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Robbie Daniels
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Casper, Wyoming, USA
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Posted 23 Jun 2007 7:25 pm |
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Tonight 6/23/07 not a steel in sight or on site for the full hour. What's up with that? Wonder if this is the future of new country music.
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Theresa Galbraith
From:
Goodlettsville,Tn. USA
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Posted 24 Jun 2007 4:21 am
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Robbie,
Most of them use steel on their records. What they are thinking? To me it seems like they would be missing that great steel sound in their ears!  |
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John DeBoalt
From:
Harrisville New York USA
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Posted 24 Jun 2007 5:56 am Steel at the Opry
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I turned it on,I forget who was singing, maybe Carrie Underwood. The camera panned around the stage, and I didn't even see TW's Millenium sitting there unoccupied. I went to toggling between the Bush race, and the RFD channel. With Pop Goes the Country, and The Midwest Jamboree aired on Saturday night, you know you will hear some steel being played. Joe Savage gets better with every show.
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Ray Montee
From:
Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 24 Jun 2007 8:05 am No steel guitars................
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As long as they can show plenty of deep cleavage, who needs a steel guitar?
It used to be the music..........now it's nothing more than body parts and a pretty plastic face. |
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John McGlothlin
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Posted 24 Jun 2007 9:09 am
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| It makes me mad to hear some of these young country singers say that they were influenced by country singers like Loretta Lynn and Ernest Tubb and Connie Smith and other greats.....yet they don't even use a good pedal steel guitar in their band which in my book, along with fiddles is what makes country music. Well.....I sure am glad that I have held on to all my classic LPs and at least I can sit down at my pedal steel and enjoy that real down to earth nashville and western swing sound thank the Lord. John |
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Charles Davidson
From:
Phenix City Alabama, USA
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Posted 24 Jun 2007 10:28 am
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Who needs a steel when you can have a huge rack of keyboards,two or three blazing distorted Les Pauls,and vocals that even an Antaras can't keep them on key.And have you noticed the rare times the steel gets a solo,THAT'S when they decide to pan the audience? Remember the REAL GREAT artist such as Ray Price,Earnest,Porter,or Little Jimmy would actully give recognition to their great side men like Buddy Emmons,Bud Charlton,Billy Byrd,Leon,etc,They would call them by name,step aside,and let them shine.These great artist had STYLE and CLASS,sorry to say but MOST [not all]but most of this [CONTEMP]orary crowd does not have these qualities.
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Mike Sweeney
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Nashville,TN,USA
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Posted 25 Jun 2007 7:01 pm
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Don't know about the t.v. portion but from the time I got there at 8:00 till the time I left to go home at 10:30 there were 4 of us on there. Mike Toppins with Pam Tillis, Fred Newell with Porter, me with John England and of course Tommy White. Not as many as there used to be.
One thing to keep in mind, While the t.v. portion is conducting interviews etc.. the radio show is still going on so there were artists that Tommy backed up I'm sure such as Ray Pillow that didn't get the t.v. spot.
I guess you have to take the t.v. portion with a grain of salt. I suggest you go to w.s.m's website and listen on there or just wait till it's archived.
Just a thought.
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Jim Sliff
From:
Lawndale California, USA
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Posted 25 Jun 2007 7:17 pm
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Times change. It's the same with every style of music. You can continue to enjoy the music you listened to 15 years ago, but you can't expect live venues to play the stuff (or the music-buying public to purchase or pay to see it) forever, as the demographics change.
If I go to the Whiskey or the Troubadour, I gurantee I'm not going to find the Byrds, Dylan, Joni Mitchell...or even Tom Petty or Springsteen playing.
Public tastes change, and venues go with the flow or they don't survive.
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Jody Sanders
From:
Magnolia,Texas, R.I.P.
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Posted 25 Jun 2007 8:09 pm
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| What John said. Jody. |
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