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Ray Montee
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Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 28 Sep 2011 9:09 am |
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I realize that today is another world away from the early days of steel guitar playing. Back then, we were able to learn how to play in different tunings of which there were more than 50 and/or as many as 350. Of course, being earlier than 1980, there were few pedal steels.
These instrumental tunes were often the brainchild of an individual steel player, that involved learning not only the difference in tunings but playing styles as well.
Some of my favorites were:
B.Bowman Hop Billy Bowman/B.Wills
Steelin' Home Noel Boggs
Rose City Chimes ? ?
Southland ? ?
Steel Srike Speedy West
Texas Steel Guitar ? ?
Southern Steel Guitar Noel Boggs
Bar-B-Q Rag ? ?
Georgia Steel Guitar Jerry Byrd
South Jerry Byrd
Panhandle Waltz Leon McAuliff
Jean Street Swing Herb Remington
and countless others......W
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Steve Green
From:
Gulfport, MS, USA
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Posted 28 Sep 2011 10:15 am
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Sleepwalk - Santo & Johnny
Remington Ride - Herb Remington
Blue Jade - Buddy Emmons
Bud's Bounce - ??
OOOOOH! - Alan F. Brookes 
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Larry Baker
From:
Columbia, Mo. U.S.A.
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Posted 28 Sep 2011 1:50 pm
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Triad--Lloyd Green
Midnight Silence--Lloyd Green
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John Billings
From:
Ohio, USA
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Posted 29 Sep 2011 6:44 am
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"Bar Hoppin'" Lloyd. It's the song that got me hooked, and playing!
Later on,,"I'm Not Lisa" John Hughey. Sappy song as a vocal. Stunning instrumental by John! |
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Andy Sandoval
From:
Bakersfield, California, USA
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Posted 29 Sep 2011 9:14 am
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Although I do have my favorites, I really dig any steel guitar instrumental.  |
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Mark Eaton
From:
Sonoma County in The Great State Of Northern California
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Posted 29 Sep 2011 12:41 pm Re: Steel Guitar instrumentals......................
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. Of course, being earlier than 1980, there were few pedal steels.
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I love all the instrumentals listed, but for the sake of historical discussion, it seems to me there was no shortage of pedal steels and players of pedal steel from about the mid 60's onwards.
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b0b
From:
Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Michael Maddex
From:
Northern New Mexico, USA
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Posted 29 Sep 2011 1:41 pm
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Good thread, Ray.
When I was a kid in the '50s, there was a wind-up Victrola at my Grandmother's in West Virginia and a 78 of Remington Ride. Man, I just loved that record. I think that disc may have permanently warped my mind. At least it left me with a love of both steel guitars and instrumentals.
What b0b said. Get your copy of the Forum Showcase CD if you don't already have one. It features fifty of the Forum's finest pickin' just for you.
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Morgan Scoggins
From:
Georgia, USA
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Posted 29 Sep 2011 2:31 pm
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"On The Alamo",Duke Ellington
" I Love You So Much" Floyd Tillman
" Cold Cold War", Floyd Tillman
" Born to Lose" Ray Charles
"Faded love" Bob Wills
"Mansion On a Hill" Hank Williams Sr.
"Take These Chains From My Heart". Hank Sr.
"Sand" Andy Iona
" Nuages" ,J. Rinehardt
" So What", Miles Davis
"The Old Violin" Johnny Paycheck
and the greatest country song ever recorded:
"He Stopped Loving Her Today", The Possum
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Cal Sharp
From:
the farm in Kornfield Kounty, TN
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Craig Schwartz
From:
McHenry IL
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Posted 30 Sep 2011 2:17 pm
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Steel guitar jubilee
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Mike Perlowin
From:
Los Angeles CA
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Posted 30 Sep 2011 2:41 pm
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These songs are part of our instrument’s history, and it’s important that they be preserved. But it doesn’t follow that EVERYBODY has to be involved in their preservation. There is a whole world full of songs that would make great steel instrumentals.
Many of our heroes have looked “outside the box” to find new material (I.E. Buddy Emmons playing Linus and Lucy, and Jeff Newman playing Dance With Me.)
Among the genres with great songs just waiting for a steel guitarist to play them are Broadway shows like The Sound of Music, the Motown catalog, the songs of Burt Bacharach, ethnic music from other countries like Ireland and Japan etc. I recently saw the film “Mama Mia” with song by Abba, and heard several that would be good steel instrumentals, and one called “Slipping Through My Fingers” that would be absolutely perfect.
As many of you know, I have been exploring the world of classical music, as have, among others, Doug “Earnest Bovine” Livingston (who is far better at it than I am,) B.J. Cole, Buddy Emmons, (Cannon in D,) Hal Rugg, who played a piece by Bach at the convention one year and Lloyd Green, who played one by Mozart. (Three more examples of our heroes are exploring new genres.) But even collectively, we’ve barely scratched the surface of this vast 400-year-old body of music.
Every time I hear a new song or a piece of music, I ask myself: “Would this be a good steel guitar instrumental?” The answer is "yes" so often that I can’t even begin to keep track of all the possibilities, let alone learn them all.
There has been a lot of talk about whether the PSG is dead or alive. One way to keep it alive is to find new songs to play. The PSG has almost unlimited possibilities. It's true that there have been many great steel instrumental in the past, bur our instrument's repertoire is not, and should not be limited to what has been played before.
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David Wren
From:
Placerville, California, USA
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Posted 30 Sep 2011 3:22 pm
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I used to love to play Jimmy Day's "Liberty Drive"... now I like playing "The Wind Cries Mary"
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