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Topic: Inspiration needed: Post your favorite non-pedal track |
Paul McEvoy
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Baltimore, USA
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Posted 13 Jul 2020 4:31 am |
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I sold my pedal steel after having it for about a year (practiced it seriously for 5 months or so but I'm trying to be good on the armpit guitar and it just wasn't happening with the two of them). The pedal steel took me away from the lap steel, but I think the lap steel is doable still.
But I haven't really touched it in a year.
Would you mind posting your current personal favorite non-pedal track or video to get me excited about the lap steel again? I haven't really paid it any attention. I have a really nice 8 string and a new set of strings and I should get back to it.
Thanks!
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Nic Neufeld
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Kansas City, Missouri
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Posted 13 Jul 2020 4:44 am
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If I have to choose one, this is it for me. It isn't on Youtube by itself but is wedged in between Andy Iona's original and Jerry Byrd's cover. "Sand" as played by Jules Ah See on the Hawaii Calls album "Hawaiian Shores".
https://youtu.be/5C-CZpK7lNU?t=178
In B11 tuning (with a secondary neck I believe, modified C6 / CMaj7 tuning for accents).
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Mitch Drumm
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Frostbite Falls, hard by Veronica Lake
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David Matzenik
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Cairns, on the Coral Sea
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Posted 13 Jul 2020 4:59 am
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There are way too many to have favourites. Here's one I like a whole lot, George de Fretes, Royal Hawaiian Hula.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIre1ubA8qc
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Jack Hanson
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San Luis Valley, USA
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Nic Neufeld
From:
Kansas City, Missouri
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Posted 13 Jul 2020 6:09 am
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| Jack Hanson wrote: |
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Love that intro vamp...its one my teacher uses a lot, and one of the first versions I know if is from Jules on the Alfred Apaka song "In A Hawaiian Village" (this isn't a good sounding version, can barely hear the steel): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LxY0uYvHXs
The rest of the song shares a whole lot harmonically with "Sweet Someone". But Sweet Someone was copyrighted a good decade after Chlo-e (Song of the Swamp), so they got there first!
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Kirk Francis
From:
Laupahoehoe
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Posted 13 Jul 2020 10:00 am favorite non-pedal steel track
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bobby ingano w/ uncle george doing "waipio".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DRrAlXjeVI
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Rick Barnhart
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Arizona, USA
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Posted 13 Jul 2020 11:34 am
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Look up anything by Doug Beaumier.
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Philip Ward
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Ohio, USA
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Tom Wolverton
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Carpinteria, CA
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Posted 13 Jul 2020 2:02 pm
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How about Dark Circles by Jeremy Wakefield? A lovely, haunting tune.
https://youtu.be/28HcacdZcTY
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Scott Akers
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Texas, USA
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Joel Bloom
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Tom Snook
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Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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Posted 14 Jul 2020 2:02 am
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How does one post vids?I've always wanted to, but don't know how. Can I do it with my Galaxy tab A,or do I have to use a computer?
ALOHA
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Douglas Schuch
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Valencia, Philippines
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Posted 14 Jul 2020 3:46 am
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Wow! Some great tunes suggested. I'll add a few.
Jules Ah See, "Hula Blues" https://youtu.be/5KOL-UIiMOE
Someone mentioned Greg Leisz. I think his work on Michelle Shocked's version of "To Be A Cat" is great - unfortunately not currently on youtube (or not here in the Philippines, anyway, so check from your location) but on Spotify.
Also, his playing on KD Lang's version of "Three Days" is excellent as well. https://youtu.be/JMOfGdobyxQ
Tom Morrell's album Wolf Tracks is loaded with Western Swing instrumentals, all on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rMJPCMQyBc&list=OLAK5uy_k46iR9JtIIQoaqZF4_BV8fzlbXLfy4hYw
It should be mentions that these make great inspiration, but are not very practical novice level songs.
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Andy Volk
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Boston, MA
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Glenn Wilde
From:
California, USA
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Posted 14 Jul 2020 4:14 am
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This one still gets me, its really some of the first straight up steel i ever paid attention to. I was mainly into blues and found the Rounder record in the library, it was the perfect way in.
https://youtu.be/q0rUxL5Q3ts
I had no idea such stuff existed, this is not what my 18 year old mind thought of when i heard the term Hawaiian guitar.
https://youtu.be/t4mZKrvXNmc
This was some eye opening guitar playing! |
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Jack Hanson
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San Luis Valley, USA
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Dave Mudgett
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Central Pennsylvania and Gallatin, Tennessee
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Paul McEvoy
From:
Baltimore, USA
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Posted 14 Jul 2020 8:08 am
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| Thanks guys. This is great. Digging through all this now. |
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Andy Volk
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Boston, MA
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Nic Neufeld
From:
Kansas City, Missouri
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Posted 14 Jul 2020 9:45 am
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Jack that version of Tenderly is amazing!
OK, with others posting multiple I feel I've got air cover to post a few others.
Andy Iona's rendition of Carefree is mostly single note but he makes the instrument sing. Love JB, who I consider my "grand-teacher" (tutu kumu?), but Iona's version leaves me breathless sometimes...has an emotional, almost vocal quality.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzLSRu7K5pk
Been spinning this whole mini album a lot recently:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Hkeu8wjVMg
Santo Farina...he just had a touch. Very hard to imitate.
Similar to what I said about Andy Iona, he really sang through the instrument:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkLEH9pJLdk
Herb Remington on Stardust (heavily influenced my version, I try to do that slant,straight,reverse,straight thing he does):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqxlRFgzGPw
As I alluded to earlier, I'm a fan of just about everything Jules Ah See put to tape (even...no, especially...No Huhu  ). This is a great quick version of Hi'ilawe. Mainly notable for that middle section breakdown, where he solos without striking the strings at all, just exciting the string into vibrating by bar vibrato alone, apparently! Neat trick but I'm not able to do it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmT1zGjbIDk
Left field warning...big fan of Larkin Poe and this is a rare early track. Single note again (as is her usual style) but very cool groove they put together on this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLykXcLul7E
And for a few ones from among us that inspire me...pretty much anything Sebastian records is sublime:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA2uyFjBtfg
Same for Paolo and Lou:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQTL-WNmT1o
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Waikīkī, at night when the shadows are falling
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Mitch Drumm
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Frostbite Falls, hard by Veronica Lake
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Andy Volk
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Boston, MA
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Bill Brunt
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Texas, USA
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Paul McEvoy
From:
Baltimore, USA
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Posted 14 Jul 2020 4:31 pm
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| The judges have agreed multiples are allowed. |
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