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Topic: Steel Guitar Instrumental song you dislike most |
Ed Naylor
From:
portsmouth.ohio usa, R.I.P.
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Posted 19 Jun 2003 3:58 am |
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| This is in no way a post to discredit any player or song. But there have been post about the "Song You Like Most"etc. I am sure there are songs for whatever reason you dislike. I will withold my "Dislike" for now and see if I am the only one that dislikes a particular song.Again this is no offense to or song. Ed Naylor Steel Guitar Works |
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Paul King
From:
Gainesville, Texas, USA
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Posted 19 Jun 2003 4:26 am
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| Ed, Believe it or not I have always disliked the Steel Guitar Rag. I personally feel it does not showcase the pedal steel guitar. It was probably a great tune before we got pedal guitars. |
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Bill Fall
From:
Richmond, NH, USA
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Posted 19 Jun 2003 5:16 am
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| Amen, Brother King! Don't dislike hearing the SGR as much as playing it. Long ago stopped taking requests for it. "Sorry; don't know it!" Ain't know lie; I'm trying to forget! |
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Joe Smith
From:
Charlotte, NC, USA
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Posted 19 Jun 2003 5:25 am
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Paul, I have to agree, Steel Guitar Rag is a great song for lap steel or non-pedal steel.
I don't like it on pedal steel either. |
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Jim Vogan
From:
Ohio City, Ohio 45874
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Posted 19 Jun 2003 5:26 am
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SGR gets my vote! Maybe people think that's the only song you can play on a steel guitar. If I have to play it I will, but I always follow it with something pretty. I love to play the old ballads.
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Jim Vogan
Carter D10, 8&5 with BCT
G.D. Walker Stereo Steel Combo
Bakelite Ric
Hilton volume pedal
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Don Walters
From:
Saskatchewan Canada
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Posted 19 Jun 2003 6:05 am
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Anthing played with that "talking steel guitar" effect from years ago! How could anyone take the instrument seriously with that kind of nonsense being played!!
No I'm not grumpy this morning 
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John Cox
From:
Texas, USA
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Posted 19 Jun 2003 8:22 am
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I agree with Paul on this one, I dislike the song steel/g/r it, also can't be modified to any thing else and no matter what effects I try to highlite the song with, it still just doesn't come out right.
J.C.
CaterSd10/Peavy1000
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Jack Francis
From:
Queen Creek, Arizona, USA
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Posted 19 Jun 2003 12:43 pm
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I have a friend that plays fiddle and hates orange blossom special. He says that every time he plays a gig he is asked to play it.
Merle probably is tired of Workin' Man Blues but folks wanna hear it.
I play many songs each time the band plays that I don't really care for, but I do it cuz I'm there to entertain.
If someones asks for a song and I know it
I'll play it...if I didn't I'd feel like the
sales clerk we all run into that really doesn't want to serve us.
If they don't want to serve thier customers they oughta get out of the biz.
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Bobby Lee
From:
Cloverdale, California, USA
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Posted 19 Jun 2003 2:36 pm
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Sorry. I like them all. The songs I don't like are ones that feature the vocalist instead of the steel player.
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C Dixon
From:
Duluth, GA USA
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Posted 19 Jun 2003 3:15 pm
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"I love You Because", especially when dragged out endlessly. A very close second is "I Love You So Much it Hurts Me" for the same reason.
I will never tire of SGR played like Jerry Bryd plays it. If I could only play it like he does. If it is played on a 6th tuning, where the opening is done by walking up the strings at the same fret; instead of playing it in an open E tuning I don't care for at all. JB was able to get THAT open E sound using C6!!! But then there is no one like JB
God bless him and all of you,
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Eric West
From:
Portland, Oregon, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 19 Jun 2003 5:31 pm
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Gotta be "In the Mood".
Buckaroo, and Bud's Bounce are right up there too..
Sleepwalk and SGR seem to be in the "I don't mind" category.
EJL |
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Ken Lang
From:
Simi Valley, Ca
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Posted 19 Jun 2003 6:15 pm
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| In our now defunct band, our closing song was always the SGR, but it was the keyboard who kicked it and played the melody. The rest of us got to riff around it. That was fun. |
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Marco Schouten
From:
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Posted 19 Jun 2003 8:55 pm
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Witches Brew. And most other instrumentals using effects etc.
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Steelin' Greetings
Marco Schouten
Sho-Bud Pro III Custom; Sho-Bud LLG; John Pearse bar; Emmons bar; Panther amp
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Jody Sanders
From:
Magnolia,Texas, R.I.P.
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Posted 19 Jun 2003 9:03 pm
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| I was tiring of Steel Guitar Rag until I heard Charlton and Rhodes play it. I worked it up on C6 and now it is fun to play. I had rather not play Cotton-eyed Joe if possible. Jody. |
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David L. Donald
From:
Koh Samui Island, Thailand
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Posted 20 Jun 2003 1:28 am
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I can't say I hate anything yet, but I have the TAB for SGR and it had interesting licks from a technique point of view, but not so much I really wanted learn the whole tune.
I preffer the less mellow stuff. Few people really can get me excited with a super slow tune. One exception is L.T. Zinn.. |
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George McLellan
From:
Duluth, MN USA
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Posted 20 Jun 2003 6:21 am
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SGR and Deep Water are running neck & neck (no pun intended). If this post was for guitar I'd say Wildwood Flower. 
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SUAS U' PHIOB
Geo
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Mike Perlowin
From:
Los Angeles CA
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Posted 20 Jun 2003 6:48 am
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| SGR gets my vote! Maybe people think that's the only song you can play on a steel guitar. |
No maybe about it.
I never want to even HEAR that song again as long as I live. I don't even want to remember that it exists. |
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Paul King
From:
Gainesville, Texas, USA
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Posted 20 Jun 2003 9:21 am
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| I had a guitar picker several years ago ask me to play the Steel Guitar Rag. I played it then he told me I wasn't playing it right. I have never cared for the song since. It always amazes me how others who cannot play a steel try to tell you how to play. |
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Jim Smith
From:
Midlothian, TX, USA
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Posted 20 Jun 2003 9:43 am
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I played with a guitar player several years ago that showcased himself on Steel Guitar Rag. He played the whole thing and never even gave me a ride!  |
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Al Marcus
From:
Cedar Springs,MI USA (deceased)
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Posted 20 Jun 2003 10:18 am
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I have to agree with Bobby Lee, I like all kinds of music.
When I was at the Jeff Newman school, Jeff played Steel Guitar Rag, he threw in everything but the kitchen sink.
He just played great! So you can do a lot with that song, if you want.
This might be a little off topic, but for 50 years , every club I played in, someone always request the SGR.
I oblige them and play it. Very straight the way it was original and the way they EXPECT to hear it. As the old sayin goes, "make the customer happy" .....al |
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Chris Scruggs
From:
Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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Posted 20 Jun 2003 10:36 am
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Nothing against this song, but my vote is for "Sleepwalk".
However, I heard the original version the other day on the radio for the first time in a long time, and it was great.
I'm just tired of hearing everybody else do it(and always with way too much reverb!). |
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Roger Shackelton
From:
MINNESOTA (deceased)
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Posted 21 Jun 2003 2:30 am
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Jody, Ernest Tubb was the one to suggest SGR for one of the Texas Trouadours albums. Bud Charlton wasn't too happy about that, but Leon went ahead and wrote a fantastic arrangement on the tune. It's the best version of SGR that I've heard.
Roger |
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Craig A Davidson
From:
Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin USA
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Posted 21 Jun 2003 4:47 am
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My pick would have to be Steel Guitar Rag followed by Bud's Bounce. No matter how a guy works them up the rest of the band think they know a better way to play it. So they change in the middle of the song somewhere.
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Scott Henderson
From:
Camdenton, Missouri, USA
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Posted 21 Jun 2003 6:49 am
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On the show I play in we are not allowed to use ascap songs and gosh darn it SGR is an ascap song shuckie durn!!!!!!!!!but I am gtting a little tired of remington ride but we play it six nights a week...
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Steelin' away in the ozarks and life,
Scott
www.scottyhenderson.com
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Roger Crawford
From:
Griffin, GA USA
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Posted 21 Jun 2003 7:44 am
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Carl...I Love You So Much It Hurts Me was on my list until I heard Weldon do it as a 4/4 shuffle. It really adds some life back into this old classic. Other than that, anything our singer decides to do in Eb!
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