The Steel Guitar Forum

Roy,

Thanks for the vote of confidence. But, "Love In The Hot Afternoon" did have steel on it. Played by Lloyd Green.

Mike Sweeney www.freewebs.co./steelguitarmusic/

The new Julie Roberts song----"Brake Down Here" Our band just started doing that song and I added the steel. As bad as I play, everone like it a lot better. It's one of those songs that the steel just seems to play itself on.

Uhhh, let's see...

Everything Alabama ever did.
Everything Johnny Cash ever did.
Everything The Statler's ever did.
Everything Roger Miller ever did.
Everything Sonny James ever did.
Everything LeRoy VanDyke ever did.
Everything The Gatlin Bros. ever did.
Everything John Anderson ever did.
Everything Glen Campbell ever did.
Everything Lee Greenwood ever did.
Everything Jimmy Buffett ever did.
Everything Brooks and Dunn ever did.

Well, you get the idea. <FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Donny Hinson on 08 October 2004 at 08:36 PM.]</p></FONT>

.<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Jim Phelps on 17 November 2004 at 08:32 PM.]</p></FONT>

John Anderson does have a lot of steel on his albums, Emmons, Garrish, maybe some others.

John Anderson used Emmons, Sonny & Paul!
Brooks & Dun uses steel!
Lee Greenwood uses steel!

Didn't Roger Miller use Emmons?

Theresa

Theresa, Not everything Roger did had steel in it. Buddy did play on some of his stuff. The most notable album was "A Trip Through The Country". It ha all those famous Roger Miller penned songs. It is worth finding if you are a Miller fan.

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica">quote:</font><HR><SMALL>John Anderson used Emmons, Sonny & Paul!
Brooks & Dun uses steel!
Lee Greenwood uses steel!

Didn't Roger Miller use Emmons?</SMALL><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Sorry Theresa, a <font size=1>little bit</font> doesn't count!

<SMALL>Everything Johnny Cash ever did.</SMALL>

Big-time ditto!

Butch Foster, You are reading my mind.Any thing Jim Reeves did without steel would have been much better in my opinion with Bobby or Jimmy performing their magic.I remember Jim as an ornery cuss who was practically impossible to work for. Darned guy had a beautiful voice and was well accepted in spite of his arrogance which didn't come across in his recordings.
Bill

Sorry Donny, A little bit does count!

Craig, Thanks!

"For The Good Time" Ray Price

"Should I Stay or Should I Go" by the Clash...

Actually, I've never heard a stronger bass guitar.

<SMALL>"For The Good Time" Ray Price</SMALL>

Curly Chalker played steel on this one.

Regarding Bernie's playing on "Peaceful Easy Feeling," I was curious myself, even though I'd seen the band in 1972 perform it live... the memory banks are a little dim after 32 years .

Anyway, I emailed Bernie and he replied a few minutes ago, thusly:

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica">quote:</font><HR><SMALL>Herb-

Mostly finger bends- I think maybe there was one pullstring bend in there somewhere- a lot of the bends in that solo are bending the 3rd string, and of course, the pullstring is on the 2nd

see ya
bernie</SMALL><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

So there ya have it... it was both finger and bender licks.

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Jim,

Curley Chalker played rythm guitar on "For The Good Times" not steel.

Mike

Thanks Herb!

Mike, there is steel on "For The Good Times" isn't there? If so, do you know who played it?

"Lodi" by Creedence Clearwater Revival, and "The Weight" by The Band. I also second the Seger tunes mentioned. Some of the 60s truck drivin' tunes seemed to be absent steel, like "Tombstone Every Mile" by Dick Curless and "Nitro Express" by Red Simpson. I don't even think Dave Dudley's original "Six Days on the Road" had steel either, at least not the version I'm most familiar with. There are plenty of recent versions of truckin' tunes with steel, but it always struck me as odd that a lot of early versions didn't. When I think of truckin' tunes, I'm thinkin' blastin' Telecasters and steel guitar.

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"Hell Hole" by Spinal Tap.

Back then on a lot of the Eagle songs a lot of people didn't realize it but the lead player, used a Clarence White bender on his telecaster. Clarence was a bluegrass guitarist that was a way ahead of hiself. I seen the Eagles on Tv if i can remember right.Cause that was the first time i had ever seen a guitar with a Bender on it. I liked it so well that, i tired to buy a Clarence White telecaster that fender was making back then but they where to expensive. I would like to have seen Pedal steel on a lot of the 60s pop songs. People liek the four tops, and the Mills brothers and people like that didnt have that opption but there harmonies sure sounds great with the right string setups.

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"I've Done Enough Dyin' Today" by the Gatlins. I actually played on the original session and the label thought the steel made it too country so they released it without the steel. The later re-cuts for the Greatest Hits did have steel on it but I really hated being on the cutting room floor for the original.

Mike<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Miguel e Smith on 17 October 2004 at 12:41 PM.]</p></FONT>

Crazy, as done by Patsy Cline.

No Jim, there is not a steel on the original cut of "For The Good Times". Cam Mullins arranged the strings for it. And although Chalker played steel on some of Cams' arrangements he didn't on this one. He played rythm guitar on it.

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Mike Sweeney

Earlier in this thread, somebody mentioned how much they love the Buddy Emmons/Sneaky Pete version of Yesterday.

I wonder what the impact would have been if, instead of the string section, the Beatles had used a steel on the original hit record.

I heard one just last night on XM that should have had steel. "You Don't Know Me" by Ray Charles and Diana Krall. In my mind,I could just hear Buddy in the background. It would have made a good version, great.

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Darvin Willhoite
Riva Ridge Recording


<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Darvin Willhoite on 18 October 2004 at 06:03 AM.]</p></FONT>

I was watching that show last night about Ray Charles and man I thought the same thing when "You don't know me" was played. Man that song was just beggin for some sweet E9th steel guitar!

Rick