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Topic: Fastest Picking EVER...? |
Duane Reese
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Posted 3 Feb 2006 9:15 pm |
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Okay, everyone put down your vote for the fastest steel picking ever, by any player at any point in history... Give whatever info you have, like the player, artist, song/album or event, and post a link if you have a clip!
I'll have to mull this over personally, but what do you say? |
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Doug Jones
From:
Oregon & Florida
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Posted 3 Feb 2006 9:44 pm
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| Perhaps Wally "Flying Fingers" Murphy ? |
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Mike Perlowin
From:
Los Angeles CA
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Posted 3 Feb 2006 9:52 pm
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Jimmy Day once said about some speed picker. "Boy I really wish I could do that and then I wouldn't"
I agree with that sentement. Playing a million miles an hour is just acrobatics. I'd rather hear somebody play fewer notes per minute, but play them with soul. |
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Larry Bell
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Englewood, Florida
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Posted 3 Feb 2006 9:57 pm
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Oh, come on guys -- don't be killjoys
This one is right up there.
Guess who. 
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2003 Fessenden S/D-12 8x8, 1969 Emmons S/D-12 6x6, 1984 Sho-Bud S/D-12 7x6, 1971 Dobro, Standel and Peavey Amps
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Gene H. Brown
From:
Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada
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Posted 3 Feb 2006 10:41 pm
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Well.....It's for sure , it ain't Cousin Jody!!!!!!!!
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If You Keep Pickin That Thing, It'll Never Heal!
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Jerry Erickson
From:
Atlanta,IL 61723
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Posted 3 Feb 2006 10:43 pm
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That's a good one Larry. PF with Jerry Reed. How about PF with Mark O'Connor and the New NAshville Cats- Pick It Apart? Sorry, I can't post the tune  |
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Bobby Boggs
From:
Upstate SC.
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Posted 3 Feb 2006 11:09 pm
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| fastest steel picking ever |
The fastest steel picking has never been recorded. At least not commercially.The tune Larry posted is fast.But not nearly as fast as I've heard Paul play in a 4 hour jam session.Same is true for Buddy Emmons,Tommy White,Buck Reid,Terry Crisp and I'm sure I've left out several.It's after 2am here.
My point. I hate to see this become a contest. 1st of all. We will never agree on who's the fastest. 2nd.There are 2 kinds of fast.The cheap licks,The really easy to get to licks.Or the ones that's really hard to finger.Sadly, a lot of less experienced players can't tell the difference.3rd.Most all of todays speed pickers are members here.Just my 2 cents.
Note: To Steve Gambrell.I'll check my spelling later. |
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Billy Murdoch
From:
Glasgow, Scotland, U.K.
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Posted 4 Feb 2006 1:31 am
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Doug jernigan is certainly no slouch.
Billy |
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John Roche
From:
England
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Posted 4 Feb 2006 1:55 am
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| I'm very fast with one note ,lol |
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Charles Curtis
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Posted 4 Feb 2006 2:55 am
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| How about Jay Dee Maness or Julian Tharpe? |
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Charlie McDonald
From:
out of the blue
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Posted 4 Feb 2006 3:52 am
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Maybe there's a 'pickin' barrier, like the speed of sound, and one can only approach it.
But PF gets my vote; I don't know how he does that without having a nervous breakdown. |
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Ken Byng
From:
Southampton, England
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Posted 4 Feb 2006 3:55 am
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Franklin, Jernigan, Wright and White are probably the 4 quickest players out there today. I love to hear some of these guy's pyrotechnics at times, but too much of it and my brain switches off.
While the above guys have so much in their musical locker, give me the taste and pure musicianship of Buddy Emmons and Maurice Anderson any day of the week.
It's whatever rings your bell.
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basilh
From:
United Kingdom
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Posted 4 Feb 2006 4:06 am
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I'm with Ken on this one (And probably see him on the 20th when Pat and I go to the "Bluebirds")
Mr. Jernigan and the big "E" would be on pole position in this race..
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Stephen Gambrell
From:
Over there
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Posted 4 Feb 2006 5:09 am
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A little leg humpin' here, but Bobby Boggs can flat git it, and be creative at the same time!
But playing fast JUST for the sake of playing fast, is sorta stupid. I wish my technique were such that I could play as fast as some of the stuff I hear, but I wish I had the technique to play the slow, soulful stuff that I feel. |
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John Davis
From:
Cambridge, U.K.
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Posted 4 Feb 2006 5:28 am
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Lloyd Maines (excuse me if I spelt it wrong)
Impressed me for speed on that number "let it rip"
But the out and out winner for speed has to be John Wayne |
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Roger Rettig
From:
Naples, FL
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Posted 4 Feb 2006 5:35 am
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PF gets my vote too, but Herby Wallace deserves an honourable mention here. I still have (somewhere in the quagmire of my computer's memory) a short sample of Tim Sergent with the Dixie Chicks - that was pretty amazing, as well.
One thing's for sure - it's not me.....
RR |
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John Roche
From:
England
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Posted 4 Feb 2006 5:50 am
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| what about Tony Farr |
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Steve Hitsman
From:
Waterloo, IL
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Posted 4 Feb 2006 5:50 am
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Dale Dorsey
From:
Granger, Indiana, USA
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Posted 4 Feb 2006 5:53 am
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| I've never done much with tab, but would love to see someone do 20 speed breaks tabbed out and on video (like the break Larry gave us on his post). I am getting older now and might want to cheat a little to learn something new. Any of the guys mentioned so far would be okay with me. |
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Charles Curtis
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Posted 4 Feb 2006 8:21 am
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| It seems to me, and I can be corrected, that just about equal use of the index finger helps out here. My brain "ain't" wired that way. I use my thumb and middle finger mostly, but then too I'm not a speed picker. I think that a great video on this subject is one by Tommy White that I've seen. |
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Ricky Littleton
From:
Steely-Eyed Missile Man from Cocoa Beach, Florida USA
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Posted 4 Feb 2006 8:45 am
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Bruce Bouton on "One way Rider" gets my vote.
Ricky...
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Perry Hansen
From:
Bismarck, N.D.
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Posted 4 Feb 2006 8:46 am
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| Wayne Gayley |
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Joe Casey
From:
Weeki Wachee .Springs FL (population.9)
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Posted 4 Feb 2006 11:24 am
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I'm not to sure about the fastest picker on Steel. But the fastest driver is certainly Smiley Roberts.  I still have the shorts to prove it. Wally Murphy certainly is super fast and still would be a top nominee in my book. Smooth fast, catch Doug Jernigan sometimes but don't watch his fingers you will get dizzy.Speeds great but Its the smooth sweet players that impress me the most unless its Jazz. fast is usually over quick slow and easy always gets the job done,
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Joe Casey
From:
Weeki Wachee .Springs FL (population.9)
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Posted 4 Feb 2006 11:27 am
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I'm not to sure about the fastest picker on Steel. But the fastest driver is certainly Smiley Roberts. I still have the shorts to prove it. Wally Murphy certainly is super fast and still would be a top nominee in my book. Smooth fast, catch Doug Jernigan sometimes but don't watch his fingers you will get dizzy.Speeds great but Its the smooth sweet players that impress me the most unless its Jazz. fast is usually over quick slow and easy always gets the job done, But don't forget the man who was given the name Speed.Maybe before a lot of people on the Forums time but listen sometimes to Jimmy Bryant and sir Speedy West.
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Tony Prior
From:
Charlotte NC
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Posted 4 Feb 2006 11:44 am
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Fastest Picker Ever ?
I don't think we reached "EVER" yet !
I think the exciting thing about listening to the polished pros' is the varying styles and not getting locked into a single basic phrase repeated...
The PF clip above is certainly an excellent example of that...
And those that are thinking that "The Good Old Stuff" is all I wanna play..
I don't believe you....sorry...
there ain't nobody breathin' who plays one of these dang things that does not want to show up on a gig or Steel show and burn like the clip above...
Some may play DIFFERENT than PF's clip above..but I doubt better....that clip has a lot af stuff going on...
I don't think he learn't that from a TAB program...
and I ain't even a genious..just ask my wife !
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[This message was edited by Tony Prior on 04 February 2006 at 11:48 AM.] |
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