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Topic: Rock Mountain High - pedal Steel ?? |
Kevin Raymer
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Chalybeate, Kentucky, USA
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Posted 21 Sep 2014 5:34 pm |
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Listening to John Denver yesterday, feeling nastalgic, and I swear at the end of rocky man high I heard a pedal steel..
Anybody know who that was ??
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Kevin Raymer
Zum / Knaggs / Breedlove
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Jim Park
From:
Carson City, Nv
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Posted 21 Sep 2014 6:56 pm Re: john denver steel
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| I believe it is Eric Weissberg |
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Fred Amendola
From:
Lancaster, Pa.
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Posted 22 Sep 2014 4:11 am
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| Red Rhodes on that one. |
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Richard Sinkler
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aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 22 Sep 2014 9:26 am
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Eric Weissberg is the only steel player listed on the "Rocky Mountain High" album. I always thought it was Eric too. But it wouldn't be the first time someone was left out of the credits.
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Steve Hinson
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Hendersonville Tn USA
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Posted 22 Sep 2014 12:42 pm
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| I believe it's Eric Weissberg...he played on"Take Me Home,Country Road"and it sounds like the same guy. |
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robert kramer
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Nashville TN
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Posted 22 Sep 2014 1:49 pm
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No steel listed on "Rocky Mountain High" - probably an oversight by Praguefrank. Does sound like Weissberg on "Rocky Mountain High" and I doubt he would have missed John Denver session. Weissberg was the first call steel man in NYC in the '70's. I didn't know they cut Denver in NYC.
http://countrydiscography.blogspot.com/2011/05/john-denver-part-1.html
4 February 1971 RCA Victor Studio, 1133 6th Ave., New York City – John Denver & Fat City (John Denver [vcl/gt], Mike Taylor [gt], Eric Weissberg [steel/banjo],Richard Kniss [bass], Gary Chester [drums], Frank Owens [piano] + Bill Danoff, Taffy Nivert [bck vcl]. Producer: Milt Okun)
044 APA1-4514 TAKE ME HOME, COUNTRY ROADS 74-0445/LSP-4499 60768-2
12 April 1972 RCA Victor Studio, 1133 6th Ave., New York City – John Denver (musicians similar as below. Producer: Milt Okun)
069 BPA1-5732 SPRING 74-0829/LSP 4731
070 BPA1-5733 ROCKY MOUNTAIN HIGH 74-0829/LSP 4731 60768-2
April 1972 RCA Victor Studio, 1133 6th Ave., New York City – John Denver (John Denver [vcl/gt], Paul Prestopino [gt/mandolin], Russ Savakus [bass gt/violin], Richard Romoff [bass gt], Herbert Lovelle/Ted Sommer [drums], Max Pollikoff [violin], Paul Griffin/Stan Free [piano/organ] + horns. Producer: Milt Okun)
071 MOTHER NATURE'S SON LSP 4731
072 PARADISE LSP 4731
073 FOR BABY (FOR BOBBIE) LSP 4731 [prob. remix or overdub:] CPL1-0374
074 DARCY FARROW LSP 4731
075 BPA1-7139 HARD LIFE, HARD TIMES (PRISONERS) 74-0801/LSP 4731
076 SUMMER LSP 4731
077 FALL LSP 4731
078 WINTER LSP 4731
079 LATE WINTER/EARLY SPRING (WHEN EVERYBODY GOES TO MEXICO) 74-0801/LSP 4731
Here's some info on RCA in NYC - first at 110 W. 44th Street and after 1968 at 1133 6th Ave.
http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/anyone-have-any-info-re-rca-studio-a-in-nyc.316756/ |
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chris ivey
From:
california (deceased)
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Posted 22 Sep 2014 2:42 pm
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| so...what does fred know that he's sure it's red rhodes, who would have been on the west coast? |
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Steve Hinson
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Hendersonville Tn USA
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Posted 22 Sep 2014 3:50 pm
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| Bob,those liner notes state"similar as below"on the session for"Rocky MT.High"...maybe where they came from they were reversed and they meant"above"...the two records are very similar sounding...just sayin'... |
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Steve Hinson
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Hendersonville Tn USA
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Posted 22 Sep 2014 3:51 pm
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| Bob,those liner notes state"similar as below"on the session for"Rocky MT.High"...maybe where they came from they were reversed and they meant"above"...the two records are very similar sounding...just sayin'... |
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Richard Sinkler
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aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 22 Sep 2014 4:28 pm
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Allmusic.com lists Eric in the credits on the "Rocky Mountain High" album.
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Fred Amendola
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Lancaster, Pa.
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Posted 22 Sep 2014 5:07 pm
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| I must have been messed up on that one. Slept too many nites ! |
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robert kramer
From:
Nashville TN
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Posted 23 Sep 2014 4:26 am
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Hey Steve – I know that is funny how Praguefrank listed that. Usually a discography reads “same as above personal†or “similar as above personal.†I didn't know Denver was first cut in NYC. I would have thought L.A., too. Reading up on it: Denver's producer was Milt Okun who produced Peter Paul & Mary – The Chad Mitchell Trio – The Brothers Four. Denver came up from those folk groups hence Milt Okun / NYC. On “Rocky Mountain High†Weissberg’s part starts @ 2:54. A characteristic of his style is how he pedals off the 3rd string.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOB4VdlkzO4 |
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