Opry TV portion June 23

Janice Brooks · Post by **Janice Brooks** » 21 Jun 2001 9:37 pm

Bill Anderson will host
David Ball
Coley McCabe
Hal Ketchem

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Janice Brooks · Post by **Janice Brooks** » 23 Jun 2001 2:15 pm

Jack Stoner · Post by **Jack Stoner** » 23 Jun 2001 2:23 pm

Never heard of Coley McCabe. Hal Ketchum I can do without. But, since I tape it I can always fast forward....

Ron Whitworth · Post by **Ron Whitworth** » 23 Jun 2001 4:56 pm

Hi Jack;
Might as well fast torward the WHOLE thing..Nashburg must have got to David Ball.
He now wears NO hat & no honkky tonk song either..Just MHO...Later Ron

Mike Weirauch · Post by **Mike Weirauch** » 23 Jun 2001 5:17 pm

I like Bill Anderson, always have and always will. David Ball's singing and the song was good, no honky tonkin, just a good song. Coley McCabe might be great in the back seat of a car but she was totally out of place on the Opry stage. That was horrible, and that outfit would take a can opener and a shoe horn to get her out of it. Hal Ketchum should confine himself to coffee shop gigs or poetry readings and spare us his grief. Good shots of Tommy and an almost good shot of Teresa filming Hal baby!!!!!!

Janice Brooks · Post by **Janice Brooks** » 23 Jun 2001 5:17 pm

At least we could see if not hear that Tommy and Donna were there. Coly did not impress me
and the new female artests are realy competitive now with the likes of Jamie O'Neil and Tammy Cochran

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Leigh Howell · Post by **Leigh Howell** » 23 Jun 2001 5:25 pm

The best part of the show tonight was Tommy playing the Dobro, and Bill Anderson whispering a song called "Too Country"

Leigh

Bill Sampler · Post by **Bill Sampler** » 25 Jun 2001 5:51 am

I watched the Opry. Can't say much about Coley McCabe though. I like Bill Anderson. The 'Too Country' song he sang is also on Brad Paisley's new CD. Who is the female steel player that was playing for Bill Anderson? She is very good!

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Lem Smith · Post by **Lem Smith** » 25 Jun 2001 12:39 pm

Bill, I didn't see the show, but Bill's steel guitarist is Donna Hammitt. She sometimes post here on the forum. I first heard Donna back in the early 80's when she was probably around 12 or so. She was awesome then, so I can only imagine how well she plays now.

Lem

Austin A. Preston · Post by **Austin A. Preston** » 25 Jun 2001 5:26 pm

Believe me,she's still Awesome!!!

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Jack Stoner · Post by **Jack Stoner** » 26 Jun 2001 3:15 am

I got to watch the tape last night. Ron, you are right - the fast forward was used quite a bit.

Being a dirty old man, I did check out Coley McCabe.

I personally find the matchbro effect is much better if the steel is played like a dobro instead of just turning it on and using it as an effect for the pedal steel.

Dave Robbins · Post by **Dave Robbins** » 26 Jun 2001 8:43 am

Jack
"AMEN! on the "dobro effect!"

Dave[This message was edited by Dave Robbins on 26 June 2001 at 09:46 AM.]

Neil Flanz · Post by **Neil Flanz** » 27 Jun 2001 10:54 am

Re thinking dobro when using a "Matchbro", it's an absolute MUST.

Re the Opry, just a suggestion. I wait until around 11 o'clock when the second show is underway and most of the younger people that are featured on the tv.portion have gone home. I then tune in W.S.M. a.m. online and practice playing along with Charlie Louvin, Jeannie Sealey,Little Jimmy Dickens, Bill Anderson, Stonewall Jackson, Ray Pillow, Charlie Walker,Jean Sheppard and all of the artists that helped create the Opry and sing and play what I call "Real" country music.

Jack Stoner · Post by **Jack Stoner** » 27 Jun 2001 2:34 pm

I don't want to start a controversy but I put that comment on there as one steel picker I heard Saturday night appeared to be using a MatchBro but was not playing dobro or PedABro licks - just plain pedal steel licks.

Also sounded like a lot of reverb or delay, which is another no-no for dobro.

Billy Johnson · Post by **Billy Johnson** » 28 Jun 2001 7:05 am

In defence:
Sometimes a musician has to play what the boss wants, no matter how silly it may sound.
Been there,done that.(& probably will again)

Dave Robbins · Post by **Dave Robbins** » 28 Jun 2001 8:48 pm

Billy,
your absolutly right! Afterall, we have to make the "Boss" happy. The Boss isn't always right, but they're always the Boss. I almost got fired one time for not playing a "wolf whistle" just the way my Boss thought it should be done!(a wolf whistle is a slide played on the steel that sounds like someone whistling at a "pretty girl) Had nothing to do with the way I played, or did it?

If you don't want to have to live with something, sometimes it is best if you just don't ever do it the first time!

Dave

Billy Johnson · Post by **Billy Johnson** » 29 Jun 2001 12:14 am

Dave, how about the session we worked where the guy wanted the the under water sound? Thank god he wanted it to come from your steel and not my guitar.

Jack Stoner · Post by **Jack Stoner** » 29 Jun 2001 2:59 am

I agree with what y'all are saying. One band I worked in, I had to have a phase shifter as the band leader wanted me to use it in the break on one particular song.

But, with the "play it like the session" world today I doubt that the specific reference I made was done that way on the session.

Dave Robbins · Post by **Dave Robbins** » 29 Jun 2001 10:15 am

Billy,
now you've done it! I had almost forgotten about that session. Thank God the "underwater lick" never made it to tape! But, I'll be living that down for the rest of my life, especially everytime I see Jim Ungar! I don't think he will ever forget that one. Sometimes after seeing Jim I have night mares where I'm being attacked by giant whale "f**ts"

It's amazing what they want you to do in the studio sometimes.Where do they come up with some of the ideas they get?

Dave[This message was edited by Dave Robbins on 29 June 2001 at 11:16 AM.]

Gary Harris · Post by **Gary Harris** » 30 Jun 2001 6:56 pm

David Ball has made a huge mistake if he continues to present himself as he did on the Opry. When he finished his song I had to ask myself, "Who was that guy"? It is a little late in his career to market himself differently in my opinion. I liked the old David Ball.