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Topic: Junior Brown Pedal Guit- Steel |
Fred Treece
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California, USA
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Patrick Thornhill
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Austin Texas, USA
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Posted 29 Nov 2020 11:54 am |
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I was wondering when we’d finally see (hear) it in action!
Pretty sweet.... |
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Nicholas Cox
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Posted 29 Nov 2020 2:02 pm
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Would love to try that thing out!  |
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Andrew Goulet
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Posted 29 Nov 2020 5:02 pm
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So cool! Just think of what he's going to be able to do with pedals...
A slight digression: my old band opened for Junior Brown a few years ago (when he still had the guit-steel), and at that time I was playing a Fender 400 that I had set up for standing. I had given up my volume pedal because I didn't see a way to make it work!
I went up to Junior to have him sign the end of my steel guitar, above the changer screws, and the first thing he said was "Hey now, is this for me?"
Then I asked to take a photo with him on my smartphone and he said, "I hate these f****** things." He and Tanya were really funny and kind.
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Marlen S12 pedal steel
12 string Bill Hatcher lap steel
ZT Club and Lunchbox |
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Per Berner
From:
Skovde, Sweden
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Posted 29 Nov 2020 11:00 pm
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| W O W ! |
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Dom Franco
From:
Beaverton, OR, 97007
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Posted 30 Nov 2020 6:19 am
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In the video it seemed like he had to crouch a bit to play the standard guitar, that could be a problem. It also looked difficult to play a guitar held in a static position, when most of us are used to being able to swing and sway a bit as we strum and pick...
And lastly having to flip it up and down makes it take too long to switch smoothly from steel to guit.
I sometimes double on steel and tele, and it works fine to just sit down behind the steel and have the guitar strapped around my neck and shoulders as usual. (I do have it positioned a bit higher than normal but it works)
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Andrew Goulet
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Posted 30 Nov 2020 7:08 am
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He was pretty quick switching with the original guit-steel, although he didn't have to lift a neck up. I agree about the static neck, but he's been playing guitar on a stand for years so it's normal for him.
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Marlen S12 pedal steel
12 string Bill Hatcher lap steel
ZT Club and Lunchbox |
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Doug Clark
From:
Maine, USA
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Posted 30 Nov 2020 12:44 pm
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This just popped up in my Facebook videos today. Somehow I knew somebody would beat me to posting it here. 
It reminded me I haven't signed in here for over two years, and I missed it. Incentive to also drag out the SX Lap II, which might have been languishing for a coupla' years, too.  |
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Jeff Mead
From:
London, England
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Fred Treece
From:
California, USA
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Posted 1 Dec 2020 7:29 pm
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| I didn’t find that out until after I posted, Jeff. I wondered why it got so few responses. Ah well, this is for those of us who missed it the first time around |
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Ron Shalita
From:
California, USA
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Posted 1 Dec 2020 7:34 pm
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No knee levers... like playing with half a steel ..
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Been playing all of my life, Lead Guitar, and Pedal Steel, sing Lead and Harmony.. play other Instruments also but I hate to admit to it.. |
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Dustin Rigsby
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Parts Unknown, Ohio
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Posted 6 Dec 2020 6:56 am
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| Ron Shalita wrote: |
| No knee levers... like playing with half a steel .. |
But,he’s all Junior Brown !
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Fred Treece
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California, USA
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Posted 6 Dec 2020 10:44 am
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| True, Dustin. But as Jeff says, he apparently rarely plays it live. It may be in the “failed experiment” lab, or still a work in progress. It’s a brilliant idea. Just a PITA to play. |
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Bill McCloskey
From:
Nanuet, NY
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Posted 6 Dec 2020 10:50 am
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| He sounds much better on straight steel . This is a swing and a big miss for me. |
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Bob Carlucci
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Candor, New York, USA
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Posted 6 Dec 2020 10:51 am
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meh.. He doesn't need pedals, OR 10 stings... The music he made with his original GuitSteel was beyond sublime. My opinion?- The pedals will merely get in the way.. He should do what he always has done, and maybe leave that pedal steel/6 string setup as a studio tool... bob
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I'm over the hill and hittin'rocks on the way down!
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Jeff Mead
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Posted 6 Dec 2020 11:56 am
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| Fred Treece wrote: |
| True, Dustin. But as Jeff says, he apparently rarely plays it live. It may be in the “failed experiment” lab, or still a work in progress. It’s a brilliant idea. Just a PITA to play. |
Absolutely. He didn't even use it when his red guit-steel was stolen, preferring to go back to his original "Old Yeller" which was in a museum while he was waiting for a new one to be built. |
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Andrew Goulet
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Posted 6 Dec 2020 4:31 pm
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I wonder how he would do with some wrist levers on the guit-steel. Even just an AB change.
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Marlen S12 pedal steel
12 string Bill Hatcher lap steel
ZT Club and Lunchbox |
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Dustin Rigsby
From:
Parts Unknown, Ohio
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Posted 7 Dec 2020 8:59 am
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| Fred Treece wrote: |
| True, Dustin. But as Jeff says, he apparently rarely plays it live. It may be in the “failed experiment” lab, or still a work in progress. It’s a brilliant idea. Just a PITA to play. |
Well, we can bloviate all we want. We’re all nit-picky musician types. Junior is a great musician as we all know. Junior Brown is a stage act....
Let me put it another way. My brother,a non-musician,called and asked me if I had seen this “new pedal guit-steel” of Juniors’ and thought it was the coolest thing he ever saw! That thing could make Junior the best all time guit-pedal steeler of all time...and some extra dough !
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