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Terry VunCannon
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Posted 19 Nov 2005 8:45 am |
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Last night I played the 1st job with a classic rock band that I just joined. We play material like Seeger, Stones, Beatles, Hall & Oates, Jackson Browne, Tom Petty, Eagles etc...it was a great night with the crowd partying & dancing from the 1st set on.
We ended the 2nd set with Running on Empty by Jackson Browne with me on lap steel. What a feeling. The reason that I started playing lap was David Lindley, and I had such a blast doing that tune. I was hit with a feeling of crossing a line at the end of that tune. When I first started trying to learn the lap steel, that song was a model, a kind of goal to reach for. At times, I felt like I would never get to that level. I know that I still have a LONG LONG way to go to get to Lindley level, but to play that song for a crowd that was so into it felt so good.
Has anyone else played this song out with a band, or have you ever had this type of experience with another song/artist?
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Charlie McDonald
From:
out of the blue
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Posted 19 Nov 2005 9:24 am
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| That's the tune that got me. That boy smokes. |
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Mark van Allen
From:
Watkinsville, Ga. USA
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Posted 19 Nov 2005 10:02 am
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Back before he got his first record deal, that was one of the most popular songs we played in the John Berry band. One of the few I really tried to copy as closely as possible- it's hard to imagine better phrasing than Lindley's!
It's always a thrill playing to an appreciative crowd. Seems like it wipes out all of the gigs where you were just a jukebox in the background...
My favorite is playing in an original band and looking out across the crowd to see most of them singing your lyrics along with you... that's a real high.
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Keith Cordell
From:
San Diego
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Posted 19 Nov 2005 5:33 pm
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That's my first real clear realization that steel guitar was seriously cool- and Lindley is still the player that causes me to lose complete track of everything else when I hear him.
A year or so ago I was at dinner with my wife and we were having an animated conversation about something or other and "Stay" came on the house system. She said I went slack jawed, my eyes glazed over and she had to hit my arm to get my attention back... |
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Klaus Caprani
From:
Copenhagen, Denmark
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Posted 20 Nov 2005 8:10 pm
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The slide (or lapsteel) solo in Jacksons "Late for the sky" is a study in taste and tone. Simply amazing.
I consider myself a great fan of David Lindley.
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[This message was edited by Klaus Caprani on 20 November 2005 at 08:17 PM.] |
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Brad Bechtel
From:
San Francisco, CA
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Posted 20 Nov 2005 8:56 pm
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As do I. David Lindley is probably one of my main influences in learning to play steel guitar. I saw him for the first time with Jackson Browne (with Linda Ronstadt as the opening act) at the Fullerton College gymnasium back in 1973. It was a great show! I've seen him many times since then, both with Browne, with El Rayo X, and in his duets with Hani Naser, and later Wally Ingram.
My favorite song featuring his lap steel is "Redneck Friend".
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Peter Jacobs
From:
Northern Virginia
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Posted 21 Nov 2005 6:01 am
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"Running on Empty" is why I started playing lap steel (I foolishly thought that banjo skills would translate to the steel). Lindley's tone, touch and timing are still my holy grail. I feel fortunate to have seen him with El Rayo-X during the Very Greasy tour. I also saw him solo a few months ago and was just blown away by how much sound one man can create.
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Randy Reeves
From:
LaCrosse, Wisconsin, USA
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Posted 21 Nov 2005 6:09 am
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congrads on your gig. I know exactly how you feel.
Mercury Blues by Lindley got me behind a steel.
Iat a rehearsal i noodled that song. the band lwante dto know what it was.
we rehearsed and it became our finisher on the last set.
it is a treat to be on a stage playing my one of my idols most downloaded tune.
oh, and the crowd went nuts. |
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Lee Baucum
From:
McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
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Posted 21 Nov 2005 6:09 am
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I remember our band working up "Running On Empty" back when it was a new song.
Sheesh. Am I that old????? |
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Mike Selecky
From:
BrookPark, Ohio
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Posted 21 Nov 2005 9:29 am
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| What tuning does David Lindley use on the majority of his stuff with Jackson Browne? |
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Steinar Gregertsen
From:
Arendal, Norway, R.I.P.
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Posted 21 Nov 2005 10:39 am
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He use the 151351 (low to high) for almost everything he plays, usually tuned to E but sometimes as high as A (I believe he had one lap steel tuned to that high A for one or two of Browne's songs, can't remember which ones).
Steinar
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Chris Walke
From:
St Charles, IL
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Posted 22 Nov 2005 11:52 am
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Yeah, I think he was using the "E" form of the A tuning for Running on Empty.
That's the tune that got me going too. I've learned the song, but have yet to play it with a band.
Lindley's work on that album is awesome. I love the phaser effect on Loves the Thunder. The volume swells after the solo kill me every time. |
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Lee Baucum
From:
McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
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Posted 22 Nov 2005 12:11 pm
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| When we were playing this song, I played it on my old MSA. I used the open E9 neck, no pedals. |
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Terry VunCannon
From:
Greensboro, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 22 Nov 2005 2:55 pm
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Yeah Chris...I read in a Lindley interview that he used the A tuning on a black/white Ric for Running on Empty which would put the lead on the 12th fret...when I play it in E, I have to do the lead around the 17th fret which makes it a little closer spacing between the frets, but I am afraid to tune up to A.
The other song, Loves the Thunder is another Lindley lead that I practiced alot also. Good stuff!!!
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Glenn Suchan
From:
Austin, Texas
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Posted 23 Nov 2005 8:28 am
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I haven't played "Running On Empty", but I used to play in a band in Austin called The Dreadful Grapes (one guess on what songs we played...) and we did Jackson Brown's "Road And The Sky". I played it on my bakelite Ricky with a Jordan Electronics "Bosstone". 'Had David Lindley's tone, never quite got his technique. 
Keep on pickin'!
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Peter Jacobs
From:
Northern Virginia
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Posted 23 Nov 2005 9:11 am
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| So, anyone have sound clips of themselves playing Running on Empty? |
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Stanford Lane
From:
Oklahoma, USA
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Posted 25 Nov 2005 4:52 pm
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| Does anybody have the tab for this song, that they could pass along? |
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Russ Tkac
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Posted 25 Nov 2005 5:27 pm
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Back in 78' my band did a cover of this and I used the A tuning. The Rick tuned fine. I had learned "Redneck Friend" in E but the band never did it. I also learned "Mercury Blues" and tabbed it out but I don't know what happened to it. Lindley is the best. If I can get any of my playing from those days on the computer, I'll post it.
Russ
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Jim Palenscar
From:
Oceanside, Calif, USA
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Posted 25 Nov 2005 5:50 pm
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| I started with "These Days".. and the rest is still happening.... |
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