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Chris Tweed
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Posted 4 Feb 2015 10:37 am |
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We don't many chances to see such class acts on this side of the pond, so we grab them when they come around. Here's Jerry Douglas playing his Beard resonator with a Hipshot tailpiece last in Bristol, England. This was part of the Transatlantic Sessions tour, which also featured Patty Griffin, Rodney Crowell and Sara Watkins. What a musical treat!
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Mark Eaton
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Posted 4 Feb 2015 11:48 am
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We do get our share of chances to see some of these class acts, but I sure wish Jerry and Aly would bring the TAS Concert tour to the U.S.
Closeups of the new Hipshot DoubleShot Jerry is using:
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Jim Pitman
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Posted 4 Feb 2015 12:34 pm
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I asked Jerry once if he had ever considered playing PSG. He said he locked himself in a room one time for a couple of days with a pedal steel. He said something to the affect he he decided he would need another lifetime to master it and never pursued it thereafter. He made some reference to Emmons the other master too.
I wonder what change he put on there. Being a GBDGBD dobro guy myself I've fantasized about flatting the G's our raising the D's a whole step.
Perhaps he's adopted an entirely different tuning. I know he uses a couple. |
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Howard Parker
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Posted 4 Feb 2015 1:13 pm
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I'm pretty sure the second tuning is D.
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Mark Eaton
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Posted 4 Feb 2015 1:31 pm
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I think it was more than a couple days. There was a feature article a number of years ago on Jerry in the short-lived PedalSteel.US magazine, I have the copy around here somewhere. It was after his Lookout For Hope CD came out, so it had to be around 2003.
Paraphrasing, he said there was a period where he did give it a shot, worked pretty hard on it and was fascinated by the thing, but he felt the learning process since they are so different was taking his dobro playing backwards.
And since that is what pays for the roof over his head and feeds the family he decided to give it up and sold the Sho-Bud he had to Bruce Bouton. The conclusion for him was if he needed pedal steel on a record he'd call a pedal steel player.
I recall reading a comment here a few years ago that Doug Jernigan has said that the hardest people to teach to play pedal steel are dobro players. Hey - I'm living proof of that! 
With the DoubleShot I'm reasonably sure it is set up with Open G with the lever in the down position, and Open D in the up position.
I'd like to get this setup myself, but it doesn't just stop with installing the unit - your guitar no longer fits in a regular case, a new custom case is required, so the whole venture is a pretty expensive modification.
I'm sure a gig bag would work, but that could make life difficult if you ever have to fly with your DoubleShot equipped dobro.
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Clyde Mattocks
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Posted 4 Feb 2015 1:31 pm
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Jerry did, in fact, play pedal steel with The Whites for a while. I saw him at the N. C. State Fair playing a single neck Emmons. His playing was tasteful and very adequate for the material.
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Mark Eaton
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Posted 4 Feb 2015 1:32 pm
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Howard, I was stuck on a long phone call so my last post was still in progress while you posted.
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Mark Eaton
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Posted 4 Feb 2015 1:34 pm
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| Clyde Mattocks wrote: |
| Jerry did, in fact, play pedal steel with The Whites for a while. I saw him at the N. C. State Fair playing a single neck Emmons. His playing was tasteful and very adequate for the material. |
As Johnny Carson used to say, "I did not know that."
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Howard Parker
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Posted 4 Feb 2015 1:35 pm
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 A good answer deserves repetition.
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Jim Pitman
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Waterbury Ctr. VT 05677 USA
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Posted 4 Feb 2015 2:17 pm
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| Great info Mark. I put that question to him in the mid 90s if I recall. Lotta water over the damn since then. |
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Chris Tweed
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Posted 4 Feb 2015 2:35 pm
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| Mark Eaton wrote: |
| … I sure wish Jerry and Aly would bring the TAS Concert tour to the U.S. |
That would be some airfare. There were 16 musicians and singers on the stage at one point! Of course about half of those are from the US, so it might be affordable. To be honest, I'm surprised they haven't taken the show on the road over with you.
That Hipshot Doubleshot must be some impressive piece of engineering. I noticed that Jerry never once retuned his guitar.
The other players are all very talented. Tim O'Brien and Russ Barenberg were outstanding and of course Aly Bain is one of the best fiddlers from the UK. He used to drink in my local pub in Edinburgh when I lived there. |
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John Billings
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Ohio, USA
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Mark Eaton
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Sonoma County in The Great State Of Northern California
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Posted 5 Feb 2015 8:55 am
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We discussed that video here in another thread, and dissected the two videos of Gaven Largent using the device at Paul Beard's shop on the Reso-Nation forum.
Young Gaven has just made a big step up in his career, it was announced yesterday that he will be joining the excellent bluegrass group Michael Cleveland and Flamekeeper as their dobro and banjo player.
Did some jamming with him four years ago at ResoSummit in Nashville, he's the real deal, and he's also pretty darn good on the "Tennessee flattop box."
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