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Topic: Guitar virtuosos who are learning steel. |
Mike Perlowin
From:
Los Angeles CA
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Posted 1 Sep 2010 8:22 am |
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There must be many great guitar players here who are taking up the steel after years or even decades of playing the guitar. (I was one of them.) One such player is Al Collinsworth.
Al sent me his CD, and while there's not much steel on it, the guitar work is brilliant.
Al is a great guitarist. I think he's going to be a formidable steel player in a few years.
Al, if you're reading this, keep up the good work. One day you're going to be a star.
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Jim Cohen
From:
Philadelphia, PA
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Posted 1 Sep 2010 9:45 am
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Mike Shefrin would fall into that category. An absolutely killer jazz guitarist (and, also, I'm told, classical guitarist) who, within a year of taking up the steel, was already playing very credible jazz on the E9 neck. Unfortunately, just as he was hitting his stride, he changed his mind and went back to classical and abandoned the steel. I hope he'll revisit that decision some day in the future. He could be scary-good on it if he wants to.
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Brint Hannay
From:
Maryland, USA
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Posted 1 Sep 2010 10:58 am
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| Dave Biller comes to mind. And Redd Volkaert. |
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Ben Jones
From:
Seattle, Washington, USA
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Posted 1 Sep 2010 11:23 am
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Biller! Redd plays steel? watch out...  |
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Ivan Posa
From:
Hamilton, New Zealand
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Posted 1 Sep 2010 12:17 pm
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John Billings
From:
Ohio, USA
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Posted 1 Sep 2010 12:20 pm
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| Redd sold his steel not too long after he got it. Did he get another? |
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Jerry Overstreet
From:
Louisville Ky
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Posted 1 Sep 2010 12:26 pm
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| Recently joined forumite Christopher Woitach. |
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Bill Howard
From:
Indiana, USA
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Posted 2 Sep 2010 7:39 pm Fred Newell
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| Fred Newell, who played on Nashville Now with Larry Sasser started playing pedal steel,I saw him playing on RFD a few months ago for someone,He was playing a GFI I think. fred played on about all of Alabamas hits and a ot more I'm sure (guitar). |
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Bob Blair
From:
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Posted 3 Sep 2010 12:08 pm
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| Valdy, a well-known Canadian folksinger and a very fine guitar player recently told me that he is learning to play pedal steel. |
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Michael Haselman
From:
St. Paul
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Posted 3 Sep 2010 12:38 pm
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Don't know if it qualifies since it was so long ago, but I remember Denny Hemmingson as a killer guitarist before I heard him on steel. I see he is being inducted into the Iowa Rock & Roll Hall of Fame this weekend. I was last year, and what a great event on Lake Okoboji.
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Jim Palenscar
From:
Oceanside, Calif, USA
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Posted 3 Sep 2010 5:35 pm
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| Jim "Shoes" Allison is another. |
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Stephen Gambrell
From:
Over there
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Posted 3 Sep 2010 7:34 pm
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Jack Francis
From:
Queen Creek, Arizona, USA
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Posted 4 Sep 2010 12:13 am
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Kirby Kelley...."GREAT" blues guitarist....winner of last years Guitar Center's "King Of The Blues" contast....told me that his good friend Maurice Anderson was building him a pedal steel.
That was a few years back....since he plays "Killer" lap steel...I'm sure that he will do the same on one with pedals. 
Here he is on lap steel...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0m-n3d8u1U
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Don Drummer
From:
West Virginia, USA
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Posted 6 Sep 2010 10:53 am
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| Here in wv a long time lead player, Larry Davis has taken up PSG. He,s been at it for awhile now and doing a great job. Don D |
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Herb Steiner
From:
Briarcliff TX 78669, pop. 2,064
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Posted 6 Sep 2010 12:23 pm
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Redd doesn't play steel anymore, but I play in a band with him... sit next to him, matter of fact..., and if a Haggard tune comes up, I just tell him to play both parts on guitar and he never fails to oblige me. 
David Biller, among my top 3 favorite guitarists in Austin, is now primarily a steel player and is totally wearing it out, as Jim Loessberg predicted two years ago. He's my regular sub in the Tony Harrison Band, a fact about which I'm quite ambivalent. I mean, couldn't Tony hire someone not quite as proficient as Dave, damn it? 
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