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Topic: Pure Prarie League/Poco |
John Ummel
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Arlington, WA.
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Posted 24 Jul 2005 9:09 am |
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Saw the PPL/Poco show At Marymoor Park on Seattle's east side Friday evening. Fats Kaplan did a really nice set with Pure Prarie League. They played plenty of the early stuff that originally featured John Call on steel. Fats played an Emmons S-10 and got the licks just right on my personal PPL favorite, "Tears"...
When Poco came on I saw that Rusty Young's steel was still sitting back behind the drums. He fronts the show and was playing a synth guitar and did some of the later Poco songs to open the show. He switched to mandolin, then to lap steel and then next thing you know, the pedal guitar is front and center and Rusty playing beautifully. Next thing, he put the steel back aside and they did some vocal features in which Rusty did a great job singing the Timothy B. Schmidt parts. To end the show the lights went down and came back up with Rusty's pedal steel once again front and center and playing the beautiful intro for "Heart of the Night" played all in harmonics and the sound man had it dialed in perfectly. Great show. |
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Bruce Bouton
From:
Nash. Tn USA
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Posted 24 Jul 2005 6:23 pm
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| Was Rusty playing his Carter? |
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John Ummel
From:
Arlington, WA.
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Posted 24 Jul 2005 8:03 pm
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Yep,
Rusty had a Carter S-10 3&5. Amazing how quickly he grabs that thing , moves it to the front of the stage, gets a mike set and ready to go...couldn't tell what his lap steel was. Also be curious to know if anyone knows about the electric guitar he was playing. I kept hearing a "string section" like a synth part, and only just the two guitars, bass and drums. Finally realized it was Rusty's guitar. You'd hear a guitar sound first and then the strings kinda swelling up 'behind'...that mixed with Paul Cotton's Strat and they really have a big sound. The Carter steel sounded great. I believe he used a sitar bar on one intro. And like I said the harmonics on the intro of Heart of the Night were beautiful. I wanted to hear more steel, but Rusty had his hands full and does a fine job fronting the band. |
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Paul Honeycutt
From:
Colorado, USA
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Posted 24 Jul 2005 9:14 pm
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I worked as stage hand and ran lights for Poco a year or so ago. The guitar is a Godin. It has electric pickups, a piezo bridge for acoustic sounds and a synth pickup. I was really impressed with it, especially the acoustic sounds. It sounded better then the thinbody electric/acoustic Paul Cotton played. But Paul's electric sounded killer. As much as I liked them, I wished Rusty had played more pedal steel.
I can't remember what he used for a lap steel. Was it a chrome Rickenbacker, maybe? |
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John Ummel
From:
Arlington, WA.
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Posted 25 Jul 2005 6:10 am
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| Thanks Paul, for the info on the Godin guitar. It really sounded good. Yea, I sure wanted to hear more steel. The lap steel did look like a metal body. He only played it once. All in all though Rusty did a great job. |
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Chris Forbes
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Beltsville, MD, USA
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Posted 25 Jul 2005 8:26 am
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| I just saw that show when they both rolled through Virginia last week. PPL was so good it was unreal. I talked to Fats for a bit, real nice fella, real tasty picker. |
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