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Topic: About those flat-pickers . . . |
Ed Altrichter
From:
Schroeder, Minnesota, USA
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Posted 27 Jul 2009 9:59 am |
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| Where would I find a cd by steel guitar artists who use a flat pick only ? And I'm presuming that using a flat pick exclusively would not be feasible on a pedal steel, or has that been done by someone, too ? |
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Ken Pippus
From:
Langford, BC, Canada
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Posted 27 Jul 2009 10:51 am
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There are a ton of recordings available by Tut Taylor, playing a dobro exclusively with a flat pick. I don't know of a pedal steel equivalent.
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Andy Volk
From:
Boston, MA
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Posted 27 Jul 2009 3:10 pm
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| Tut Taylor, Steve Howe, Junior Brown all flat pick non-pedal steel. |
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Orville Johnson
From:
Seattle, Washington, USA
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Posted 27 Jul 2009 3:25 pm
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| Andy, are you sure about Junior Brown? Seems to me when I've seen him play he uses at least a thumbpick if not fingerpicks on both necks of his guit-steel. |
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Dave Harmonson
From:
Seattle, Wa
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Posted 27 Jul 2009 4:02 pm
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Hey Orv,
Just saw Junior a couple of weeks ago. Definitely playing with a flat pick.
Dave |
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Orville Johnson
From:
Seattle, Washington, USA
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Posted 27 Jul 2009 4:21 pm
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| I stand corrected. I haven't seen him for a long time and my memory is cloudy. If only the sky around here was as cloudy! D*mn its hot!! |
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Dave Harmonson
From:
Seattle, Wa
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Posted 27 Jul 2009 4:52 pm
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| Yeh, what's going on here? Are we in Texas or something? We're not built for 95 degrees. |
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David Soreff
From:
North Las Vegas, NV
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Posted 27 Jul 2009 5:28 pm
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| I am a lifetime of experience and talent away from some of the above mentioned players, but for the record, I sometimes have to resort to playing with a flatpick. I play in a track duo, and some songs that require a bit of steel require that I use whatever I'm playing at the time for steel...usually a nice .73 Dunlop. I of course prefer the thumb/fingerpicks approach, but sometimes, you have to do what you have to do. |
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Andy Volk
From:
Boston, MA
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Posted 27 Jul 2009 7:18 pm
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| I saw Rusty Young last weekend with Poco and he used a flat pick on Dobro for an entire tune before reverting to thumb and fingerpicks for a few more steel and dobro tunes. |
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Mark Bracewell
From:
Willow Glen, California
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Posted 27 Jul 2009 7:42 pm
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David Gilmour's another flat picker. And Steve Howe like Andy said - even on PS. OK, now I've outed myself as a prog rocker  |
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nick allen
From:
France
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Posted 28 Jul 2009 1:38 am
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James Burton plays dobro with a flatpick and one fingerpick on his middle finger. You can hear a lot of it on his "Corn Picking and Slick Sliding" album with Ralph Mooney.
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Geoff Cline
From:
Southwest France
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Posted 28 Jul 2009 9:38 am Junior with Flat picks AND fingerpicks
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Here are some pictures of Junior trying out the newest Guit-Steel from Michael Stevens...clearly playing with flat pick and fingerpicks. And if its good enough for Junior and James Burton...there must be something to it.
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Jerry Hayes
From:
Virginia Beach, Va.
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Posted 28 Jul 2009 12:21 pm
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I can't remember his name but there was a guy who used to show up at some of those MASGA events who played pedal steel with a flatpick, mostly on C6th. Also, Sid Hudson who was Barbara Mandrell's lead guitarist for many years is a very accomplished pedal steeler. On steel he uses a flatpick and two metal fingerpicks. He was the steel player on the Williamsburg Opry in Virginia a few years back. Years ago there was a steel player with Rose Maddox named Lucky Rogers. If I remember right, he used a flatpick and fingerpicks. I've tried it but I block a lot with my curled under index finger so it doesn't work for me.........JH in Va.
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Jan Jonsson
From:
Gothenburg, Sweden
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Posted 28 Jul 2009 2:17 pm
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I feel all too lightweight to all the names mentioned, but I happen to play the pedal steel and lapsteel with a flatpick and two metal fingerpicks. I started playing the steel guitar too late after 30+ years of regular guitar playing to be able to relearn my picking style. My attempts with the flatpick can be heard on my recent CD (link below).
-- Jan
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Jude Reinhardt
From:
Weaverville, NC
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Posted 29 Jul 2009 3:28 am
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Ah, but you're not flatpicking unless you use a flatpick and only a flatpick. When you throw in the fingers to pick with it's a hybrid form of flatpicking. Nothing picks the strings but a flatpick when you're flatpicking.
Jude
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