard. I got a chance to see him play a few months before he died, at the World Trade Center of all places.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKD-v7P314s
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Bill Creller
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Saginaw, Michigan, USA (deceased)
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Posted 8 Sep 2011 8:24 am
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| Peter Frampton was was good with it alright. Still have some old tape albums from those days.... |
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Stephen Abruzzo
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Philly, PA
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Posted 8 Sep 2011 9:19 am
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| Andy Sandoval wrote: |
| Peter Frampton had the most commercial success with the talk box I think. |
The first time I remember a talk-box being used was Joe Walsh........"Rocky Mountain Way". Great tune by one of the under-rated guitarists of all time. |
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Brad Bechtel
From:
San Francisco, CA
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Tim Heidner
From:
Groves, TX
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Posted 8 Sep 2011 11:32 am
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| Mike Neer wrote: |
| I have a talk box that I bought for steel guitar, but it is hard to get it right. I've been messing with it a little more in an effort to sound like Joe Zawinul (who used a vocoder and created his own language) than Pete Drake. I have one of the good ones, too: an early Dean Markley with an Altec driver. |
Hey Mike, have you seen that youtube of Zawinul and John McLaughlin? Nice vocoder(?I guess) work in that one. |
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Steve Ahola
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Concord, California
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Posted 8 Sep 2011 11:49 am Some more Pete Drake
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"I'm Blue" has been my favorite Pete Drake Talking Steel Guitar song for 40 years- mainly because he gets such a nasty blues tone with the talk box. And most of it is him just playing rather than trying to mimic words:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIR7Z46M9j4
Here are Sides One and Two of the "Talking Steel Guitar" LP on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90bZu1If7xU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XqIwRO7DMg
All 12 songs! (I had the 99 cent version on Pickwick Records which only had 10 of the songs.)
Steve Ahola
P.S. I noticed a LOT more Pete Drake uploads on YouTube since I last checked. Jeff Beck was another guitarist who popularized the talk box in the 70's (although I think his might have been the bota bag style). As for the Joe Walsh song I just checked with Mr. Wiki and he suspects that the talk box was reinforced by other instruments- "mouth organ, synthesizer and a harmonium".
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Justin Jacobson
From:
Rochester, MN
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Larry Hutchison
From:
Peoria, Illinois, USA
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Posted 8 Sep 2011 1:57 pm
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I have a talking unit for the steelguitar, made by the great "Whitey Cutcher". Whitey made it for me in the early 70's..I believe he only made 2 of them..One of our forum members has the other..R.I.P. Whitey.
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Eric Stumpf
From:
Newbury, NH 03255
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Posted 8 Sep 2011 2:55 pm
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Since there are recordings from the early 40's using the original talk box "The
Sonovox", I doubt that Les Paul can be given credit for its invention. He also didn't invent the solid body electric guitar or multi-track recording but was, of course, a great developmental force in those fields. |
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chris ivey
From:
california (deceased)
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Posted 8 Sep 2011 4:31 pm
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| the talk box thing is really dumb and anybody using one should get a ticket! |
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Elton Smith
From:
Texas, USA
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Posted 8 Sep 2011 6:04 pm
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I agree Chris, just ain't my bag.But it is different.
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