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Topic: Steve Palousek CD "Let the games begin |
Dave Wheelhouse
From:
Southampton, Hampshire, United Kingdom
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Posted 10 Mar 2010 10:14 am |
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Hi all,
I've got Steve palousek's CD Let the games begin and its AWESOME! WHAT TONE, WHAT PLAYING! MIND BLOWING! Can Mr Palousek or anyone please tell me what amp and steel guitar set up he was using? I think it sounds like an Emmons P/P played through a WEBB or do my ears decieve me, what ever steve is playing its "TONE TO THE BONE"!
Dave. 
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Ken Byng
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Southampton, England
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Posted 11 Mar 2010 5:22 am
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Hi Dave
I have that album too. In my opinion it is among my top 5 steel albums of all time. The playing is incredible and the production (Steve P's studio) is superb. I think it is the epitome of what a push-pull guitar can sound like.
Ken
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Paul Wade
From:
mundelein,ill
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Posted 11 Mar 2010 6:24 am S.p
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steve,
plays a legrand 111 with a nashville 400 amp. great
guy to talk to too. 
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Roger Rettig
From:
Naples, FL
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Posted 11 Mar 2010 9:31 am
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I'm listening to Steve's CD right now, and it is truly remarkable. The glowing praise in the sleeve note from none other than the 'Big E' are well-and-truly deserved.
Steve's 'Nightlife' and 'How High The Moon' are as good as anything I've ever heard on steel guitar.
I must say I've always understood that he played a LeGrande 111, but I've never been able to detect what steel is being played - especially by a player at Steve's level!
My friend Andy Reiss once invited me on to the bandstand at the Nashville Nitelife club when Mr Palousek was in the house-band; I got to play Andy's Stratocaster while Steve just blew me away with everything he played that night. That was an experience! (Well, except for Andy's heavy-gauge strings!!! Or, as he calls them, 'Real men's strings, Rog!!!'; they slowed ME down a bit!)
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Roger Rettig: Emmons D10, B-bender Teles, Martins, and a Gibson Super 400!
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Steve Palousek
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Holland. Texas, USA
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Posted 12 Mar 2010 3:18 pm Let the Games Begin
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Thank all of you for your kind words...
As far as the equipment on the album, I played a LeGrande III. 80% of the songs were recorded direct through a "Walker Stereo Steel" preamp. The other 20% were recorded through a "Fender Twin" re-issue. But the Fender was connected to a "JBL-15".
Roger - I remember that night and you play you ass off! As far as Andy's heavy gauge strings, well.....I just don't know.
Y'all give me call if you want to 254-657-2200.... |
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Ken Byng
From:
Southampton, England
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Posted 12 Mar 2010 3:36 pm
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Steve
Thanks for the info on your equipment. You have amazed me as I would have sworn that you were using a push-pull guitar. All credit to Emmons that they have produced an all pull guitar with that 'classic' tone. It just shows that it can be achieved.
I'm sorry I missed you last April when I visited Austin, as I would have loved to have seen the place where you created that masterpiece of an album.
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Dave Wheelhouse
From:
Southampton, Hampshire, United Kingdom
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Posted 13 Mar 2010 1:57 am
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Thank you Steve for your reply & yes my ears have deceived me (once again) but like Ken Byng has said, you can achieve a p/p sound/tone from an all pull guitar and may I add, that Steve "P" is truely a master of this wounderfull instrument and we minions can only dream. Dave [/b]
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Bo Borland
From:
South Jersey -
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Posted 13 Mar 2010 10:43 am
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| Steve P is a monster player.. very creative |
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Roger Rettig
From:
Naples, FL
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Posted 13 Mar 2010 9:07 pm
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Steve..
You're far too kind - but thanks for saying such nice things!
That night I had a lady-friend with me, and I'd been trying to explain how some steel-players had the knack of hitting that mark and treading the line between jazz and country. We'd been on Lower Broadway earlier but heard nothing remarkable. Then we paid a visit to the Nitelife - at Andy's invitation - and there you were, just smoking everything the band played and illustrating exactly what I'd been trying to convey to my friend. It couldn't have been any better if Buddy himself had been on the gig.
Thanks for a memorable night, and thanks again for your splendid CD - I agree with Ken Byng, and would number your album among the very top handful of steel-guitar CDs ever made. (My other current favourite being Buck Reid's wonderful 'A Work In Progress'.)
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Roger Rettig: Emmons D10, B-bender Teles, Martins, and a Gibson Super 400!
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Adair Torres
From:
Sao Paulo, Brazil
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Posted 14 Mar 2010 6:08 pm
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I've got Steve palousek's CD Let the games begin, I think it is one of the most beautiful steel albums of all time.
Congrats Steve Palousek.
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Adair Torres - Boss at TowerS Steel Guitars
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Zum D10 8X7 Wineberry 2010.
Emmons SD10 3X8 Black 1994.
Derby D10 8X8 Rosewood 2008.
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Arne Odegard
From:
Norway
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Posted 21 Jan 2011 6:43 am
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Are any of Steve's CD's available for down load purchase?
I just love Steel Dreaming. |
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Adair Torres
From:
Sao Paulo, Brazil
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Posted 21 Jan 2011 6:57 am Steve's Steel Guitar Courses
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Hi Steve ... Do you have those Steel Guitar Courses converted to DVD ...?.
My VHS tapes no longer play ...
Thanks in Adv..
Adair Torres
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Adair Torres - Boss at TowerS Steel Guitars
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Zum D10 8X7 Wineberry 2010.
Emmons SD10 3X8 Black 1994.
Derby D10 8X8 Rosewood 2008.
TowerS SD10 3X5 Imbuia Mica Finish 2018 |
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Tony Glassman
From:
The Great Northwest
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Posted 21 Jan 2011 7:15 am Re: Steve's Steel Guitar Courses
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| Adair Torres wrote: |
Hi Steve ... Do you have those Steel Guitar Courses converted to DVD ...?.
My VHS tapes no longer play ...
Thanks in Adv..
Adair Torres |
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Tim Sergent
From:
Hendersonville, TN, USA
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Posted 21 Jan 2011 10:06 am
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I gotta give Steve credit as a great studio engineer to get that kind of tone out of a direct signal. Great playing Steve!
Once upon a time somebody posted a YouTube video of Steve playing for somebody....Gary Stewart maybe??...where he stood up and played a killer solo. I'd like to see that again. |
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chris ivey
From:
california (deceased)
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Posted 21 Jan 2011 10:13 am
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| many years ago i acquired a steve palousek cassette. i'd like to thank steve...now i don't have to practice anymore, i can't ever compete with that! |
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Ken Byng
From:
Southampton, England
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Posted 21 Jan 2011 1:38 pm
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Steve is also a killer guitar and bass player too. Clever ****!!
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Sonny Jenkins
From:
Texas Masonic Retirement Center,,,Arlington Tx
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Posted 21 Jan 2011 3:05 pm
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| I remember one time at one of the early TSGA shows (20-25 years ago) when Steve, Zane King and Blake Fourgarousee(sp) were burning it up, I was standing behind Big E and (forgot who), Steve was amazing everyone, Buddy said to the other person something to the effect,,,"man I don't think I even thought like that when I was that age",,,. Later on I told Steve that and he couldn't believe it,,,,I think it meant more to him than receiving a grammy!!!,,,LOL. Next thing I knew Steve was playing for Ray Price,,,then Frenchie Burke,,,took off like a rocket,,,,definitely got a place among the greats of Steel Guitar. In the mid 80s we were trying to get a club started down here and Steve was kind enough to bring Frenchie's band out on Sunday afternoon and play for us,,,,he is #1 in my book. |
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Roger Shackelton
From:
MINNESOTA (deceased)
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Posted 21 Jan 2011 4:03 pm Steve Palousek CD "Let The Games Begin
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Where can a person order Steve's CD?.
Can someone list the tunes on the CD?
Roger |
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Adair Torres
From:
Sao Paulo, Brazil
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Posted 21 Jan 2011 4:12 pm
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HERE IS
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Adair Torres - Boss at TowerS Steel Guitars
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Zum D10 8X7 Wineberry 2010.
Emmons SD10 3X8 Black 1994.
Derby D10 8X8 Rosewood 2008.
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Tony Glassman
From:
The Great Northwest
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Posted 21 Jan 2011 7:31 pm
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| The "Black Album Pt II" |
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Ken Byng
From:
Southampton, England
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Posted 22 Jan 2011 2:43 am
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You can get it from http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/stevepalousek
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