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Topic: Kayton Roberts has new CD...fantastic console steel |
Brian McGaughey
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Orcas Island, WA USA
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Clayton Pashka
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Ontario, Canada
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Posted 16 Jul 2013 11:54 am |
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| It would be great if someone on here could tab out Valley of the Roses. Amazing album by the way. I bought as soon as I watched the Marty Stuart vids. |
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Tony Lombardo
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Alabama, USA
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Posted 16 Jul 2013 2:01 pm
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| That YouTube clip for "Valley of the Roses" is about the prettiest thing I've heard. |
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Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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Paul DiMaggio
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Fort Nelson, British Columbia, Canada
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Posted 16 Jul 2013 2:53 pm
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| I saw Kayton at the Canadian steel show last year, what a player and showman. He was the only steel player I saw there ,everyone else was playing pedal steel. Kayton, in my opinion, blew them all out of the water! He put on an excellent show, his energy level belies his age. Someone described him as the oldest teenager in Nashville, that pretty much summed it up. |
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Brian McGaughey
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Orcas Island, WA USA
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Posted 17 Jul 2013 4:20 am
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| Paul DiMaggio wrote: |
| ...his energy level belies his age. |
That was my thought too after watching him with Marty and the boys. His joyous additude comes out in his playing. There's a lesson to be learned there, I think.
I had no idea that Roy Orbison was co-writer of Valley of the Roses, Doug! |
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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David Cook
From:
Florida, USA
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Posted 17 Jul 2013 7:52 am
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| Looks like Kayton still uses his DeArmond volume pedal. Wonder what kind of pot is in there. |
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Norman Markowitz
From:
Santa Cruz, California
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Andy Volk
From:
Boston, MA
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Posted 17 Jul 2013 1:28 pm
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That clip was just soooo great. Thanks.
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Steel Guitar Books! Website: www.volkmediabooks.com |
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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David Matzenik
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Cairns, on the Coral Sea
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Posted 17 Jul 2013 2:16 pm
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Kayton is the King of volume swell, but in the harmonic section, after Marty's guitar motif, Kayton plays some upward slides with an effect I cannot figure out. Its at 1:56 and sounds like the notes are "squeazed." Can someone enlighten me there please?
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Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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David Matzenik
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Cairns, on the Coral Sea
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Posted 18 Jul 2013 1:33 am
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Oh I get it. The old volume-pedal trick! (Maxwell Smart voice.) I missed that. Thanks Doug.
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Bob Stone
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Gainesville, FL, USA
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Posted 29 Jul 2013 10:23 am
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Hi,
There is another lesson to be learned: Kayton has played the same steel--and only that steel--since he bought it new in 1951. That's a lesson I have yet to learn.
He also uses a Stevens bar, which is "all wrong" for electric steel. Too bad he doesn't know any better.
Dave C.--I just got the CD. Maybe I'll let you hear it...
Best,
Bob |
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Daniel McKee
From:
Corinth Mississippi
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Posted 29 Jul 2013 5:11 pm
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| I had never heard of Kayton Roberts until I heard him On the Marty Stuart Show a while back but I am really glad that I know about him and his great playing now. |
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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Bob Stone
From:
Gainesville, FL, USA
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Posted 30 Jul 2013 7:08 am
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Thanks for the nice photo Doug.
David M: I am pretty sure he is working the tone knob for that wah effect.
There a couple of cool old photos in the CD liner. One shows him with the Fender ca 1955 in Dixie Co, Florida, before he painted it red. The other is a Hank Snow band shot that includes another great Florida musician, Chubby Wise.
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Paul DiMaggio
From:
Fort Nelson, British Columbia, Canada
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Bob Stone
From:
Gainesville, FL, USA
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Posted 30 Jul 2013 11:49 am
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Hi Paul,
It was originally blond.
That must be another steel he is playing in the video with his son. (He's got some nerve playing another steel, even if it is the same model!)
Recent videos--and the CD cover shot--show him playing the red one.
He painted it red sometime after joining Snow's group. Apparently not immediately, as it is blond in the old band shot in the CD insert.
What a guy! |
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