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Topic: pedal or not? on an old Ray Price tune |
Tom Wolverton
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Posted 30 Nov 2010 9:00 pm |
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Here's an interesting clip. Ray Price (w/Rodger Miller)..."An Invitation to the Blues". Nice steel break. He slants a lot, but I'd swear I hear a pedal bend, right in the middle of a slant. Wadda ya think?
Really cool....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIhywFlD2xY
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Mike Neer
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Posted 30 Nov 2010 9:10 pm
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Definitely pedals, but he's only using a B to C# raise there (and he uses it a few times).
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Clyde Mattocks
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Posted 30 Nov 2010 10:41 pm
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As far as I know, after "Crazy Arms", the only non pedal steel heard on a Ray Price record was Don Helms on "I've Got a New Heartache", in which he tuned his third string up a half step to get that seventh chord rake in the V chord. Admittedly the timeline could be confusing as this record could have been in the can before Ray went to pedal steel on his records.
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J Fletcher
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London,Ont,Canada
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Posted 1 Dec 2010 6:42 am
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| That sure sounds great! Looks live too. I thought that was Jimmy Day on the original recoding,but whoever that smilin' steel player is, he's sure copping the steel part. |
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Mitch Drumm
From:
Frostbite Falls, hard by Veronica Lake
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Posted 1 Dec 2010 7:34 am
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It's Jack Evins in the clip and on the original recording of the song.
He and Jimmy Day each did about half of Ray's recordings during the first couple of years after Don Helms left Ray's band in late 1955. I think he is on "I've Got A New Heartache" as well. |
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Billy Tonnesen
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R.I.P., Buena Park, California
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Posted 1 Dec 2010 5:11 pm
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| I think this early expansion of the original Bud Issacs pedal style. Pedals for melody lines and fills are definately being used. Could be early Emmons. |
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Tom Wolverton
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Carpinteria, CA
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Posted 2 Dec 2010 10:01 am
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Thanks for all the info everyone. As steel players, we are blessed with a rich and interesting history. And isn't youtube great?
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