Stones and Steels

[Godfrey Arthur]

Albert Lee playing non-pedal steel on a Heads Hands And Feet song.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v41oBFBFIVo

Sure was some fine pickin' on the steel!

Albert never ceases to amaze.

[Jim Fogarty]

There's no way that's Pete on that version of Wild Horses. It sounds nothing like him except for the "Fender-y tone".

You're kidding, right?

Some of those lines and all of that style is Pete, to a T.

Most likely, it was a very loose session, with lots of substances and very little guidance or charting involved.

[Roger Rettig]

Pedal steel on HHF tracks was probably Gerry Hogan. He certainly played ontheir album called 'Tracks'.

[Jonathan Shacklock]

There's no way that's Pete on that version of Wild Horses. It sounds nothing like him except for the "Fender-y tone".

You're kidding, right?

Some of those lines and all of that style is Pete, to a T.

Most likely, it was a very loose session, with lots of substances and very little guidance or charting involved.

Agreed! Although Gram doesn't directly state it was Pete, he details his own involvement in the LA overdub session here. I don't know if Pete was into the substances but it's obviously him playing.
https://youtu.be/ABtba2TYpr8

Also see 2nd entry from 1970 page on Nico Zentgraf's Complete Rolling Stones site. http://www.nzentgraf.de/books/tcw/1970.htm

[Joachim Kettner]

Pedal steel on HHF tracks was probably Gerry Hogan. He certainly played ontheir album called 'Tracks'.

Yes and Fred's link shows Tony Colton on keyboards done by Albert in the studio before. It's playback.

[Roger Rettig]

I just watched Arthur's link to HHF playing 'Harlequin'. That is Gerry Hogan's steel part from the recording. Albert's miming.

[Fred Treece]

Thanks for that, Roger and Joachim. I was wondering about some of those pedal-esque sounds Albert was getting there. And I just figured Tony did something besides sing and play tambourine. Something tells me he might have been the babe magnet of the group too...