The Steel Guitar Forum

I posted this in Steel on the Web, but I guess it belongs here, as well -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGGKCT-e ... 01_9rFZKbA

It's been very interesting seeing so many threads recently that are dipping their toes into some non traditional genres and niches for the pedal steel. They've been very fun to read.

Also really enjoy some of the stuff that you all have added to the thread since I last visited, Daniel and Christopher... great stuff.

I actually found a copy of BJ coles first transparent music album at the record store last week. Sounds great. Makes me think I should work on recording a similar sort of solo pedal steel album.

anyway I found this one recently.

All India Radio: Warm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxKsEYF9ugk

As well as a few full albums up by Pedal Steel Transmision
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHCFmBRGveQ

And I enjoyed the playing with Patterson Hood

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGVv2a6XeGA

And I started a thread when My band Tower posted some new demos, but I'll add the link here cause I think most people missed it. and the people who would be most interested would be likly to visit this thread anyway. Enjoy.

https://soundcloud.com/tower-4

Wow, Christopher, that's astonishing... if you were anywhere near sight-reading that, I might as well switch back to my first instrument, slide whistle (I had it goin' on when I was 4 or 5...) And where did Pedal Steel Transmission ever come from? Does anybody know any of them? (Bryan d'Ouville, Donal Ogilvie, Gary Pyskacek, Daniel Schneider). Meanwhile, there are only TWO threads about "the death of the steel guitar" posted in the "Searching my own intestines - hey it's dark in here!" dept.

David, I had a few e-mails with Gary.
They run a label: http://cardboardsangria.com/blog/

This is the band:
http://cardboardsangria.com/blog/?page_id=27

Very interesting stuff!

As always, nice searching, Justin! Speaking of old BJ albums, I bought the first Cochise album when it was new. A few years ago, I wrote BJ and mentioned that fact. He was surprised - you DO go back a ways, he said!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uu20dJiSdA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuI3SK_JM7g

No, reports of the death of pedal steel are greatly exaggerated!

Daniel, the guitar player from Cochise, Mick Grabham was very good, he later played with Procol Harum. One of those rock guitar players, who could also play country.

Ah, weren't those the days, Joachim...

And Justin, with (a slightly early) retirement planned for next year, Lord willin', I hope to be able to devote more time to music, and would also like to develop some pieces for a recording. (One of my bands, INTRA, will be recording in January, and I'll try to post something here).

Sorta new wave, sorta country, The Triffids from Australia:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZSAqDhL-Wk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSMF3h7LE2Q

Many people on SGF know about it already, but for those that don't, forumite Bob Hoffnar did amazing work with the band Hem (tons of it on YouTube), that was around for several years and achieved reasonably good success, I understand (I think a major corporation used their music in a TV commercial). All of the steel work on Hem's recordings is Bob's. Go, Bob!

Greg Leisz is playing steel, cool playing,,,... Bad video on first one, must be an iPhone... Bill Frisell- "Strawberry Fields Forever"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7AYOnf5mvk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-to2sh3sDc4

Here's the demo of a strange tune I've been working on:

http://soundhost.net/2012/11/fuse-blue/

I apologize for the canned drums.

If you want to hear a really wide variety of steel guitar styles, you can't beat the Forum Members Showcase CD:
http://www.steelguitarshopper.com/produ ... P3-CD.html

Jackie Lomax from 1972. I'm guessing it's Red Rhodes (with members of the Band). The steel is not dominant but pretty:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWC3aC6Uav8

Joachim, it's not Red, it's John Hall.
http://www.johnhallmusic.com/john_hall_biography.html
http://www.discogs.com/Jackie-Lomax-Thr ... se/2650234

A former Congressman, no less!

Creative "noodling": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5d97qyfIYg

Thanks Daniel! The credits for "Three" were quite a revelation to me.

(Cross-posted from a concurrent non-pedal thread)

Don't forget Chris Combs with the Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey.

Holy cow. I need to get out more. I honestly thought I was the only person in the world who thought playing Beethoven's Sixth on a steel guitar was a good idea. And these guys kill it. A very large percentage of the greatest steel guitarists in the world aren't here posting on the forum - easy to forget. I wonder what they do all day?

http://www.jambase.com/Articles/23224/J ... 2-Oklahoma

http://jfjo.com/projects/ludwig/

might as well link to poppa=thread, there's some new stuff there:
http://bb.steelguitarforum.com/viewtopi ... 52#2064452

Very cool stuff, David! Thanks!

I've been playing some reggae music lately. Not a typical genre for steel guitar.

http://ReggaeRockOldies.com

It's always a highlight when this thread shoots back to the top.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eFBB_X_7mI

There is some cool lap steel work on this heavy as can be track from the desert sessions.

Thanks for all the cool new steel to listen to guys, made my day.

Justin, it is indeed something I look forward to - when I see additions here. Not sure about steel on that particular Desert Sessions tune, but there is on this one (all according to discogs.com):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0nPS4O8ZJ0

So, some lap steel is the order of the day.
Here's Elliott Sharp on "console steel guitar"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLP4gWoRm8k

And this may have been posted, but here's John Paul Jones:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzbA79ptJP8

Roger McGuinn with a nice cover of an eighties hit song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=633whHMOXWA

Mt apologies for the roughness of this but I feel like posting a video of a recent concert of a band I am working with. We are in early stages - writing and working arrangements out etc. I will most likely minimize my parts a great deal. The person who did the recording stood too close to my amp so you get to hear too much steel including a whole lot of mistakes but here 'tis.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TGAYPq7CGQ

Has anybody mentioned Intronaut? Cause this sure is slide or lap steel:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1vgw7UlS1Y

The band's name - Master Musicians of Bukkake (take off of Jajouka) - and their attire tell you not to take them seriously, but they do actually use (lap) steel in a strange context:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfdQGA-kvwo

I will add my latest steel guitar oddity here, courtesy of Robert Schumann, and some photographer friends...

http://www.pdxaudio.com/traumerei.wmv

That's really beautiful, Dave.

I was just about to say the same thing to you b0b love the reggae steel!

Someone once told me,"You don't have to wonder what a musican is thinking,you can hear it".That really shows in that piece Dave .Thanks