Jim Lindsey (Louisiana)
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Greenwell Springs, Louisiana (deceased)
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Posted 13 Oct 2014 4:29 pm |
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Well, here's a blast from my past. This was at The Country Connection in Dallas, TX right after we hired Ty Herndon. This is an excerpt from a demo we did at the club in 1990.
For anyone who came to know and follow Ty's band, they learned to recognize us as Darin Johnson on lead guitar, Drew Kellar on keyboards, Randy Jeter on bass, David Pinkston on drums, me on pedal steel and an addition later of Wes Hendrix on second guitars. However, the band wasn't always those personnel, nor was it always called Ride The West. When the band first started, we were called Southern Thunder and our personnel were quite an entirely different bunch of guys. Most everyone who knew and followed Ty's band never knew how the band was when we first formed; all the "fans" or groupies came along after the band had later evolved.
In this demo are the first original members of Ty's band: Jim Lindsey on pedal steel, Rick Pack on lead guitar, Robert Williams on drums, Reggie Brown on bass guitar and Mike Basden on keyboards. Within a year the band had evolved into all new personnel (with the exception of myself ... I was the only original member who stayed). For anyone curious about that little-known first incarnation of Ty's band, here's how it was for us in the very beginning.
http://youtu.be/0bpcI2QtszY
Dale Rottacker might be interested in this ... the steel I'm playing in the video is my old 1990 Mullen (when it was still brand new, about two weeks old). Dale now owns that guitar. The second song in this old demo shows the sound of that steel with its dual pickups thrown out of phase.
There's this one closeup shot of the steel that's amusing, because the people who did all the editing tried to get fancy and they put a shot of the steel in a spot in the song where my hands weren't sync'd up with the music. 
Although that silly demo is now 14 years old, I remember it like yesterday because the stage lights, for some reason, were causing an uncharacteristic loud hum and buzz in our amps that we couldn't get rid of, so, we all had to run direct and the steel was totally dry, not even any reverb. Nearly drove me nuts as we played.
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1986 Mullen D-10 with 8 & 7 (Dual Bill Lawrence 705 pickups each neck)
Two Peavey Nashville 400 Amps (with a Session 500 in reserve) - Yamaha SPX-90 II
Peavey ProFex II - Yamaha R-1000 Digital Reverb - Ross Time Machine Digital Delay - BBE Sonic Maximizer 422A
ProCo RAT R2DU Dual Distortion - Korg DT-1 Pro Tuner (Rack Mounted) - Furman PL-8 Power Bay
Goodrich Match-Bro by Buddy Emmons - BJS Steel Bar (Dunlop Finger Picks / Golden Gate Thumb Picks) |
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Jim Lindsey (Louisiana)
From:
Greenwell Springs, Louisiana (deceased)
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Posted 15 Oct 2014 8:46 pm
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Paul, thanks so much for kind comments. They were a really fun bunch of guys to work with. Actually, both incarnations of the band were fun to work with, but in different ways.
As far as more music from the band's first incarnation, I do have some, but I'd have to transfer it from cassette to my hard drive. Here's one for you, though. It's a little thing we recorded at DSL Studios in Dallas TX in 1990. It's called Too Cold To Hold.
https://soundcloud.com/excalibur-steel/too-cold-to-hold-southern-thunder
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1986 Mullen D-10 with 8 & 7 (Dual Bill Lawrence 705 pickups each neck)
Two Peavey Nashville 400 Amps (with a Session 500 in reserve) - Yamaha SPX-90 II
Peavey ProFex II - Yamaha R-1000 Digital Reverb - Ross Time Machine Digital Delay - BBE Sonic Maximizer 422A
ProCo RAT R2DU Dual Distortion - Korg DT-1 Pro Tuner (Rack Mounted) - Furman PL-8 Power Bay
Goodrich Match-Bro by Buddy Emmons - BJS Steel Bar (Dunlop Finger Picks / Golden Gate Thumb Picks) |
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