The Steel Guitar Forum

A friend of mine is one of the Doobie's guitar techs. He got my sweetie and I tickets to see the band a few years ago at Fiddler's Green in Denver. John played through a Music Man 130 head with a 2 X 12" cab with EVM 12L's. I can't remember what kind of steel he played though. He also played guitar and fiddle.

I saw Clover open for The Dead many years ago. They were a cool little band.

Air America Radio had an interview with the bass player from the Dead as he is hawking a new book about the group. Al Franken asked about the pedal steel and the comment was made that Jerry Garcia played steel but there were other steel players hired for sessions. Also, I believe the musicians either received credit on the album with less pay or more money with no credit. Maybe someone that heard the entire broadcast can jump in and clarify this?

Scott,
Not to get all anal about it,although what else is the internet for?

"there's a movie called 'Fillmore' which documents the closing of the Fillmore West in 1974."

Actually,it was summer 1971.The Dead and New Riders played on 2 July 1971.

"Jerry sits in with the New Riders during soundcheck and plays Cage's Emmons guitar."

Jerry was still the steel player then.Cage didn't join until November 1971.Don't know about the guitar.

"He definitely still had chops in '74, and he's got the palm-blocking thing down."

He played some real pretty steel on the "Wake Of The Flood" album,recorded in 1973.That album is a real gem.

Lest we forget.

Pride Of Cucamonga

Lyrics: Bobby Petersen
Music: Phil Lesh

Out on the edge of the empty highway
Howling at the blood on the moon
Big diesel Mack rolling down my way
Can't hit that border too soon

Running hard out of Muskrat Flats
It was sixty days or double life
Hail at my back like a shotgun blast
High wind chimes in the night

Oh, oh, pride of Cucamonga
Oh, oh, bitter olives in the sun
Oh, oh, I had me some loving
And I done some time

Since I came down from Oregon
There's a lesson or two I've learned
By standing in the road alone
Standing watching the fires burn

The northern sky it stinks with greed
You can smell it for miles around
Good old boys in the Greystone Hotel
Sitting doing that git-on-down

Oh, oh, pride of Cucamonga
Oh, oh, silver apples in the sun
Oh, oh, I had me some loving
And I done some time

I see your silver shining town
But I know I can't go there
Your streets run deep with poisoned wine
Your doorways crawl with fear

So I think I'll drift for old where it's at
Where the weed grows green and fine
And wrap myself around a bush
Of that bright whoa, oh, Oaxaca vine

Yes it's me, I'm the pride of Cucamonga
I can see golden forests in the sun
Oh, oh, I had me some loving
And I done some time
And I done some time
And I done some time

Sometimes it's more than the instrumentation.



EJL<font size="1" color="#8e236b"><p align="center">[This message was edited by Eric West on 23 July 2005 at 01:28 PM.]</p></FONT>

Songs have words associated with them? I never noticed.