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Topic: First verse tone on E9th - He Stopped Loving Her Today |
Brian Spratt
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Oklahoma, USA
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Posted 14 Jul 2024 7:09 am |
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As many of you know, the original recording of "He Stopped Loving Her Today" featured a custom built, pedal string bending, six-string guitar made by MSA. It sounds somewhat like a pedal steel with a phaser, but the notes are too low to achieve on a standard E9th setup. Here's an audio clip I created where I think I nailed the tone pretty well with a standard E9th setup and a pitch shifting effect. Some of you may find this pretty interesting.
https://soundcloud.com/thepedalstop/he-stopped-loving-her-today-opening-verse-pitch-shift-tone |
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Joe Krumel
From:
Hermitage, Tn.
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Posted 14 Jul 2024 11:21 am
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| I really like the sound you got. |
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 14 Jul 2024 1:34 pm
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I think that as long as you play it in the lowest register you can, no one will really care. I've played that song a thousand different times, and in three or four different keys, and nobody ever exclaimed "that doesn't sound like the original record". 
I often played Steel Guitar Rag in "C", instead of "E", and no one (except the occasional chops-limited lead player) even noticed.  |
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Ron Pruter
From:
Arizona, USA
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Posted 14 Jul 2024 4:32 pm
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Yes, that was Phil Baugh playing that pedaled guitar. I remember reading about that guitar in Guitar Player magazine. RP
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Kenny Davis
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Great State of Oklahoma
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Posted 14 Jul 2024 9:47 pm
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Peavey 6 string guitar with a MSA mini pedal board with six pedals. He had it at the 1980 ISGA while performing with the "Nashville Super Pickers."
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Bobby D. Jones
From:
West Virginia, USA
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Posted 15 Jul 2024 9:26 am
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Pete Drake was listed as steel guitar, On "He Stopped Loving Her Today" by George Jones. From what I have found Pete Drake had a MSA S12 Universal as part of his bag of studio tricks.
With 12 Universal tuning, The lower octave 8E-9B-10G#-11E and Delay comes awful close.
When I played with Touch of Country, HSLHT was 1 of Joe Dalton's most requested songs. My GFI Ultra S12 and I got several comments for sounding near the original recording. |
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