The Steel Guitar Forum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOeAqUavPR8

Check it out from about 0.30 - E's noodling under the band introductions then cuts loose with a freewheeling 'Gonna Build a Mountain'!

Easy to hear - he cuts through whole mix; talk about tone!

Yes sir! At about 36:23 I heard a little one bar phrase that also shows up again in one of either Paul or Tommy's rides on Vince's cut of Country Boy on the Emmons tribute album.

I saw the Everlys in 1999 with Buddy. One of the life highlights for me. Also, about the second date with my wife. Had to break her in right.

Thanks for sharing Roger.

Wow! The gospel on how to back up a singer(or singers)and still shine like a star.

Buddy is all over this...

Right click and save it to your computer. You will want to listen to it again...

Everly Brothers concert 8-31-2000

I saw them with Buddy and Albert Lee on lead guitar, play before 6,000 people at the Orange County Fair. The entire band was ON FIRE! It was magic.

best band in the biz!

love how Buddy inserted the last few chords of At E's during introductions. thanks for sharing fellas

Their set starts off with "Green River". One can hear it clearer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXHg_NFfpGk
I wish I knew what Buddy did on that re-occuring phrase.
Any ideas?

Sorry - none, Joachim!

Ain't it great? And as their concert starts the very first thing we hear is Buddy!

One lucky day, hopefully, Roger, I will get close to playing it.

Not exactly beautiful but undeniably ear-catching!

The recurring part is a slowed down vamp very similar to Witches Brew. It's done with a slap back echo. It sounds so thick and rich!

C'mon, Ernie - I bet you know how to pull off the 'Green River' lick!

Yeah, Witches Brew is the first thing I thought of when I heard that "delay" Buddy's using. Back in the 60's when he recorded Witches Brew he was likely using an Echoplex. On Green River he's likely using digital delay.

The vamp is half echo, Roger and yes, I know the it. I'm trying to get the descending lick to sound right.

Buddy used a Lexicon MPX-1 for many years. Before that a PCM-41 and an Echoplex before that. With an MXR rack mount delay thrown in there during the Plus Nine effects period.

Many years ago our band was the warmup band for an Everlys at an outdoor concert in Chilliwack B.C. I didn't even know they had a steel player until I went back stage to set up. There was a steel guitar there, the next thing that happened Buddy came walking up the stairs. I had to play a 45 minute set with Buddy standing about 8 feet away from me. You talk about vibrato. He came up after our set, shook my hand and said pretty good hoss. Then I got to stand nearby a watch his show. I was thrilled.

Many years ago our band was the warmup band for an Everlys at an outdoor concert in Chilliwack B.C. I didn't even know they had a steel player until I went back stage to set up. There was a steel guitar there, the next thing that happened Buddy came walking up the stairs. I had to play a 45 minute set with Buddy standing about 8 feet away from me. You talk about vibrato. He came up after our set, shook my hand and said pretty good hoss. Then I got to stand nearby a watch his show. I was thrilled.

John - I had the same experience, but I'd only been playing about four months when it happened to me. Buddy was very kind although he must have been tortured by my 'playing'.

That was in London in the mid-'70s.

Thanks to my old friend Albert Lee I got to see the Everlys' show many times. Albert would get me tickets and he'd always say: "I know you didn't come to hear me!!!" Every time, Buddy could make my hair stand on end! You'd think I would have grown accustomed to it but I never did, not in maybe nine or ten Everly Brothers' shows.

RIP, 'E' - there'll never be another.

"The Maestro"

- now that's a definitive introduction

Ernie:

So is he playing:

'Dah Dah Dah Dah DahDah'? and the echo makes it:

'DahDah,DahDah,DahDah,DahDahDadadadad'?

That's it, Roger. You set the delay to about a beat and a half, and set the repeats to 1 or 2, fading away. Then it sounds like there a whole lot of picking going on when there really isn't. With today's delay pedals you can "tap in the tempo" on the fly (as a song is playing) by stomping on the pedal. No need to compute the delay time or set it by ear.

Here's a delay demo I made a while back ---> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ajDXxJDEds

In essence that's what it is, Roger.

If you listen to this vamp that Buddy played on the Nashville Bar Association cut of Ghost Riders in the Sky you can kinda hear what he's doing. He plays the first notes and you hear the echos trail off. With a little practice you can get the timing of the lick. You just have to play fairly staccato to separate the notes...

Ghost Riders Vamp

In Doug's video he's using the echo as a doubler. Buddy's using it to play the in between notes.

When I first moved to Nashville in '85, I got the call to play sax with the great Duane Eddy in Kentucky, at a benefit for the local coal miners (as in "Mulllenburg County"). New Grass Revival was on the bill. The Everly's headlined and Duane would get up and play a short set of his hits w/ the Everly's band while Don and Phil took a little break. Duane had a song, "Some Kinda Earthquake" that had a twin-sax thing in the chorus. That afternoon, before the gig, I approached Buddy and asked it he'd play the other sax part with me. I'd written it out in manuscript and showed it to him. He said he didn't read much, but I could see he read some. I sang him the part and he was nothing but gracious and obliging. We played it that night in the show. What a double thrill, playing those iconic sax parts with Duane, in a band like that!

I remember your great playing on the Brighton, UK gig, Jim. I was most impressed and you nailed everything!

Then BE played with the Everly's so it wasn't a bad night to be in an audience, as I recall. Albert got me into that gig as well.

Well Roger, that wasn't me - I only played that one gig with them. I've played with Duane since then but not in that context.