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Topic: Denny Mathis with Johnny Bush - tuning / copedant |
Greg Cutshaw
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Corry, PA, USA
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Posted 24 Mar 2007 3:16 pm |
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On the Johnny Bush Green Snakes album there's a really great version of "You Don't Have To Be A Baby To Cry. The steel player is listed as Denny Mathis. There's two great steel breaks in it that are driving me crazy. I got some of them figured out in C6th but they just don't flow the same. Then I got to thinking that maybe Denny is using a universal tuning. Anyone have information about Denny's copedant or base tuning? If nobody has heard this cool song, maybe i can post a snippet covering the steel parts.
Other great songs on this album include, When did You Stop Loving Me?, I Wish That I Could Fall In Love Today, He Don't Deserve You Anymore, and Nobody's Business.
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Rodney Garrison
From:
Montague County , Texas (deceased)
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Posted 24 Mar 2007 4:52 pm
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Greg, That is one of my favorite CD's. I can't answer any of your ?'s as I am a baby player. But I know what I like and GREEN SNAKES IS HOT !
Come to the Texas Show next year. Mr. Bush is a joy to listen to. The last couple of years he had a steel player that seemed to know just how and where to fill. Immons , Emmons , I just don't remember. But he was pretty salty.
Great post on Green Snakes
Bobby Immons, I think, was the steel player.
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Mike Kowalik
From:
San Antonio,Texas
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Posted 24 Mar 2007 8:49 pm Denny Mathis....
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Greg....I might be able to provide some info.For years Denny played MSA guitars with the standard 8 and 4 set-up.Then a few years ago he switched to a push-pull that I believe is 9 and 4 or maybe 9 and 5.
But he also plays a Fender 4 neck non-pedal steel with a band called 'Two Tons of Steel".Do a Google search and you'll find the band's website that has lots of pics of Denny and his Fender.
So maybe on the Johnny Bush recording you're referring to he's playing the Fender. |
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Billy Gilbert
From:
Texas, USA
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Posted 25 Mar 2007 3:07 pm Denny Mathis
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Denny teaches a couple days a week at Dell View Music in San Antonio. Summers he plays at the S. A. Sea World. Billy  |
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Roger Rettig
From:
Naples, FL
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Posted 25 Mar 2007 7:33 pm
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Denny was playing a D10 p/p when I met him in '99.
He NEARLY sold it to me....
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Greg Cutshaw
From:
Corry, PA, USA
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Posted 26 Mar 2007 9:08 am
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Thanks for all the replies. I am starting to figure it all out. No secret tunings or pedals just nice note selection and a little different style of playing. Truly an awesome player!
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Roger Rettig
From:
Naples, FL
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Posted 26 Mar 2007 9:14 am
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Definitely - Denny's one of those players who make me wonder where all the time's gone....
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Emmett Roch
From:
Texas Hill Country
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Posted 26 Mar 2007 4:27 pm
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Some years ago I would occasionally cover for Denny at the Fiesta Texas theme park in San Antonio. Before I started filling in, I sat backstage one day and listened to the shows, with Denny on the old Sho-Bud and that cantankerous Peavey N400 he had located for the park to buy.
I also caught Denny playing any time I could, sometimes with Two Tons on the 4-neck Fender (which he told me was actually a 3 1/2 neck because one of them didn't work) and sometimes with another band playing on his MSA.
It doesn't matter which guitar he plays (or through which amp), he can get the same jaw-dropping licks out of all of them, and they sound amazingly similar in tone...I'm not exagerating, either. |
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Scott Wehmeyer
From:
Texas, USA
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Posted 26 Mar 2007 8:09 pm Denny Mathis-I thought that I had heard that name before.
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I ran across these in a magazine not to long ago.
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Milton C. Willmann
From:
Spring Branch, Texas, USA
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Posted 26 Mar 2007 8:45 pm
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Here's one of Denny with Bubba Littrell and Shoji Tobushi at The Farmer's Daughter In San Antonio, 1970's
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