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Topic: Making pedal steel sound sexy??? |
Curt Trisko
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St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
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Posted 5 Sep 2020 7:45 am |
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I think this song has been posted here before, but I heard it again recently and continue to be amazed. If you're like me, you're skeptical about getting sexy sounds out of pedal steel. This guy did it:
https://youtu.be/-5_tGEao_GQ
Pulling off the song in an ear-tickling style of R&B is also impressive. The music video is fun and campy too. |
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John Sluszny
From:
Brussels, Belgium
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Posted 5 Sep 2020 8:20 am
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| Are you sure it's a pedal steel guitar? To me it sounds like a slide guitar. Anyway, I totaly agree with your comments about the song, the clip etc... |
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Curt Trisko
From:
St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
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Posted 5 Sep 2020 8:30 am
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| John Sluszny wrote: |
| Are you sure it's a pedal steel guitar? To me it sounds like a slide guitar. Anyway, I totaly agree with your comments about the song, the clip etc... |
Yeah, the bends are crisp and perfectly in tune. He's working pedals. The tone sounds very pedal steel too. I also saw another YouTube video of a live performance with the same person with pedal steel. |
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Rick Bernauer
From:
Kansas, USA
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Greg Gefell
From:
Upstate NY
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Posted 11 Sep 2020 5:02 am
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Very nice. The bone dry production works to keep it intimate and gives the steel room to blossom and be that sexy glue behind it all.
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Gene Tani
From:
Pac NW
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Posted 13 Sep 2020 11:52 am
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https://consequenceofsound.net/2019/05/faye-webster-artist-of-the-month/
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| pedal steel player’s name is Pistol. He’s from Athens. He’s played on both of my records, and he’s just a genius. It’s an insane instrument. If you watch him play it, it makes no sense. |
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Rick Bernauer
From:
Kansas, USA
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Posted 13 Sep 2020 4:34 pm
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| Thanks - that confirms it's Matt "Pistol" Stoessel on the album. |
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Dick Wood
From:
Springtown Texas, USA
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Posted 14 Sep 2020 5:20 am
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I wish my middle name was Pistol.
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K Maul
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Hadley, NY/Hobe Sound, FL
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Posted 14 Sep 2020 9:40 am
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I wonder what kind of boots he plays in? I hear it's all about footwear now.
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KEVIN MAUL: Airline, Beard, Clinesmith, Donner, Evans, Excel, Fender, Fluger, GFI, Gibson, Hilton, Ibanez, Justice, K+K, Live Strings, MOYO, National, Oahu, Peterson, Quilter, Rickenbacher, Sho~Bud, Supro, TC, Ultimate, VHT, Williams, X-otic, Yamaha, ZKing. |
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Ian Rae
From:
Redditch, England
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Posted 14 Sep 2020 11:49 am
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| Dick Wood wrote: |
| I wish my middle name was Pistol. |
Go for it, Dick!
With best wishes for the future from
Ian Pistol Rae
P.S. I love the song. The steel is flexing its country muscles in a more general genre. I get to do that in my band and I love it. This thing ain't dead.
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Curt Trisko
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St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
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