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Topic: Moody Blues |
Larry R
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Navasota, Tx.
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Posted 4 Jan 2006 5:13 pm |
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I was in a music store today and the conversation went like this, "Yea I've heard a pedal steel before. The Moody Blues had a lot of it on one of their albums back in the 80's I think".
Does anyone know if that's true and if it is, would it be worth me trying to get a copy of the CD? I don't know which songs or CD had steel on them. |
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Jason Schofield
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Posted 4 Jan 2006 5:50 pm
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| I've been a big fan of the Moody Blues and there isn't any steel that I can recall. They used the Mellotron for those big string sounds. Their first 5 albums were fantastic. |
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Jim Cohen
From:
Philadelphia, PA
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Posted 4 Jan 2006 7:23 pm
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I've never noticed any steel on any Moody Blues tunes. (And, if you'll pardon the shameless promotion, I'll mention that I have cut a steel guitar instrumental version of "Nights in White Satin" on my CD, "Four to the Bar", available here on the Forum.) We now return you to your regularly scheduled thread.  |
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Michael Johnstone
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Sylmar,Ca. USA
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Posted 5 Jan 2006 4:19 am
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No steel - just lots of mellotron. Your guy's a knucklehead. Mellotrons were cool tho - a sort of analog tape based precursor to a modern digital sampler. Kinda like 63 echoplex tape cartridges driven by a keyboard. I worked on a couple and they broke down all the time.
-MJ- |
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David L. Donald
From:
Koh Samui Island, Thailand
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Posted 5 Jan 2006 7:50 am
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Yeah, the only Moody Blues tune I have ever
heard steel on is Jim's version,
and it is very nice too.
But in my producers imagination,
I wish they HAD used steel sometimes,
I think it would have fit. |
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HowardR
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N.Y.C.-Fire Island-Asheville
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Posted 5 Jan 2006 10:02 am
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And just for your information, Jim's satin is 65% rayon, 35% acetate..... 
you vant velvet? we got velvet! |
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Stephan Miller
From:
Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
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Posted 5 Jan 2006 11:37 am
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| Steve Howe played pedal and non-pedal steel with Yes-- people sometimes get the two bands mixed up. |
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Chuck Fisher
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Santa Cruz, California, USA * R.I.P.
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Posted 6 Jan 2006 9:14 am
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| or they were thinking of Pink Floyd. Lotsa Lap there... |
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 6 Jan 2006 9:23 am
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| Or maybe Procol Harum? |
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