Bob Dylan - Stringmaster D8 man?

Bill Leff · Post by **Bill Leff** » 17 Aug 2009 6:48 pm

Well, kinda....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8QeAhWRFtk

David Doggett · Post by **David Doggett** » 17 Aug 2009 8:30 pm

Yeah, I think that was discussed on here before. Seems like that Stringmaster was on stage for someone else in the band to play.

But Buddy Cage used to have a great story on his website about Dylan telling him how he wanted him to play pedal steel. Might still be there.

Stephen Dorocke · Post by **Stephen Dorocke** » 18 Aug 2009 7:35 am

Don Herron could sure play that thing... If he wanted to, and the boss let him...... Looks like he's using it for a music stand, and/or to mask the fact that he's playing a keyboard...

Richard Terry · Post by **Richard Terry** » 18 Aug 2009 10:45 am

I went to the Dylan concert on the 15th July in Stockton, last of the baseball field tour. I didn't spot a lap steel in the Dylan set up but Don Herron, did play sometimes on a psg that was off to my right from Dylan and often obscured. Very hard to hear it in the mix.

But the most steel at the concert was that provided by the WiYo guys. When they were setting up the guy who brought the steel out carried it upside down over his head, flipped it over deftly and set it down on its legs. I was a long way away but through a friend's small binoculars I thought it looked like a double Gibson.

Does anyone know for sure what the WiYo steeler plays? I didn't hear his name.

Richard

Post by **Brad Bechtel** » 18 Aug 2009 12:02 pm

Teddy Weber plays a 1955 Rickenbacker "triple 8" steel guitar, according to the Wiyo's Myspace blog. Some of their photos on their Myspace page show him with a tricone (or metal body National type guitar), and in at least one it looks like a Gibson doubleneck.

Richard Terry · Post by **Richard Terry** » 18 Aug 2009 1:21 pm

Thanks Brad

In my first post, I realize I wrote July 15 when I meant August 15, '09.

I used the link you gave to look at the Wiyo site and thought the guitar I you thought might be a double Gibson is the one I saw. Through the binoculars it seemed to have the flame maple front like the Console Grande doubles. When the guy flipped it I wasn't look through binoculars, but it looked right for a double.

Richard

anewcomb · Post by **anewcomb** » 24 Oct 2009 12:01 pm

I saw the Wiyos last night, and the guy was playing a double neck Gibson. Great playing and sound.

Alvin Blaine · Post by **Alvin Blaine** » 24 Oct 2009 6:12 pm

Both Donnie(with Dylan) and Teddy(with the Wiyos) play mid-
50s double 8 Gibson Consolettes! Well they did on the tour this summer, and last I heard, they are both still using them. I hung out with Donnie last Sun, when Dylan was in Vegas.

I think Donnie's is a '54 and Teddy's is a '56.