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Topic: The Tune That Brought Me Here. |
Archie Nicol R.I.P.
From:
Ayrshire, Scotland
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Posted 19 Feb 2012 5:09 pm |
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That most commonly asked question, `What made you take up Pedal Steel Guitar?` Well, this was the very tune that got me started.
pick here
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Archie Nicol R.I.P.
From:
Ayrshire, Scotland
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Posted 19 Feb 2012 5:13 pm
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Nope. Try this one.
stupid boy
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Michael Robertson
From:
Ventura, California. USA
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Ben Elder
From:
La Crescenta, California, USA
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Posted 19 Feb 2012 6:54 pm
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No one song pushed me to this debilitating mania, but both of those two were high up on the list. (I think my first real awareness came when a friend told me to check out the guitar player (Don Rich) on Buck Owens' TV show and I was struck by the steel guitar (must have been Tom Brumley) with its higher string-action than on my first Harmony archtop.
Archie: What does your song and "Dueling Banjos" have in common?*
Michael: See my profile quotation.
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*--The "Top Forty" pedal steel and "Dueling Banjos" banjo are both played by Eric Weissberg. Either should qualify him for universal Hall of Fame membership.
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Dale Rottacker
From:
Walla Walla Washington, USA
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Stuart Legg
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Posted 19 Feb 2012 7:36 pm
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| Oh No Arch!! You were doing so good and wham! You got trumped with a Garcia card. |
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Ricky Davis
From:
Bertram, Texas USA
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Dave Bertoncini
From:
Sun City West, Arizona USA
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Posted 19 Feb 2012 8:28 pm
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Area Code 615 "Why Ask Why"...Saw them at Fillmore West in SF early 70's with Weldon Myrick on steel. This You Tube Clip is not as good as the original...but gives you the right idea. The real version is on the original Area Code 615 LP
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Tracy Sheehan
From:
Fort Worth, Texas, USA
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Posted 19 Feb 2012 8:34 pm Re:
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I started on fiddle at the age of 9 or 10. The big band jazz and western swing was very popular back then. Later as swing was dying out i took up steel as i played for a living and one could get a job playing steel if they could hit a G chord.
Guess i have lived too long as music has died out all together.  |
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Tracy Sheehan
From:
Fort Worth, Texas, USA
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Posted 19 Feb 2012 8:48 pm Edit.
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| Forgot to add altho i didn't care to play country music i did hate to see it die also. Tracy |
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Stuart Legg
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Posted 19 Feb 2012 9:26 pm
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It was Bo's singing and playing hot licks on the PSG that just dazzled me to wanting to learn all I could about the Steel Guitar.
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Kevin Hatton
From:
Buffalo, N.Y.
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Posted 19 Feb 2012 10:03 pm
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| Who played steel on "Mrs. Johnson"? |
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Mark van Allen
From:
Watkinsville, Ga. USA
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Posted 19 Feb 2012 11:27 pm
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For me it was Buddy playing Wichita Lineman on the Suite Steel album. I heard that and it was all over.
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Todd Brown
From:
W. Columbia , South Carolina
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Posted 19 Feb 2012 11:52 pm
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For me it was a couple of players who inspired me to play. First, I'd probably put Don Helms. I love everything Hank ever recorded, so it's mostly his playing and his style which first got me into it. I know Jerry Byrd also recorded with Hank, but I'm not really a big Jerry Byrd fan. Sorry Ray! 
A close second would be John Hughey. His style and his phrasing still still kills me. I grew up with my Dad being a huge Conway Twitty fan and an even bigger fan of Country music in general. Lots of vacations to Twitty City and Opryland. Blasting Conway records early in the morning before he would go to work. He had almost every record Conway ever released. Since he passed a few years ago, I now have his record collection.
Kevin, as far as who played steel on that version of Mrs. Johnson, I don't know. Just a guess would be Buddy Emmons. It's an early version for sure. I have heard several versions that Cal Smith recorded through the years. Probably at least three that I can think of. I'm sure it's different players on all of the recordings. |
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Jeremy Marcum
From:
Northport, Alabama... USA
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Posted 20 Feb 2012 12:34 am Tune that brought me here
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| Mark, I agree with you. I have heard several people play "wichita lineman" but none compare Buddys version on the suite steel album. |
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Dave Harmonson
From:
Seattle, Wa
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Posted 20 Feb 2012 1:42 am
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John Hughey played steel on The Lord Knows I'm Sinning. One of my all time favorite tracks. Bill Anderson wrote the tune.
So who played on Are you on the Top 40 Arch?
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Dave Harmonson
From:
Seattle, Wa
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Ronald Cid
From:
Contrecoeur, Quebec, Canada
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Posted 20 Feb 2012 4:31 am
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For me...it was slow and steady progress of listening to Buddy, but this tune killed me....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfk3wBeeaLY
Then finding Roger Miller's "A trip in the country" on vinyl cemented the fact. I was addicted.
Thanks RC |
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Ronald Cid
From:
Contrecoeur, Quebec, Canada
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Posted 20 Feb 2012 4:33 am
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For me...it was slow and steady progress of listening to Buddy, but this tune killed me....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfk3wBeeaLY
Then finding Roger Miller's "A trip in the country" on vinyl cemented the fact. I was addicted.
Thanks RC |
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Ben Lawson
From:
Brooksville Florida
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norm mcdaniel
From:
waco tx
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Posted 20 Feb 2012 2:39 pm What got me started
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Ill tell you it was everything that Ralph Mooney ever played in his lifetime. I also remember the earley days when he had a Fender. He could chop wood with that thing
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Lynn Fargo
From:
Fort Edward, NY
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Posted 20 Feb 2012 4:48 pm
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I started playing lap steel when I was 8, but quit when I was about 16 or 17. Then one night in my early 20's I was out in a bar and accidently heard this tune on the jukebox. I was a fan of Jimmy Day and Buddy's styles, but I'd never heard steel played quite like this before. I was immediately hooked and bought a Maverick probably about a week later. Played 10 years until the disco era put my last band out of business.
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J R Rose
From:
Keota, Oklahoma, USA
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Posted 20 Feb 2012 7:29 pm
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| Together Again by Tom Brumley with Buck Owens. I understand that the song was a B side of the record and that Tom used a Fender Steel and a Fender Twin for the recording, then they did the live album at Cargie Hall with the Z.B. and Twin and it still makes me have goose bumps to listen to it. Tom and the Z.B. were just awesome, J.R. |
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Randall Dugan
From:
Missouri, USA
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Posted 20 Feb 2012 11:19 pm
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O.J. "Red" Rhodes. I've always preferred this to the later Eagles version.
-Dead Link-
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Rick Lawrence
From:
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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Posted 21 Feb 2012 6:10 am
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I know it is probably cliche but "Night Life" played by Buddy Emmons with Ray Price is what gave me that feeling of joy and inspiration that I got before I started classical guitar and banjo many moons ago. Hearing this version confirmed that feeling! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Htmf8MkuHhE&feature=player_embedded
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