Here's me playing with P!nk on Ellen

Matt Kelly · Post by **Matt Kelly** » 25 Apr 2017 1:01 am

https://youtu.be/XXCb6_x74ZU

What a trip this was. My friend Dallas (City and Colour, my main gig) is close friends with Alecia (P!nk) and they made a record together a few years back and asked me to play on it. Most of the songs are just the three of us. Never thought playing pedal steel would lead me to playing on the Ellen show with a pop star! Strange world.

Hook Moore · Post by **Hook Moore** » 25 Apr 2017 1:33 am

Good job Matt !

Mark Eaton · Post by **Mark Eaton** » 25 Apr 2017 3:24 am

Way to go Matt, congratulations!

And I loved the tune - I think I will buy the CD - beautifully done.

Jon Light · Post by **Jon Light** » 25 Apr 2017 3:35 am

Nice!

Jeff Mead · Post by **Jeff Mead** » 25 Apr 2017 4:13 am

That's great. I'll have to track down a copy of that. I'm a fan of P!nk's pop/rock stuff - she's a great singer/songwriter/performer - but had no idea this existed.

Very tasteful steel playing too.

Glenn Demichele · Post by **Glenn Demichele** » 25 Apr 2017 5:16 am

Ellen went right for the steel player at the end...

Tim Herman · Post by **Tim Herman** » 25 Apr 2017 5:47 am

Very nice. What a great opportunity. You all nailed it. Great song.

Dick Wood · Post by **Dick Wood** » 25 Apr 2017 5:54 am

WOW,how cool was that! Keep livin the dream and have fun.

Earnest Bovine · Post by **Earnest Bovine** » 25 Apr 2017 8:37 am

very well done!

Earnest Bovine · Post by **Earnest Bovine** » 25 Apr 2017 8:37 am

very well done!

Gregory Mills · Post by **Gregory Mills** » 25 Apr 2017 11:56 am

Beautiful by all!!

Allen Hutchison · Post by **Allen Hutchison** » 25 Apr 2017 2:54 pm

Great job on a beautiful tune.

Rondall Jones · Post by **Rondall Jones** » 25 Apr 2017 8:31 pm

WOW, I'm jealous.......PINK is so sexy.
Not so much in that dress but...Awesome job Matt.

Stu Schulman · Post by **Stu Schulman** » 26 Apr 2017 6:44 am

Matt,How very Awesome!!

Matt Kelly · Post by **Matt Kelly** » 26 Apr 2017 9:15 am

Glenn Demichele wrote:Ellen went right for the steel player at the end...

If only it always worked like that.

Steve Pawlak · Post by **Steve Pawlak** » 26 Apr 2017 1:43 pm

Bravo Matt!!

Craig Stock · Post by **Craig Stock** » 26 Apr 2017 3:09 pm

Great job Matt!,

Great song, great performance and another GFI on tv, seems to be a trend.

You should be proud!

Paul Stauskas · Post by **Paul Stauskas** » 26 Apr 2017 6:50 pm

Awesome Matt!

Frank Agliata · Post by **Frank Agliata** » 26 Apr 2017 7:03 pm

Very tasteful, though you should have been spotlighted a bit more and given a solo!

Great job . . Nice GFI too!

Tim Windsor · Post by **Tim Windsor** » 26 Apr 2017 8:22 pm

Nailed it! To digress just a little, you look like a tall dude Matt- do you have leg extensions on your GFI?

Roger Miller · Post by **Roger Miller** » 27 Apr 2017 5:51 pm

Matt....Matt.. really nice, I'll be looking at the other vids also.

Walter Stettner · Post by **Walter Stettner** » 28 Apr 2017 10:03 pm

Wow! All I can say is I Love It!

Congrats, Matt!

Kind Regards, Walter

Damir Besic · Post by **Damir Besic** » 29 Apr 2017 10:56 am

that is great.... the only way steel guitar is going to survive is if it gets accepted by styles other then country (or whatever that garbage is what they call country now days)....

Matt Kelly · Post by **Matt Kelly** » 29 Apr 2017 11:37 am

Tim Windsor wrote:Nailed it! To digress just a little, you look like a tall dude Matt- do you have leg extensions on your GFI?

Good eye, yeah. Had to boost everything about 3". Now I fit under it, but it's such a light guitar and now that it's even higher off the ground, sometimes when I use LKL or RKR, the whole guitar moves instead of the lever, haha.

Damir Besic wrote:that is great.... the only way steel guitar is going to survive is if it gets accepted by styles other then country (or whatever that garbage is what they call country now days)....

I think you're probably right. I love playing traditional country, but it's always a good challenge trying to find ways to fit steel guitar into other genres.

Imagine a day where the average person actually recognizes a pedal steel when they see one on stage! Twice on the last tour I was on, I was asked if I was playing a theremin.

Damir Besic · Post by **Damir Besic** » 29 Apr 2017 11:41 am

good luck with that lol ... last gig I played was a sports club near Nashville, at the end of the night waitress asked if I was playing a dulcimer .... $:\$

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