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Topic: Keith Urban Tries His Hand At PSG |
Jason Stillwell
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Caddo, OK, USA
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Posted 29 May 2013 8:57 am |
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My wife shared this picture with me today.
Edited to add Keith's caption:
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| First time ever playing a pedal steel... how hard can it be?? -KU |
Edited also to add my opinion: I took his comment as strictly tongue-in-cheek.
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Fred Glave
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McHenry, Illinois, USA
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Posted 29 May 2013 9:37 am
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Has anyone ever heard a steel guitar in any of his music? Just curious. Maybe we will if he's the one playing it.
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Jason Stillwell
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Caddo, OK, USA
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Posted 29 May 2013 9:46 am
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| The only one of his songs I can think of off hand that has prominent steel is "But For the Grace of God." |
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James Wolf
From:
Georgia
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Posted 29 May 2013 10:59 am
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| My my that's a fancy bar technique |
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Brett Day
From:
Pickens, SC
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Posted 29 May 2013 11:19 am
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| Fred Glave wrote: |
| Has anyone ever heard a steel guitar in any of his music? Just curious. Maybe we will if he's the one playing it. |
The steel player on Keith's first record was Paul Franklin. Keith's songs "Your Everything" and "But For The Grace Of God" both feature great steel by Paul Franklin-Keith plays guitar on every song |
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Buck Reid
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Nashville,TN
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Posted 29 May 2013 11:59 am
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Keith's very first record was titled "Keith Urban and the Ranch" ... was released in 1997 and re-released a few years later on the Capitol-Nashville label. The re-release was simply titled "The Ranch" and there is one track with steel titled "Man Of The House" in which yours truly was asked to perform the steel guitar duties.
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David Nugent
From:
Gum Spring, Va.
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Posted 29 May 2013 11:59 am
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On the CD titled, 'The Ranch' (Keith's version of the Dixie Chicks hit,'Some Days You Gotta' Dance' is featured here), the tune,'Man Of The House' has some tasteful playing by Buck Reid...Sorry Buck, you and I must have been typing at the same time (great playing by the way).
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Dave Hopping
From:
Aurora, Colorado
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Posted 29 May 2013 12:59 pm
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He's been studying with Ronnie Wood?  |
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Brett Day
From:
Pickens, SC
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Posted 29 May 2013 2:47 pm
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| There's a radio lady named Lia Knight and she is one of my Facebook friends. I told her that I play pedal steel and then she told me Keith Urban wanted to learn to play steel. |
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Buck Reid
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Nashville,TN
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Posted 29 May 2013 2:59 pm
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He's always seemed very interested in Pedal Steel. Several of my bosses have tried their hand at it. 
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Allen Hutchison
From:
Kilcoy, Qld, Australia
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Posted 29 May 2013 3:43 pm
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Let us not forget that Keith had his early formative years growing up here in country music clubs.
During those years, he was backed by many steel players including my tutor Winston Black among them.
I'm sure Keith knows their value & would do a fine job on steel if he wanted to! (with practise naturally)
G'day Keith, cheers from Oz!
I have early photos of you in those days - but I can be bought off, with the right inducements.
 Only jokin' mate!  |
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Michel Rose
From:
Australia
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Posted 29 May 2013 4:36 pm
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Keith's first single after he won starmaker here in Australia was a release with the ABC country label
and I played steel on that session. Also had to play (But For The Grace of God ) when he sang it on the Australian Country Awards show. I was part of the House Band. Paul's steel parts on that song is fantastic. |
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Jim Priebe
From:
Queensland, Australia - R.I.P.
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Posted 29 May 2013 6:37 pm
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Keith was a star even when he was a pimply kid ! At a Caboolture CM Festival once he tried to buy my 79 Anni Stratocaster (jokingly) - I was doing backing. He must have been 14 or so but he knew a good guitar then and could play really well too. The audience loved him.
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CrowBear Schmitt
From:
Ariege, - PairO'knees, - France
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Posted 30 May 2013 2:37 am
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Buck Wrote
Several of my bosses have tried their hand at it. |
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Joachim Kettner
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Germany
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Posted 30 May 2013 3:03 am
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Great picture Crowbear!
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Joe Casey
From:
Weeki Wachee .Springs FL (population.9)
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Posted 30 May 2013 5:41 am
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Too bad he doesn't learn the Harmonica instead.  get my meaning? |
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 30 May 2013 8:00 am
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| Great picture Crowbear! |
Appears to be from the days before Pac-a-Seats. I've seen that guitar before.. Also, do I spot an Echolette over on the right. Joachim, you especially should recognize it..
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 30 May 2013 8:04 am
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Henry Matthews
From:
Texarkana, Ark USA
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Posted 30 May 2013 8:08 am
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That has got to be a very rare picture, probably only one in existence. Great pic there Crowbar
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Nashville 112 amp, Fishman Loudbox Performer amp, Hilton pedal, Goodrich pedal,BJS bar, Kyser picks, Live steel Strings. No effects, doodads or stomp boxes.
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Kevin Mincke
From:
Farmington, MN (Twin Cities-South Metro) USA
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Posted 30 May 2013 11:23 am
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Looks like he's accomplished the bar slants......
Gotta give him credit for even jumping behind one  |
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Fred Glave
From:
McHenry, Illinois, USA
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Posted 30 May 2013 1:06 pm
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Very nice playing by Buck Reid and Paul Franklin on those cuts. Buck's website is pretty cool too. It was so kind of Keith to allow steel on 3 of his songs way back in those days. 
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Paddy Long
From:
Christchurch, New Zealand
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Posted 30 May 2013 8:47 pm
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Keith obviously has the right approach - he's starting off in Hughey-land :-}
Michel he should be grateful you started him off in those early sessions mate !!
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Joachim Kettner
From:
Germany
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Posted 31 May 2013 1:32 am
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Barry, I'm to young at fifty- nine, for having played on stage in the sixties, but I spotted them very often when I went to concerts in our area. Here's a real veteran who's kept all his gear from those days. The unit you pictured is the tape echo NG 51 used in combination with a microphone amp at 1:35 in this vid.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnloev6mlV0
The bass player in our band also still plays over an old Echolette.
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 2 Jun 2013 8:53 pm
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Can anyone tell me more about the Chief's guitar that Buddy is holding? It's a strange one - L-5 neck? tailpiece, round hole thin body single cutaway arch top, (L-4?) with an arch top pickguard. It has popped up two or three times here in photographs in the past week and I can't seem to find out anything about it using internet search engines. 
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Tony Prior
From:
Charlotte NC
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Posted 4 Jun 2013 1:56 am
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So KU is playing Steel and some of us are dissing him ?
tuff crowd...
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