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Topic: Some Mike Auldridge pedal steel stuff |
Lane Gray
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Posted 20 Dec 2013 8:18 pm |
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The other week, I'd been chatting with Bill Howard and hr mentioned that he was relatively unaware of Mike's pedal steel work. I told him I would hunt some up, asmike played steel on two songs per album from The New Seldom Scene Album onward with the exception of Baptizing.
These two were on Act 4, and were two of the 4 that blew me away, and led me down the pedal path:
Girl in the night
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1RwCFxBKFM
Life's Railway to Heaven
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCYX005_hw4
This is one of the two others (the Live from "World's Greatest Show" version of Out Among the Stars has disappeared), and Tom and Bessie lay down some cool lines on Gram's classic
Hickory wind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QwMvS3RFDE
One of the two from the first outing on steel. Simple but tasty:
Song for. life https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSAUFHravBc
One of the ones from Blue Ridge, a joint project of the Scene and Jonathan "Sunshine" Edwards
Little Hands
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cVoGy3k4U8
I just tried to find Chesapeake's cover of Jim Eanes' Baby Blue Eyes but couldn't. I found this instead Chesapeake, Christmas with a swing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3J4KS_zwHE
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2 pedal steels, a lapStrat, and an 8-string Dobro (and 3 ukes)
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Ken Campbell
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Ferndale, Montana
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Posted 20 Dec 2013 10:55 pm Holy buckets
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Lane Gray
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Topeka, KS
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Larry Jamieson
From:
Walton, NY USA
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Posted 21 Dec 2013 5:07 am
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Here's Bed of Roses, from the Chesapeake days. The
vocals on this feature harmony from Linda Ronstadt.
One of the most beautiful love songs I have ever
heard. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMP8oZbqW4o |
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Howard Parker
From:
Maryland
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Posted 21 Dec 2013 6:05 am
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To say that Mike was obsessed with pedal steel would be an understatement. 
He nagged me for years to locate a steel so he could give me lessons. He eventually hooked me by saying that "pedal steel was better then sex the first year of marriage".
Yeah, my wife was with me. She just rolled her eyes and said "well, you had better go do it then".
I miss that guy!
h
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Howard Parker
03\' Carter D-10
70\'s Dekley D-10
52\' Fender Custom
Many guitars by Paul Beard
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Stephen R. Feldman
From:
Takoma Park, MD
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Posted 21 Dec 2013 6:49 am Auldrige stuff...
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Hey Lane,
Thanks for putting these up!
Steve |
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Bill Duncan
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Lenoir, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 26 Dec 2013 5:40 am
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Lane, this is a little off topic, but I believe I read that you grew up with a Dad who played Bluegrass. How did your Dad take to you playing pedal steel?
I also grew up with a traditional Bluegrass playing Dad, and my Dad would never play with me playing on steel. I always had to play guitar or stay out.
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Lane Gray
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Topeka, KS
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Posted 27 Dec 2013 3:11 am
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Well, dad is Tom Gray, who at the time was the bassman for the Seldom Scene. In his basement was the usual collection of Stanley Brothers, but a lot of all 6 Hanks, Possum, Price and Robbins.
He liked Mike's steel playing, and at the time I started on steel, dad played in Mike's western swing band (also featuring Pete Kennedy on Tele, Danny Gatton's drummer and both fiddlers from the Country Current). Dad was fine with it, especially when Mike pronounced that I had the makings of a better steel player than a dobro picker.
At family gatherings, which usually turn into jam sessions, my steel is certainly welcome. But I know how to turn it down 
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2 pedal steels, a lapStrat, and an 8-string Dobro (and 3 ukes)
More amps than guitars, and not many effects |
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Bill Lowe
From:
Connecticut
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Howard Parker
From:
Maryland
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Posted 28 Dec 2013 1:46 pm
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The "Bad Boys" of Chesapeake! 
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Howard Parker
03\' Carter D-10
70\'s Dekley D-10
52\' Fender Custom
Many guitars by Paul Beard
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