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Topic: Rickenbacher Steel Guitar tonal sounds.................... |
Ray Montee
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Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 28 Sep 2012 8:42 pm |
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"My Tane", a beautiful steel guitar instrumental can now be heard on the JerryByrd-FanClub.com home page.
It's another of Jerry's fabulous solo's on his famous Bakelite steel guitar.
It's there for you to enjoy at your leisure. No attempt is being made to convert or pursuade anyone. |
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Bo Legg
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Posted 28 Sep 2012 10:43 pm
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Geez, Ray would it be asking to much to give me just a little nudge.  |
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Stuart Legg
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Posted 28 Sep 2012 11:45 pm
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I’ve searched the site for awhile now.
But I haven’t given up.
It’s kind of like a treasure hunt without a map, but then I enjoy a challenge.
Let’s see now where would be the logical difficult place Ray would hide “My Tane” in the JBs fan club site.
Well it’s 2 AM. I think I’ll go to bed and read a little “Treasure Island” so I can wake up in the mood and resume tomorrows search.
“Fifteen men on the dead man’s chest—Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!” whoa! I gotta tab that.
Ray, Bo and I are just having some fun here at your expense. We love your topics. |
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Ray Montee
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Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 29 Sep 2012 8:40 am Oh well......................
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Billy Tonnesen
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R.I.P., Buena Park, California
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Posted 29 Sep 2012 9:01 am Q
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Ray:
Played "My Tane" many times when taking Hawaiian lessons in the early years in the C#minor tuning.
Question: Other than Jerry Byrd, what other early Steel Players were an influence on your playing ?
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Ray Montee
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Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 29 Sep 2012 12:01 pm Fair question but not sure very many will be interested here
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BILLY: I strongly suspicion there will be more here on the Forum that will flame me for answering YOUR question, but I'll try to do so anyway. I too, first learned "My Tane" in the olde standard tuning of the day, C#min.
When MY teacher terminated my teachings in the GIBSON guitar course after the third year.....she urged my folks to buy me records to listen to.
ROY WIGGINS/Eddy Arnold formed my earliest record library but I never mastered Wiggins' playing until
the last four or five years.
BILLY ROBINSON (Red Foley), Johnny Siebert (Carl Smith), Don Davis (George Morgan), Noel Boggs and Joaquin Murphy, Cecil Campbell, A steel player for Don Gibson's earliest RCA records )Can't find his name at the moment), Curley Williams' steel man that wrote "Georgia Steel Guitar", Leon McAuliff and misc. others all preceeded my identification of JERRY BYRD.
I made it a point to learn every recorded steel guitar instrumental that came out plus all of the intro's and solo's of the STAR VOCALISTS of the era.
That's how I learned the various tunings and stylings and fret board.
THEN........I discovered Mr. Byrd and 'that sound'was forever etched into my cranium. |
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James Kerr
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Scotland, UK
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Posted 29 Sep 2012 12:24 pm
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I found the recording no trouble, just go to the Jerry Byrd Fan Club page and scroll down 2 inches to the bottom and there it is, and great to listen to.
James. |
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Stuart Legg
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Posted 29 Sep 2012 1:06 pm
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| Well "shiver me timbers" |
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Billy Tonnesen
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R.I.P., Buena Park, California
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Posted 29 Sep 2012 2:43 pm
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Ray:
I met Curly Williams Steel Man when they passed through So. Calif. in the 40's. He went under the name name of "Boots Harris". I don't know what his true first name was. Thanks for the info on your influences. Most of them were also mine. Gene Autry''s steel player Frankie Marvin also made me want to play Western Music even though he just played fills.
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Ray Montee
From:
Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 29 Sep 2012 4:19 pm Right on!
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Sorry I overlooked Gene Autry's steel man. His playing altho' very limited, certainly was a dominate sound back in those early days of steel guitar. I NEVER knew his name.
Boots Harris is the name that refused to come to the front of my brain when posting my earlier respose.
He also did SATURDAY NIGTH RAG and Bar B.Q. Rag as I recall.
I was always lucky as the bandleaders for whom I enjoyed playing as a youth, demanded at least one new instrumental number each week. I had over 100 such sunes.........and they helped in a giant way, to learn the steel guitar fret board and tunings. |
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Daniel Policarpo
From:
Kansas City
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Posted 30 Sep 2012 2:01 am
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| Ray, that is an amazing site! You have certainly widened "this guys" scope and perception of steel guitar. Someday I will visit Hawaii, too. Thanks! |
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