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Topic: Paul Franklin/SuperSlide with Martina |
Mark Eaton
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Sonoma County in The Great State Of Northern California
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Posted 15 Jun 2006 12:24 pm |
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I don't believe anyone has posted regarding the in-studio AOl Sessions.
You can see Paul Franklin, in addition to his usual pedal steel expertise, playing an MSA SuperSlide non-pedal on two videos from this series. These songs are from Martina McBride's "Timeless" album, which after coming out last fall, has inspired about 30 threads on The Forum. The songs are "I Still Miss Someone" and "You Win Again." Paul lays his SuperSlide right on top of his Franklin's C6 neck. Sorry Reece, one less Freedom Stand sold! 
Then there is Martina. The woman slays me...absolutely turns me to jello.
Her husband, John McBride, is one lucky man!
Check it out here:
http://music.aol.com/artist/martina-mcbride/30168/main
I also posted this in "Steel Players," figuring that some of the hard core pedal folks don't venture into this neighborhood of The Forum very often.
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Mark
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Ed Altrichter
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Posted 16 Jun 2006 12:37 am
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Rick Garrett
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Tyler, Texas
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Posted 16 Jun 2006 7:16 am
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Great stuff Mark. Thanks for sharing that. Best album to come along in a long time in my opinion.
Sidebar, I think my super slide sounds way better than Pauls. 
Rick
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Mark Eaton
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Sonoma County in The Great State Of Northern California
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Posted 17 Jun 2006 11:28 am
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Ed-if the liner notes hold true (except for the part about the steel guitars, which aren't mentioned specifically, and are quite obviously newer than 1965) then Paul must have been using an old amp of some kind.
Of course, this applies to the album-not necessarily the studio sessions. But I think the spirit of the thing was reflected in the AOL videos.
This is from John McBride: "Martina and I were striving for an authentic sound for this album. We used only 3 microphones newer than 1968 on this project, a Gretsch 1953 Round Badge Kit, and no guitars or amps newer than 1965. We stayed in the analogue domain for 99% of this record. No digital plug-ins were ever used, only real outboard equipment for compression, EQ, etc., and very little at that. The album was mastered to 1" tape and hopefully the difference is audible."
Once again, this is about the album itself, but even in the video-Paul really nails the Don Helms thing on a modern non-pedal guitar.
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Mark
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Franklin
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Posted 17 Jun 2006 11:40 am
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Mark,
I used my normal rig. A Mesa Boogie studio preamp and Mosvalve poweramp. Everyone else was using vintage gear except Eddie Bayers who also used a fairly new drum kit.
Paul
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Mark Eaton
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Sonoma County in The Great State Of Northern California
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Posted 17 Jun 2006 11:56 am
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Paul, thank you for clarifying that.
"It's in the hands" definitely applies here in light of the fact that along with your settings in using the normal rig-on "You Win Again" it really has that "vintage" vibe!
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