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Topic: TED SOLESKY....... I love you because |
Micky Byrne
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Posted 3 Aug 2012 1:02 am |
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Here's Ted doing a recent recording. No guessing on the steel....he plays a Carter. He has a black and a Burgandy. Great moves. Ted...you have a style of your own.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w6iyy5KTAk
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Ted Solesky
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Mineral Wells, Texas, USA
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Posted 4 Aug 2012 9:17 pm Thanks
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| I HOPE THIS GIVES YOU ALL SOME IDEAS. |
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Ted Solesky
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Mineral Wells, Texas, USA
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Posted 10 Aug 2012 6:59 am I Love You Because - Song
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| IT IS A DIFFERENT VERSION. I HOPE IT'S ACCEPTABLE? |
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Tony Glassman
From:
The Great Northwest
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Posted 10 Aug 2012 11:11 am
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| That is a killer version !!!! |
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Bill Myers
From:
Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, USA
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Posted 24 Aug 2012 6:50 pm
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That is just fantastic. I love all of the movement of the chords. Some of your changes remind me of this guy I know up here in PA.
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Carter D10 9 x 5, Nashville 112, Goodrich L10K |
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Quentin Hickey
From:
Nova Scotia, Canada
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Posted 18 Oct 2016 6:12 pm
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| I go back to watching Ted play every once in a while and trying to figure out his copedant with all those pretty moves he makes, he definable plays Day setup thats for sure. Does anyone else know what the other knee levers are doing? |
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Jack Stoner
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Kansas City, MO
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Posted 19 Oct 2016 2:23 am
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I don't know if he still is using it but in the 60's when he lived in central PA he used D9th.
I wonder how Ted is doing, last I heard from him he was moving to either Thailand or Vietnam. He liked oriental women. |
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Dick Wood
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Springtown Texas, USA
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Posted 19 Oct 2016 5:52 am
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I know this is an old thread but Ted and I go back to the early 80's and we became good friends.I had a two bedroom apartment and he moved in for several months and we used to set our guitars up and he'd show me a lot of the stuff he was doing.
Ted plays a D9th Day set up with some very unique knee lever pulls that give him the ability to do phrases that many of us don't or can't do because of how our knee levers are set up. I sat down at his guitar once and found it to be very confusing but that's what makes him so different.
I haven't heard from him in around 4 years and I believe he sold both his guitars not long ago as he had been having a lot of medical issues with his hands along with his hearing. I would love to hear from him to see how he's doing.
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Micky Byrne
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United Kingdom (deceased)
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Posted 19 Oct 2016 6:26 am
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Dick....so sad that Ted has gone AWOL. We used to e'mail regularly. He sent me a picture of him Jamming with Jim Evans of Evans amplifiers. I think I can try find a youtube of him playing with the Scott "Whitticar"" band I believe. Yes, our friend is right, he loves Oriental women.
Micky "scars" Byrne U.K.
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Micky Byrne
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Jack Stoner
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Kansas City, MO
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Posted 19 Oct 2016 6:46 am
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Some of your changes remind me of this guy I know up here in PA.
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Ted was THE pedal steel player in central PA in the 60's. He lived (I think) in Lebanon, Pa. I lived in Mechanicsburg at the time and played in a York band. I was the lead guitar player, the steel player, Harry "Hap" Hatterer was taking lessons from Ted. Ted was playing a ZB and convinced Harry, who had a Fender 400, to buy one (Harry still has it). |
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Micky Byrne
From:
United Kingdom (deceased)
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Posted 19 Oct 2016 6:53 am
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Actually Jack....I might be wrong, but I'm sure he told me he played in the Las Vegas area. He had many pupils, and he was personal friends with Bud Carter....He loved Carter guitars, and told his students to get one. He's probably played many brands in his life. I've seen him on a B.M.I.
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Dick Wood
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Springtown Texas, USA
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Posted 19 Oct 2016 7:10 am
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Ted did play for a while in Las Vegas.
Micky,Ted did work with Scott Whitaker as I have numerous times over the last couple of years.Scott is a Dallas Police Officer and he is also a really nice guy to work with.
One of Ted's favorite pictures was of he and Curly Chalker side by side at a Jam Session.
One of my favorite but at the same time worst nightmares was the time I was playing this little bar in Fort Worth and Ted walked in. I had never heard him play and the Band leader asked him to sit in. Ted grabbed his guitar out of the car and set it up next to me. I played and then Ted took a ride and I have never had a "Butt Whippin" like that in my life and I have nothing but respect and admiration for him and his ability on steel.
Ted talked me into buying Carter Steels and I wish I still had one of them.
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Micky Byrne
From:
United Kingdom (deceased)
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Posted 19 Oct 2016 7:32 am
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O.M.G. Dick....that's a funny story Ted sitting next to you and taking a ride. I have him under my "Friends and Aquaintances" page on my website. I sure hope he's alright....I miss his e'mails, and the fact he sold both his steels sounds ominous. I know he also hurt his back from a car accident I believe. He had alot of time for me sending me "snail mail" of some of the moves he did, but it was too complicated for me to understand, him being in D9th and also his weird pulls.
Micky "scars" Byrne U.K.
Sho-Bud and Carter universals
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Jack Stoner
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Kansas City, MO
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Posted 19 Oct 2016 10:11 am
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| Micky, he did work Vegas. But he was in central PA in the mid 60's, as that is where he is originally from. I recall e-mails from Ted, when he was living in Mineral Wells, Tx about his mother and other relatives still in PA. We corresponded often as I too am from Central PA area (Mechanicsburg)and as I worked in a band with one of his students. |
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Micky Byrne
From:
United Kingdom (deceased)
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Michael Weaver
From:
Buffalo Grove, IL
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Posted 21 Oct 2016 2:19 am
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| He was still in PA in the late 70s & early 80s. I was playing in a band called Oklahoma Dan, and was asked to try out for another band that was just forming then. It was a 7-piece band called Blazing Saddles. I know that Ted also tried out with them. I do remember Ted coming to see us once in a club in Robesonia, PA. That would have been in probably 80 or 81. He is a monster player, and I enjoyed meeting him that night. |
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Micky Byrne
From:
United Kingdom (deceased)
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Posted 21 Oct 2016 2:30 am
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Michael....he's a "MONSTER" player alright....some of his moves are outrageous. I do hope he is ok...it's a mystery 
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Tony Prior
From:
Charlotte NC
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Posted 21 Oct 2016 3:38 am
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really nice version ! nice playing 
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