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Topic: Lloyd Green/ Dale Watson. |
Barry Gaskell
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Cheshire, UK
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Posted 21 Jun 2007 3:05 am |
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Recently listened to Dale Watson's album "Little Darlin' Sessions". I know Dale and Lloyd weren't overly happy with the results, due to their wishes for editing and mixdown involvement being denied, and they were keen to overdub a few parts.
I must say the steel playing is superlative and inventive. Lloyd has taken the steel from the original Paycheck/Darlin' tracks, (which were innovative in their time, and still fox a lot of steel players now, me included) and weaved around them beautifully, bringing the original playing back to life, with an empathetic feel for Dale's singing.
It's not the usual country steel sound and tone, it has that Jimmy Day 'feel' to it. Magic !.  It also leaves you thinking, 'how on earth did he do that. Speed is also not neglected, an it's also done with due skill and cleanness in the right places.
A lesson in how to play the steel guitar.
Love it-----Love it-----Love it 
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Brandon Ordoyne
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Needville,Texas USA
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Posted 21 Jun 2007 7:32 am
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I have the CD as well, and I can listen to it over and over. Dale is my all-time fav! and a great singer in concert, and an overall nice guy. I know they didnt care for the CD, but, I recommend it for anyone who enjoys the steel "magic" 
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b0b
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Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Posted 21 Jun 2007 7:38 am
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One of the most amazing things about Lloyd's playing is that non-musicians hear it as "normal" steel guitar music. He does things that totally blow my mind, but when I play his tracks for non-players, they just hear it as good music. The closer you listen, the more you hear.
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Ben Rubright
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Punta Gorda, Florida, USA
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Posted 21 Jun 2007 10:44 am
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| You said it so well B0b. In 1995, Lloyd was at the ISGC in StL. One of the songs that he played was "Sweet Memories". I recorded it out of the air using a cheap little tape recorder. I have played it over and over.....hundreds of times. Each time I play it, I hear something in it that I had not heard any of the previous times. It is filled with wonderful Lloyd Green nuances. I wish that it would show up on YouTube some time so that I could see it as as well as hear it again....not to mention all those that were not at the convention. |
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erik
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Posted 21 Jun 2007 1:50 pm
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| b0b wrote: |
| One of the most amazing things about Lloyd's playing is that non-musicians hear it as "normal" steel guitar music. He does things that totally blow my mind, but when I play his tracks for non-players, they just hear it as good music. The closer you listen, the more you hear. |
Those same people would say that about Bach.
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Bent Romnes
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London,Ontario, Canada
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Posted 21 Jun 2007 2:27 pm Lloyd Green
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[quote="erik"]
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| One of the most amazing things about Lloyd's playing is that non-musicians hear it as "normal" steel guitar music. He does things that totally blow my mind, but when I play his tracks for non-players, they just hear it as good music. The closer you listen, the more you hear. |
Amen, Eric!! To me, Lloyd is a musical genius, nuff said.
b0b: That is because Lloyd is clean, precise and, although tough for a steel player to copy, or even learn halfway, it is understandable for the average person.
Just listen to two of Lloyd's old Lp's: Mr. Nashville sound and Cool Steel Man. Songs like "Take these Chains from My Heart" and "Too much of you", sound beautiful and very understandable to non-steel players. At the same time, they were intricate enough for a steel player to try and learn, and tear his hair out in the process. I did exactly that.( That's why I am balding today!)
"The more I listen, the more I hear"
True again. I recently had occasion to have my old Lloyd LP's transferred to CD. Things I missed 30 years ago, I hear today. It is simply amazing how beautiful it sounds even though this is 40 years after he did the recording. Today we are striving to get that sound. The sound that he got with his Sho-Bud fingertip and a Fender Twin reverb, miked, we are trying to get with our Nashville 1000's and Mosvalve 500 +++.
That is why I say that sound is 99% in the hands.
Let me repeat: The man is a musical genius. |
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Tommy Young
From:
Ethelsville Alabama
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Posted 21 Jun 2007 7:10 pm Lloyd
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| Lloyd always blows my mind especially when i got to try and emulate all those licks he does and i rarely ever get them right he is a musical genius for sure TOMMY |
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