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Topic: Polka Rocks! |
Steve Gorman
From:
Gilroy California
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Posted 8 Jul 2010 12:48 pm |
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I am going through a "polka appreciation" phase, inspired by Lloyd Green's "Drifter's Polka."
Looking for suggestions of other HOT PICKIN' polkas for adding to my collection. Six string guitar is ok too, doesn't have to be just steel. |
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Lee Baucum
From:
McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
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Posted 8 Jul 2010 1:15 pm
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| I just had a flashback. About 1973. New Years Eve. I played drums for 4 hours with a German polka band. Two accordians, trumpet, saxaphone, two clarinets, tuba, and drums. It was lots of fun......for a while. |
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chas smith R.I.P.
From:
Encino, CA, USA
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Delvin Morgan
From:
Lindstrom, Minnesota, USA
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Posted 8 Jul 2010 3:54 pm
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| I like a good polka. I tried out for a polka band in the 70's that was looking for guitar player. They had a very good tuba player with them. I guess they were after a different sound. I never got the job however. |
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Steve Gorman
From:
Gilroy California
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Posted 8 Jul 2010 4:54 pm
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Well so far I found "Buck's Polka," says it was written by Buck Owens. I'm just wondering if it is Buck or Don Rich on the guitar, it's pretty fast pickin.' Also "Clarinet Polka," Steve Kaufman, very good, although I'm looking for hot ELECTRIC polka pickin.' I don't care if it has Polka in the title or not. Another one was Under The Double Eagle, Roy Clark, not sure if that qualifies as a polka or not, but it sounds like one.
What else is out there???? |
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Don Euton
From:
Texas, USA
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Posted 8 Jul 2010 5:08 pm
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I have seen several polka bands in the East Brernard, TX area, that had steel guitars in them. They would play a few country music songs in with their polkas. One of the bands had a steel player, who played an old Emmons, that would play two different horns and play his steel in certin parts of the songs. They had a very good sound. Another band, lead by a man named Al Sulak, plays a lot of polkas, and his Sho~Bud playing steel man, compliments his music very well.
I think there can be a place in the polka bands for a steel guitar. It adds up to a better sounding polka band. |
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Bobby Bowman
From:
Cypress, Texas, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 8 Jul 2010 8:25 pm Polka/steel
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I just started my 4'th year with the CTS band (Central Texas Sounds), formerly the Elinger Combo. They've been together for 45 years. The steel fits in very well. I love the gig.
BB
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Mike Perlowin
From:
Los Angeles CA
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Rick Winfield
From:
Pickin' beneath the Palmettos
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Posted 9 Jul 2010 12:27 am Brumley
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There is Tom Brumley's "Steel Guitar Polka"
Some hot pickin' there!
Rick |
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Paul King
From:
Gainesville, Texas, USA
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Posted 9 Jul 2010 3:02 am
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| I do not mind listening to a polka tune occasionally, especially if it has some steel guitar in it. To sit down and watch an entire television show where every tune is a polka tune, I just cannot do it. It just all sounds the same to me. Many people enjoy those polka shows ansd sure have that right to enjoy those shows. I guess that is why we have a large variety of music. |
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David Nugent
From:
Gum Spring, Va.
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Posted 9 Jul 2010 4:11 am
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| "Pickin' Polka" by John Hughey, found on his "On and Off Stage" CD. |
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Delvin Morgan
From:
Lindstrom, Minnesota, USA
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Posted 9 Jul 2010 4:36 am
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| Just this morning Scotty was on "steelradio" doing Beer Barrel Polka. Sounded great. |
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Erv Niehaus
From:
Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 9 Jul 2010 6:40 am
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In my youth, i played steel guitar with a polka band. I would also double on a Fender Precison bass.
I had a good time.
Of course, we played a lot of polkas but also a good share of waltzes which complimented the steel guitar.
I had worked up a good arrangement of "Clarinet Polka". I played this on a Fender Stringmaster.
It involved a lot of open strings. |
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Larry Rafferty
From:
Ballston Spa, NY
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Posted 9 Jul 2010 11:21 am
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I agree that a polka can really liven things up when played well on the steel or 6 string guitar. I have just worked out the Liechtensteiner Polka on the e9 neck...lots of diminished, sixths, minors, and key changes. It comes a little easier for me since I also played accordion in a country polka band for nearly 35 years. There are dozens of fine polkas for the steel including: Pennslyvania Polka, Just Because, In Heaven there is No Beer, Happy Wanderer Polka, etc.
This one is not perfect but you'll have to admit that John Davis is having fun with his version of Under the Double Eagle on this youtube posting:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FusHN07QDZE
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Bo Legg
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Posted 9 Jul 2010 12:51 pm
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no need to say it twice
Last edited by Bo Legg on 17 Jul 2010 2:53 am; edited 3 times in total |
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Mike Perlowin
From:
Los Angeles CA
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