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So I'm trying to steep myself in the repertoire of this instrument as I learn (try) to play it.

What would you consider to be an example of the/a penultimate (edit, whoops, what word am I looking for here?) PSG performance?[/i]

Teach Your Children.

Teach Your Children.. Easy to play, and it fit the song perfectly...

My penultimate performance was Texas Flood (That word doesn't mean what you think it means: www.dictionary.com Sorry, I tried to link to the completed search but that didn't work )
If you mean the one filling the same place as STH: an overplayed classic that just about all of us know and love playing, probably Crazy Arms, A Way to Survive or (among those of us who have a back neck and ain't afraid to use it) Night Life.

Teach Your Children isn't a bad choice for an easy anthem. No wonder it's easy: Jerry claimed to have only three weeks under his belt, but he had years of playing tasteful banjo (sorry for the oxymoron) and guitar.

But there can be no debate: my penultimate performance was Texas Flood. The last song was Turn On Your Love Light.
Monday, if you're still interested, I'll let you know what Sunday's penultimate was.

Anyone who thinks Teach Your Children is easy isn't playing it right. It's diabolical.

I don't know about the "STH",
But the "Smoke on The Water" song for steel guitar has to be 'Steel Guitar Rag'

It is/was for me....

Jay

Steel Guitar Rag

Or as I call it:

Steel guitar AARRRGGGHHHH!!!!

Teach... is composed of simple licks, filtered through the brain of Jerry. If you want it to come out right, you must torture time. I agree with B0b. Except when I'm in weird moods. At the right conditions, it just flows.

penultimate |peˈnəltəmit|
adjective [ attrib. ]
last but one in a series of things; second to the last : the penultimate chapter of the book.

STH? Not sure I get it...What am I missing?
Ok... I just figured it out.... D'oh!

Michael, copy and paste is a bitch on a Droid, but perhaps you meant "archetypal"?
I believe that's the term you meant

Steel Guitar Rag

Ah yes, the "ultimate" steel guitar song, not necessarily because it's the best steel guitar song but simply because it's easiest name for non-steelers to remember...

Archetypal works, as would quintessential, or definitive. But really, rather than let my loquaciousness go awry, I should have just stuck to "The Stairway to Heaven of PSG" - at least then everyone would have known what I meant. Ah well, you can't win 'em all.

I still like penultimate. Everyone, what's the second to last song you've played?

I think, if not the three I mentioned, Steel Guitarrrgghh Rag, Remington Ride or Sleepwalk. Which, sadly, I've never gotten around to learning

This thread reminds me of a song request sign I saw in New Orleans at the Preservation Hall - it went something like...
Song requests - $10.00
Saints Go Marching In - $20.00

I guess we all have our "rather not have to play" request tune....

Oh yes, Coma-walk. I can't stand Sleepwalk. My guitar player plays a great version and I always refused to learn it. I finally gave in and recently learned it to take a turn in the song, but I want the guitar player to keep it as HIS song (he really does do a good job on it). I think I would rather hear/play Steel Guitar Arrgghhh than Sleepwalk.

b0b wrote:Anyone who thinks Teach Your Children is easy isn't playing it right. It's diabolical.

Nah, piece of cake, but you gotta have that "channeling Jerry" mojo happening. bob

sign says "no stairway."

Jerrys PSG playing in "Teach Your Children" is the perfect example of the penultimate of PSG songs in that it was the next to last thing a good PSG player would have ever played.
"Nearer my God to Thee" is the Poster Child for Penultimate but I guess it didn't float with the PSG either.

Stuart... Huh???



MY HEAD HURTS

I believe that was a Titanic reference.
Although that may have been their ultimate song, since no one in the band survived to tell the tale.
But I doubt they had time to play their break song when the set was over...

Jerrys PSG playing in "Teach Your Children" is the perfect example of the penultimate of PSG songs in that it was the next to last thing a good PSG player would have ever played.

Well said, Stuart. At last we agree on something.
I'm surprised that "Someday Soon" hasn't received even one mention. Maybe it was too difficult?

The Bands last song was A cappella
“glub glub glubble..........."

Did someone say "Stairway To Heaven?"

Not exactly the direct answer to your question but if you are just getting started on steel and haven't heard it yet, you absolutely MUST buy the Emmons Black album!!

Did they correct the typo when it came out on CD?
My vinyl has Pachelbel having written artillery rather than church music