| what's your favorite steel music? |
| bluegrass |
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3% |
[ 2 ] |
| blues |
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9% |
[ 5 ] |
| cajun |
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0% |
[ 0 ] |
| country |
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36% |
[ 19 ] |
| folk |
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0% |
[ 0 ] |
| gospel/sacred |
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3% |
[ 2 ] |
| hawaiian |
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21% |
[ 11 ] |
| hindustani |
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3% |
[ 2 ] |
| jazz |
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15% |
[ 8 ] |
| rock |
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5% |
[ 3 ] |
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Topic: What's your favorite steel music? |
Vince Luke
From:
Iowa, USA
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Posted 28 Jan 2007 11:56 am |
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It seems like there's a good variety of musical stylists/fans on this forum. . .I was just wondering how the numbers might break down. . .
Vince
P.S. I meant to include western swing as a category on the poll & didn't realize I skipped it until it was too late to change. So, swingers: don't take it as a personal slight, just as evidence that my polls are no more perfect than me am! (I ain't exactly Gallup. . .) Fortunately there's ample opportunity for write-in votes (by posting a reply).
My motive for posting the poll wasn't to squeeze our favorite artists into pigeonholes, anyway. It was just to get to know my fellow forumites a little better and/or stimulate a little conversation. Even the categories I did manage to include are subject to each reader's interpretation. I've enjoyed reading your posts so far. . .keep 'em coming!
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Todd Weger
From:
Safety Harbor, FLAUSA
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Posted 28 Jan 2007 12:59 pm Hawaiian
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I'd like to qualify my vote for Hawaiian by saying it's the older, mostly pre-war Hawaiian steel (both electric and acoustic) that floats my boat.
That said, I could honestly pick all of the styles listed, as well as some that aren't, since I just love the sound of the instrument so much, in about any context.
TJW
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Les Anderson
From:
The Great White North
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Posted 28 Jan 2007 1:57 pm
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| It's too bad we don't have the opportunity for a multiple choice. |
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Dan Sawyer
From:
Studio City, California, USA
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Posted 28 Jan 2007 2:35 pm
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quote: "It's too bad we don't have the opportunity for a multiple choice."
Yes. Maybe a ranking where we could assign a number from 1 to 5 for music we like a lot or a little.
Also, how do you classify someone like Murph? He seems to play in the jazzy style of Benny Goodman, but in the Western Swing bands. Would he be a jazz player or a western player? Probably no correct answer, but it goes to show how hard it is to put musicians in a box. |
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Stephan Miller
From:
Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
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Posted 28 Jan 2007 7:21 pm
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Dan, I know what you mean. It would have been a lot easier for me if one of the categories was "whatever it is that Joaquin and Tom Morrell play"! That said, surely Western Swing belongs on that list. And "Americana" might get some takers if it were listed in place of "Folk".
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Richard Sevigny
From:
Salmon Arm, BC, Canada
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Posted 28 Jan 2007 7:42 pm You mean it's not a multiple choice exam???????
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I agree. My "playing" playlist on steel is pretty limited is limited to blues, folk/country, rock (in that order) mostly due to my personal limitations. 
My ears are a little more sophisticated than my hands. I love a musical smorgasbord 
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Papa Joe Pollick
From:
Swanton, Ohio
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Posted 28 Jan 2007 7:56 pm
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 Should have had a swing catagory.IMHO..PJ |
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Edward Meisse
From:
Santa Rosa, California, USA
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Posted 28 Jan 2007 10:18 pm Swing/Western Swing
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| I consider swing of all types to be jazz. Whether it's Benny Goodman, Joaqin Murphey, or Sol Ho'opi'i. I know not everybody considers it jazz these days. But in it's time, that's what it was. That's why I voted for jazz. |
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Roman Sonnleitner
From:
Vienna, Austria
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Posted 29 Jan 2007 3:32 am
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Country for me - no matter wheter it's old western swing or honky tonk stuff (Hank Williams' songs were the first ones where I noticed that instrument), or contemporary alt.country (sometimes crossing over into rock) music - Friends of Dean Martinez were the reason why I wante to learn playing lap steel, and Greg Leisz is probably my all-time favorite lap steeler.
I also like Ben Harper's blues rock lap style playing.
I do love Mike Neer's Moonlighters stuff, but other than that, I'm not very interested in Hawaiian music (except for historical reasons, as the origins of lap style playing): |
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Bill Creller
From:
Saginaw, Michigan, USA (deceased)
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Posted 29 Jan 2007 7:56 am
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I'm really into Hawaiian music, but I like old standards as well, and also some country tunes that make good steel solos. I guess that woud have to be the older country stuff, not the so-called modern country. It's probably just us older people who remember the standards of the 30s,40s and 50s, but there are some nice tunes that are adaptable to steel guitar.
BILL |
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Marty Smith
From:
California
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Posted 29 Jan 2007 9:56 am WHERES WESTERN SWING?????
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Have you ever heard of Western Swing???????
M S |
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Edward Meisse
From:
Santa Rosa, California, USA
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Posted 29 Jan 2007 11:43 am Western Swing
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| The problem with this particular poll is that there is so much overlap in people's idea's of where various genres begin and end. I think many people include Western Swing as country. I include it as jazz. For almost everyone, Hank Sr. is country. But it is also blues. If you go to a folk venue these days, you will find both western swing and Hank Sr. type honky tonk music included as well as many kinds of blues and jazz. Roots music includes all of these, as does Americana. But are those categories too broad to be meaningful? Anyway, polls are fun. |
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Paul Honeycutt
From:
Colorado, USA
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Posted 29 Jan 2007 1:53 pm
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| I picked Hawaiian because it's the root of it all. That and I'm on a Hawaiian jag right now. But where does David Lindley fit in there? I like some form of every style of steel guitar music. To me it's all music. |
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Vince Luke
From:
Iowa, USA
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Posted 29 Jan 2007 3:38 pm Bob Wills is still the king
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(so saith the sage Waylon Jennings)
Just wanted to point out (in case you just scroll to the end of threads you've already read) that I amended my initial posting to avoid/clear up any misunderstanding with western swing aficionados out there. All due apologies for my dunderheadedness.
Glory be to Bob (and Spade, and Milton, and. . .),
Vince |
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Bill Creller
From:
Saginaw, Michigan, USA (deceased)
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Posted 29 Jan 2007 4:33 pm
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Yeah Marty , I've heard of Western swing, and I like it!!
Never had the opportunity to play it though. And I don't know much of it except Bob Wills stuff. |
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Alan Brookes
From:
Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 29 Jan 2007 5:37 pm
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| Les Anderson wrote: |
| It's too bad we don't have the opportunity for a multiple choice. |
Absolutely. I voted Country but I also like Hawaiian and Blues, and some categories weren't listed. |
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Papa Joe Pollick
From:
Swanton, Ohio
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Posted 29 Jan 2007 10:38 pm
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 OK Vince, You got it straightened out now.Good show. PJ |
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Charlie Vegas
From:
Tampa Bay, FLA, USA
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Posted 31 Jan 2007 6:17 am
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What catagory are you gonna put these guys? Rock? Country? Jazz? I vote for "Western Honky Tonk Swing-a-billy".
Wayne Hancock (Eddie Rivers)
Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys (Lee Jeffriess)
BR5-49 (Don Herron)
Two Tons of Steel (Denny Mathis)
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Mike Neer
From:
NJ
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Posted 31 Jan 2007 7:19 am
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I think it's a real stretch to consider jazz as steel music.
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Matthew Prouty
From:
Warsaw, Poland
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Posted 31 Jan 2007 8:03 am
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Mike can you elaborate a little more?
M. |
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Loni Specter
From:
West Hills, CA, USA
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Posted 31 Jan 2007 8:20 am
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Songs;
John Henry
Sink The Bismark
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Earnest Bovine
From:
Los Angeles CA USA
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Posted 31 Jan 2007 8:47 am
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| I can't find the high baroque on the list. |
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Brad Bechtel
From:
San Francisco, CA
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Posted 31 Jan 2007 8:58 am
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There should really only be two options on this poll.
* Good music
* Bad music
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