Pedal Steel featured in a truck commercial

Charlie Rose · Post by **Charlie Rose** » 24 Feb 2015 11:17 am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVH5SNuFWBI

Recently got hired to play steel for a commercial. It just went live! They did a pretty good job, though the audio doesn't always match the video. Probably the only ones who will notice are on the forum anyway

Rick Barnhart · Post by **Rick Barnhart** » 24 Feb 2015 11:32 am

Very cool

Dave Bertoncini · Post by **Dave Bertoncini** » 24 Feb 2015 1:32 pm

Great job...lots of the steel. Right truck too

Richard Keller · Post by **Richard Keller** » 24 Feb 2015 1:45 pm

Great playing Charlie. What amp and speaker are you playing through?

Dale Rottacker · Post by **Dale Rottacker** » 24 Feb 2015 2:22 pm

Way cool, and yeah, the right truck too!!!

Jon Light · Post by **Jon Light** » 24 Feb 2015 2:41 pm

cool!

J R Rose · Post by **J R Rose** » 24 Feb 2015 3:06 pm

Having the same last name just does not make me sound that good Charlie, HA-HA. Good job, nice tone. Sounds like a Fender tube amp and JBL's?? Proud for you, J.R. Rose

Mark Eaton · Post by **Mark Eaton** » 24 Feb 2015 4:30 pm

That was excellent. Best truck commercial ever...and I see they have one featuring the banjo as well, though there is a lot of dobro in it.

Rick Stratton · Post by **Rick Stratton** » 24 Feb 2015 5:27 pm

Excellent!

Ron Funk · Post by **Ron Funk** » 24 Feb 2015 7:03 pm

Congratulations Charlie - hope that commercial gets national airtime.

Sure helps us all to have some positive exposure of the instrument we all so dearly love.

(Hope they gave you a new truck !!)

Rick Campbell · Post by **Rick Campbell** » 24 Feb 2015 7:56 pm

Charlie,

What an honor being chosen to be the ambassador to introduce steel guitar to the mass public. If this commercial gets national airplay, it may be the only chance some people have to ever see or know anything about a steel guitar. We all get asked too often "what is that thing?" Your playing was excellent and I think you represent our community well.

RC

Charlie McDonald · Post by **Charlie McDonald** » 25 Feb 2015 2:53 am

It must take advertising to put the steel guitar out there.

Charlie Rose · Post by **Charlie Rose** » 25 Feb 2015 11:25 am

Richard Keller wrote:Great playing Charlie. What amp and speaker are you playing through?

Thanks! It is an original '68 Twin Reverb in a head cabinet through 2 Eminence 15's in Tommy Huff cabs. one is a Delta lite 15 and the other is a EPS 15C. I usually use just the EPS with this head, but it was a good excuse to use both!

Charlie Rose · Post by **Charlie Rose** » 25 Feb 2015 11:28 am

Thanks for the nice comments everyone! Didn't get a truck out of the deal but supposedly will get a cut of residuals so share it with your friends, if it goes viral I'll make a big donation to the forum

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Charlie McDonald · Post by **Charlie McDonald** » 25 Feb 2015 12:02 pm

I'll sure do it, Charlie.
That's a great ad, a public service announcement about pedal steel--
factual about the guitar, authentic in every way, and the perfect presenter.
And some people will think that guy's actually playing that thing.

Joseph Carlson · Post by **Joseph Carlson** » 25 Feb 2015 12:43 pm

Very cool video!

They did one about the banjo too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MVjIvkbzZQ

Dan Najvar · Post by **Dan Najvar** » 25 Feb 2015 12:55 pm

Very cool!! Sharing now.

Charlie McDonald · Post by **Charlie McDonald** » 25 Feb 2015 2:10 pm

Joseph Carlson wrote:They did one about the banjo too

I thought you were j@king.

Ray Montee · Post by **Ray Montee** » 25 Feb 2015 4:01 pm

Steel Guitar in 'a good light'!

Nice performance.........
Glad to see/hear our favorite instrument put forth in a good light. Thanks to you...........

Tony Tipton · Post by **Tony Tipton** » 25 Feb 2015 5:26 pm

That's just too cool , Charlie !

John Booth · Post by **John Booth** » 25 Feb 2015 5:57 pm

Excellent Buddy.

chris ivey · Post by **chris ivey** » 6 Mar 2015 1:59 am

now if they'd just make one with jack playing steel in a jack-in-the-box commercial!

Don Griffiths · Post by **Don Griffiths** » 12 Mar 2015 2:34 pm

Very Nice! Is 4000 the magic number on YouTube that triggers royalty payments?
If so I smell a rat. I watched it 5 times and the views counter seems stuck on 3999 views!
Yeah, nice tone and nice playing Charlie. Proud to be part of this forum.

Rick Schmidt · Post by **Rick Schmidt** » 12 Mar 2015 11:31 pm

Very cool!

Ricky Davis · Post by **Ricky Davis** » 13 Mar 2015 6:17 am

Wow a nice little discography about the steel guitar.
I hope you got a new Ram truck out of the deal bro??
Ricky

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