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Topic: Lloyd Green and some very pretty steel |
David Pennybaker
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Conroe, TX USA
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Dave Mudgett
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Central Pennsylvania and Gallatin, Tennessee
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Posted 14 Feb 2007 7:19 pm |
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Really nice song, and beautiful playing. This is definitely my kind of music.  |
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 14 Feb 2007 8:23 pm
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| Yep, count me in ..... |
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David Fields
From:
South Carolina, USA
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Posted 14 Feb 2007 10:02 pm Me too
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| I don't play, but if I did and when I do it has GOT to sound like that! |
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Mark Eaton
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Sonoma County in The Great State Of Northern California
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Posted 15 Feb 2007 4:07 am
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You're preachin' to the choir!
Thanks for bringing this one back up, there were a couple threads from last October, in the "old" Forum.
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Dave Van Allen
From:
Doylestown, PA , US , Earth
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Chris LeDrew
From:
Canada
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Posted 15 Feb 2007 8:27 am
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The passage at the end of this tune is an example of a pedal steel genius who has a mind-baffling mastery of every string, grip, run, scale, lick, raise and lower that his copedent has to offer. Lloyd dispays a knowledge of the E9 that surpasses, and will continue to surpass, virtually all players of the instrument, including those who think speed and flash equal talent. There are pedal and lever combinations here that most players will never discover in a lifetime.
To execute such a passage with feeling and soul, while incorporating so many intricate phrases and changes, is the mark of a true master.
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Mark Eaton
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Sonoma County in The Great State Of Northern California
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Posted 15 Feb 2007 8:51 am
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That's weird, Dave, I tried to provide that link last night, so you could get a few points worth of credit for discovering the tune for us and starting the thread, and for some reason it didn't work.
And Barry Blackwood has also backed Chely in the past...I don't think I could concentrate very well on what I was supposed to be playing if she were in the studio with me at the same time. 
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David Doggett
From:
Bawl'mer, MD (formerly of MS, Nawluns, Gnashville, Knocksville, Lost Angeles, Bahsten. and Philly)
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Posted 15 Feb 2007 9:29 am
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| I love Lloyd's playing because he uses so many pure chords. Players who use a lot of augmenteds, 6ths and 7ths begin to sound schmaltzy and loungy to me after awhile. Lloyd always sounds very classy, even classical, because of his use of pure chords in complex ways, running them together with suspendeds and then resolving them in gorgeous ways. |
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Bill Ford
From:
Graniteville SC Aiken
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Posted 15 Feb 2007 12:44 pm
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WOW!!!
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Don Discher
From:
Sault Ste Marie,Ontario,Canada
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Posted 15 Feb 2007 1:40 pm
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| Unmistakeable haunting sound that only Lloyd can do.Simply beautifull. |
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Stan Paxton
From:
1/2 & 1/2 Florida and Tenn, USA (old Missouri boy gone South)
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Posted 15 Feb 2007 1:56 pm
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That last passage makes me wonder if I have EVER heard anything so beautiful  |
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erik
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Posted 15 Feb 2007 5:06 pm
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Hi David, was wondering what happened to you. Yes, this
work by Mr Green is beautiful. Look forward to hearing more gems from him.
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David Pennybaker
From:
Conroe, TX USA
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Posted 15 Feb 2007 6:31 pm
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Oops, sorry, I didn't notice that it had been posted before.
I bought this 2-CD set the last time I was in Nashville, at the insistence of a friend of mine who is a HUGE Chely Wright fan.
She wants me to learn how to play the steel part.  
I've probably just about worn out Track 13 on CD#1 playing this thing in the car. I guess you could say I'm hypnotized by Mr. Green's playing, and Chely's lyrics and vocals.
One thing I can't quite figure out . . is Lloyd almost always playing only TWO strings? I can tell where he's playing one string at a time. And maybe once or twice I think I might here 3 strings. But it sure sounds like it's almost entirely 2-string playing.
It sounds soooo simple, yet it's hauntingly beautiful. Sometimes I think the best songs ARE deceptively simple, played by incredible musicians. |
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David Pennybaker
From:
Conroe, TX USA
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Posted 15 Feb 2007 6:35 pm
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| Hi David, was wondering what happened to you. |
Thanks. Surprised that anybody remembers me. 
I guess you could just say that "Life Happened" (a Tammy Cochran song with great lyrics).
Haven't done much steel playing, really. I tell people that I play piano and I own a pedal steel.   |
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Chris LeDrew
From:
Canada
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Posted 15 Feb 2007 10:16 pm
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I like to take this opportunity to remind everybody, in case they forgot for a moment, that Lloyd does not lower his 4th string. Hence, all that tasty usage of the 2nd string. Sometimes reaching over for that 2nd string instead of lowering the 4th can give you a really sweet sound, in my experience. I think his use of the 2nd string in chords and runs contributes to his unique sound, especially when he starts using that crazy "BC pedals/2nd string lower" combination.
I'm on to ya, Mr. Green.
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Bob Ritter
From:
pacfic, wa
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Posted 15 Feb 2007 10:55 pm
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Lloyd Green just Blows me away...this Yound lady on the cd is a hottie and I like her music too.
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Dick Wood
From:
Springtown Texas, USA
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Posted 16 Feb 2007 7:20 am
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Lloyd always brings a smile to my face and not to highjack this thread but:
We opened for Chely in Denver a couple of years ago and in the middle of her show she did something no other national artist had done before.
She stopped her show taking a minute to tell the audience how impressed she was with our band. I was impressed with her thoughtfulness because we are used to not getting that kind of recognition from a main act. |
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Bob Knetzger
From:
Kirkland, WA USA
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Posted 16 Feb 2007 8:40 am
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Wow, that's really a great track and the ending is a real treat: to hear LG steel's 'a capella.'
I'm struck by what great tone he consistently gets..and gets to have recorded and presented. To my ears, not only is most steel as featured on "today's" current country radio very limited musically (tiny little pads and swoops-- no real solos!), it's also very limited sonicly. What I hear today is steel tone that is EQ'ed into a very small, nasal range, compressed, flat and dead in the mix, and stereo image placed quite distantly. Listen to some country radio with headphones and you'll hear what I mean. I guess it's to minimize the country sound of the steel and leave plenty of room for the crunchy rock guitar rhythm tracks and the southern rock lead guitars.
Sigh.
I really miss this classic, hi-fi, growly ShoBud sound, nice, lush and hot in the mix. |
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Roger Rettig
From:
Naples, FL
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Posted 16 Feb 2007 9:25 am
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There's a lesson in good intonation!
(But what is that faint overspill right at the end? Sounds like some sort of playback leaked onto the mic as Lloyd finishes...(?))
Great work, though.
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Brint Hannay
From:
Maryland, USA
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Posted 16 Feb 2007 10:44 am
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| Does anybody record using tape any more? Sounds like the print-through that used to happen sometimes. |
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David Pennybaker
From:
Conroe, TX USA
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Posted 16 Feb 2007 7:00 pm
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| Brint Hannay wrote: |
| Does anybody record using tape any more? Sounds like the print-through that used to happen sometimes. |
I almost wonder if it wasn't done intentially to sound vintage.
I'll have to see if I can find out somehow. |
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David Pennybaker
From:
Conroe, TX USA
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Posted 16 Feb 2007 7:02 pm
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| Dick Wood wrote: |
| She stopped her show taking a minute to tell the audience how impressed she was with our band. I was impressed with her thoughtfulness because we are used to not getting that kind of recognition from a main act. |
I've heard LOTS of complimentary things about Chely. (And not just her looks or singing ability).
Thanks for pointing that out. |
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