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Topic: Red Rhodes |
Ben Elder
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La Crescenta, California, USA
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Posted 21 Apr 2004 10:34 pm |
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| I wasn't here in LA when Red Rhodes was at his most visible on the local scene. (Just an isolated Nixon-era teenager discovering country music on a distant planet called Oklahoma.) I was just over on Dave Van Allen's Tom Brumley/Rick Nelson thread (http://steelguitarforum.com/Forum15/HTML/005995.html) and the sound clip immediately put me in mind of the swirling organ-like sound Red got on Michael Nesmith's "And the Hits Just Keep On Comin'" (ca. 1972) LP. Does anyone know what brands of steels Red used and when--or on what albums/cuts? Could "And the Hits..." album have been in his ZB period perhaps? Red was my first pedal-steel hero, although Pete Drake was likely the first steel player I ever heard of (his Talking Steel Guitar told me, I think.) And therein lies the seed of a new and different topic. But in the meantime, anything anyone knows and remembers about Red's steel playing will be eagerly devoured. |
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Jim Smith
From:
Midlothian, TX, USA
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Posted 22 Apr 2004 3:20 am
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I'm not sure which steel Red used on that cut, but we built him a Dekley around 1978 or 1979. While he was at the factory, I asked him what he used for the organ sounds. He said (and showed me) that all he used was a wide vibrato with his left hand, no effects at all!  |
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Rick Schmidt
From:
Prescott AZ, USA
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Posted 22 Apr 2004 7:41 am
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| Jim...I saw Red playing that Dekley at his shop in Hollywood one day around that time. First time I ever heard a Roland JC120 chorus. He was a true classic! |
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John Bresler R.I.P.
From:
Thornton, Colorado
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Posted 22 Apr 2004 5:05 pm
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| Al Gershen in Grants Pass, Oregon was a friend of Red's and still plays Red's old Fender 400 Complete with home-made knee levers. Al's email is aldg@charter.net. |
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