Near the Cross on my Rickenbacher B6 (postwar) -video-

Daniel Baston · Post by **Daniel Baston** » 27 Nov 2021 1:04 pm

Beautiful!

Dale Rottacker · Post by **Dale Rottacker** » 27 Nov 2021 1:06 pm

A favorite song of mine, done beautifully Sebastian.

John Burton · Post by **John Burton** » 27 Nov 2021 4:47 pm

Wow!
Nicely done and that Rick sounds great.

Doug Taylor · Post by **Doug Taylor** » 27 Nov 2021 5:44 pm

Nice, I have loved this hymn for many years. Thank you

Mike A Holland · Post by **Mike A Holland** » 28 Nov 2021 2:09 am

Just wonderful Sebastian. Loving the tone and even sustain from this instrument. Also great sensitive playing. Excellent!

Joe Cook · Post by **Joe Cook** » 28 Nov 2021 8:29 am

Really lovely playing and tone! Your videos are done so well. Keep 'em coming Sebastian.

Scott Thomas · Post by **Scott Thomas** » 28 Nov 2021 9:20 am

That made my morning! Hymns are such a natural for the steel guitar, and the gospel catalog of Sol (and Bud Tutmarc for that matter) often get overlooked, but such lovely playing.

I enjoy your playing as always, Sebastian!

Steve Cunningham · Post by **Steve Cunningham** » 6 Dec 2021 3:23 pm

Beautiful playing Sebastian! I love the little bit of breakup in your tone...what are you playing through?

Levi Gemmell · Post by **Levi Gemmell** » 6 Dec 2021 7:53 pm

Beautiful, Sebastian. I second the emotion that it's joyous to hear you on a bakelite guitar, and overdue too! Our instrument has diverse styles, and I agree with Scott that these particular ones are too easily missed.

I love to see you show some of the biggest idiosyncrasies of the steel guitar - whether it's the slow, emotive slurs, the rapid trills which fluctuate in speed, or the purity of tone to which many of us strive.

Don Kona Woods · Post by **Don Kona Woods** » 6 Dec 2021 10:49 pm

Aloha Sebastian,

As others are saying this hymn has a special meaning to me also and your playing the hymn on your Rickenbacher was so nahe nahe - soft and sensitive. Mahalo nui.

I met you some years back in Hawaii.

I owned the same Rickenbacher S-6 and sold it to a young Hawaiian lady who is a student of Alan Akaka. I wanted my guitar to have its home in Hawaii. She loved it.

Joe Elk · Post by **Joe Elk** » 7 Dec 2021 5:34 am

Nice Sebastian!!!!
Joe Elk Central Ohio