The Steel Ride that Got You Hooked

Roger Rettig · From: Naples, FL

I've already chimed in earlier and I still say that Emmons playing on Ray Charles' 'Wichita Lineman' was the catalyst that made me determined to try pedal steel. I didn't know who it was and, anyway, I was only dimly aware of Emmons' name, much less his place in the music world.

Having said that, solid reinforcement came from 'Sweetheart Of The Rodeo' - Lloyd Green AND Clarence White (bender Tele!) - playing at the highest level.

Around the same time, Buddy Cage and JayDee caught my ear with their remarkable blocking! JayDee's 'Muddy Mississippi Line' just blew me away!

I still can't do that stuff. Sad

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Roger Rettig: Emmons D10, B-bender Teles and Martins - and, at last, a Gibson Super 400!
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Jack Hanson · From: San Luis Valley, USA

Roger Rettig · From: Naples, FL

Phew! That's a relief!!

Thanks, Jack. Smile

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Roger Rettig: Emmons D10, B-bender Teles and Martins - and, at last, a Gibson Super 400!
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Bobby Martin · From: Virginia, USA

Driving on the Capital Beltway in 1975 headed to Diesel Tech school a.m.radio Ralph Mooney intro to Rainy Day Woman...burned into my DNA forever. Fire On The Mountain - Marshall Tucker Band/Toy Caldwell intro, John Denver- Country Roads perfect steel parts by Eric Weisberg, Teach Your Children intro by Jerry Garcia on his ZB...love that sound!
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Retired my "Flying Pro III" playin' gigs with the "little bud" in the Northern Shenandoah Valley.

Bill Ford · From: Graniteville SC Aiken

Pete Burak · From: Portland, OR USA

Bill Ford · From: Graniteville SC Aiken

Thank you Pete.
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Bill Ford S12 CLR, S12 Lamar keyless, Misc amps&toys Sharp Covers
Steeling for Jesus now!!!

Marco Schouten · From: Amsterdam, The Netherlands

The steel ride on I've Lived My Life by Dolly Parton. If I'm correct, that was Lloyd Green on this early song of Dolly.
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JCH SD-10 with BL XR-16 pickup, Sho-Bud Volume Pedal, Evidence Audio Lyric HG cables, Quilter Steelaire combo

Chris Robbins · From: Biggsville Illinois

Everything John David Call played

Dan Lynch · From: Lima, New York, USA

Any and all Rusty Young!!! Poco!

Landon Johnson · From: Washington, USA

I grew up on Top 40 and classic rock. So what hooked me was Ed Ringwald's work with Gordon Lightfoot; most notably the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
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1989 Mullen PRP SD-10, 2021 Williams S-10, Quilter TT-12.

Stephen Silver · From: Asheville, NC

Kind Woman. Rusty.
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Life is mostly Attitude and Timing

Ian · From: San Francisco, CA

Landon,

I'm with you those harmonics on "Wreck ..." just blew me away.

Ian

Colin Boutilier · From: Nova Scotia, Canada

The first steel ride that got me truly interested in the instruments, and the pickers, was Mooney on Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down. That one inspired me to buy my first Telecaster, and subsequently install a bender on it.

Bruce Bouton, on Highway 40 Blues, made me realize that my B/G Bender guitar was never going to cut it.

Kim Deschamps on Blue Rodeo's Hasn't Hit Me Yet and Photograph are what just made me pull the trigger on my first PSG. Five Days in July is a desert island album for me, and Kim's PSG and Dobro picking have inspired me since my youth.

Randy Major · From: Kentucky, USA

Buddy Emmons Unbelievable fills on Gatlin's "Houston".

Jeff Peterson · From: Nashville, TN USA

Thanks to Gregg for the nod...I'm honored, sincerely. Like many players, I started with an idea that was way more than the producer, James Stroud, wanted. I ended up doing 3 takes, in between each one him repeating 'a little simpler please'. Clint wanted an intro that he played on harmonica to me. Put the two together and it was a take.
Steel guitar caught my attention when my mother bought the Ray Price 'Nightlife' album. I was learning guitar at the time identifying with George Jones 'Best Guitar Picker' song...fingers were worn to the bone. Joined the Marine Corps when I was 17, and by the time I got out, you couldn't spit without hitting a guitar player. I'd been listening to all the southern rock/country artists and traded(ugh!) my '61 Les Paul and Fender Bandmaster for a single neck Sho-Bud Pro 1.

Ron Funk · From: Ballwin, Missouri

Jeff Peterson -

grrrrrr8 to see you responding onto the Forum

Please don't be a stranger

Regards
Ron Funk

Dave Grafe · From: Hudson River Valley NY

https://youtu.be/yuxaVfeqTWA?si=mMaOtmsPm6WSCQEK

Les Grames · From: Utah

Mooney, Rainy Day Women. Emmons, Judy Collin’s, Someday Soon.
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Justice, Quilter, Goodrich

Brint Hannay · From: Maryland, USA

baxter vaughan · From: Lubbock, Texas 79424

Lloyd Maines on the 1st Joe Ely album, Moon kicking off Rainey day women & John David Call with Pure Prairie League’s Live taking the stage album.

Craig Stock · From: Westfield, NJ USA

I'm with that you Baxter on the Lloyd Maines on Joe Ely, 'Honky Tonk Masquerade' was all the rage in Lubbock in 1980 when I was there at school, 'West Texas Waltz', Lloyd was the king and still is.

Also Saw PPL at the Lubbock Municipal Coliseum in '82 'I don't want to Fade Away' was one of mine favorites with Call!
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Regards, Craig

I cried because I had no shoes, then I met a man who had no feet.

Today is tomorrow's Good ol' days

Wayne Franco · From: silverdale, WA. USA

I heard it on an album of his and really liked it. Then I got to hear Mikle pla it live at the SW Steel Guitar Show. I recorded it on a little recorder. Later at home I played it in my headphones while taking a walk. I could actually imagine seeing the different dancers walk up on stage and dance [each different} as he played. I have never felt that with any other song quite that clear. It brought tears to my eyes.

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