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Topic: Mooney - Plays with both feet on pedals? and a Wah Wah |
Gary Reed
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Posted 5 Sep 2012 6:31 am |
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I read in Tom Bradshaw's Pedal Steel Workshop (old yellow issue), that Ralph played using both feet on the pedals. Strange thought.
Also in the same article states the RM used a wah wah for the 'hot corn' sound.
Does he leave the wah wah 1/2 open or how does he do this? |
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Donny Hinson
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Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 5 Sep 2012 7:56 am
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I think the "corn picking" sounds are more technique than an EFX box. Ralph honed that sound and technique long before those devices were invented.  |
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Geoff Marshall
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North Lincolnshire U,K.
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Posted 5 Sep 2012 9:30 am
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Moon had been playing a while before the top diatonic strings became an E9 standard - He himself being credited with the introduction to that tuning with the high G#. Therefore he double footed the E - F# pedal change (which some people also credit him with) to get some of his licks and things. Double footing is not uncommon with 'C' neck players. There is footage somewhere on youtube of a young Buddy Emmons doing the same thing on an Earnest Tubb vid. prior to him introducing the diatonic strings (F# & D#) to the 'E9' tunning.
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Ethan Shaw
From:
Texas, USA
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Posted 5 Sep 2012 4:50 pm
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| The article was talking about how he used a wah when he played "the Texas Waltz" live, to cover the part James Burton played on the recording. I think he kept his foot on the wah for that whole part. I play with his tuning, and you only need two feet for a small percentage of his licks (and probably none of the Burton licks he was playing for that song). After a few years of playing Mooney's tuning, I can say that the only changes that need the right foot to play them are the e-f# change, and the g#-g change. I play with a wah a lot, and just avoid those changes while I'm using it. |
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Todd Brown
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W. Columbia , South Carolina
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Posted 5 Sep 2012 9:08 pm
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Here's an example of Moon using a Wah pedal in this medley clip from the earlier years w/ Waylon.
Third song through. "Lovin' Her Was Easier". Starts at 1:50
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyVwcwkF6Q8
To the contrary, I think Moon was into using these "trick things" as he called them, more than he would let on. It also states he does admit to routinely using an MXR Digital Delay.
Check this one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFYd64Bzty8
I Don't think he's getting that sound from his hands!
If he was using the Wah pedal to cover JB's parts on "Texas Waltz" he would have to be pumping it like a six stringer would to get that sound that JB had on record. Similar to what he's doing on "Lovin' Her" in the above clip. |
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