PSG on BBC

Michael Coggins · Post by **Michael Coggins** » 25 Sep 2014 1:13 am

Swedish band FIRST AID KIT perform on the Jools Holland Show with a pedal steel player.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHCwGkyjfZQ

Rani Platek · Post by **Rani Platek** » 25 Sep 2014 1:56 am

The pedals configuration: ABBA

Scott Duckworth · Post by **Scott Duckworth** » 25 Sep 2014 3:01 am

Video not available for the US... bummer.

Geoff Noble · Post by **Geoff Noble** » 25 Sep 2014 3:04 am

Pity that it's invisible in the mix, plenty of video shots but I couldn't hear it at all in the mix.

Maybe I need to clean my ears out

(Or take the basket off my head

)

Joachim Kettner · Post by **Joachim Kettner** » 25 Sep 2014 3:49 am

invisible in the mix

Do you see with your ears, Geoff?

Per Berner · Post by **Per Berner** » 25 Sep 2014 4:18 am

Scott Duckworth wrote:Video not available for the US... bummer.

You are not missing anything worth hearing, Scott! Their grossly exaggerated American accents and tons and tons of reverb on everything gets very boring very quickly. Over here they are on the radio every hour, luckily on channels I don't listen to.

Ian Rae · Post by **Ian Rae** » 25 Sep 2014 4:28 am

Per is right, Scott. My first thought was "Can't hear the steel!" but my second was "So what?"

Geoff Noble · Post by **Geoff Noble** » 25 Sep 2014 7:51 am

Joachim Kettner wrote:
invisible in the mix
Do you see with your ears, Geoff?

It very much depends on what mood I'm in

To be fair I had been watching an episode of the original Star Trek before listening to that clip.

Must have got the wrong idea about what they meant by,

The Final Front-Ear

Les Cargill · Post by **Les Cargill** » 25 Sep 2014 9:35 am

Rani Platek wrote:The pedals configuration: ABBA

Day? Emmons? Why not both!

William Connerley · Post by **William Connerley** » 5 Oct 2014 5:54 am

First Aid Kit will start a two month U.S. tour in New York on 24 October. They well be in Nashville at the Ryman on 29 October.

Bengt Erlandsen · Post by **Bengt Erlandsen** » 5 Oct 2014 6:57 am

The steel is in the mix but it is jammed almost to silence because the violins and orchestra plays more or less the exact same thing

Ar least thats what I hear on that clip

B.Erlandsen

Jon Light · Post by **Jon Light** » 5 Oct 2014 7:23 am

On Letterman:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owTmdfiTjIM

Probably similar arrangement and performance.
It's an act and it seems very groomed.
But I can't find anything much to complain about. The steel adds to the music but it does blend into the strings. They could have left it out without too much detriment. They chose to keep it. Good for them.

The pedals configuration: ABBA

That is funny.

Michael Coggins · Post by **Michael Coggins** » 5 Oct 2014 12:23 pm

Good to see this on Letterman, the same song they performed on Jools Holland.
The steel is not as prominent in the mix as most of us here on the forum would like, but at least it's there played live and not mimed by a 6-string guitarist with a bottleneck slide.