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Regrets, I've had a few
By: bieke Date: February 11, 2018, 6:20 pm
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I sold my pedalsteel about a year ago
::)
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Re: Regrets, I've had a few
By: bieke Date: February 11, 2018, 6:21 pm
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now I find myself looking at pedalsteel videos
found this chap here
Roosevelt Collier
the Eddie van Halen of pedalsteel
O0
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8jyKnLLXPc
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Re: Regrets, I've had a few
By: bieke Date: February 11, 2018, 6:26 pm
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and this
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Re: Regrets, I've had a few
By: AJ Date: February 11, 2018, 7:54 pm
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And this gentleman....Takes pedal steel a few different places
as well
HTML https://youtu.be/gt5BVuIv4t8
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Re: Regrets, I've had a few
By: indigo_dave Date: February 12, 2018, 7:26 am
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I enjoy a good lap steel player. I saw a guy who calls himself
Watermelon Slim in Clarksdale Mississippi a couple years back.
I toyed with the idea of getting a lap steel for a short time
after.
I think lap steel may have some unexplored possibilities. Of
course I guess a pedal steel has even more potential for
exploration.
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Re: Regrets, I've had a few
By: AJ Date: February 12, 2018, 8:20 pm
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[quote author=indigo_dave link=topic=203.msg2071#msg2071
date=1518441999]
I enjoy a good lap steel player. I saw a guy who calls himself
Watermelon Slim in Clarksdale Mississippi a couple years back.
I toyed with the idea of getting a lap steel for a short time
after.
I think lap steel may have some unexplored possibilities. Of
course I guess a pedal steel has even more potential for
exploration.
[/quote]
Pedal steel is a way more exciting possibility to me. A lap
steel isn't totally dissimilar to tuning a regular guitar to
open tunings and laying it on your lap.
Pedal steels you can mechanically raise or lower the pitch of a
string/strings. I've never even tried one but I'd sure like to
take one for a test drive sometime. Like any instrument, I
suspect it takes quite a bit of work to achieve even passable
results.
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Re: Regrets, I've had a few
By: indigo_dave Date: February 12, 2018, 10:24 pm
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This is the guy I saw in Clarksdale Mississippi a coupla years
back. He was very entertaining. Had a band with a stage act. I
think he's just practicing here.
HTML https://youtu.be/_xsn7ZFxCgs
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Re: Regrets, I've had a few
By: indigo_dave Date: February 13, 2018, 7:50 am
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I don't know exactly how a pedal steel works. I think the
pedals change it's open tuning and the player is manipulating
the pedals as needed. I'm sure there are YouTube videos showing
this in excruciating detail.
The player in this video is Paul Franklin. I played with him
for maybe a week circa 1978. Nice guy. He told me if I came to
Nashville he'd help me find some gigs. Always sort of regretted
that I didn't try that.
HTML https://youtu.be/dAHfcqzhag0
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Re: Regrets, I've had a few
By: The Dudley Lama Date: February 13, 2018, 10:31 am
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one doesn’t actually play a pedal steel guitar... more so one
must truly strap themself in and fly the damned thing. your
mileage may vary...
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Re: Regrets, I've had a few
By: The Dudley Lama Date: February 13, 2018, 10:42 am
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my grandfather played hawaiian lap steel guitar in a “party
band” during the prohibition in the states... (he was from
quebec and made runs regularly to beavertown ohio for some odd
reason) needless, the first guitar i ever held was an early 50’s
gibson korina “flying V” hawaiian lap steel.... i was on the
road playing drums when my grandfather passed... a cousin, god
bless his little inbred heart, sold my grandfathers guitar for
beer money before the funeral...
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