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Topic: The future of pedal steel today ! |
Bob Hoffnar
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Posted 24 Mar 2007 7:26 pm |
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Check out John Neff's playing on these killer instrumental tracks:
http://www.myspace.com/johnneff
New tracks 7 and 6 with Japancakes are just perfect.
He is playing his new Rains S10 with a pickup I made for him.
John is a super busy player doing some great stuff with the steel.
Really great work John !
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Charlie McDonald
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Posted 25 Mar 2007 6:13 am
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I love this stuff. Country and Eastern at its best.
I'll have to get me some Japancakes--they taste good--maybe 'Waking Hours'?
Neff makes me want to work on my volume pedal technique.
Thanks, Bob.
(you may have an extra space in your link: try
http://www.myspace.com/johnneff )
Do you wind tapped pickups, like single coil/humbucker combo? His sound is great.
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Bob Hoffnar
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Posted 25 Mar 2007 6:40 am
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Charlie,
Thanks for noticing the link. I fixed it this morning. The pickups are humbuckers. I haven't added a coil tap yet. Thats down the road a little bit.
I have been noticing more and more steel players showing up on some great new instrumental music these days.
Check out Gerald Menke with Downriver on "Ode" and "So Bad"
http://www.myspace.com/geraldmenke
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Drew Howard
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Jim Sliff
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Lawndale California, USA
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Posted 25 Mar 2007 7:17 am
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Very cool - my kind of stuff!
Bob, the pickup sounds tremendous - really fat and nicely articulated. To me it has almost a Fender vibe, but with more...ahem...nether parts.
Jim
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1930's/40's Rickenbacher/Rickenbacker 6&8 string lap steels
1921 Weissenborn Style 2; Hilo&Schireson hollownecks
Appalachian, Regal & Dobro squarenecks
1959 Fender 400 9+2 B6;1960's Fender 800 3+3+2; 1948 Fender Dual-8 Professional |
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Bob Carlucci
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Candor, New York, USA
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Posted 25 Mar 2007 10:03 am
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| The guitar sounds wonderful, and his playing is simple,tasteful and elegant.. Very nice stuff.. |
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John Neff
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Athens, GA
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Posted 25 Mar 2007 7:05 pm
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Thanks!  The Emoticon is just blushing - don't feel sorry for it.
As Bob said, that's my new Rain's with his Tonealigner.
I think for both of those tunes, I ran it stereo. One side through a Line-6 DL4 to an AC-30, the other straight into an Ampeg V-4, to either a BW-15" or a Utah-12".
I'm pretty lucky, as a steel player, to have Japancakes. |
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David Doggett
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Bawl'mer, MD (formerly of MS, Nawluns, Gnashville, Knocksville, Lost Angeles, Bahsten. and Philly)
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Posted 25 Mar 2007 7:33 pm
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Nice stuff from John and Gerald.  |
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Jon Hyde
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Seattle, Washington, USA
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Posted 25 Mar 2007 9:55 pm
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| Bob, thanks for this post. I'm a fan of Japancakes - I once heard them on the radio here in Seattle and I sat in my parking spot listening to the songs that followed just so I could hear the back announcement to find out what it was. I really like the "sleepy strange" CD - I'll be happy to have more. |
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Larry Weaver
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Asheville, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 26 Mar 2007 4:08 am
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Great stuff John! Thanks for the heads-up Bob.
-LarryW |
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Gerald Menke
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Stormville NY, USA
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Posted 26 Mar 2007 2:00 pm
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Thanks for the shout out Bob, I was wondering why my spin count was higher than normal on MySpace today.
John is up to something really cool, kind of reminds me of your work a bit. Interesting how he uses very little, or no vibrato that I could hear. Very pretty tone.
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Charlie McDonald
From:
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Posted 26 Mar 2007 3:11 pm
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Great stuff, Gerald. I enjoy the tone of all the samples linked here. I'm inspired.
Without fear of retribution on this topic--there's quite a bit of discussion on the future or lack of one concerning steel guitar. I don't see the problem with players like these on the forum taking it new directions.
You can't take the country out of steel, and that's why I like it. One needn't fear its demise when there's no limit on how it can be applied.
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Klaus Caprani
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Copenhagen, Denmark
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Posted 26 Mar 2007 11:26 pm I befriended John on MySpace....
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.....and I must say I think his tone, in particular, is what really got me. That's really sweet stuff to my ears 
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Frederic Mabrut
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Olloix, France
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Posted 27 Mar 2007 9:07 am
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Great music and tone!
Tonaligners seem very good pickups, am I wrong? |
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Bob Hoffnar
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Austin, Tx
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Charlie McDonald
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Posted 28 Mar 2007 5:46 am
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I love 'canto primo' and the cello duet. The latter is mesmerizing.
The future of pedal steel: I see it as one that no longer separates ambient music from other song forms.
The ambient quality of steel, like its inherent 'countryness', is a given and requires no genre of its own.
And there is a Tonealigner in my future, I think.
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Bob Hoffnar
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Austin, Tx
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Posted 29 Mar 2007 9:19 am
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Here is another steel player that is doing quite well outside of the standard steel guitar world:
http://www.jonrauhouse.com/site/
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Jon Hyde
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Seattle, Washington, USA
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Posted 29 Mar 2007 9:32 pm
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| Again, I couldn't agree more. Jon is a real cool player. I've been enjoying a solo CD of his a lot - I got it at his show here is Seattle some months back. He had picked a bunch of great local players and had some folks he brought with him. It was a real nice night of (mostly) instrumental music. |
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Charlie McDonald
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Posted 30 Mar 2007 3:52 am
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Thanks, Bob.
Rodeo and Air Show knock me out--those old standards, especially the very gritty 'Perry Mason Theme.' Where does he get those lovely vocalists like Neko Case?
I like everything about his presentation.
Keep it up. There might be a future in this thread.
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Bob Hoffnar
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Austin, Tx
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John Lockney
From:
New Market, Maryland, USA
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Posted 12 Jul 2007 2:43 pm
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The Japancakes are great. I was excited to see John Neff is touring with the Driveby Truckers!!
There is a video clip with Neff on the DBT site:
http://www.drivebytruckers.com/media.html
I've downloaded some recent DBT shows and they are doing a lot more acoustic sit-down music and you can really hear the steel guitar, which is nice. |
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Joe Savage
From:
St. Paul, MN
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Posted 18 Jul 2007 6:29 am Future or Pasture
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One of my favorite little sayings is "If I don't see you in the future, I'll see you in the pasture."
Try some of these at:
www.myspace.com/jrsavage
Muy Bien.
P.S. There is a Tonealigner PU on one of these tunes!
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