What's your favorite PSG phrase/riff/fill?
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Tom Brumley's turn around on "Together Again".
J.D. Maness' turn around on "Misty".
Bobby Garrett's turn around on "Oklahoma Hills"
Bobby Garrett on "Rose City Chimes".
Just to name a very few.
Almost forgot the "God Father" of Pedal Steel,
Bud Isaacs, whose Take Off and Turn Around on "Slowly" sent every steel player in Nashville to the "Wood Shed" trying to learn to play like Bud.
The rest is history.
The Waltz You Saved For Me, Bud's Bounce and Steelin' Home just to name a few, are still played 60
years later.
J.D. Maness' turn around on "Misty".
Bobby Garrett's turn around on "Oklahoma Hills"
Bobby Garrett on "Rose City Chimes".
Just to name a very few.
Almost forgot the "God Father" of Pedal Steel,
Bud Isaacs, whose Take Off and Turn Around on "Slowly" sent every steel player in Nashville to the "Wood Shed" trying to learn to play like Bud.
The rest is history.
The Waltz You Saved For Me, Bud's Bounce and Steelin' Home just to name a few, are still played 60
years later.
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Really cool thread. It's cool to hear what turned everyone's head.
For me it would have to be way BE moves from the G to G minor in the verse to his version of Wichita Lineman, sliding back two frets on strings 5 & 6 and adding A & B pedals. So snaky, cool, and ... backward.
That's the tune and the lick that FORCED me to buy a steel the same day I first heard it. Thanks eternally, Buddy.
For me it would have to be way BE moves from the G to G minor in the verse to his version of Wichita Lineman, sliding back two frets on strings 5 & 6 and adding A & B pedals. So snaky, cool, and ... backward.
That's the tune and the lick that FORCED me to buy a steel the same day I first heard it. Thanks eternally, Buddy.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5Bc2xi-_rU
At 1:26 right at the chorus Pete Drake plays the most perfect lick ever. Right after "stand by your man" that 3 to 4 chord half step thing. The most simple, obvious and effective musical move possible. Its like Bruce Lee's one inch punch.
Pete Drake's steel part in Dylan's "Lay Lady Lay" is way more than a lick too.
If I could only listen to one pedal steel thing over and over again forever it would be "Blue Jade" from the black album by Buddy Emmons. I feel like I am ready to die happy every time I hear it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFXp2irVSkQ
At 1:26 right at the chorus Pete Drake plays the most perfect lick ever. Right after "stand by your man" that 3 to 4 chord half step thing. The most simple, obvious and effective musical move possible. Its like Bruce Lee's one inch punch.
Pete Drake's steel part in Dylan's "Lay Lady Lay" is way more than a lick too.
If I could only listen to one pedal steel thing over and over again forever it would be "Blue Jade" from the black album by Buddy Emmons. I feel like I am ready to die happy every time I hear it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFXp2irVSkQ
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I was trying to think of the best Tommy Detamore solo on Doug Sahm's "The Return of Wayne Douglas", then I realized that practically every track just had me goin' "OHHH YEAHHHHH!!!" Those rides just burn in my brain with their unbelievable steelness.
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Talk about commercial fill licks on PSG here they are, just about everybody copied these. You gotta listen to the whole song. The solo is short and vanilla but the rest you gotta learn.
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P.S. It's on one of Jeff's early tabs!
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P.S. It's on one of Jeff's early tabs!
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Oooeee!! Finally, someone agrees with me that Red Rhodes deserves a mention in despatches when discussing some of the best psg playing of all time. Agree with everyone's assessment of BE, but Red Rhodes has to be up there with the best, if only for his unique, innovative style.
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I'm with Mark Van Allen on this - and Wichita Lineman turned my head completely. Prior to that, most pedal steel I'd heard had been distinctly country-flavoured and, as I wasn't very fond of the genre, didn't do much for me.
I just loved that song, though - Glen's version, then Ray Charles' take on it. Buddy's on Ray's record, of course, and to hear pedal steel weave its way seemingly effortlessly through those changes just blew me away. I HAD to have a steel after I heard that!
Then, of course, there's that fabulous descending line Emmons plays on Ray's 'I Feel So Bad' over the '5' and '4' chords in his solo!!!! The whole break is terrific and full of tension but he ends it by absolutely nailing that lick.
I just loved that song, though - Glen's version, then Ray Charles' take on it. Buddy's on Ray's record, of course, and to hear pedal steel weave its way seemingly effortlessly through those changes just blew me away. I HAD to have a steel after I heard that!
Then, of course, there's that fabulous descending line Emmons plays on Ray's 'I Feel So Bad' over the '5' and '4' chords in his solo!!!! The whole break is terrific and full of tension but he ends it by absolutely nailing that lick.
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Here's a couple of my faves from Tubb songs, featuring Buddy Charleton~ (sorry for the "commercials")
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gftgmypDMWs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkBpqEEeLGU
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gftgmypDMWs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkBpqEEeLGU
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That solo is among the highest order of the art, in my opinion. Can't think of a superlative that even comes close to describing it. Never ceases to amaze. And it fits that goofy novelty tune to a tee.chris ivey wrote: buddy emmons' solo in the middle of roger miller's 'tall, tall trees'.
And Roger hired the guy to play the bass. Go figure...
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just found this and can't stop listening.
I love the classic country jams but greg's simple lines sounds so hip on this tune.
http://youtu.be/-3bMERyIUWo
I love the classic country jams but greg's simple lines sounds so hip on this tune.
http://youtu.be/-3bMERyIUWo
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I don't want to sound cliche' but the steel riff that made me fall in love with the instrument in the first place was nothing other than " Night Life" that chord progression does it all for me. There are thousands ( if not more ) great steel parts, but the Night Life intro is my favorite hands down. Second place to Hughey's "look at us"
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Add this one to Buddy Charleton's list....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNUfFh4ikf0
The break comes at 1:40
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNUfFh4ikf0
The break comes at 1:40
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Weldon's solo on George Strait's version of "Right or Wrong", Buddy Cage's solo on "Contract" by NRPS, Tom Brumley on "I Sang Dixie" by Dwight Yokam, Sneaky Pete on Little Feat's "Six Feet Of Snow & that turnaround on The Gatlin Brothers "Houston" although it is not a solo.
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Here's the song "Touch Me" by Danni Leigh with a great steel solo by Steve Hinson;
www.youtube.com/watch?v=af3fIsXNjF8
www.youtube.com/watch?v=af3fIsXNjF8
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Fave Riff...
Lloyd Green's ending solo on "Nothing Can Hurt You" from Ricky Skaggs' Highways & Heartaches record.
1982, I was into metal at the time and this record introduced me to a whole new world! Tried to learn Lloyds's solo on a 6-string guitar as a PSG was out of the question.
The solo just sounds so perfect for the song. Did I read somewhere that it was a one take??
1982, I was into metal at the time and this record introduced me to a whole new world! Tried to learn Lloyds's solo on a 6-string guitar as a PSG was out of the question.
The solo just sounds so perfect for the song. Did I read somewhere that it was a one take??
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Is there a book, CD or DVD that gives good instruction on backing up a vocalist?
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Jackson Steel Slideking LS 6-string with pitch change hand pedal, tuned Open E
Jackson Steel Sho-Bro 7-string dobro with EDGE hand pedal pitch changer, built by Buddy Emmons and Shot Jackson himself in early 70's, tuned Open E
Hand pedals above take you from the I to the IV.