What is the PSG's "Stairway to Heaven"?

Michael Hutchison · Post by **Michael Hutchison** » 11 Nov 2011 8:37 am

So I'm trying to steep myself in the repertoire of this instrument as I learn (try) to play it.

What would you consider to be an example of the/a penultimate (edit, whoops, what word am I looking for here?) PSG performance?[/i]

Jerry Overstreet · Post by **Jerry Overstreet** » 11 Nov 2011 8:48 am

Teach Your Children.

Bob Carlucci · Post by **Bob Carlucci** » 11 Nov 2011 9:12 am

Teach Your Children.. Easy to play, and it fit the song perfectly...

Lane Gray · Post by **Lane Gray** » 11 Nov 2011 9:21 am

My penultimate performance was Texas Flood (That word doesn't mean what you think it means: www.dictionary.com Sorry, I tried to link to the completed search but that didn't work )
If you mean the one filling the same place as STH: an overplayed classic that just about all of us know and love playing, probably Crazy Arms, A Way to Survive or (among those of us who have a back neck and ain't afraid to use it) Night Life.

Teach Your Children isn't a bad choice for an easy anthem. No wonder it's easy: Jerry claimed to have only three weeks under his belt, but he had years of playing tasteful banjo (sorry for the oxymoron) and guitar.

But there can be no debate: my penultimate performance was Texas Flood. The last song was Turn On Your Love Light.
Monday, if you're still interested, I'll let you know what Sunday's penultimate was.

admin · Post by **b0b** » 11 Nov 2011 9:38 am

Anyone who thinks Teach Your Children is easy isn't playing it right. It's diabolical.

Jay Fagerlie · Post by **Jay Fagerlie** » 11 Nov 2011 9:41 am

I don't know about the "STH",
But the "Smoke on The Water" song for steel guitar has to be 'Steel Guitar Rag'

It is/was for me....

Jay

Richard Sinkler · Post by **Richard Sinkler** » 11 Nov 2011 9:47 am

Steel Guitar Rag

Or as I call it:

Steel guitar AARRRGGGHHHH!!!!

Lane Gray · Post by **Lane Gray** » 11 Nov 2011 10:01 am

Teach... is composed of simple licks, filtered through the brain of Jerry. If you want it to come out right, you must torture time. I agree with B0b. Except when I'm in weird moods. At the right conditions, it just flows.

Skip Edwards · Post by **Skip Edwards** » 11 Nov 2011 10:11 am

penultimate |peˈnəltəmit|
adjective [ attrib. ]
last but one in a series of things; second to the last : the penultimate chapter of the book.

STH? Not sure I get it...What am I missing?
Ok... I just figured it out.... D'oh!

Lane Gray · Post by **Lane Gray** » 11 Nov 2011 10:18 am

Michael, copy and paste is a bitch on a Droid, but perhaps you meant "archetypal"?
I believe that's the term you meant

Dave Grafe · Post by **Dave Grafe** » 11 Nov 2011 11:31 am

Steel Guitar Rag

Ah yes, the "ultimate" steel guitar song, not necessarily because it's the best steel guitar song but simply because it's easiest name for non-steelers to remember...

Michael Hutchison · Post by **Michael Hutchison** » 11 Nov 2011 11:35 am

Archetypal works, as would quintessential, or definitive. But really, rather than let my loquaciousness go awry, I should have just stuck to "The Stairway to Heaven of PSG" - at least then everyone would have known what I meant. Ah well, you can't win 'em all.

Lane Gray · Post by **Lane Gray** » 11 Nov 2011 12:26 pm

I still like penultimate. Everyone, what's the second to last song you've played?

I think, if not the three I mentioned, Steel Guitarrrgghh Rag, Remington Ride or Sleepwalk. Which, sadly, I've never gotten around to learning

Skip Edwards · Post by **Skip Edwards** » 11 Nov 2011 12:36 pm

This thread reminds me of a song request sign I saw in New Orleans at the Preservation Hall - it went something like...
Song requests - $10.00
Saints Go Marching In - $20.00

I guess we all have our "rather not have to play" request tune....

Richard Sinkler · Post by **Richard Sinkler** » 11 Nov 2011 12:38 pm

Oh yes, Coma-walk. I can't stand Sleepwalk. My guitar player plays a great version and I always refused to learn it. I finally gave in and recently learned it to take a turn in the song, but I want the guitar player to keep it as HIS song (he really does do a good job on it). I think I would rather hear/play Steel Guitar Arrgghhh than Sleepwalk.

Bob Carlucci · Post by **Bob Carlucci** » 11 Nov 2011 1:07 pm

b0b wrote:Anyone who thinks Teach Your Children is easy isn't playing it right. It's diabolical.

Nah, piece of cake, but you gotta have that "channeling Jerry" mojo happening. bob

Robert Jenkins · Post by **Robert Jenkins** » 11 Nov 2011 1:39 pm

sign says "no stairway."

Stuart Legg · Post by **Stuart Legg** » 11 Nov 2011 1:51 pm

Jerrys PSG playing in "Teach Your Children" is the perfect example of the penultimate of PSG songs in that it was the next to last thing a good PSG player would have ever played.
"Nearer my God to Thee" is the Poster Child for Penultimate but I guess it didn't float with the PSG either.

Richard Sinkler · Post by **Richard Sinkler** » 11 Nov 2011 2:03 pm

Stuart... Huh???

MY HEAD HURTS

Skip Edwards · Post by **Skip Edwards** » 11 Nov 2011 2:28 pm

I believe that was a Titanic reference.
Although that may have been their ultimate song, since no one in the band survived to tell the tale.
But I doubt they had time to play their break song when the set was over...

Barry Blackwood · Post by **Barry Blackwood** » 11 Nov 2011 2:49 pm

Jerrys PSG playing in "Teach Your Children" is the perfect example of the penultimate of PSG songs in that it was the next to last thing a good PSG player would have ever played.

Well said, Stuart. At last we agree on something.
I'm surprised that "Someday Soon" hasn't received even one mention. Maybe it was too difficult?

Bo Legg · Post by **Bo Legg** » 11 Nov 2011 2:54 pm

The Bands last song was A cappella
“glub glub glubble..........."

Frank Freniere · Post by **Frank Freniere** » 11 Nov 2011 3:53 pm

Did someone say "Stairway To Heaven?"

Jay Jessup · Post by **Jay Jessup** » 11 Nov 2011 6:56 pm

Not exactly the direct answer to your question but if you are just getting started on steel and haven't heard it yet, you absolutely MUST buy the Emmons Black album!!

Lane Gray · Post by **Lane Gray** » 11 Nov 2011 7:50 pm

Did they correct the typo when it came out on CD?
My vinyl has Pachelbel having written artillery rather than church music