Posted: 2 Mar 2004 4:04 pm
Congratulations, Bill. That sounds really nice and I expect that you must feel proud.
Hey Bill,
Good job! Just enough Jerry to suggest the original and plenty of great tone.
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Posted: 2 Mar 2004 4:20 pm
Posted: 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!" 
Posted: 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.
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.
Posted: 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
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
Posted: 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.....
Posted: 3 Mar 2004 7:09 am
Great job!..you nailed it.
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Posted: 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.
Posted: 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!
www.genejones.com <FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Gene Jones on 12 March 2004 at 04:31 AM.]</p></FONT>
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!
www.genejones.com <FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Gene Jones on 12 March 2004 at 04:31 AM.]</p></FONT>
Posted: 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 !"
t<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Tony Prior on 03 March 2004 at 11:32 AM.]</p></FONT>
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 !"
t<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Tony Prior on 03 March 2004 at 11:32 AM.]</p></FONT>
Posted: 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 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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Hmmm.<SMALL>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.)</SMALL>
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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Posted: 11 Mar 2004 3:45 pm
Bill, great job! Reminds me of what drew me to the steel in the first place. Love it! 
Posted: 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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Posted: 12 Mar 2004 12:51 pm
BEAUTIFUL
Posted: 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
Posted: 16 Mar 2004 5:08 am
Bill,
Do you have a Tab on this? Would love to get one. Thanks,
Bill.
Do you have a Tab on this? Would love to get one. Thanks,
Bill.
Posted: 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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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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Posted: 16 Mar 2004 7:36 am
Posted: 16 Mar 2004 9:13 am
Bill, that was awesome.
Posted: 16 Mar 2004 9:15 am
Bill, that was awesome.
Posted: 16 Mar 2004 12:09 pm
Bill,
Thanks Much.
Like your version better than JG. Much cleaner. Super Job.
Thanks Again,
Bill.
Thanks Much.
Like your version better than JG. Much cleaner. Super Job.
Thanks Again,
Bill.
Posted: 22 Mar 2004 7:43 am
BUMP TO TOP
Until I can figure out how to save this!!!
Until I can figure out how to save this!!!
Posted: 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.
Posted: 22 Mar 2004 6:31 pm
Absolutely great!
Love it.
Mel
Love it.
Mel
Posted: 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?