| Author |
Topic: Ralph Mooney solo |
Frank Freniere
From:
The First Coast
|
Posted 5 Mar 2009 7:07 am |
|
"You Ask Me To" from the album "Honky Tonk Heroes" by Waylon Jennings.
One of my favorite album covers:
AUDIO added 2/19/11.
Last edited by Frank Freniere on 19 Feb 2011 10:54 am; edited 2 times in total |
|
|
|
nick allen
From:
France
|
Posted 6 Mar 2009 2:26 am
|
|
... and my absolute favorite album! Thanks Frank - I'll be converting this back to a dobro or non-pedal tuning  now you've inspired me to dig it out again.
Nick |
|
|
|
Mark Eaton
From:
Sonoma County in The Great State Of Northern California
|
Posted 6 Mar 2009 7:42 am
|
|
My favorite Waylon album for sure, and one of the great albums of all-time. And Moon's combination of steel and dobro on the tune is brilliant. Thanks for posting this out, Frank! 
_________________
Mark |
|
|
|
Frank Freniere
From:
The First Coast
|
Posted 6 Mar 2009 6:07 pm
|
|
My pleasure, guys.
It's hard to see on-line but the dobro tab is in red & the steel tab is in blue. |
|
|
|
Ulric Utsi-Åhlin
From:
Sweden
|
Posted 7 Mar 2009 1:42 am
|
|
Thanks for the beautiful artefact of HAND-WRITTEN
sheet music,I still use the old pencil & paper,but
some leaders/players just don´t accept that anymore,
while I like the trad art of it...McUtsi |
|
|
|
Frank Freniere
From:
The First Coast
|
Posted 7 Mar 2009 1:11 pm
|
|
U2 -
Old school, fer sure.
Did they ever serve beer in glasses in Sweden like the one Ralph's holding? Regards, F2. |
|
|
|
Ken Mizell
From:
Lakeland, Florida, 33809, USA
|
Posted 31 Mar 2009 5:55 pm
|
|
Kind of off topic, but a good place to ask - Anyone know what make of steel is in that picture? It has an unusual kind of design on the front apron. I saw Moon playing that steel at a show here in Lakeland, FL back in the early 70's, and I've often wondered what it was. I know he was using Fenders in the 60's, and later went to using Sho-Buds. This doesn't look like a Fender at all, and if it's a Sho-Bud, it's the most unusual design I've seen them use. As I recall, it's a two tone wooden color with the angled pieces pointing towards the center. This one appears to have a trim strip on the top and bottom of the apron too. Thanks.
_________________
Steeless. |
|
|
|
Tony Davis
From:
Brisbane, QLD, Australia
|
Posted 1 Apr 2009 4:01 am
|
|
Frank...
Thay Album cover hasvery special memories for me.......1974....I was playing a beat up secondhand steel....and an old amp with a reverb in a shoebox stuck in the back..........couldnt afford or justify new stuff.......Four nights a week in a knock ém down drag ém out pub....worst pub in Brisbane.....should have had Chicken Wire around the stage....but instead we had three or four real big ..guys..... friends out of the crowd used to just come stand in front of the stage.."Go for a beer Fellas...we'll look after the gear!"when ever a fight started.....which only happened two or three times a night !!!!
Well my wife bought me this album because she reckoned that we were pretty close to that !!!
I lasted a year in that Honky Tonk Dive.....enought to buy a brand new Emmons which I still have and a second hand Fender twin which I dont have
Well I guess I learnt a lot......bought my gear out of it......and the only way was up !!!!!! |
|
|
|
Frank Freniere
From:
The First Coast
|
Posted 1 Apr 2009 6:50 am
|
|
Hi Tony -
Great story. I think a lot of us "of a certain age" have played in clubs like your story - or like the cover of Honky Tonk Heroes. You can almost smell the stale beer, the stained bandstand carpeting and the cigarette burns on the bar... |
|
|
|
Barry Gaskell
From:
Cheshire, UK
|
Posted 6 Apr 2009 2:04 am
|
|
Hi Frank, Tony.
My early music career was spent playing all the dives in and around the Liverpool docks area in the late sixties. That picture of waylon reminds me of the after hours lock-ins that took place.
One place we played at was called 'The Latin Quarter' and the bandstand was in the middle of the club and was basically set inside a cage that we locked from the inside. It kept a lot of trouble at bay except when during any trouble, the beer glasses flew and we got soaked. If it got too bad we had a panic button to press and the heavy boys came in and sorted the (usually) sailors out.
Barry |
|
|
|
