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Topic: Bill Kirchen- tele change for steel-like volume swells |
John Brabant
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Calais, VT, USA
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Jack Stoner
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Kansas City, MO
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Posted 14 Feb 2016 5:30 am |
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| I get the Stew-Mac e-mails. I watched the video and not taking away from his ability or accomplishments, the first thing I thought of "another guitar player trying to emulate a steel and thinks he has to swell everything with a volume control". |
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Joachim Kettner
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Posted 14 Feb 2016 8:12 am
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I first heard this effect on "I Need You":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj8d2SjhoHw
One comment is spot on:
I read somewhere that the distinct guitar effect on this song was accomplished by John working the volume control on George's guitar while George played the chords.
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Mike Perlowin
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Los Angeles CA
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Joachim Kettner
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Germany
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Posted 14 Feb 2016 12:41 pm
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It would be to easy Mike. I always get suspicious of guitar players using volume pedals.
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Doug Clark
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Maine, USA
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Posted 15 Feb 2016 12:16 pm
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| Joachim Kettner wrote: |
I first heard this effect on "I Need You":
One comment is spot on:
I read somewhere that the distinct guitar effect on this song was accomplished by John working the volume control on George's guitar while George played the chords. |
That was what I read somewhere, too, maybe in an Andy Aledort book of Beatles songs.
So maybe the Lads from Liverpool are indirectly responsible for the invention of the volume pedal?  |
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Mike Perlowin
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Los Angeles CA
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Posted 15 Feb 2016 12:59 pm
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| Doug Clark wrote: |
| ... maybe the Lads from Liverpool are indirectly responsible for the invention of the volume pedal? |
Imagine how the history of the steel would have changed if they had used one on Yesterday instead of the violins.
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Brett Lanier
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Madison, TN
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Posted 15 Feb 2016 5:02 pm
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| Mike Perlowin wrote: |
| Why not just use a volume pedal? |
Because with a volume pedal you're anchored to that spot on stage. Also, it wears on your opposite leg and hip if you're playing with one foot on a volume pedal a lot. Another reason would be that you already have a volume control in your guitar! I reversed the control plate on my tele a long time ago, just made way more sense to me that way.
Laur Joamets (from Sturgill Simpsons band) does a swell toward the beginning of Long White Line that sounds just like a pedal steel. If there were steel on the track there'd be no way of knowing it was him. |
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Ron Pruter
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Arizona, USA
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Posted 16 Feb 2016 7:19 pm
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Early on, Phil Keagy was a master at it plus a jaw dropping player. He also had to rub it in by playing with a finger on his picking hand missing from a pump handle accident as a child. RP
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Joachim Kettner
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Germany
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Posted 17 Feb 2016 5:34 am
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Some nice violining from Jesse Davis on "Hello Old Friend", also a master of that style:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAZ5G3xoxhI
I've seen a picture where he put a metal slide on the volume knob of his Tele to extend it.
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