The Steel Guitar Forum

Ricky Davis wrote:Thanks Tim; are you talking about the Trucking Sessions that has this song on it>

https://youtu.be/YWxFfx-7oL8

That’s the one!

OH Ok; then if you don't have or haven't learned it yet...Here's the Tab I did for it after I recorded it in 1997..ha...

yeeeehaaaa.... go to it.
Ricky

Thank you Ricky, I will get to work on that.
Good luck, and good truckin’ ... tonight!

Good players don't need effects. Maybe a pinch of reverb so it isn't so dry sounding. Great players don't even need knee levers to sound awesome. Lloyd Green comes to mind. He's played on a few records himself.

Used your settings on my twin Reverb, Ricky.
That is a great tone setting ,and what I have been searching for.

Thanks for sharing,Dirk Edwards

I would have never guessed bright switch up, and no mids??

Awesome Dirk; glad to hear it. Our Steel guitars already have natural Mid-range frequency to them; and when you "ADD" Middle frequency to the full outgoing sound; you get highs and lows brought together moreso and you lose that hearing the separation between highs and lows; which is so important when you have moving notes in a chord...etc.
Ok with your new settings; here's another advantage of what you can do subtly with Tone. Same settings; move your pickin hand about a hand distance, "closer" towards your bar hand. Now you will hear a more "warmth" in delivery, but still including the clarity of your amp settings...yeeehaaa.
Same thing now with moving your pickin hand a hand distance towards changer; and now you have a "IN YOUR FACE" old style honky tonk, 60's bite your head off and turn your reverb up a notch....BAM!!!! And all this NEVER TOUCHING YOUR AMP... Now you get to find out just how sensitive your guitar is with positions...
Have fun....crank it up...and go to it !!!!!
Ricky

Thanks so much for the help.
Cant wait to get home everyday and practice with new
tone on twin!! ,and hand technique!!

What the hell do I do with my reverb,digital pedal
board??

Thanks Dirk

What the hell do I do with my reverb,digital pedal
board??

Give it to ANY Guitar player; they can't play a note without all that Digital CRAP!!!ha....LOL>
Ricky

Ricky is 100% right about the right hand. If you want to go to Bakersfield, move your hand closer to the changer. If you want a nice mellow tone with lots of color in it, move your hand to the left some. I like close to the changer for Waylon/Mooney sound. I use "NO" mid settings also. No use for it. I have no use for effects, other than Reverb. I am a firm believer in the Steel Guitar Black Box. It is a God sent for solid state amps.

Thanks !!!Now if I can get the Children in the band to turn down

Dirk, I corrected a error in my post. I had Bar hand which was wrong. I meant right hand, sorry.

Thanks Kevin!

Ricky what about the vibrato setting for reverb?

Subjective too like reverb?

I meant Twin reverb

WEll to me; Reverb setting is Preference on what you are trying to deliver.
I like this>
https://youtu.be/J2Qd0762EpY
which is Dicky Overbey on his LDG through Fender Twin. Everyones twin will have a different delivery per number; just always been that way....but knowing what you want; you figure out the number that fits it.

Ricky

Holy @#$% that beautiful!!

Thanks Ricky

Here's one too:

https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/v ... ction=view

Gotta love anything Dicky played; Ever and forever.
Ricky

I'm always interested in hearing a player's story of how they got into playing the steel. Ricky how and what age did you start? Was the steel your first instrument or did you start on a 6 string or piano or something else?

Well John; long story short..ha. I was at college on Gymnastics scholarship and got hurt so gave the scholarship away and came back home to Austin and started teaching gymnastics in 1980 (I was 18.
My younger brother was taking guitar lessons and I wanted to play music too; I loved country music and loved the steel guitar sound; so I took it up. I was lucky; my neighbor was Tom Brumley and he helped me get started with how to play. I turned into a highly competitive elite gymnastics coach all through the 80's and steel guitar was my hobby; then in '88 I had a kid on the Olympic team and at that time I decided I was now good enough on Steel guitar to play in bands and start touring and gave up teaching Gymnastics and became full time Musician and been that way ever since. I was very fortunate that most every band I was in; was original singer/songwriters and didn't have anything to copy and had to come up with my own steel guitar improv to fit and had some great mentors to help me with that> Herb Steiner; Jr. Brown, of course Tom Brumley; Gary Carpenter Jimmy Day; Lloyd Green.
Ricky

I like this one??


https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_cont ... e=emb_logo

Played last night with new settings!!! Sounded great!!

So Sad, is one of my favorites of Lloyd Green. Lloyd is my favorite player for color and tone. To me, he is a massive player of touch and tone!!! I stared on a six string, back in the early 60's. I always loved the sound of the Steel Guitar. I started on a six string lap Steel in 1980. two years later I bought a Maverick and the rest is history. Had no teachers in my area back then. Had to learn by ear.

Hey Ricky!! Next door to Tom Brumley. What a treat that had to be!!!

Well Kevin it was. And a life long treat of Friendship with him and his wife Rolene; who I still talk to weekly. One of the last things Tom did before he passed away...He and Rolene sat just to the right of me all night to listen to me play Pedal steel on the huge night of 20 or so singers on Buck Owens Birthday Bash at continental club in Austin. He had a big smile on his face all night...Mom Brumley told me how proud he was to listen to me play everything he played from those days. It was a dream come true. Another tribute; was when Tom passed; you know his Dad was Albert E. Brumley that wrote all those famous Gospel songs. Well we cut a Albert Brumley song on a Cracker Barrel Artist series as last song and in A-Capella with Linda Lay and her group and we played it that sad day; but it reminds us where Tom is and what Heaven will look like when we meet there again>
Here is that exact Albert Brumley Song>
https://youtu.be/-io0lNHzhP8
Ricky
P.S. there's no steel guitar on this last song; but its me playing steel guitar and Dobro all over this album by Linda Lay.

Ricky what is your opinion of peavey sessions 400??

I have two twins one with ev's and the other with
oxfords.
Thinking about adding peavey??

Thanks Dirk