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Brian Henry
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Posted 19 Mar 2013 10:30 am |
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What's wrong with this posture?
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Steve English
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Baja, Arizona
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Posted 19 Mar 2013 10:53 am
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Absolutely nothing.
That picture is nothing more than a brief moment in time. My guess, a harmonic moment.
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Jerry Overstreet
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Louisville Ky
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Posted 19 Mar 2013 10:58 am
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| I think that's the way Alvino played. I saw him in St. Louis at least once playing a Sierra pedal steel, I believe. He had several of those molded plastic chairs stacked together for a position similar to that photo. |
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Richard Sinkler
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aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 19 Mar 2013 11:01 am
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Or, ready to vomit because he has to play "Sleepwalk".
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Brian Henry
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Posted 19 Mar 2013 11:12 am
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How could this be a moment in time when the back legs are about 3" higher than the front ones?
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Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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Posted 19 Mar 2013 11:27 am
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Alvino sat on a very high stool and leaned over the guitar to do his bar slams, harmonics, boo-wah tone trick, and other techniques. He might have the rear legs of the guitar higher to tilt the guitar so the audience can see what he's doing with his bar and his picking, etc. His visual show was nearly as important as the audio. Check out some of his videos on youtube. He and Roy Smeck were early originators of this whacky vaudeville style of playing, before Speedy West and others.
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Tommy Janiga
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New York, USA
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Posted 19 Mar 2013 12:19 pm Alvino & The King Family
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I have some foggy memories of him playing on the King Family show back in the mid-sixties when I was a kid.
Am I imagining it, or did he do some kind of thing where he made his guitar "speak" to him?
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Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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Brian Henry
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Ransom Beers
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Jimmy Lewis
From:
Harrisonburg, Louisiana, USA
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Posted 31 Mar 2013 2:37 pm
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| Richard i like your comment that's a classic. |
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Alan Brookes
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Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 31 Mar 2013 2:40 pm
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| There's a Jim Reeves recording on one of his LPs where the steel guitarist is using a voice box. I'm trying to remember which recording it was. |
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Paul Graupp
From:
Macon Ga USA
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Posted 31 Mar 2013 3:29 pm
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| Didn't Buddy Emmons use that effect on a song called...I'm Just A Guitar...Everybody Picks On Me !! ? |
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Bent Romnes
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London,Ontario, Canada
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Posted 31 Mar 2013 3:54 pm
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| Alan Brookes wrote: |
| There's a Jim Reeves recording on one of his LPs where the steel guitarist is using a voice box. I'm trying to remember which recording it was. |
That would be "I've enjoyed as much of this as I can stand" with Pete Drake and the steel 'saying' that whole line.
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David Nugent
From:
Gum Spring, Va.
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Posted 31 Mar 2013 6:30 pm
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| Seem to remember a lady steel player in Connecticut who set her steel up this same way. Her reason being that she was rather tall and due to her 'MSA' having standard length legs and pedal rods, this type of setup made it possible for her to fit more comfortably under the guitar. |
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Alan Brookes
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Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 31 Mar 2013 8:12 pm
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| Bent Romnes wrote: |
| Alan Brookes wrote: |
| There's a Jim Reeves recording on one of his LPs where the steel guitarist is using a voice box. I'm trying to remember which recording it was. |
That would be "I've enjoyed as much of this as I can stand" with Pete Drake and the steel 'saying' that whole line. |
Yes, that's the one. Thanks for reminding me.  It's been haunting me all afternoon trying to think of it. My memory is not what it was, unfortunately, and it gets worse all the time.  |
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Bent Romnes
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Bo Legg
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Posted 1 Apr 2013 12:46 pm
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| Looks like he's using his right foot on the pedals and the volume pedal with his left foot. |
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John Bresler R.I.P.
From:
Thornton, Colorado
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Posted 1 Apr 2013 4:20 pm
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Paul:
I think it was Pete Drake that did the "I'm just a guitar everybody picks on me". I bought the album way back in time at a K-mart for $1.00 or so. Pete played some interesting things.
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Paul Graupp
From:
Macon Ga USA
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Posted 2 Apr 2013 2:15 am
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Thank You John...Other then the talk box recordings, I cannot recall Pete doing any vocals. Can't for the life of me figure out how I got stuck on Buddy doing it...may go to his site on FB and check it out but thanks again for the reply !!
Regards, Paul
John...Double the Thanks and we posted that youtube at BE's FB page !
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John Bresler R.I.P.
From:
Thornton, Colorado
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Posted 2 Apr 2013 6:32 am
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Paul:
Here's a youtube link with Pete playing or is it singing "I'm just a guitar".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uea85zklZpM
You may be right about Buddy doing it too. I just don't remember him with the talking box. I didn't start following Buddy's career until he joined the Cherokee cowboys. Then I couldn't hear enough of Buddy's playing.
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David Mason
From:
Cambridge, MD, USA
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Posted 2 Apr 2013 7:31 am
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Aw, you gotta admit the trill with the bar and fingerpick at 3:20 is pretty cool - maybe a hair of the "vaudeville" will shut up the "steel is dying!" crew.  |
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