Teach Your Children -- with me on PSG

Jon Light · Post by **Jon Light** » 2 Mar 2004 4:04 pm

Congratulations, Bill. That sounds really nice and I expect that you must feel proud.

Charlie Wallace · Post by **Charlie Wallace** » 2 Mar 2004 4:20 pm

Hey Bill,
Good job! Just enough Jerry to suggest the original and plenty of great tone.

David Doggett · Post by **David Doggett** » 2 Mar 2004 5:20 pm

Oh...now I hear what Jerry was trying to do. That's gorgeous, Bill. If that is the rough cut, I can't imagine how good the final will be. On the other hand. You may have mixed in the steel the way we love it, but those boys singing might say, "Hey, the steel is stealing the show!"

Bill Llewellyn · Post by **Bill Llewellyn** » 2 Mar 2004 5:30 pm

Yeah, the steel is loud

but I did the mix so the band members could hear the steel well in the three key places (intro, bridge, and outro) and pick my playing apart. (They already have ideas for improvements.) It does kind of jump out of the speakers at you.

b0b, I guess I recorded direct, indirectly.

David Cutter · Post by **David Cutter** » 2 Mar 2004 6:56 pm

Bill
Very nice! I don’t think I have ever heard anyone cover that song. The steel is way cool. I bet the J Man is grinning.
Best of luck!
David

Doug Earnest · Post by **Doug Earnest** » 3 Mar 2004 6:56 am

I'll add my congratulations for a job well done by the whole band. That's one of my favorite songs. As someone suggested on here before, I think its time we all listened to the words also.....

BobG · Post by **BobG** » 3 Mar 2004 7:09 am

Great job!..you nailed it.

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David Doggett · Post by **David Doggett** » 3 Mar 2004 10:07 am

Bill, the mix is perfect. Don't mix that steel down, and fight like heck to keep them from mixing it down. I think one of the reasons steel has supposedly lost popularity is because these days Nashville mixes the steel down until it sounds like it's being phoned in from the next county. An upfront steel part is a revelation for a lot of modern listeners.

Gene Jones · Post by **Gene Jones** » 3 Mar 2004 10:15 am

The current commercial approach to the steel guitar isn't all bad, at least from a financial standpoint.

One season with a theater show paid me for a new steel and a new amplifier, plus, carpeted my entire house which made my wife very happy, and was a legitimate deduction on my tax return....

......and no one ever knew that I was there!

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Tony Prior · Post by **Tony Prior** » 3 Mar 2004 11:28 am

Really nice..Jerry would be proud !

Thanks for posting the tune, it brought back some great memories..

Sometimes we all get so wrapped up in trying to play the difficult stuff when it is quite apparent that the simple stuff may be an equal challange , to capture the feel and essence of the song as you did is not to be taken lightly..

excellent playing..

"It's not how many notes we play but how well we actually play the notes !"
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Bill Llewellyn · Post by **Bill Llewellyn** » 11 Mar 2004 7:28 am

I sent the demo link to friends and family members who live near and far. One responded with this comment:

I've always really liked that song, and your version sounds really good. What does the steel pedal guitar sound like? (It would be cool if you could send me your track so I could hear it.)

Hmmm.

I think I'll do a custom mix with the PSG panned mostly to the left and the band mix mostly to the right. That will make my playing embarassingly exposed, but it should help make it clear which instrument the steel actually is in the mix.

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Gordon Black · Post by **Gordon Black** » 11 Mar 2004 3:45 pm

Bill, great job! Reminds me of what drew me to the steel in the first place. Love it!

Bobby Lee · Post by **Bobby Lee** » 11 Mar 2004 5:02 pm

Bill, you need to bring a CD of everything but the steel part to the jam, so that you can give us all a mini-concert performance!

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Bill Cook · Post by **Bill Cook** » 12 Mar 2004 12:51 pm

BEAUTIFUL

Chuck Walker · Post by **Chuck Walker** » 13 Mar 2004 10:44 am

Bill, for those of us new to the instrument, your demo is truly inspirational. I can only hope to be as accomplished after five years! I moved to Wyoming from Portola Valley back in '96 after spending 30 years with HP. Wish we had both come to the PSG a few years earlier and could have gotten together. Please post purchase info on this CD when it is finally released. Terrific job!!! Chuck

Bill Cook · Post by **Bill Cook** » 16 Mar 2004 5:08 am

Bill,
Do you have a Tab on this? Would love to get one. Thanks,
Bill.

Bill Llewellyn · Post by **Bill Llewellyn** » 16 Mar 2004 7:32 am

Gosh, I'm just tickled by the positive comments here. Thanks very kindly, folks!

Chuck, the band I'm doing the session work for is called SDC. They don't have an official website yet, but I put up an unofficial starter page at http://www.rahul.net/thinker/sdc - I will post when the CD is complete both on that page and on the Forum (prob'ly on Events and Announcements).

Bill Cook, I didn't do the tab (I've actually never done tab before), but somewhere on the Forum somebody mentioned that they did tab out this song. I'll do a search for it....

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Bill Llewellyn · Post by **Bill Llewellyn** » 16 Mar 2004 7:36 am

Bill, you can find the tab here:

http://users.interlinks.net/rebel/steel/1970.html

Ron Shepard · Post by **Ron Shepard** » 16 Mar 2004 9:13 am

Bill, that was awesome.

Ron Shepard · Post by **Ron Shepard** » 16 Mar 2004 9:15 am

Bill, that was awesome.

Bill Cook · Post by **Bill Cook** » 16 Mar 2004 12:09 pm

Bill,
Thanks Much.

Like your version better than JG. Much cleaner. Super Job.
Thanks Again,
Bill.

Bill Cook · Post by **Bill Cook** » 22 Mar 2004 7:43 am

BUMP TO TOP

Until I can figure out how to save this!!!

Kevin Hatton · Post by **Kevin Hatton** » 22 Mar 2004 2:02 pm

This is funny. I can just see Garcia looking at us and laughing to himself. He was one of a kind.

Mel Culbreath · Post by **Mel Culbreath** » 22 Mar 2004 6:31 pm

Absolutely great!
Love it.

Mel

Earnest Bovine · Post by **Earnest Bovine** » 21 Jul 2004 10:41 pm

Tomorrow I have to do a sound-alike of "Teach Your Children". Should I take the green guitar, the black guitar, the blue guitar, the brown guitar, the red guitar, or the orange sunshine?