April 17, 2016
Hello all,
Thank you for the nice comments.
1) I have no tracks or tablature for these melodies. They are in my head after having listened to Lloyds melodies on tapes, CDs, VHS and youtube videos for many years, and many hundreds and hundreds of times. (my wife asks me why I listen to and play the same over and over again? :-)
I even studied Lloyds playing in 10 or 20 seconds bites, listening to if it is a wound or a plain string that is used, and of course relating to what was played just close before that, and what is played after.
This is what gives Lloyds seemless melody lines, which are so elegant and musically meaningful (just like a theme with varitions by Mozart or Haendel).
2) The Zumsteel Stage One is not just a student model any more. Now it is a fully grown lightweight ecocomy model
with 3 foot and 4 knees, aluminum neck and humbucking pickup and more . . .
Speaking of the pickup, it can be bought from Doug Earnest, builder of Stage One Steel Guitars, to upgrade older models more that 10 years old. This pickup is only 17 millimeter high and special made for the Stage One.
This pickup (see photo) demand no cutting, milling or routing in the steel guitars body.
You can order it from him here
http://www.stageonesteelguitars.com/
doug@stageonesteelguitars.com
The sound of the Stage One with this new pickup and the aluminum neck, has a nice middle tone, a tasteful treble tone, and a nice overall destinctive yet rounded tone.
3) My pedal steel guitar students often begins a lesson asking "Why does it sound week when I play, and strong and precise when you play?"
I tell them: "You have to press harder down on the steelbar to add energy to the playing string. Also add a little slow tastful vibrato with the steelbar: one millimeter to the left and one millimeter to the right.
4) The small noise on some of the recordings is just wind getting into the microphone.
The summer over here in Denmark is not what it used to be.
If I may exaggerate: The summer lasts only one month here, and is made out of: a little sun, a little rain and a little wind :-)
On the 2 days I recorded these demos, there was fortunately no rain, but some wind that my recording equipment did not like all the time.
But just ignore that and enjoy the music.
5) To liste to more Lloyd Green music: * * * Pedal steel player Walter Stettner has made an appreciation website for Lloyd, take a look at
www.lloydgreentribute.com
Best regards
Henning K.
