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Topic: Pedal Steel Article in Premier Guitar, August 2016 issue |
John McClung
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Olympia WA, USA
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Joachim Kettner
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Germany
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Posted 16 Jul 2016 3:04 am |
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This recommendation is nice, sounds a little like Brewer and Shipley. Who may the steel player be?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TICQBMkQhms
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Mark Eaton
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Sonoma County in The Great State Of Northern California
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Posted 16 Jul 2016 7:51 am
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A buddy of mine a bunch of years back who hailed from Portland, Oregon had this album and as I recall he knew these guys who were from Portland. They had a lot of potential but never made it big. I did a little research and the fellow who was the lead guitarist also played pedal steel, his name is Dan Ross. So it was none of "the usual suspects" from that era on steel.
I found an article about him from 2012 in Willamette Week, which pertains to Portland and the surrounding area. He left the music business as a full-timer and became a barber.
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Best Rock 'n' Roll Barber
Dan Ross has been cutting hair for 35 years, but you need only look to the walls of his cluttered shop on Southeast Gladstone Street to know that, while barbering's always been his job, it's not his true vocation. There, enjoying pride of place between the mirror and the coat rack, hangs a platinum record: John Cougar Mellencamp's 1983 Uh Huh, for which Ross wrote the song "Play Guitar." Ask him how he came to write the song, though, and you won't get much of an answer.
"The usual way," says the 60-year-old. "I got a pen, and some paper. I already knew how to play guitar. Then I sent out a lot of demos."
Ross' musical career predates his work for Mellencamp. In the '70s, he played guitar and pedal steel with the very talented but critically ignored prog-folk-rock band Sand, which included two future members of Quarterflash. Sand released two albums, both of which have since been re-released by itsaboutmusic.com.
When Sand's members went their separate ways, Ross moved to the East, where lived when he wrote the Mellencamp track. He eventually returned to the Northwest, running a barbershop in Oregon City for "a long-ass time." In 2007, he opened Barber Dan's Gladstone Street Barber Shop (3811 SE Gladstone St., barberdanportland.com), between Gladstone Pizza and the Gladstone Pub. (The Gladstone neighborhood is only two blocks long, but its citizens are fiercely patriotic.) He gives very good, if sometimes time-consuming, haircuts, and he charges just $14, which makes him a favorite of Reed students. “It’s the young people who keep small businesses going,†he says.
Ross hasn't let the years slow down his musical ambitions. It's not uncommon to walk into the shop and find him playing guitar, and he treats his customers to an ongoing music-appreciation course: His regular stereo rotation includes Portuguese fado, old-school bluegrass and obscure Tom Waits recordings from the '70s. He released a solo album, The Illusion, in 2010, and is working on another. But he doesn't expect he'll stop barbering any time soon.
"John and me, we're the same age," Ross says. "But he's got so much goddamn money it doesn't bother him so much, and I'm still cutting hair."
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Dave Mudgett
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Central Pennsylvania and Gallatin, Tennessee
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Posted 16 Jul 2016 8:24 am
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| Dobro: Listen to “I Can’t Be Satisfied†on Muddy Waters’ record Hard Again with Johnny Winter playing Dobro and producing. |
Pretty sure it's Johnny playing slide guitar on his National Steel Guitar. Finally something to balance out the hundreds of times I've heard/read people calling steel guitar "slide guitar". 
I personally view steel and slide as first cousins, if not siblings. |
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Joachim Kettner
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Germany
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Posted 16 Jul 2016 8:56 am
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Thanks Mark!
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Walter Stettner
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