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Topic: Dan Tyack--Out Of The Box--How Many Others |
Fred Shannon
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Rocking "S" Ranch, Comancheria, Texas, R.I.P.
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David L. Donald
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Koh Samui Island, Thailand
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Posted 7 Dec 2004 2:30 pm |
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Fred I am on my second copy.
This is one of my favorite albums by a steeler,
and one of my favorites in the last several years.
I like some blues albums, but love this one.
Just order his new gospel revival one and Amazing Grace.
I just iwsh I had that piano player here.. DANG the cats smokin'
and so's Dan.[This message was edited by David L. Donald on 07 December 2004 at 02:41 PM.] |
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Dan Tyack
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Olympia, WA USA
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Posted 7 Dec 2004 2:46 pm
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Thanks Fred and David!
You can listen to some pretty long clips of these cuts and more at www.tyack.com .
David, that piano player is Pete Wasner, who is currently touring with Vince Gill, if I'm not mistaken. Pete is a monster piano player and great songwriter (he wrote a bunch of songs for Vince and many other singers, including "Don't Let Our Love Start Slippin' Away"). I had to travel to Nashville to do the record, because there's nobody in Seattle who can play like that.
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Don Walters
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Saskatchewan Canada
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Posted 7 Dec 2004 3:46 pm
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"Blackened Toast" is one of my favorite CDs. Great playing by Dan and some others. And how about that Randy Handley? What a singer!
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Donna Dodd
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Acworth, Georgia, USA
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Posted 7 Dec 2004 7:11 pm
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Fred,
I do like Blackened Toast, but Dan's Unsantified Gospel Revival is my favorite CD purchase this year. However, I've lost mine (or someone stole it!!!!) so I have to order a new one. I'm actually having withdrawals. It's a MUST HAVE, Fred!! But order two in case someone STEELS it!!  |
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Garth Highsmith
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Posted 8 Dec 2004 12:32 am
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Fred Shannon
From:
Rocking "S" Ranch, Comancheria, Texas, R.I.P.
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Posted 8 Dec 2004 2:59 am
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Garth, thanks for the informative reply and this guy McGonigal who wrote the piece is some kind of a prolific writer. The picture of Dan Tyack is somehow the very image I would have pictured Dan in a pose while playing. Reminiscent (sic) of those I played with in New Orleans for so many years. Their statement would have been something like, "Man, he's really in it."
Not too many musicians get to experience what Dan describes as "“I started with a slow blues—and I had never, ever previously felt what happened in that room. I played a line, and everybody in the room started calling out. I felt this intense, tangible connection with the people in the room."
I had that same experience while accompanying the great Wallace Davenport to New Iberia, Louisiana to play at an old NO musician's funeral there. It happens when all the musicians participating get to the "come to Jesus point" and everyone, while maintaining perfect harmony, seem to be 'doing their own thing'---meaning everyone is on a lead ride and it just jells together into a super effort by the entire band. Ever been there?
You can betcha' boots the christian cd will be mine. Thanks for the recommendations.
fred
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"From Truth, Justice is Born"--Quanah Parker-1904
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David Mason
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Cambridge, MD, USA
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Posted 8 Dec 2004 3:09 am
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| If you like rock and blues steel and you're raiding the Forum for CD's, you might also like Dave Ristrim's "Crisis at the Theme Park." I like his version of "Cause We've Ended as Lovers" better than Jeff Beck's, and he does unspeakable things to Stanley Clarke's "School Days" - ooh, I think it's time for my morning wake-up anthem.... |
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David L. Donald
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Koh Samui Island, Thailand
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Posted 8 Dec 2004 4:43 am
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I will second Dave M. also Dave R's Crisis album is WAY out of the box. A super effort.
I went to visit the cat in Nashville because the album impressed me so much.
Also if you like Blackened Toast you will also surely like Cindy Cashdollar's Slide Show.
Both of these are in my car for regular drive by listening.
Other things rotate out, not these two.
Less singing, but "what there is is cherce". And the slide work is in many places quite similar. But with a few other styles too. |
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David L. Donald
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Koh Samui Island, Thailand
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Posted 17 Dec 2004 8:33 am
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I just got Dan's cd running up stairs for a bit,
it is wonderfull at a partial fast browse thru.
No time to get INTO it, but it will be surely be very pleasing, very soon,.
Got t Unsanctified Gospel Revival, Amazing Grace Praise Band, Sweet Hearts of the Rodeo, and a double Flying Buritos collection.
A great steel music day.
Dang, but what to hear 1st in a day with no time to listen.
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Bob Taillefer
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Canada
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Posted 19 Dec 2004 9:10 am
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| When I am at a lost for a specific New Orleans groove or just want to listen to how the steel guitar fits into a blues context, I put Dan's CD in the player. He is a true innovator! Bob |
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 19 Dec 2004 10:02 am
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| "Out of the box"? Several I can think of right off (because I've bought their CD's) are Susan Alcorn, Lionel Wendling, Mike Perlowin, Sneaky Pete, and Dave Van Allen. Those who say that there's no variety in steel music just haven't looked, IMHO. |
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Bob Kagy
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Lafayette, CO USA
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Posted 19 Dec 2004 1:13 pm
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FWIW Dan, there's a restaurant/bar on the "hill" next to CU here in Boulder, Colorado named Burnt Toast.
I've often thought I should send them a copy of your CD. |
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Larry Bell
From:
Englewood, Florida
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Posted 19 Dec 2004 1:40 pm
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Joe Goldmark - first steel album with all Beatle arrangements
Dave Easley - first steel player I ever heard of on the legitimate jazz label Blue Note
Joe Wright - because he's Joe
Robert Randolph - not sure if he was already mentioned, but he never was even IN THE BOX
I'm sure there are many more that haven't occurred to us.
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Larry Bell - email: larry@larrybell.org - gigs - Home Page
2003 Fessenden S/D-12 8x8, 1969 Emmons S-12 6x6, 1971 Dobro, Standel and Peavey Amps
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