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Topic: What got you into it? |
JD Mahaffey
From:
Pennsylvania, USA
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Posted 12 Jun 2008 10:06 am |
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Heres a good question...
What was the first song (or short list of songs) that you heard that made you want to pick up the steel guitar...
I'll go first
Richard Buckner - lil' wallet picture w/ Eric Heywood on the steel
Conway Twitty - linda on my mind w/ John Hughey
Whiskeytown - excuse me if i break my own heart tonight not sure who the steeler was on that one...
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Steve Feldman
From:
Central MA USA
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Posted 12 Jun 2008 10:30 am Re: What got you into it?
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| JD Mahaffey wrote: |
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Whiskeytown - excuse me if i break my own heart tonight not sure who the steeler was on that one... |
Greg Leisz. And a fine job he did at that... |
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Bent Romnes
From:
London,Ontario, Canada
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Posted 12 Jun 2008 10:51 am
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For me it was likely Jim Reeves' "Bottle take effect"
with, likely, Pete Drake playing some very soft chimes in the background.
Also, Tom Brumley with Buck had something to do with it. |
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Ben Jones
From:
Seattle, Washington, USA
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Posted 12 Jun 2008 11:53 am
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| Albequerque-by Neil Young, Ben Keith on steel |
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Stu Schulman
From:
Ulster Park New Yawk (deceased)
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Posted 12 Jun 2008 12:01 pm
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Lay Lady Lay,Bob Dylan..Pete Drake. 
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Twayn Williams
From:
Portland, OR
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Posted 12 Jun 2008 12:03 pm
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Not so much songs as entire albums:
Sol Hoopii - the first collection, I think it was
Speedy West and Jimmy Bryant - Stratosphere Boogie
Daniel Lanois - Belladona, just beautiful stuff
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John Billings
From:
Ohio, USA
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Posted 12 Jun 2008 2:54 pm
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| Back in the early days of the Hootenanny Revolution, I heard 5-string banjo , and thought it was pretty cool. I went to the record store and came home with albums by Buck Trent and Flatt and Scruggs. I heard this amazing sound I'd never heard before! Someone sliding! Josh. Then started watchin' the Saturday morning country shows. But I was playing rock by then, but I still loved the sound of dobro and pedal steel. Then "Sweetheart of The Rodeo" came out. I was a goner! |
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 12 Jun 2008 3:07 pm
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| Nick Manoloff and Bob Sandy...and my Dad. |
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Michael Douchette
From:
Gallatin, TN (deceased)
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Jim Eaton
From:
Santa Susana, Ca
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Posted 12 Jun 2008 3:52 pm
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My boss at Lively Arts Music told me to "see if you can figure out if that "thing" is in tune" pointing to a Fender 400 he had taken in trade that morning.
It made a sound that changed the rest of my life!
JE:-)>
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Brett Day
From:
Pickens, SC
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Posted 12 Jun 2008 4:11 pm
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There's so many, it's hard to say. For me, it was a few of the songs Vince Gill recorded with the great John Hughey on steel, and any song featuring guys like Paul Franklin, Bruce Bouton, Dan Dugmore, and Sonny Garrish. A few songs by my favorite band Ricochet actually got me into steel-all the songs featured steel player Teddy Carr, who had played on two of Ricochet's records and was actually Ricochet's road steeler. I'd never heard of Buddy Emmons until around the fall of 1998. I saw a steel up close for the first time in 1996 at a music store in Greenville, SC-a Fender 400, I think. and it amazed me so much, but at the time I was playin' piano by ear with one hand. I started playin' steel n '99 and I've been on steel now for eight years, this December it'll be nine years. I love the steel guitar!
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Lee Baucum
From:
McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
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Posted 12 Jun 2008 6:11 pm
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Panama Red!
Buddy Cage and the New Riders of the Purple Sage got me hooked.
Lee, from South Texas |
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Jim Cohen
From:
Philadelphia, PA
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Posted 12 Jun 2008 6:15 pm
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Buffalo Springfield: "Kind Woman" (Rusty Young, steel)
Poco: "Consequently So Long" (Rusty Young, steel)
John B. Sebastian: "Rainbows All Over Your Blues" (Buddy Emmons, steel) |
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John De Maille
From:
On a Mountain in Upstate Halcottsville, N.Y.
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Posted 12 Jun 2008 6:31 pm
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Sweetheart of the Rodeo-
Lloyd Green & JD Maness |
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Bob Cox
From:
Buckeye State
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Posted 12 Jun 2008 6:48 pm
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I thought they were the ones making all the big money,cause they were playing the best sounding
instrument.I also liked them over the top camera shots they used to do.They would zoom right in on the frett board.That had to be the reason everyone bought those big diamond horse shoe rings.If they would of only held off until zirconies came out.A woman can still spot a zirconie in a new york second.
QVC swears buy them.They say they are more apt to get to the person by mail than the regular rings.I wonder how a big D10 would fair out on QVC. |
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B. Greg Jones
From:
Middleport, Ohio USA
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Posted 12 Jun 2008 6:56 pm
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Had to be the Buck Owens Ranch Shows for me. Tom Brumley is still my favorite. Also, Buck Owens "Live in Japan" was the album that captivated me.
Greg |
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James Collett
From:
San Dimas, CA
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Posted 12 Jun 2008 8:10 pm
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In order of when I heard them and noticed steel:
1-I'm Gonna' Miss Her- Brad Paisley (steel:Randel Currie)
2-Remember When-Alan J (Lloyd)
3-Evenng Gown- Mick Jagger (JD Maness)
Biggest Impact:
Swinging Doors- Merle (the fantastic, amazing,one-and-only Ralph Mooney!!)
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Charles Davidson
From:
Phenix City Alabama, USA
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Posted 12 Jun 2008 10:00 pm
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Can't nail it down to just one,in the 40's and early 50's when I was a kid,hearing Eddy Arnold,Hank Sr.,George Morgan etc,But the record that set me on fire was I,m Moving On,by Hank Snow,he's still my hero.The first live steel player I ever saw was with Hank at the Rylander Theater in the small town of Americus Ga.I was maybe 11 or 12 years old.His name was Big Jim I believe[can't remember last name,sure some of you know who I mean]I have either played or seen hundreds of shows over the last 50 plus years,have forgotten most of them,But remember this one like it was yesterday.DYKBC.
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Paul Frank Bloomfield
From:
Greece
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Posted 12 Jun 2008 11:36 pm
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The sound that changed my life in more ways than one
was Matthews Southern Comfort with Gordon Huntley on
steel playing "Woodstock" back in 1970.
Frank. Corfu
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CrowBear Schmitt
From:
Ariege, - PairO'knees, - France
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Posted 12 Jun 2008 11:59 pm
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| Buddy's Black album & Poco " you better think twice & that long jam tune |
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Peter Nylund
From:
Finland
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Posted 13 Jun 2008 1:27 am
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My story is a little different. Back in the old days (1977) we put together a country band. We all loved country music but we had no steelplayer near by. It was between me and the other guitar player, which one of us should buy a steel. We were tossing a coin and I lost. Here I am stuck with these gadgets after 30+ years. Keep pickin. 
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Tor Arve Baroy
From:
Norway
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Posted 13 Jun 2008 1:51 am
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Bucky Baxter and Larry Campbell from Bob Dylans band.
Went to my first Dylan concert in 1995 didn`t even realice there was a pedal steel onstage, knew little about it. But the sound was better and different from most other bands I listened to at that time. little bit at a time I found out what I liked, it was the pedal steel! Love Bucky and Larry`s playing! Sure got me hooked! |
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JD Mahaffey
From:
Pennsylvania, USA
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Posted 13 Jun 2008 8:49 am
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| Peter Nylund wrote: |
| My story is a little different. Back in the old days (1977) we put together a country band. We all loved country music but we had no steelplayer near by. It was between me and the other guitar player, which one of us should buy a steel. We were tossing a coin and I lost. Here I am stuck with these gadgets after 30+ years. Keep pickin. |
That's pretty similar to how I got into 'em as well. haha.
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Ron Whitfield
From:
Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 13 Jun 2008 8:59 am Bobby Black...
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...on Commander Cody records, then seeing them/him.
And soon moving to the land of steel guitars, beautiful Hawaii. But it took 20 years to finally hunker down and get to it. |
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Steve Broatch
From:
Newcastle, England
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Posted 13 Jun 2008 9:06 am
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| Nathan Fleming - Jesse Dayton's steel player. Stood and watched him at a gig from about 10 feet away. I was hooked after about 30 seconds. |
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