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Pussycat- Hey Joe- Steel Player? Any Dutch members know?
Posted: 31 Mar 2014 3:13 am
by Joachim Kettner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5D0ko7jSU4
Pussycat was a band from Holland, there biggest hit was "Mississippi". It featured steel, played by a band member. What's his name?
But here I think the player is a different one?
Could it be Lloyd Greene?
pussycats
Posted: 31 Mar 2014 4:37 am
by Paul Wade
i will take a guess koos biel??
p.w
Posted: 31 Mar 2014 5:23 am
by Marco Schouten
Steel guitar on the song Missisippi was played by studio musician Frans Doolaard.
Posted: 31 Mar 2014 8:21 am
by Joachim Kettner
Marco Schouten wrote:Steel guitar on the song Missisippi was played by studio musician Frans Doolaard.
Thanks, the band member seems to be miming it pretty good here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZEPIpTpoPs
Posted: 31 Mar 2014 1:38 pm
by Marco Schouten
On most clips back than, he played on a Sho-Bud Maverick, the model with the vinyl covering.
Frans Doolaard himself had a few steel guitars that he built himself.
Frans Doolaard on a Steelmeeting in Oudewater, The Netherlands
Pussycats-Mississippi
Posted: 2 Apr 2014 2:30 pm
by Jon Logan
Yikes !! I know a honky-tonk in Bandera where these hats would be an invitation to a gunfight !!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f35JyHY38a0
Steel player.
Posted: 23 Jan 2015 2:21 am
by Jan Viljoen
The steel player was Johan Theunissen playing on a Framus pedal steel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXru-rrAzjA
Re: Steel player.
Posted: 23 Jan 2015 2:28 am
by Marco Schouten
Yes, on the clip you see Johan who is playbacking. You are actually hearing Frans Doolaard.
Posted: 23 Jan 2015 10:45 am
by Jan Viljoen
Thanks Marco, he had me fooled.
But I like the tone, it sounds well.
Is Frans still playing?
Posted: 1 Feb 2015 7:48 am
by Henry
I did hear about Frans Doolaarts that he has MS multple sclerose (born 1931 -,,,,)
http://www.muziekencyclopedie.nl/action ... s+Doolaard
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Posted: 2 Feb 2015 3:16 am
by Marco Schouten
That is correct, Frans isn't playing for quite a while now.
Posted: 2 Feb 2015 6:24 am
by Per Berner
Was it really a pedal steel on "Mississippi"? Sounds more like a lap steel to me.
Somewhere I have a video clip from a live performance from BBC's Top of the Pops back in 1976 when the song was a big hit; the guitar player was doing the steel part on regular guitar with a slide if I remember correctly. Not 100 % identical to the recording, but close enough.
BTW, Toni Willé had (or has) a terrific voice for country!
Posted: 3 Feb 2015 10:15 pm
by Johan Jansen
I will ask her
Posted: 4 Feb 2015 10:03 am
by Olaf van Roggen
..the song was also recorded by Barbara Fairchild.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTZ1iOiuQ80
Posted: 4 Feb 2015 11:12 am
by Johan Jansen
Answer from Toni Willé (The singer)
Dat was inderdaad Frans Doolaard Johan. The message: Thanks for being interested in our songs!
Posted: 4 Feb 2015 1:18 pm
by Marco Schouten
Per Berner wrote:Was it really a pedal steel on "Mississippi"? Sounds more like a lap steel to me.
Frans could sound country, hawaiian, pop or jazz.
Posted: 6 Feb 2015 1:28 am
by Peter den Hartogh
I still have this LP "Frans van Oirschot & Frans Doolaert - The Golden Strings of Hawaii".
Frans Doolaert had a modern "trebly" sound and Frans van Oirschot had a more traditional sound.
Frans van Oirschot played with the Kilima Hawaiians after Frans Doolaert left in 1964.
Posted: 11 Oct 2021 5:27 pm
by Bill Dobkins
In the video I don't see any pedals or rods. He is using bar slants. The Steel is a Framus 2000. I do think the Video is pre recorded.