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Spencer Cullum
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Rick Campbell
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Sneedville, TN, USA
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Posted 31 Jul 2009 4:11 am |
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Does anyone know what brand of shampoo these guys endorse?  |
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Spencer Cullum
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Posted 31 Jul 2009 4:40 am
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| looks more like an expensive conditioner - gets that shiny late 70s look! |
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Stephen Gambrell
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Over there
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Posted 31 Jul 2009 4:53 am
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| I guess Skunk was tuned "straight up." |
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Dustin Rigsby
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Parts Unknown, Ohio
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Posted 31 Jul 2009 5:06 am
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I like Jeff's playing. I believe he also played on the classic Billy Vera song "at this moment" .
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Ray Minich
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Bradford, Pa. Frozen Tundra
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Posted 31 Jul 2009 5:12 am
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I like this one...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWAo7Hleb98
I don't think it's Skunk playing, but I believe Skunk did the studio cut. Steeler did a good job on a tune originally full of harmonics.
Anyone know who's sittin' at the Emmmons in this video. |
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Bob Bowden
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Vancouver, BC, Canada * R.I.P.
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Posted 31 Jul 2009 5:26 am
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Jim Sliff
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Lawndale California, USA
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Posted 31 Jul 2009 6:26 am
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Hair jokes?
Man, in some ways this place is still living in 1966 Kentucky.
Anyway -
I love Baxter's playing because it's so totally unorthodox - no one else would come up with (intentionally) the twisted, repeated riff he plays when he first comes in. It sounds like he's playing another song - and then he's not.
Stretching the envelope is a heck of a lot more fun than trying to cop some (fill in the blank of a "normal" name steel player) intro off of tab.
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No chops, but great tone
1930's/40's Rickenbacher/Rickenbacker 6&8 string lap steels
1921 Weissenborn Style 2; Hilo&Schireson hollownecks
Appalachian, Regal & Dobro squarenecks
1959 Fender 400 9+2 B6;1960's Fender 800 3+3+2; 1948 Fender Dual-8 Professional |
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Steve Alcott
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New York, New York, USA
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Posted 31 Jul 2009 7:34 am
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| When he came in at first, he was quoting "Chicago, Chicago (That Toddlin'Town)". His solo starts with a quote from the Warner Bros. cartoon theme, which I think is called "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down". The main vamp is A minor to D major, and his first entrance and solo are centered around D major, providing that spicy C#/C natural dissonance. He knew exactly what he was doing. |
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Steve Alcott
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New York, New York, USA
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Posted 31 Jul 2009 7:58 am
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| Nice soprano sax solo in the second video by the late and missed by those who knew and worked with him, Cornelius Bumpus. Great all around musician, comfortable in virtually any style, on keys as well as sax. Great singer, too. |
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Joachim Kettner
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Germany
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Posted 31 Jul 2009 8:05 am
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| The song originaly had a fiddle in it, but they obviously had noone to cover the part, so Jeff Baxter did the lead part. Since the nineties they have John McFee who plays both instruments. I've read that Skunk earned his first steel, by doing repairs on guitars in a music store, in the sixties. |
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Bo Legg
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Posted 31 Jul 2009 8:15 am
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| Spencer, thanks. I don't know how I missed this Tube clip before. I loved the whole thing especially the PSG. |
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Rick Campbell
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Sneedville, TN, USA
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Posted 31 Jul 2009 8:46 am
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| Jim Sliff wrote: |
Man, in some ways this place is still living in 1966 Kentucky.
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Is this a joke? I don't understand. Please explain so we can all have a laugh. |
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Jim Sliff
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Lawndale California, USA
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Posted 1 Aug 2009 7:12 am
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| I've read that Skunk earned his first steel, by doing repairs on guitars in a music store, in the sixties |
Absolutely true, and he actually worked there on and off into the early 70's. And sold me my first Velvet Hammer pickup. And learned steel from the proprietor - one Orville "Red" Rhodes.
It was Red's Royal Amplifiers service in Hollywood, one of my main hangouts starting around '72. Clarence White told me Red had done the modifications on his guitar's electronics - I think I was waiting for the place to open the next day! Jeff worked the counter. We talked about it a few years ago while cruising NAMM - man, does he have a TON of stories about the LA country-rock scene....and also Red's penchant for drilling holes in any piece of equipment he wanted to if it'd be part of a tonal improvement (little did he know how much "vintage value" he "hack" away - but none of us thought that way then).
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| Is this a joke? I don't understand. Please explain so we can all have a laugh. |
The hair jokes sounded like "vintage" anti-hippie sarcasm. I guess an bunch of people DID get it from the emails I received agreeing with me.
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No chops, but great tone
1930's/40's Rickenbacher/Rickenbacker 6&8 string lap steels
1921 Weissenborn Style 2; Hilo&Schireson hollownecks
Appalachian, Regal & Dobro squarenecks
1959 Fender 400 9+2 B6;1960's Fender 800 3+3+2; 1948 Fender Dual-8 Professional |
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Mike Perlowin
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Los Angeles CA
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Posted 1 Aug 2009 8:12 am 2 comments
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1- We need more bands like the Doobies and Dire Straits that incorporate steel into their music, and players like Jeff Baxter and Paul Franklin to play in those kinds of bands.
2- Baxter has the most incongruous day gig for a rock star: when he's not playing music, he works as a consultant on missiles and weaponry for the CIA. No Kidding.
There was a story about this on TV (It might have been "60 minutes, but I'm not sure.) Everybody else at the agency has short hair and wears a suit and tie, and Baxter looking the way he doers, raised some eyebrows at first. But he apparently really know his business and is highly respected at the agency.
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Stephen Gambrell
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Over there
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Posted 1 Aug 2009 8:29 am
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My wife's niece works with Skunk, he makes well into 6 figures for basically, being Skunk. He wrote a paper on terrorists developing "oil-eating bacteria."
But all those generals, and munitions salesmen, remember him from the Doobies and Steely Dan, so he gets clearances that the President doesn't even have. |
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Charles Davidson
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Phenix City Alabama, USA
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Posted 1 Aug 2009 8:57 am
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Don't worry about it Rick,66 in Kaintucky was'nt to bad,hella lot better than 06,Mr. Bill was still kicking ass back then. DYK?BC.
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b0b
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Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Posted 1 Aug 2009 8:59 am
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I was struck by the unusual tone of the Sierra in the clip (solo at 2:24). I have a similar vintage Sierra and it sounds nothing like that. They had modular pickups, even back then. I wonder what pickup and effects he was using.
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Rick Campbell
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Sneedville, TN, USA
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Posted 1 Aug 2009 10:33 am
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| Is this a joke? I don't understand. Please explain so we can all have a laugh. |
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| The hair jokes sounded like "vintage" anti-hippie sarcasm. I guess an bunch of people DID get it from the emails I received agreeing with me. |
Thanks for clearing that up. I understand fully now. However, that still doesn't answer my question about what kind of shampoo these guys use to get that shine. I'll ask somebody when I'm in Kentucky next week.
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Joachim Kettner
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Germany
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Posted 1 Aug 2009 12:21 pm
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Jim Sliff,
that was very intersting to read. He worked also for a music store in Boston in '67. (Vintage Guitar August 1998 interview).
He did play steel on John Sebastian, Gene Clark and Thomas Jefferson Kaye records. |
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Hook Moore
From:
South Charleston,West Virginia
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Spencer Cullum
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Posted 2 Aug 2009 2:20 am
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| Spencer, thanks. I don't know how I missed this Tube clip before. I loved the whole thing especially the PSG. |
thanks bo - the skunk just seems to have a really original feel - there's a great steely dan track called 'pearl of a quarter' - has the skunk steel guitar sound all over it! |
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Tom Quinn
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Posted 2 Aug 2009 7:57 am
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Interesting, he quotes the old ditty "Chicago, Chicago that's my kind of town" for his first break. His break at 2:30 is the Porky Pig cartoon jingle. Works for me.
Bands could sure sing and pick back then.
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Dave Mudgett
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Central Pennsylvania and Gallatin, Tennessee
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Posted 2 Aug 2009 8:24 am
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Skunk worked at E.U. Wurlitzer in Boston in about 1967 or 68, playing for Ultimate Spinach at some point in there before departing for the left coast. Wurlitzer was the cool Boston music store hang in the late 60s.
He was through here a few years ago at one of the labs. If you read his ideas, I think you'll see that what he's doing is not incongruous at all, at least I don't think so. For example, link here.
Thinking outside the box in more than one way. Works for me too. |
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