Doug Livingston: A Caged Beast?

David Mason · From: Cambridge, MD, USA

I bought this CD off of Ebay in the pedal steel section by Sasha Matson called "Steel Chords ~ I-5: Works for Pedal Steel Guitar, Harp and Strings." It's modern chamber orchestra music. It's reasonably pleasant sounding, but all the steel guitar does is swoop around in the background, while the violins get to play the zippy parts, what few of them there actually are. Given what I infer of Mr. Livingston's talents from reading this forum, I think it might've been a more interesting album if the steel guitar had gotten to play the fun stuff, while the violins did the swooping about. Better yet, maybe all of the musicians could've been given something interesting to play. I even read a review of it by a certain "Bobby Lee" at Amazon.com, which politely points out that maybe Sasha Matson didn't know what steel guitars are here for. Since Stravinsky and Bach and Charlie Parker and Ennio Morricone have all written songs for the pedal steel guitar, maybe ol' Sasha can kick it up a notch (or two) for her next effort.

Barry Blackwood · Posted 1 Jun 2005 4:31 am

Please pardon my naivete, but could you name these 'songs for pedal steel' by Stravinsky, Bach, Charlie Parker, and Morricone?

[This message was edited by Barry Blackwood on 01 June 2005 at 05:32 AM.]

Jim Palenscar · From: Oceanside, Calif, USA

Ennio Morricone wrote the song used as the theme song to "Once Upon A Time In The West" and (I doubt that he knew it at the time) that song is likely to go down in history as the most hauntingly beautiful songs ever played on the steel guitar by Buddy Emmons.

David Wright · From: Pilot Point ,Tx USA.

are you sure it was Buddy??????

Bill Hatcher · From: Atlanta Ga. USA

I love critics.

David Mason · From: Cambridge, MD, USA

Stravinsky wrote the "Firebird Suite" for Mike Perlowin, available here on the forum on the CD called, not surprisingly, "Firebird Suite"; Ennio Morricone wrote "The Good, The Bad, The Ugly" for Dave Ristrim, available here on the CD called "Crisis at the Theme Park"; Charlie Parker wrote "Dexterity" for Doug Jernigan, available here on the CD called "Jazz by Jernigan." J.S. Bach wrote "The Sonatas and Partitas for Unaccompanied Violin" for me to fiddle with, though he neglected to include a note explaining just how friggin' hard they were to play. Lucky for me they sound O.K. really, really, really slow too. He inadvertently included some extra notes in there that you don't need either.

Drew Howard · From: 48854

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John Steele · From: Renfrew, Ontario, Canada

??

How old was Doug Jernigan when Charlie Parker died in 1955 ?

-John

Jim Cohen · From: Philadelphia, PA

Trust me, John. He was already a monster.

Jon Light · From: Saugerties, NY

John--Bird & Doug were tight--like, they were this close. But that day when Doug called Bird his worthy constituent---major rift. Bird never forgave him. But he never forgot the phrase either, as history has well recorded.
You know how come you can trust that my story is true? 'cause you are reading it on the internet so it must be.

David L. Donald · From: Koh Samui Island, Thailand

Dave M. FOTF LOL

John Steele · From: Renfrew, Ontario, Canada

Thanks for the info. I had laboured under the misconception that Bird wrote Dexterity as a tribute to his mentor TeeTot, the itinerate street musician who played intermission piano at Minton's, opposite Stravinsky.
-John

Dan Tyack · From: Olympia, WA USA

Doug is more of a bird in a gilded cage...

Barry Blackwood · Posted 1 Jun 2005 3:24 pm

OK Dave, if you say so ....

Bobby Lee · From: Cloverdale, California, USA

Dave Mason wrote:

Jeff A. Smith · From: Angola,Ind. U.S.A.

Earnest Bovine · From: Los Angeles CA USA

OK, but I need 10 or 20 years more to practice.

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