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Topic: Your Best Steel Guitar Performance |
Kay Das
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Los Angeles CA
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Posted 7 Jul 2007 11:13 pm |
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Here is a question for all who play, will continue to play, have played, wish to play, have dreamt they play.... steel guitar....
What is the one tune you (recorded, gigged, fooled around with) that you are most proud of...and what are the reasons you selected this one tune?
Put another way, if you were at the Roman arena and the Emperor gave you one chance to save your life and play a tune before he gave a thumbs up or thumbs down, which tune would you choose?   |
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Alan Brookes
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Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 7 Jul 2007 11:27 pm Re: Your Best Steel Guitar Performance
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| Kay Das wrote: |
| ...if you were at the Roman arena and the Emperor gave you one chance to save your life and play a tune before he gave a thumbs up or thumbs down, which tune would you choose? |
His favorite !  |
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Kay Das
From:
Los Angeles CA
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Posted 7 Jul 2007 11:33 pm
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| Maybe...but what if you played it rotten? |
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Richard Brandt
From:
Waymart, Pennsylvania, USA
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Posted 8 Jul 2007 7:35 am #
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| Good by Sweetheart |
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Bill Creller
From:
Saginaw, Michigan, USA (deceased)
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Posted 8 Jul 2007 8:55 am
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| "so long, it's been good to know ya" |
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Steinar Gregertsen
From:
Arendal, Norway, R.I.P.
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Posted 8 Jul 2007 11:14 am
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"God Only Knows". Probably more because of the arrangement than my actual playing on it though...
As for pleasing the Emperor - when I play things never come out the same way twice anyway, so I would just have to start playing something and pray for the best... 
Steinar
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Edward Meisse
From:
Santa Rosa, California, USA
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Posted 8 Jul 2007 6:38 pm
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"I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter."
And for the Emporer-"If I were King of the Forest." |
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Charley Wilder
From:
Dover, New Hampshire, USA
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Posted 9 Jul 2007 6:36 am
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"I'll Be All Smiles Tonight"
Let's hope the Emporer has a sentimental streak!  |
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Drew Howard
From:
48854
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Posted 9 Jul 2007 7:21 am
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Joey Ace
From:
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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Posted 9 Jul 2007 6:45 pm
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"Please Release Me"
Seriously, the tune that I get the most compliments on is an E9 arrangement of Sleepwalk, but since this is the non-pedal section, I'll have to get out my dobro and do my best instrumental, which is Mike Auldrich's Spanish Grass.
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and what are the reasons you selected this one tune? |
Sleepwalk - because everyone knows it, and it's a great melody to build on. My arrangement starts simple then becomes harmonically complex.
Spanish Grass - it's a flashy tune with a lot of arpeggios that sound much more difficult then they are. Also there's lots of hammer-ons and pull-offs that sound way cool. |
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Alan Brookes
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Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 9 Jul 2007 7:19 pm
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| Edward Meisse wrote: |
| "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter." |
...a lot of kisses on the bottom, I've always liked kisses on the bottom !  |
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Stu Schulman
From:
Ulster Park New Yawk (deceased)
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Posted 9 Jul 2007 8:08 pm
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The one that I am most proud of lately is "America The Beautiful" Not because of my playing...I really haven't worked on it much,mostly winging it.I've been playing at a VFW with a friend of mine a few times a month... after I played "America" the first time I looked up from my fretboard and everyone in the place was standing up with their hands over their hearts,Hats off applauding,I was very embarrassed,and proud to play that for these Vets.I had no idea that I was touching so many people.
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Kay Das
From:
Los Angeles CA
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Posted 9 Jul 2007 9:18 pm Hammocks and Nero
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| Would be nice to listen to your best-est tracks, by including a sample or links to where they may be found (as Baz did) so your listeners can, if you'll pardon the awfully mixed metaphor, dream of blue waters and swing on their hammocks while watching Nero's thumb.... |
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Andrea Tazzini
From:
Massa, Italy
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Posted 10 Jul 2007 12:38 am Your Best Steel Guitar Performance
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"The lion sleeps tonight"  |
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Edward Meisse
From:
Santa Rosa, California, USA
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Posted 10 Jul 2007 6:56 pm
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| I try to give it a more humorous twist......ON my bottom, and I'll be glad I got 'em. |
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