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Bob Doran

 

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Ames, Iowa, USA
Post  Posted 7 Feb 2008 12:35 am    
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Big Iron
Desperado
He'll have to Go
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Ken Pippus


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Langford, BC, Canada
Post  Posted 7 Feb 2008 7:25 am    
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Nearly all of them.

KP
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Mike Perlowin


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Post  Posted 7 Feb 2008 7:27 am    
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Yesterday by the Beatles. They should have has a steel instead of the violins.

Can you imagine th4e impact it would have had on the history of the steel guitar if they had hired Buddy or Lloyd instead of the strings?
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Stu Schulman


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Post  Posted 7 Feb 2008 8:42 am    
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"Borderline" by Madonna.
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Ben Jones


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Seattle, Washington, USA
Post  Posted 7 Feb 2008 8:59 am    
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"Night Life" would have been awesome if only it had some steel in it. I bet Buddy Emmons could have done a good job with that one.
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Bo Legg


Post  Posted 7 Feb 2008 9:16 am    
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"Nite Life" needs a banjo.
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Ken Pippus


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Langford, BC, Canada
Post  Posted 7 Feb 2008 9:17 am    
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An electric, synthesized banjo, ideally by Bela Fleck. With Future Man and Wooten.

And that Price guy was OK I guess, but don't you really think the song was written for Billy Ray Cyrus? Or Julio Iglesias? Or Mick Jagger?

And an intro and break by Chris Botti.

KP


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Roger Shackelton

 

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MINNESOTA (deceased)
Post  Posted 7 Feb 2008 9:19 am    
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BEN, you must be referring to the Willy Nelson version, EH! Smile
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Ron !

 

Post  Posted 7 Feb 2008 9:24 am    
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All the songs that my wife wrote.

My wife Karen is a songwriter and she wrote over 5000-songs before I met her.She had several done in Nashville with Lloyd on steel.But there are still many many to go.So if you'd ask me which songs don't have steel and to.....then I have to say.....Karen's songs.
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Jim Hankins

 

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Yuba City, California, USA
Post  Posted 7 Feb 2008 10:50 am    
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I would like to hear steel subbed in for the heavy doses of accordian in popular Mexican music. I think it would be a great fit.
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Ernest Cawby


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Lake City, Florida, USA, R.I.P.
Post  Posted 7 Feb 2008 11:01 am     no one mends
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No One Mends a Broken Heart Like You, I think all this had was a Piano.

ernie
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Brett Day


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Pickens, SC
Post  Posted 7 Feb 2008 11:45 am    
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Patsy Cline's "Crazy" should've featured steel, along with Floyd Cramer's piano work. The Willie Nelson version of "Crazy" features steel.

Brett
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Joe Drivdahl


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Montana, USA
Post  Posted 7 Feb 2008 11:45 am     Night Life
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Hey Bo,
I think some kind of horned instrument like a flute or oboe would really help that Night Life song too. Can't you just hear it against that electronic, jazzed up Bela Fleck banjo? Ooooo.

Oh and all those Johnny Cash songs that had no steel, like Ring of Fire, Jackson, and others.

Joe


I miss Richard E. Nixon
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Roger Rettig


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Naples, FL
Post  Posted 7 Feb 2008 2:35 pm    
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I think the National Anthem should have steel! (Not 'God Save The Queen' - I mean your one..)

I've done the Medora Musical for three years now (that's around 360 shows) and I always add some E9th to it at the start of every performance; it's got some nice changes...

RR
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Joe Shelby

 

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Walnut Creek, California, USA
Post  Posted 7 Feb 2008 5:47 pm    
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"When a Man Loves a Woman," Percy Sledge.
"These Arms of Mine," Otis Redding, Sam and Dave.
"Tangled Up in Blue," Bob Dylan.
"I'll Keep it With Mine," Fairport Convention.
"If I Needed Someone," Beatles.
"Last Chance Texaco," Ricki Lee Jones.
"Mission in the Rain," Jerry Garcia.
"Maybe Tommorrow," the Everly Bros.
"Bein' in the Shape I'm In," Dave Edmunds.
"Set You Free This Time," the Byrds.
"Because of You," Gene Clark.
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Alan Brookes


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Brummy living in Southern California
Post  Posted 7 Feb 2008 6:31 pm    
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Steel could replace orchestral strings and keyboard on any number. And I really don't like the Hammond Organ sound.
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Roger Rettig


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Naples, FL
Post  Posted 7 Feb 2008 6:32 pm    
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Joe:

Jimmy Day IS playing on The Everly Brothers' 'Maybe Tomorrow' and 'I Wonder If I care As Much', both from the 'Bye, Bye, Love' sessions. He's down in the mix, but he's there, all the same.

I've heard a mix of 'Bye, Bye, Love' with steel quite prominent, and with Chet playing some more-involved fills that the ones that made it on to the single.
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James Collett

 

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San Dimas, CA
Post  Posted 7 Feb 2008 8:32 pm    
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"American Pie"- Don McLean
"Honkytonk Heroes"-Waylon (dobro just ain't the same)
"Georgia on My Mind"- made famous by Ray Charles
"Folsom Prison"- Johnny (Lloyd could have ripped on that one!)
And many more... "Walking after Midnight"... out of genre, but "That's Life" by Sinatra (replace Hammond)
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Dan Tyack

 

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Olympia, WA USA
Post  Posted 8 Feb 2008 6:24 am    
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Girls Got Rhythm (AC/DC)
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John Roche


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England
Post  Posted 8 Feb 2008 7:16 am    
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Fields of Gold by Sting.
I done it with a local band and fits real nice....
a lot of Fleetwood Mac could have done with steel...
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John Billings


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Ohio, USA
Post  Posted 8 Feb 2008 7:19 am    
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"Smoke on the Water"
"Purple Haze"
"Stairway to Heaven"
"Smells Like Teen Spirit"
"Dynamo Hum"
Anything by the Fugs!
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Ken Pippus


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Langford, BC, Canada
Post  Posted 8 Feb 2008 12:44 pm    
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Not just the Fugs, don't forget the MC5. And wouldn't it go great with the mandolin in Mott the Hoople?

KP
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Jim Cohen


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Philadelphia, PA
Post  Posted 8 Feb 2008 12:47 pm    
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"Ticket to Ride", Beatles

(Come to think of it, I ought to work that one up...)
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Stu Schulman


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Ulster Park New Yawk (deceased)
Post  Posted 8 Feb 2008 12:57 pm    
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Saran Wrap!
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John Roche


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England
Post  Posted 8 Feb 2008 2:57 pm    
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It's Summertime , would have sounded great, so would,
Beyond the Sea and On the Street where You Live,
Sunny Side of the Street, Buddy style
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