CMA steel player

Michael Breid · From: Eureka Springs, Arkansas, USA

I couldn't stomach anymore than ten minutes of the RCMA(Rock Country Music Awards), so I went to another channel. I did notice Bon Jovi using a steel. Hmmmmmmmmm. What gives? Country groups using distortion rock guitars and rock groups using country steel. Are we seeing a continental shift here?

Jim Ives · From: Los Angeles, California, USA

Then you missed Martina McBride's cover of the Kristofferson tune "Help Me Make It Through The Night". Beautiful steel playing.
I agree that Bon Jovi and traditional country music together is oxymoronic, but a little variation is okay too. Besides, Bon Jovi lives near NYC, and was apparently available.
-Jim

Jim Ives · From: Los Angeles, California, USA

And what was up with Big and Rich and the dancing midget on crutches??? Very bizarre!

Sam White R.I.P. · From: Coventry, RI 02816

I agree that it was great steel playing with Matina Mc Bride singing Help me make it through the night.She needs to do more songs like that. As far as the Rock and Roll B.S. they ought to get rid of it. Rock and Roll went down the tubes so now they are trying to bring it into the Country Music and it will never work. They should come to some of our Steel Guitar Shows and Jams that are all over the country and they will hear what country music is. They will never kill the Steel Guitar because there are to many of us out there.We all have our own Shows and a lot of people enjoy them.I have been and played in North Carolina,Tennessee,Florida,
Massachausetts,Conneticute,and Rhode Island and there are always good crowds of people that come to these Steel Guitar Shows and Jams.
Sam White

[This message was edited by Samuel E. White on 16 November 2005 at 12:22 PM.]

Mark Eaton · Posted 16 Nov 2005 12:18 pm

Samuel-you apparently don't have Martina's "Timeless" album of classic country songs-just came out last month.

You'll love it-Paul Franklin on pedal, non-pedal MSA SuperSlide, and a little bit of dobro.

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Mark

Sam White R.I.P. · From: Coventry, RI 02816

Mark you are wrong I have that new CD of Matina McBrides and I think it is a supper CD and Paul Franklin is just great.I have had this CD the day it came out as I heard about it and my Brother and Sister also bought it.
Sam White

Paddy Long · From: Christchurch, New Zealand

Some of you guys need to get your heads out of the sand !!! A steel guitar on TV is got to be great regardless of what type of music it maybe playing on --- did any of you complain about the piano player as well ??? I mean what's a piano doing in Country rock - shouldn't that be in classical music!!!!

At least you get to see Country music on TV - it's a bit of a while since we had any down this way.....I know cos it was me that was playing the steel on it ha !

Ray Uhl · From: Riverside, Missouri, USA

My 2 cents....I managed to watch the whole ordeal. Lousy sound, 80% of the time, I couldn't understand the words. Strickly a marketing presentation. Alan Jackson singing an Eric Clapton tune, and Bon Jovi and Elton John sounding more County than the so called Country acts??? Blues, Jazz, Pop, Symphony, etc., don't allow this cross over &*(), so why should the Country field. Money, money, so sad....the art is gone.

Martina was great,and so was the steel playing. Who was the steel player and what brand of steel was he playing? 'ole Garth sounded pretty good to these old ears.

Hope he sticks with the Country sound. Maybe he will do what Randy Travis did in the '80's....get us back to good County again.
OK, folks, start firing at me.

Greg Vincent · From: Folsom, CA USA

The country acts trying to get the crossover $$$ are ashamed of the steel guitar.

The rockers just think it's cool.

Chris LeDrew · From: Canada

You hit the nail on the head, greg.

[This message was edited by Chris LeDrew on 16 November 2005 at 02:40 PM.]

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