Your favorite Pete Drake?

[Duane Becker]

As long as we are on a favorite Pete Drake lic, can someone id this intro? I think it's Pete Drake, but not sure, but to me it would be my favorite Pete Drake intro.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odZv1zGQURA

[Greg Cutshaw]

Duane, that song sounds like a cross between Buddy Emmons and Pete Drake. But when I close my eyes, all I can hear is Johnny Paycheck’s singing style through George Jones. Great song.

[Duane Becker]

Thanks Greg, I thought about Emmons, some touches of him there, you may be right. I've heard Pete do some pull offs on some lps I have which led me to thinking it was Pete.

[Steve Hinson]

As long as we are on a favorite Pete Drake lic, can someone id this intro? I think it's Pete Drake, but not sure, but to me it would be my favorite Pete Drake intro.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odZv1zGQURA

I believe this is Walter Haynes...

SH

[Duane Becker]

Thanks Steve

BTW: Anyone know how to play this intro???
I'd like to see tab of it!

[Greg Cutshaw]

Slowed it down and will tab it out. Sounds like he is using the 3rd string open hammer with the B pedal.

Note in the tab below when you hammer off the 3rd string at the 2nd fret, hold the B pedal on!


Tab in pdf format

[Duane Becker]

Thanks Greg, I'll give it a try

[Joe Goldmark]

Dan Kelly posted:
My favorite is "Nashville 1 A.M." which he played with Harvey Mandel... Psychedelic Pete Drake! Betcha never heard this one! Smile

Very cool!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGfPPckJnSc

The last third is all Pete but the engineer could have broken his wrist with that panning!

Joe

[Bob Hoffnar]

I love so much of Pete Drakes playing. His work on Nashville Skyline on songs like “tonight I’ll be staying here with you “ is pure genius on how to use the natural sound of the steel in context.

My absolute favorite Pete Drake lick is going from the 3 chord to the 4 chord in the beginning of the chorus in the tune “stand by your man”. It’s the most simple and perfect phrase ever ! Just a half step gliss with nothing else. I love when they call that tune and I get to play those 3 chords. That tune would not be the same without that perfect declarative musical move.

[Joe Rogers]

Joe Stampley Whiskey Talkin....pure Drake perfection.

https://youtu.be/7GV8zbBRvLA?feature=shared


Joe Rogers

[Richard Alderson]

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[Richard Alderson]

Dear Joe - I am really excited to see this copedant for C6th. I hate the D on top, and I am going to go back to G which is how I learned playing C6th straight up no pedals. I can't get used to the re-entrant string. But for this copedant of Pete Drakes, what else would the fifth pedal do if you are raising 1 string high G to A? This thread is supposed to be about Pete Drake not C6th copedants, so if you prefer you can send a private answer or we can start a different thread on this topic in the Pedal Steel section.

[quote="The secret to getting those beautiful chimey E9th sounds was to raise the high G string up to A with the fifth pedal.
At first the norm for P5 was, at first, to drop it to F#.
And then it became popular to raise it to G# (before replacing the high G with the D caught on).

But raising the G to A, the fifth and sixth pedals can then be used like the E9th A and B pedals.
Changing the C E G triad on top to C F A.
The licks and sound can be approximated on the E9th, but not entirely imitated.[/quote]

[Brendan Mitchell]

This into on Bob Dylan’s Take me as I am was possibly the first thing I worked out myself on steel guitar. I still like it
https://youtu.be/wOsOw5d5818?si=g6GEdo-DHcUgqIHb

[Brendan Mitchell]

sorry double post

[Bill C. Buntin]

Many of the Pete drake licks that we all have heard are very tasty and effective things. I went through a time where I tried using those techniques regularly. Most band leaders recognize the licks as just commercial steel sounds. They don’t necessarily know we are copying Pete. My favorite or one of my favorite Pete drake things is the work he did with Hank Thompson. Much of Pete’s work there was kind of a-typical. Definitely not cliche by any means. Listen to his quirky ride on “mama don’t allow”. It’s unique. Peculiar and just certainly Pete drake.

[John Larson]

Many of the Pete drake licks that we all have heard are very tasty and effective things. I went through a time where I tried using those techniques regularly. Most band leaders recognize the licks as just commercial steel sounds. They don’t necessarily know we are copying Pete. My favorite or one of my favorite Pete drake things is the work he did with Hank Thompson. Much of Pete’s work there was kind of a-typical. Definitely not cliche by any means. Listen to his quirky ride on “mama don’t allow”. It’s unique. Peculiar and just certainly Pete drake.

Paul Franklin had a good comment on how Pete would always play very fundamental groupings. Paul talks about it in the vid showing what he played on Vince Gill's "When I Call Your Name" and where he got the ideas from some Pete Drake ideas.

[Joe A. Roberts]

Here's a great vid from 1961 with Roy Drusky, "I Can't Tell My Heart That"
He plays all his stock C6th licks behind Roy, and during the solo there's a shot of the whole band where you can see Pete picking away on that back neck of his Sho Bud permanent:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USJDEkSSJ4E