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Topic: Steel player with the Ventures |
Darrell Schmidt
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Charles City, Iowa, USA
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Posted 17 May 2012 8:39 am |
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I really do not much about the group but I just listen to them do Sleepwalk.
It was different.Anyone know whom the guy was playing steel? |
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Dave Harmonson
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Seattle, Wa
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Darrell Schmidt
From:
Charles City, Iowa, USA
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Posted 17 May 2012 10:31 am
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It was Jeff Baxter.I could see Jeff on the front of his steel,but could not read the rest.
Thanks Darrell |
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Bo Legg
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Posted 17 May 2012 11:06 am
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Boy that brings back memories. I remember when I was a kid I heard Chet play "Walk Don't Run" and I learned to play it fairly well and everyone kept telling me "why learn that crap nobody listens to classical music"? The Ventures came out with it and it was a smash hit.
I totally disregarded "Steel Guitar Rag" and "Sleepwalk" when they first came out with the conclusion that I play guitar and there would never be a time in my life when I would be ask to play either of those songs.  |
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Dave Harmonson
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Seattle, Wa
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Posted 17 May 2012 11:08 am
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I'd like to know who plays the non-pedal steel on the studio version above. I'm don't know of any other song they recorded with steel. There very well could be some more. They did record a ton of records.
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Brett Day
From:
Pickens, SC
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Posted 17 May 2012 4:50 pm
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Jeff Baxter's steel in the video is a Sho-Bud Super Pro.
Brett |
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 21 May 2012 4:54 pm
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Interestingly enough, in 1965, Sneaky Pete Kleinow did his very first recording with The Ventures! The title of the song he played with them was "Blue Star", and it was the theme song for a mid '50s doctor show starring Richard Boone (who would later do a good series run starring in "Have Gun Will Travel"the then-popular).
It was an intersting sound, and proved to be the pattern for much of what followed by Sneaky Pete, heavy on "twang" with a good dose of tape echo. |
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