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Garry Vanderlinde
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CA
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Kevin Raymer
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Chalybeate, Kentucky, USA
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Posted 18 Jul 2014 4:37 am |
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That was COOL !!!!
Pretty LDG.
If I ever get enough Zums I'm gonna buy one.
Wonder if he's using E9 tuning?
I wish we could have seen his feet to see how he was
working the pedals and volume pedal.
I wonder what he was doing when he would run his fingers
underneath the strings??
This instrument is just SO versatile.
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Jon Light
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Saugerties, NY
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Posted 18 Jul 2014 5:55 am
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I saw DL a few months ago with EmmyLou. He is a brilliant, top shelf musician.
He did an opening set, doing his soundscape stuff on guitar and on his Sho-Bud. Then he did the EmmyLou set and so perfectly complimented her, with no self-indulgent excursions. Totally within the songs, totally a sideman.
I admire the hell out of him but I will admit--his steel work does not interest me. His steel tones do not interest me.
I will say, though, that unlike a dilettante steel dabbler, everything he did was very in tune and well intoned. That doesn't happen by accident. He 100% knew what he was doing.
Besides the concert, I also have some stuff on CD. I've heard enough to know what I do & don't care for.
This has nothing to do with 'right way or wrong way' to play steel. I also don't care for Ornette Coleman's violin playing but he is one of my gods. |
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Joachim Kettner
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Germany
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Posted 18 Jul 2014 6:53 am
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I guess this is called ambient music. It never did anything for me.
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Tim Fleming
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Pasadena, CA. The other Rose City (deceased)
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Posted 18 Jul 2014 3:25 pm
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Here's another example. Clearly seen are the A&B pedals being used - AND not only is the C pedal not used, it is taped up to keep it off of the floor. Standard tuning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miVI_jJ2VpU
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David Mason
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Cambridge, MD, USA
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Posted 19 Jul 2014 7:57 pm
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Premier Guitar did a long feature a few years back, more about his production work than anything else, but with a good portion about his love for steel (and obviously, the same problem that many have, a lack of time to do it full & intense justice):
http://www.premierguitar.com/articles/Daniel_Lanois_The_Man_with_the_Midas_Touch
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| There are two aspects of the pedal steel that keep me really interested in it—melody and the fact that I get better results the less busy I play. Those things pushed me in a certain direction that’s very unlike the high-speed Western swing pedal steel players. I love that sound, but I don’t do it at all. I chose to slow the thing down and really let it breathe—which makes it a whole new instrument, sonically and compositionally. Sometimes I think about steel guitar like a string quartet—at any given time you can have four notes interplaying. It’s still mystifying to me. But you can’t put it down for too long, or you’ll lose your technique and the ear for it. And every note really demands attention on a pedal steel. |
So he's kind of self-limiting his popularity here! He released an ambient-of-sorts CD a while back called "Belladonna", it's just-OK to me - full-time steel addicts do it deeper. Though he may be just the person in the right position to do a great steel guitar film score someday - I just hope he knows to hire Perlowin & Easley to play the damn thing!  |
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Daniel McKee
From:
Corinth Mississippi
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Posted 19 Jul 2014 8:17 pm
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| I have seen a few youtube videos of him and I think his style is unique and I like it but I really haven't heard much about him other than what Ive seen on youtube. |
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Curt Trisko
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St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
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Posted 20 Jul 2014 6:26 am
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http://youtu.be/tXVQbbGMZY4
He's a man who is extremely sensitive to sounds, so he's an inspiration in that regard. He really makes you appreciate how delicate and responsive the steel can be. In that way, he adds a needed extra dimension to it above and beyond just sitting behind the steel, utilizing proper technique, and picking away. It's a finicky instrument and his playing embraces it and negotiates with it instead of trying to dominate and master it.
At the end of the day, as he admits, Daniel Lanois' work on the pedal steel is about sounds. He has pet sounds that uses repeatedly and doesn't seem interested in exploring the instrument beyond what's useful to him. For this reason, I couldn't find much depth in his pedal steel music. |
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Joachim Kettner
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Germany
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Posted 20 Jul 2014 6:54 am
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I wonder how he can memorise these pieces. They all sound to me like they are improvised on the spot.
I couldn't, because there's not enough structure and melody.
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Geoff Noble
From:
Scotland
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Posted 22 Jul 2014 12:59 am
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Daniel Lanois is probably better known as a producer, he's produced albums for Bob Dylan, (Time out of mind), Neil Young, Peter Gabriel, (So), Emmylou Harris, Willie Nelson, and Brandon Flowers and many others.
I first heard him playing pedal steel on his collaboration with Brian Eno on the soundtrack for Apollo, a documentary film about the Apollo missions.
I believe the concept was that most of the astronauts were into country music and they wanted to produce a soundtrack which had a future spacey sound mixed with a bit of a country feel.
It's a very relaxing album to listen to, here's a sample track,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5PJzpp1UIk&index=10&list=PLC9D015D3AEB2A8E9
He's a good musician all round, his PS playing is probably pretty basic, (compared to dedicated PS players) but he has a good musical ear for melody and harmony.
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Mark A. Tucker
From:
United Kingdom
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Posted 31 May 2015 10:53 am Daniel Lanois & Pedal Steel Snobs
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Go Daniel. You bring me a lot of joy with your fresh approach to music, in particular pedal steel. I've no time for musicians that take ownership of playing styles and genres, limiting the wonderful possibilities that music offers us. Just saying.  |
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