The Steel Guitar Forum

I remember Mr Rugg playing that Franklin at the convention in 90, and complimenting Paul Sr.on the sound of his guitar during his set.I believe I ordered mine from Sr.either that year or the following.I hung out with my friend girl ,Sue Parkhouse from England,rest her soul.....what wonderful memories .

Erv, if you check out the Nashville Pro videos that have Mike Johnson, you will see him playing a black Franklin. I assume he uses it when recording? Also, I think the Red Emmons is a Lashley LaGrande, but could be wrong about that.

Tore might Be better to see if we could guess which steel u were playing honestly I couldn’t I here any difference. Just sounded like a playback or loop Next time I listen I’ll use my hereing aids.. But I did here a beautiful tone congrats

Mike records with a Franklin. Greg, "The Lighthouse," was a Show-Pro, on the cd with various steelers called, "The Show-Pros,"

Mike´s "famous red" is a 1982 push pull w/ orig BL 705´s. He cares very much for that guitar - he´s had it for many, many years. He doesn´t fly it to gigs - he brings a LLG for those occasions. He records w/ his Franklin. When you get to hear him pick at the Station Inn he mostly picks the 1982 PP.

to me the 2nd sample sounds best, nice low end growl, singing highs... it will also work best in a band context. just m h o.

Eddy Dunlap wrote:Mike records with a Franklin. Greg, "The Lighthouse," was a Show-Pro, on the cd with various steelers called, "The Show-Pros,"

Stellar tone IMO. Very similar sound to his Classic "I never go around Mirrors"


Just a Great player, nice set of hands on that guy, The Lighthouse has that cool intro , where you can really here the richness of the sound , by itself.

Cool on the Show Pro.

Greg

Some years ago Clem Schmidt came out with a modification to a p/p pull that eliminated the slack that you have to have in some of the changer rods in order to both raise and lower a string.
According to Clem, he installed that mod on Mike Johnson's guitar.
Does anybody know anything about that?
Erv

Erv, Do not know anything about that but just want to inject that I think sound track #2 was the clearest even though I still do not know what guitar it was. J.R.

J R,
I saw Clem demonstrating that mod on the internet.
He had the mod covered up so you couldn't see what was done to the guitar, so that's all I know about it.

I, like Henry, prefer the sound of No. 3 for my tastes. Warm and rich tone. All 3 are very nice.