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Topic: Thanks for kindly keeping it country! |
Wally Taylor
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Hardin, Kentucky, USA
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Joachim Kettner
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Germany
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Posted 8 Jan 2013 2:25 pm |
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Very good! Thanks for posting.
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Ray Montee
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Posted 9 Jan 2013 7:39 pm Couldn;t help but notice!
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I've been watching the ZANE KING posts with increasing interest and can't help but notice that in spite of the advise that has been offered by more than one of the SGF experts.......
Zane continues to play directly over, above or on top o'the frets........
I wonder if that's why his playing is so pleasant to listen to? I wonder if those 'experts' have bothered to point out his error in his otherwise really fine playing? |
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Bob Blair
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Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Posted 9 Jan 2013 8:25 pm
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| Ray why must you take a thread that was intended to celebrate Zane's talents and twist it into a vehicle to attack others? You do everyone on this forum a great disservice. |
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Tim Tyner
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Ayden, North Carolina U.S.A
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Posted 10 Jan 2013 4:58 am
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| Very nice,Zane!It is always a pleasure to hear you play. |
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Roger Rettig
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Posted 10 Jan 2013 8:18 am
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Bob: Ray thinks anyone born after about 1930 is a complete tosser and is also clueless - especially if they happen to also play steel guitar!
As I said to someone else recently: 'Don't rise to it and he'll eventually get tired of doing it'.
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Mike Neer
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NJ
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Posted 10 Jan 2013 8:21 am
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God, I love the word "tosser". 
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Roger Rettig
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Naples, FL
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Posted 10 Jan 2013 8:30 am
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No definition, please, Mike! 
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Jim Hollingsworth
From:
Way out West
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Posted 10 Jan 2013 10:07 am
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I know what it means..... Brit slang for - well we know!
Jim |
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Clark Doughty
From:
KANSAS
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Posted 10 Jan 2013 10:23 am Thanks for keeping it COUNTRY
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| Thumbs for a superb player & individual and also thumbs up for a beautiful looking and sounding Jackson Blackjack guitar. Don't get any better than this..................thanks Zane.............clark |
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Chris LeDrew
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Posted 10 Jan 2013 11:48 am
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| Bob Blair wrote: |
| Ray why must you take a thread that was intended to celebrate Zane's talents and twist it into a vehicle to attack others? You do everyone on this forum a great disservice. |
And don't forget the use of the bold and underline features to underscore the judgmental nature of the innuendos. It's getting old, I agree.
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Zane King
From:
Nashville, TN
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Posted 10 Jan 2013 1:37 pm
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LOL!!!! I'm very amused by this! I will attempt to tell you what is happening here with regard to my technique....
It's all in the ear. Has very little to do with the hands and even less to do with the frets. The frets on an electric guitar are not a suggestion they are indeed critical the tone that is being produced as the finger sits behind the fret. However, the sound that is produced is from the top of the fret to the top of the bridge. Nothing more nothing less. As with our stringed friends who play in orchestras we are not bound to the frets. Those frets that are printed on the neck of the steel guitar are just suggestions. It's a good thing because the pedal steel guitars will never actually be in tune. Thus it takes a ton of movement to get close to pitch. I can tell you that my entire body is engaged in playing a steel guitar. Yet, when I play piano it is much more relaxing.
Now with all of that stated I will tell you I know nothing about an argument where you are to play on or behind or around or near or in the middle of a fret! I could care less. Besides, if you watch guys like Joe Wright and myself play you will see we don't look at the guitar that much. I think very little when I play. 
Lastly, I will say that I've done all of those bar technique lessons that Paul Franklin recently posted. I learned them from Buddy Emmons when I was about 11 years old in Little Rock, AR. He was at Zane Beck's studio and he was teaching that technique. If I even start telling you all what I did when I was a kid and how I would practice (sometimes 12 hours or more per day) you wouldn't believe it.
Stay tuned,
ZK
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Mark Eaton
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Sonoma County in The Great State Of Northern California
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Posted 10 Jan 2013 2:32 pm
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I think very little when I play.
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I'm the same way.
The difference between Zane and myself is that people might say, "Mark, how thoughtless of you to play like that in front of people!" 
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Wally Taylor
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Hardin, Kentucky, USA
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Posted 10 Jan 2013 4:06 pm
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This was indeed a post to celebrate and share the immense talents of Zane King on a steel. The man is a mulitalented gentleman that is also quite at home on guitar, piano, keyboards in general, electronics, vocals and probably many, many more. I enjoy his music because it is unlike anyone else. He is outside the box in many tunes, yet can get down and be as country as a turnip green. He self pens and performs his own tunes and if you have ever heard "Taking The Fall", you know what I am talking about.
Zane is a standout, stand alone, outstanding musicians musician and I fully enjoy the mans musical contributions and his dedication to the continuance of the steel guitar in all kinds of music. You can't put a label on the guy, he plays it all and he plays it well. Thanks, Zane keep em coming, I will keep buying them and enjoying them! |
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 11 Jan 2013 8:42 am
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Ray, consider this..
par·al·lax [par-uh-laks]
noun
1. the apparent displacement of an observed object due to a change in the position of the observer. |
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Mike Neer
From:
NJ
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Posted 11 Jan 2013 9:01 am
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I was completely unaware of parallax until Franklin asked me why it appeared that I played behind the fret on my video, when it wasn't at all the case. Someone explained that this parallax deformation is something that happens often with the use of a wide angle lens, which is what I use.
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Jerome Hawkes
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Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 11 Jan 2013 9:46 am
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i'm a little late here - but what bar exercises are we referring to?
i'm always interested in that
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Fred Justice
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Mesa, Arizona
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Posted 11 Jan 2013 9:59 am
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Mike, I do play behind the fret but its by choice.
For many years I have tuned my guitar to 443 and that affords me the luxury of being able to see the edge of the fret line by playing slightly behind each fret line.
Sounds crazy but its served me well for years.
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Mike Neer
From:
NJ
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Posted 11 Jan 2013 10:10 am
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| Fred Justice wrote: |
Mike, I do play behind the fret but its by choice.
For many years I have tuned my guitar to 443 and that affords me the luxury of being able to see the edge of the fret line by playing slightly behind each fret line.
Sounds crazy but its served me well for years. |
You don't play any open strings, Fred?
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David Mason
From:
Cambridge, MD, USA
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Posted 11 Jan 2013 11:30 am
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Larry Jamieson
From:
Walton, NY USA
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Posted 11 Jan 2013 4:57 pm
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Let me just say, BEAUTIFUL! Pure artistry, Zane.
You are a master of the instrument and one of my
favorite players today. |
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Wally Taylor
From:
Hardin, Kentucky, USA
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Posted 11 Jan 2013 4:57 pm
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Thank you, Joachim, Tim, Clark, Mark and Zane for your great comments about Zane King's music. The rest of you can go suck a lemon for hijacking my thread!  |
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Mike Neer
From:
NJ
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Posted 11 Jan 2013 5:36 pm
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Sorry, Wally. I guess it's the nature of these forums, where a bunch of guys can sit and shoot the breeze. Just like a life, you never know where the conversation is going to end up.
Zane is an excellent player. And I'm beginning to think you're on the payroll. Just kiddin'!
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Wally Taylor
From:
Hardin, Kentucky, USA
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Posted 11 Jan 2013 5:55 pm
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Thanks, Mike! No, not on the payroll, just a long time appreciative person who happens to dig Zanes music and talents. I just like guys that will get out on the edge of music with the steel. It just appears to me that sometimes fellow steelers can't see the forest for the trees. They get so locked in to the mechanics of the steel, they forget to take time to enjoy the music and the artists.
I would just like to see Zane get his due recognition for his talents, that's all.
You may now resume your local programming... |
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Mickey Adams
From:
Bandera Texas
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Posted 11 Jan 2013 7:35 pm
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That was sweet!!!...Last week I was in Palenscars shop...and a really good player asked us all timidly..."do you ever catch yourself drooling while you are concentrating on your playing"??.....4 hands went up...!!!...Zane...you should DROOL TOO...!....
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