The Steel Guitar Forum

Its pretty obvious to me, they are standards to my ears, but I wanted to have some fun with this.. Marty's guitar solo is smokin' but it contains several VERY distinctive steel licks from one of the very best steel players ever... who do ya' think???.. bob

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lInWRXEYB9E

...Mooney

keep in mind that the b bender was designed to enable that mooney-type cliche pedalsteel lick of the era.

No disrespect meant to MS, but my eyes and ears are on Kenny Vaughan.

At the 2:01 mark he used his high e-string bender, he hardly ever uses that one.

yeah thats was some nice tele work, and just killer tone on both guitars.. Marty was certainly channeling Mooney on that solo, it really caught my ear instantly.. I think they were pretty good friends... bob

John Scanlon wrote:No disrespect meant to MS, but my eyes and ears are on Kenny Vaughan.

Marty's great, but Cousin is a wonder. He plays that blue Jaguar, and with those Princetons juiced up, I just can't imagine a better electric guitar sound. Wish more bands would dress with that kind of class.

Little bit of Moon, little bit of Brumley, and a lot of Gatton and Lee style stuff in there. It's cool, but but I think the "two-Tele" thing gets repetitious pretty fast, especially with the similar tones and styles.

Shades of Buckaroo, dudes!

The old Princeton Reverb and Deluxe Reverb are just props, right? That is smoking-hot neo-Bakersfield-style lead guitar. Those can't possibly be stock Fender amps, can they? Thought that my little silverface Princeton Reverb sounded pretty good, but that skinny dude on the left has tone to die for!

You can always refer to the late great Ralph Mooney.

Hey Jack, Marty is playing thru a stock Deluxe from the early 70's. we were on the west coast a few years back and had to rent from SIR in Hollywood. He found that Deluxe and it just felt "right". He got SIR to sell him that amp. The trick is that is was just well maintained with stock parts. The late (and great) Paul Yandell found another early 70's Deluxe for Marty, and it is a backup. There are 2 other things at work here: 1) The "Clarence" guitar is a very unique sounding guitar and 2) Marty's touch. RS Guitarworks are making a Marty Stuart Model Tele, and Gene Parsons does the bender with the same pull distance as "Clarence". It's longer than the modern benders. Marty said he is happy for anybody to donate to his speaker fund as he tends to blow em up on a fairly regular basis

Donny Hinson wrote: I think the "two-Tele" thing gets repetitious pretty fast

it looked liked kenny was doing all the backup fills behind the singing and marty just played the solo, pretty much. kenny's tele has balls! great low notes...just way fatter sound than marty's.
i opened for marty a couple times long ago. he's friendly and generous with his guitars and knowledge.
he had another backup custom tele way back then even that had a copy of the original bender mechanism in it and a see-thru coverplate.

Kenny has lowered his low E to D. On the telly this gives a very nice bottom to the sound. A lot of telly player put a "drop D" lever on their axes, and others just tune down. Anyway, that is the low note you are hearing...

Wish more bands would dress with that kind of class.

They couldn't afford it..

Paul,
Thanks for your explanation! Some exceptional sounds from everyone involved. Enjoy watching the TV show, and both of those little Fender amps sound exceptional, (er, superlative) in my opinion.
Jack

Paul, I don't know who the drummer was on the Jimmy C. Neuman show but his timing and dynamics were impeccable. Marty seemed to notice also. Great dynamic drummer.