Wow, look what popped-up after 16 years

Cartwright Thompson · Post by **Cartwright Thompson** » 21 Jul 2012 1:51 pm

you just never know:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JAKTKIAJ2E

Stay with it at least to the bass solo...he kills it!

...I wish I hadn't sold that Deluxe 8, or the '66 Vibrolux either.

Thanks Dan!

Rick Aiello · Post by **Rick Aiello** » 21 Jul 2012 2:17 pm

That was some serious steel playin' ... wow

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 21 Jul 2012 2:39 pm

Wow, nice picking Carty! Watching the video jogs my memory. I'm pretty sure I met you at one of the western Mass. steel shows about 20 years ago... Great playing, tone, and song selection!

David Matzenik · Post by **David Matzenik** » 21 Jul 2012 3:24 pm

Top stuff! That one gets the Good musical taste seal of approval.

Eugene Cole · Post by **Eugene Cole** » 21 Jul 2012 3:30 pm

Cool playing!

-E

Cartwright Thompson · Post by **Cartwright Thompson** » 21 Jul 2012 4:16 pm

Thanks guys, that was a fun gig until...Tiny Tim (who we were backing) had a heart attack on stage and fell like a tree into the front row. He died a few months later. There's a video somewhere of the whole thing, what a bummer.
Yeah Doug, I took my one and only steel guitar lesson from you in about 1988(?). I think you got a kick otu of it because , believe it or not, I wanted to learn C6!!! Crazy how time flies.

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 21 Jul 2012 4:43 pm

Carty, I remember hearing about that uke festival in Montague in 1996 where Tiny Tim had a heart attack. Montague is only 1/2 hour away from me. I also remember our get together in the 1980s. Seems like a lifetime ago! Thanks again for posting the cool video.

Mike Neer · Post by **Mike Neer** » 21 Jul 2012 5:42 pm

Great job, Carty. That tune is called "I Wanta Learn To Play The Steel" by Jerry Byrd from his Admirable Byrd LP.

Thanks for sharing!

HowardR · Post by **HowardR** » 22 Jul 2012 7:39 am

Love the shirt!......you guys nailed everything!....

Cartwright Thompson · Post by **Cartwright Thompson** » 22 Jul 2012 3:51 pm

Mike, That solves that mystery. I learned that tune from an unmarked cassette, always wondered what lp it was from. Now I need to find a copy. Thanks

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 22 Jul 2012 9:22 pm

Jerry played E9 tuning on his “Admirable Byrd” album. He was going for a "pedal steel" kind of sound.

Here's what he said in a 1973 interview:

"I did an album called "Admirable Byrd" and I did a lot of pedal sounds in there ... not as good as the pedal guys could do it but it was that sound and it was still different. I wrote a lot of the tunes to show what you could do without pedals in an E9th tuning. I got a lot of mail ... one of the songs is "I'll Be All Smiles Tonight" and I do a lot of bar slant work, you know, and a lot of people still don't believe I did it without a pedal guitar but I did. To me it's kinda silly. Why would I lie about it if I did play pedals! I'd tell 'em."

That album does sound different than his other recordings... more "major chord" sounds IMO than his C6 playing, different voicings, different slant sounds. Great stuff.

Doug Freeman · Post by **Doug Freeman** » 23 Jul 2012 4:32 pm

Funny, my Deluxe 8 doesn't sound anywhere near that good. I think it has to do with the player.

Doug Freeman · Post by **Doug Freeman** » 23 Jul 2012 4:33 pm

Funny, my Deluxe 8 doesn't sound anywhere near that good. I think it has to do with the player.

Bob Stone · Post by **Bob Stone** » 25 Jul 2012 5:21 pm

Nice Cartwright!

I wish I still had my '56 DeLuxe 8, too.

Best,

Bob

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 25 Jul 2012 6:04 pm

Bob, I'm still enjoying the '56 Stringmaster I bought from you!

Jonathan Stuart · Post by **Jonathan Stuart** » 25 Jul 2012 7:52 pm

What tuning are you using here?
Johnny

Jussi Huhtakangas · Post by **Jussi Huhtakangas** » 25 Jul 2012 10:53 pm

Cartman, I may still have that VHS somewhere. Remember you sent it to me, I always wondered what was that with Tiny Tim falling off stage. Does Joel still have his "Bar In The Uke"?