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Topic: John Lennon playing lap steel guitar |
Kay Das
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Los Angeles CA
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Bill Hatcher
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Atlanta Ga. USA
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Posted 10 Nov 2009 3:42 am |
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| Byrd would have liked the paycheck I bet. |
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Ben Sims
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New Mexico
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Ron Whitfield
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Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 10 Nov 2009 10:03 am
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Must have been one of the last times the old gang played together in the studio. Probably not the happiest of clams, but they seem into it, except for Ringo.
And what the - is he using for a slide? |
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Joachim Kettner
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Germany
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Posted 10 Nov 2009 10:53 am
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What did George say?
"Elmore James got nothing on this boy".
Or something else? |
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Bill Hatcher
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Atlanta Ga. USA
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Posted 10 Nov 2009 11:54 am
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| Ron Whitfield wrote: |
And what the - is he using for a slide? |
Cig lighter??? Big ink pen??? ?????? |
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Ron Whitfield
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Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 10 Nov 2009 12:14 pm
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Someone in the comments said a shotgun shell!?!  |
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John Billings
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Ohio, USA
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Posted 10 Nov 2009 1:42 pm
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| It appears to have brass, or more likely, gold, at both ends. Not a shotgun shell. Most likely a lighter. |
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Darrell Urbien
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Echo Park, California
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Posted 10 Nov 2009 11:07 pm
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| Can't be sure.. Were any of them smokers? |
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Derrick Mau
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Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 11 Nov 2009 2:42 am
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You gotta give the man credit for trying though.
He did pretty well for someone who doesn't play steel often, or at all, if any.
Believe me, I've heard worst, and from people who been at it for awhile.  |
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George Piburn
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The Land of Enchantment New Mexico
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Posted 11 Nov 2009 3:49 am edit
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edit
Last edited by George Piburn on 23 Jun 2012 8:01 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Ulric Utsi-Åhlin
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Sweden
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Posted 11 Nov 2009 4:47 am
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Yeah,that´s a Höfner electric hawaiian,pretty little
mahogany instrument,there´s one kicking around in
one of the guitar workshops I keep busy in...McUtsi |
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Brad Bechtel
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San Francisco, CA
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Mike D
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Phx, Az
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Posted 11 Nov 2009 1:46 pm
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I think it's something made of plastic. The 'tone'  he's getting sounds like when I'm sitting around on the couch and play slide with the TV remote. |
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chris ivey
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california (deceased)
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Posted 11 Nov 2009 1:54 pm
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| ......yoko..!..you're breakin' up the band...!! |
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Ulric Utsi-Åhlin
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Sweden
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Posted 12 Nov 2009 12:26 am
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| According to legend,he played it w/ a lighter.McUtsi |
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Dave Boothroyd
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Staffordshire Moorlands
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Posted 12 Nov 2009 2:00 am
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The people on the Hofner site are all certain that the "slide" is a BIC disposable cigarette lighter.
Those Hofner Hawaiian guitars sound pretty good with a real slide. I remember having a great time playing what turned out to be "Crossroads" on a borrowed one at a meeting of Hofner owners.
I think I'd have played even better if I'd ever used that old style Hawaiian tuning before!
Still the audience loved it and Basil had gone by then, so that left me as the best steel player there. (out of one!)
Cheers
Dave |
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Mark Mansueto
From:
Michigan, USA
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Tom Pettingill
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California, USA (deceased)
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Kay Das
From:
Los Angeles CA
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Posted 13 Nov 2009 11:51 pm
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Just about the most famous bic lighter in music history ...but in my view, a very unremarkable steel guitar performance  He could done better playing slide guitar, like George Harrison. |
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Craig Stenseth
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Naperville, Illinois, USA
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Ron Whitfield
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Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 14 Nov 2009 4:04 pm
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| Kay Das wrote: |
| a very unremarkable steel guitar performance. |
Wow, I have the opposite feeling after watching the video. I always figured this was Harrison on slide, and even tho the recorded track doesn't match the video take, it's Lennon playing quasi-steel guitar, and making a legendary recording. He obviously wasn't that familiar with a steel or the bar, but being a musical genius he still managed a magical moment.
George's statement of John's 'I did it!' look was spot on, and how fortunate to have the camera catch it.
No, Byrd wouldn't be impressed, but I am! |
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Pete Honychurch
From:
British Columbia, Canada
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Posted 16 Nov 2009 12:14 pm
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| he said in an interview way back when that he played it with a lighter. sounds like it too. interesting.... |
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John Bushouse
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Ray Montee
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Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 16 Nov 2009 9:03 pm Here's another topic with glaring contradictions!
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We have those loyal Formites here that are happy to have their alleged instrument of choice, the "Steel Guitar" called everything under the sun........but, what it actually is....a steel guitar.
NOW in this topic alone, some of us can't get with the program sufficiently to decided on whether we're playing a SLIDE GUITAR or a steel guitar with a bar.
To heck with tradition.......
Let's keep on re-writing history! Any name will do. |
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