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Topic: Heather Leigh |
b0b
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Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Hook Moore
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South Charleston,West Virginia
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Tal Herbsman
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Wisconsin, USA
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Posted 26 Oct 2018 6:24 am |
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Wow. She plays with some European free music royalty. That's very impressive.
Here's an image from her website which I think contrasts well with some of the more typical VFW type situations people on this forum encounter 
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 26 Oct 2018 7:28 am
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| It's a whole 'nother world across the sea, eh? |
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Herb Steiner
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Spicewood TX 78669
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Posted 26 Oct 2018 9:41 am
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| "The slide, the vocal quality, the moving between the notes... the levels of psychedelia you can reach on this instrument... I just can't believe it. So that's when it became my instrument." |
She starts talking about her involvement with steel guitar around 31:30.
Interesting woman, and she speaks to a demographic totally foreign to the great majority of we "forumistic," if you will, steel players.
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Floyd Lowery
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Deland, Florida, USA
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Posted 26 Oct 2018 10:15 am
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| Herb Steiner wrote: |
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| "The slide, the vocal quality, the moving between the notes... the levels of psychedelia you can reach on this instrument... I just can't believe it. So that's when it became my instrument." |
She starts talking about her involvement with steel guitar around 31:30.
Interesting woman, and she speaks to a demographic totally foreign to the great majority of we "forumistic," if you will, steel players. |
I guess I'll just have to continue to reside among the great majority. I'll never make it to 31:30. Not even close.
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b0b
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Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Posted 26 Oct 2018 12:36 pm
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I think I have adventurous musical tastes but, to be honest, I can't listen to her music for more than a minute or two. It's too disturbing. 
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R. E. Miller
From:
Nowhere, Near Home.
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Posted 26 Oct 2018 5:32 pm
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[quote="Herb Steiner"]
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| "The slide, the vocal quality, the moving between the notes... the levels of psychedelia you can reach on this instrument... I just can't believe it." |
Well...she definitely means what she says... |
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Tony Glassman
From:
The Great Northwest
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Posted 26 Oct 2018 7:36 pm
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| No me gusta |
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Ken Byng
From:
Southampton, England
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Posted 27 Oct 2018 12:01 am
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I much prefer to listen to Susan Alcorn of the two, but I don't think either of the ladies can be described as producing jazz music.
Both ladies' music are acquired taste, but Heather's is way too eccentric and dare I say it - out of tune - for my taste and ears unfortunately. Sorry.
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Chris Templeton
From:
The Green Mountain State
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Posted 27 Oct 2018 5:17 am
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Yes, hard to listen to for very long. The difference to me, between her and Susan is that Susan has a solid foundation of standard steel.
The Melodyne computer program would have a field day with her music.
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Fred Treece
From:
California, USA
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Posted 27 Oct 2018 8:57 am
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| Not my cuppa java either, but I am always interested in expanding my own musical horizons. So thank you for posting this anyway, b0b. It is encouraging to know there is an audience out there for just about anything. |
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Erv Niehaus
From:
Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 27 Oct 2018 9:28 am
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Different strokes for different folks! 
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Bill L. Wilson
From:
Oklahoma, USA
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Posted 27 Oct 2018 9:30 pm I Tried to Watch.
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| I pulled up a YouTube video of her and a horn player. The steel was out if tune, and the horn player sounded like somebody Ć¢ā¬ÅKillinĆ¢ā¬ā¢ a CatĆ¢ā¬Ā. I got that quote from a comment off of YouTube and it made me laugh out loud. |
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Frank Leppert
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Portugal
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Posted 13 Oct 2022 3:29 pm
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| I just knew that she is going to play in my city Coimbra tomorrow. I am very happy to see steel playing live, not very usual in Portugal. |
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Bob Hoffnar
From:
Austin, Tx
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Posted 14 Oct 2022 12:30 pm
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Mentioning Susan Alcorn in the same breath as Heather Leigh is absurd. Susan is a masterful player and a true innovator. I have unfortunately had the experience of going to a live concert of Heathers. She has absolutely nothing to say with any originality and her abilities as a player don't exist. She cannot hold a musical conversation because she is unable to go beyond the few tired and poorly played tricks she as bumped into. I went to a concert and it was straight up embarrassing. I love avant playing and all sorts of stuff but crap is still crap no matter what you dress it up with.
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Larry Dering
From:
Missouri, USA
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Posted 14 Oct 2022 5:22 pm
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| Thank you Bob for speaking the truth. I absolutely agree with your comments. Nothing to see here. |
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Fred Treece
From:
California, USA
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Posted 15 Oct 2022 10:16 am
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Yeah, because the obvious question arises - Is this brilliant and innovative art, or does this person have not the slightest idea of what they are doing and just noodling away at something for which they have no talent?
I, for one, have not the slightest idea of what she is doing. As a musician, that bugs me and makes me suspicious. Frankly, a lot of what I listen to baffles me, but usually in a good way that I can actually enjoy the mystery. In the case of Ms Leigh, whose work I do not enjoy, I will give her the benefit of the doubt and keep my dark thoughts about some folks being swept up in a great con to myself. |
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Donny Hinson
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Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 15 Oct 2022 5:56 pm
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I'm with 'ya, Fred. But "art" has always been hard to define. Most of the paintings that Jackson Pollock has done looks like painter's drop-cloths, to me. But they can sell for up into the millions of dollars.
Success is sometimes measured not by talent, but by popularity. |
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Roger Rettig
From:
Naples, FL
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Posted 16 Oct 2022 6:37 am
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| Or, to put it another way, nobody ever lost money by underestimating the public. |
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rick andrews
From:
Westminster Co 80031
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Posted 16 Oct 2022 4:35 pm
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Donny,
I never got Pollock either. Until I saw several up close. Standing within a couple of feet from them I was mesmerized. |
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Brint Hannay
From:
Maryland, USA
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Posted 18 Oct 2022 8:02 am
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| She starts talking about her involvement with steel guitar around 31:30. |
31:30 in what? I don't seem to find a link to any video/audio in the thread. |
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Bob Carlucci
From:
Candor, New York, USA
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Posted 19 Oct 2022 2:48 am
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Yeah, I dunno... I made similar sounds within the 1st 10 seconds of sitting down at a pedal steel. I didn't think it was musical at all at the time.. Won't say much more bad about it, but this is not what I personally would say is good music. However it may be her musical taste and what she hears and desires to convey artistically. She may may able to play conventional steel guitar music at a very high level for all we know, but this is simply what she likes.. Hey look, somebody buys it, she's playing for more people than most of us are! I like the OLD pre Micro, pre Classic MSA guitar by the way!
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Glenn Suchan
From:
Austin, Texas
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Posted 20 Oct 2022 5:21 am
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| Donny Hinson wrote: |
I'm with 'ya, Fred. But "art" has always been hard to define. Most of the paintings that Jackson Pollock has done looks like painter's drop-cloths, to me. But they can sell for up into the millions of dollars.
Success is sometimes measured not by talent, but by popularity. |
Donny, before I go into the ānatureā of Jackson Pollockās art, I first will say that I find your posts enjoyable, if not informative and mostly entertaining. š
Regarding Pollockās painting: During his life and after, most people, professional art critics included, didnāt/donāt understand the intentional reason for his art. He was fascinated with the seemingly randomness, but mathematical aspects of nature. This is, the fractal nature of nature. Hereās an article that explains it better than I can:
https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/pollocks-fractals
As for using steel in non-conventional compositions, I, like most others on this thread, donāt hear intentional musicality or composition with Heatherās āmusicā, but then, mine is hardly a knowledgeable opinion. However, I find Robert Richās use of steel (lap steel, in this example) in his ādark ambientā compositions to be interesting, musical and completely supportive of the intent of his compositions: Hereās an example:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7yYdpHsR1GI
Keep on pickinā!
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