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Topic: Curly Chaulker playing the rear neck.. |
Jim Pitman
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Waterbury Ctr. VT 05677 USA
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Posted 16 Feb 2013 6:21 pm |
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...the E9 neck in his case.
I've always been a big fan of his 6th playing but check this out. There's a great shot of him toward the middle right before the turnaround where it looks like he had been tuning or something and he's kinda panicking to get back to the rear neck and do the turnaround. A dominant 7th slant and some nice triplets too.
And how about the girl in the middle of the Wilburns in the tradition of pervy older country music guys getting it on with women half their age, ie Dolly and Porter, ect.
Is that a young Barbera Mandrell?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLn_PC740fU |
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Larry Baker
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Columbia, Mo. U.S.A.
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Posted 17 Feb 2013 5:39 am
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Yep,,, thats Barbara.
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Paul King
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Gainesville, Texas, USA
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Posted 17 Feb 2013 5:47 am
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| Curly Chalker was a monster steel player. I was told he liked the C6th so much and wanted to play it more. Someone told him to play on the front neck. Curly Chalker, being a highly intelligent man, had a steel built with the C6th on the front neck. And Barbara Mandrell in the picture just adds some beauty to the shot for sure and what a talented woman she is. |
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 17 Feb 2013 6:33 am
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That's an interesting little "story", but I don't really believe that Curly's playing on his front neck fooled anybody into thinking he was playing E9th!  |
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 17 Feb 2013 8:11 am
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Jim, I think he was clearing some clutter off his steel before his close-up.
Watch his thumb during the turnaround - he hardly uses it.. |
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Bob Hickish
From:
Port Ludlow, Washington, USA, R.I.P.
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Johnny Cox
From:
Williamsom WVA, raised in Nashville TN, Lives in Hallettsville Texas
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Posted 18 Feb 2013 2:48 am
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Curly was a great E9th player. The reason it was on the back neck was because he didn't start playing E9th until 1967 when he got his first Sho-Bud guitar. Curly's notion (not what someone told him) was to put the tuning that you play the most on the outside so that the audience could see your hands. I know this because Curly told me....
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Paul King
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Gainesville, Texas, USA
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Posted 18 Feb 2013 3:22 am
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| Thanks Johnny for clearing that up. Regardless where the necks are located, Chalker was a great steel player. I always complained HeeHaw really never showcased his talent. |
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Jim Pitman
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Waterbury Ctr. VT 05677 USA
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Posted 18 Feb 2013 6:09 am
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Good observation Barry. He probably caught the camera man approaching out of the corner of his eye and did a little housekeeping.
My self, I'd have to move the glass of Bourbon out of the rear pad drink holder. (kidding)......hmmm...rear pad drink holder - that's a good idea. Put a cutout just behind the key head. |
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 18 Feb 2013 7:07 am
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Mike Perlowin
From:
Los Angeles CA
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Posted 18 Feb 2013 9:54 am
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This seems to be an appropriate place to mention that I still have close to 600 copies of the DVD sitting in boxes in my garage. And b0b also has a couple of boxes full of them.
The price has dropped to $15.00. We are both selling the DVD at that price.
I don't want to go on and on about how wonderful it is. We see for too much of that sort of thing all the time. All I want to say about it it is that I feel it's an important document of one of our greatest players, and I made it in the first place because I felt that the footage was precious, and needed to be preserved.
I think it's something anybody who is serious about the pedal steel guitar would want to own.
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Gary Walker
From:
Morro Bay, CA
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Posted 18 Feb 2013 11:02 am
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| In 1975 I took delivery of a MSA Classic D-12 9 & 5 with the C6 on the front neck and E9 on the rear. I wonder where I got that idea? Yes, I wanted to play C6 more than E9 like my hero. But the times do change. |
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