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Topic: Steel players need to step it up! |
Larry Behm
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Mt Angel, Or 97362
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Posted 6 Aug 2015 11:15 am |
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Is there a steeler that can keep up with Johnny Hiland?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYkv5mcqevw
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DG Whitley
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Posted 6 Aug 2015 5:00 pm
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| Well, he's good, but I didn't hear him do anything that I don't think Brent Mason could do just as well. I think he and Doug Jernigan could pretty much play tit for tat. Now how many others? I'll let others speak to that, I have a few in mind. |
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Tom Quinn
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Posted 6 Aug 2015 5:48 pm
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Who cares???
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DG Whitley
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Posted 6 Aug 2015 5:59 pm
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| Whatever... |
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Richard Sinkler
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aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 6 Aug 2015 6:52 pm
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Paul Franklin, Tommy White, and Mike Johnson are the first one's that come to mind.
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chris ivey
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california (deceased)
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Posted 6 Aug 2015 8:56 pm
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| unfortunately for me there are lots of really hot pickers these days...and guitar players that good with more taste. i'll never attain that level, but there are alot of ten year olds now that will. |
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Jamie Mitchell
From:
Nashville, TN
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Justin Emmert
From:
Greensboro, NC
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Joachim Kettner
From:
Germany
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Posted 7 Aug 2015 7:48 am
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I like Country and Rock'n'Roll, but I have a problem with this. I never really liked the Workingman's Blues/ Guitar Man ryhthm.
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 7 Aug 2015 8:53 am
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Was that Kenny Martin on steel? |
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Dave Mudgett
From:
Central Pennsylvania and Gallatin, Tennessee
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Posted 7 Aug 2015 9:43 am
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Johnny's one of the best chicken pickers out there, no doubt. And don't get the idea that he doesn't have taste - go watch him play up-close sometime, seriously. He routinely comes to guitar shows and hangs out and plays - he's a nice guy and a great player. And I saw him down on Broadway in Nashville once - he just loves to play.
But there are some steel players that can 'keep up' with the fast guitar chicken pickers. But really, it's all apples and oranges, and it's not a contest. Serious musicians on different and even the same instrument and style each bring something different and interesting to the table. |
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Craig A Davidson
From:
Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin USA
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Posted 7 Aug 2015 9:49 am
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| To quote Jimmy Day "I wish I could play like that and then I wouldn't". |
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Billy Knowles
From:
Kenansville, N. C. 28349 usa
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Posted 7 Aug 2015 10:14 am Sid
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Sid Hudson is pretty fast on steel and guitar!!
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Joachim Kettner
From:
Germany
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Randy Tatman
From:
The Villages, Florida
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Posted 7 Aug 2015 10:58 am Steel players
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| I saw Johnny and Doug playing together at Layla's last year on Broadway early one afternoon and it was exceptional. There were Maybe 10 people in the place all the time I was there. The people on the street had no idea what they were missing. |
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Dave Hopping
From:
Aurora, Colorado
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Posted 7 Aug 2015 6:30 pm
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| I'm thinking Randle Currie and J.D Maness |
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 8 Aug 2015 3:39 am
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After seeing steelers walk out on Curly Chalker at the I.S.G.C., I began to formulate an opinion...and that was that we'd probably have a lot more hot steelers if there wasn't this animosity towards them for not playing simple country stuff.  |
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Tom Quinn
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Posted 8 Aug 2015 6:25 am
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Jeez Donny who pooped on your toothbrush?
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Pete Burak
From:
Portland, OR USA
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Posted 8 Aug 2015 7:47 am
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I play and gig on both instruments regularly.
The "Level of Difficulty" for Guitar, is much lower than it is for Steel. |
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Joachim Kettner
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Germany
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Posted 8 Aug 2015 8:09 am
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That's very true, Pete.
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Elizabeth West
From:
Surrey, B.C., Canada
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Ian Worley
From:
Sacramento, CA
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Posted 8 Aug 2015 11:00 am
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My cut-and-paste opinion
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Greg Cutshaw
From:
Corry, PA, USA
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Posted 8 Aug 2015 11:28 am
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I agree with Donnie. I was at St louis one year when Gene O'Neal got a big ovation when he played a stock slow country tune. Then he followed it with a really innovative piece called Funky Monkey and the place went sour on him cuz it wasn't country. Guys sitting ahead of me intoned: "I don't know what THAT is but it sure isn't country". A very creative song full of now sound possibilities for the pedal steel but it didn't fit the mold (hehe, get it , mold). Anyhow if a few of the hot new kid pickers on YouTube took up the pedal steel they would be smoking hot.
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Douglas Bone
From:
Fort Worth,Tx. USA
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Posted 8 Aug 2015 12:02 pm Fast Picking
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Well poor telecaster wished it could sound like a pedal steel. Was at TSGA 2 yrs ago or so Paul, Mike were there and yall forgot, Buck Reid. Smoke comin off them strings.
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 8 Aug 2015 6:05 pm
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| Tom Quinn wrote: |
| Jeez Donny who pooped on your toothbrush? |
I don't get that remark, Tom? Do you even understand what I said? Look, the slow, schmaltzy/whiny stuff is fine. But, so is the fast stuff, even blisteringly fast, provided you've got the chops and taste to pull it off. Oh sure, I love to hear Hughey, Day, and Drake play those crying licks - but I also like to hear guys like Paul, Curly, Doug, Tommy, and Buddy burnin' up the strings. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0reB9tkzyo&list=PLF7B34AAB2B7EF6D3 |
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