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Ray Montee
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Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 16 Apr 2005 5:56 pm |
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| Those of you that admire Robert Randolph's departure from the straight and narrow of the steel guitar crowd..........will want to listen to the beautifu Japanese music being played on the steel guitar. "Samba for a white Butterfly" really exemplifies the versatility of the steel guitar as few are capable of doing. Go to the jerrybyrdfanclub.com site to hear it. |
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George Redmon
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Muskegon & Detroit Michigan.
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Posted 16 Apr 2005 7:52 pm
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Ray, thank you so much for telling me about that beautiful steel song..i for one will truly miss Jerry, i had the oppertunity of hearing him play on the islands. What a wonderful talented man. It is musicians like Jerry, and Speedy, Bud Issacs, and my own father, who inspired me to learn to play steel guitar. And i am a "Older" player...{watch it now}..But guess what? i really do enjoy Robert Randolph very much. What a breath of fresh air...i will make this short..but a true story call Dewitt Scott {Scotty}he will verify it..i talked to scotty about a month or so ago..he told me that not long ago, he was in Roberts bus, trading lap steel licks with him after one of Roberts concerts. Scotty asked Robert to do our Convention this year in St. Louis. Scotty told him.."Not as a performer, but as a steel Guitar Player, your band is welcome, or you can use our staff band". Scotty told him he would pay him the same as he did Emmons, jernigan, or any other guest player.. Robert AGREED TO PLAY!. Robert told him to just send him an E~Mail to work out the arrangements...Well Scotty wrote him back..some how Roberts agent intercepted the
e-mail. His agent told Scotty's that if we wanted Robert, it would cost the convention $7000 for Roberts participation!...Scotty told me Junior Brown was the same way at first..Robert is the Highest paid steel guitar player in the world right now..Scotty's own words! God Bless
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Ray Montee
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Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 16 Apr 2005 10:33 pm
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Len Ryder
From:
Penticton B.C.
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Posted 17 Apr 2005 10:03 am
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I must confess that I've only heard R.R. a couple of times on T.V. (And a portion of a C.D.) --- But --- Has anyone heard him without all the "digital, electronic gizmos" that he uses.
Len Ryder
Princeton
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Bill McCloskey
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Posted 17 Apr 2005 10:14 am
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You mean like an amp? 
Yes there are early recordings on the sacred steel albums and he also has a spot on the sacred steel dvd. |
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Keith Cordell
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San Diego
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Posted 17 Apr 2005 11:00 am
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| What digital electronic gizmos are you referring to? He has, I believe at last count, 3 stomp boxes and a Peavey amp. Most country diehards use more than that! |
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JB Arnold
From:
Longmont,Co,USA (deceased)
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Daryl Stogner
From:
San Diego, CA * R.I.P.
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Posted 17 Apr 2005 8:54 pm
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I swore to myself I'd never enter into one of these threads. But what the heck.
Robert was on the Crossroads video, playing the heck out of his PSG. The music was good, he put on one hell of a show and thousands cheered for him.
That my friends is a successful PSG picker.
On that very same video, was another great PSG player, he certainly wasn't highlighted during any of the video, but if you know of him, you'll see him in a quick camera shot, and that picker was JayDee Maness.
Now there was a couple Dobro pickers there as well. The music was of such variety that no one could walk away unsatisfied.
How does this apply to Robert? Music is music to everyone's ears. We all just appreciate it differently. I'm not much for classical, or Blind Willie Blues. But that doesn't make it any less music. Robert can find his way around a PSG pretty well. I think he's helping the steel industry by helping introduce the instrument to a new generation. I think it was JayDee that said the other night, one fan called his PSG an "electric table".
Anyone that can help bring more people to the "table" deserves a pat on the back. And folks, I am a die-hard Western Swing/Country music boy that grew up around the likes of Bob Wills, Gene Autry, Tommy Duncan and a few dozen other pickers and singers.
What I'm trying to say is let Robert do his thing and each of us can do ours. As Bob Wills manager once said, he'd better invest his money in real estate now, while he's hitting it big, because it will go away just as quickly.
I'm cheering for the kid, just like I do every kid that works his butt off trying to learn any instrument. The object is music.
Sorry folks, but I'm off my soapbox now.
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Daryl Stogner
ShoBud Pro I, Peavey stereo power amp with Black Widows, ProFex II,
Corona warm or cold.
My Website: Click to Visit
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Len Ryder
From:
Penticton B.C.
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Posted 18 Apr 2005 10:17 am
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I wasn't knocking R.R. ---- Just wondering what he'd sound like without the "gizmos".
Listen to B.E., John Huey, Buddy Charlton,Tommy White, (the list goes on and on) and they do not use many electronic "gizmos".
The few times that I've heard R.R. work there were times that you couldn't recognize the instrument as a pedal steel due to the "gizmos".
And let me reinterate. ---- I'm not knocking him. He puts on a helluva show.
Len Ryder
Princeton
B.C.
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Jim Cohen
From:
Philadelphia, PA
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Posted 18 Apr 2005 12:07 pm
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| ...there were times that you couldn't recognize the instrument as a pedal steel due to the "gizmos". |
My mother made a similar comment years ago about Hendrix. "You couldn't recognize it as a "guitar" because of all the distortion (aka "gizmos"); didn't sound like Segovia to her! I asked her, "So what?" |
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