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Post new topic Webb Pierce "Walking the Streets" - Drake, Day vs. new guy?
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Mark Hepler

 

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Post  Posted 13 Apr 2024 2:51 pm    
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Same song--different steel players . . .

Heard this early '60s track on the radio: love the solo at 1:10. Has a great '50s / '60s Hawaiian hybrid style! Credited to Pete Drake but sounds like Jimmy Day ... what do you think?

https://youtu.be/m44UM0DNvPI?feature=shared

The next one's still pretty cool--not bad at all--a little Mooney in there.

https://youtu.be/-527wB8nNOM?feature=shared

But then there's the 3rd remake that sounds too pro, bright and loud for the vibe ... yes?

https://youtu.be/nV6-GRe9MPI?feature=shared

Through it all, ol' Webb rocks.
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Pete Finney

 

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Post  Posted 13 Apr 2024 8:27 pm    
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The first version is Pete Drake for sure, a classic example of his early C-6th style that got him established.
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Dan Kelly


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Post  Posted 14 Apr 2024 2:08 am    
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In all three, I am surprised that the producers did not leave a lot of room for any instrument, let alone steel, to do much fill work. Even the "solos" were short. Yeah, it IS about Webb Pierce, after all, but still.
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Mark Hepler

 

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Post  Posted 15 Apr 2024 4:24 am     Fork in the Road?
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Pete Finney wrote:
The first version is Pete Drake for sure, a classic example of his early C-6th style that got him established.


Good to know. Must have been a fork in the road back when or we'd all be playing C6:) Commercial country would have sounded way different. Why'd we take the E9 path--is it really any better? Who knows...

Sneaky Pete kept the 6th: a standard non-pedal tuning dropped down a step. (Invented his own copedent?) He played the bejesus out of Hawaiian songs on his solo records.
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Johnny Cox


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Post  Posted 15 Apr 2024 4:03 pm     Re: Fork in the Road?
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Mark Hepler wrote:
Pete Finney wrote:
The first version is Pete Drake for sure, a classic example of his early C-6th style that got him established.


Good to know. Must have been a fork in the road back when or we'd all be playing C6:) Commercial country would have sounded way different. Why'd we take the E9 path--is it really any better? Who knows...

Sneaky Pete kept the 6th: a standard non-pedal tuning dropped down a step. (Invented his own copedent?) He played the bejesus out of Hawaiian songs on his solo records.

That was during the time E9th was in it's infancy. The were no F# and D# stings yet. Pete played C6th on tons of hits in those days as did Jerry Byrd without pedals.
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