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Robert Randolph- National Anthem @ Nascar Race Kentucky
Posted: 12 Jul 2020 10:43 am
by Craig Stock
It was very cool to see Robert Randolph do the National Anthem at the opening of the Nascar Race in at Kentucky Speedway on a lap steel!
Hope some of you saw it!
Posted: 12 Jul 2020 2:05 pm
by scott murray
Posted: 12 Jul 2020 2:49 pm
by Craig Stock
Thanks for posting that Scott, I love the checkered flag shirt he had on too.
Good to see Robert!
Posted: 13 Jul 2020 6:16 am
by Jack Hanson
Playing a prewar Gibson, no less. Thanks for posting.
Posted: 13 Jul 2020 7:35 am
by Erv Niehaus
With a broken string and all.
Erv
Posted: 13 Jul 2020 8:31 am
by Darrell Criswell
I really like the rake he did. It seems I don't hear as many players do those at steel shows anyone. They seem to be done more on the C6th neck, are they also used on E9 tuning?
Posted: 19 Jul 2020 5:49 pm
by George Redmon
Very nice rendition, i'm proud as punch. It's so wonderful this beautiful antique instrument, and Robert's great playing made it into the public eye once again. Literally around the world. Way to go Robert.
Posted: 19 Jul 2020 6:01 pm
by b0b
Darrell Criswell wrote:I really like the rake he did. It seems I don't hear as many players do those at steel shows anyone. They seem to be done more on the C6th neck, are they also used on E9 tuning?
Robert plays a variant of the "Sacred Steel" E7th copedent. That copedent is designed for strummed chords as well as single string soloing. See
https://b0b.com/wp/copedents/the-sacred ... th-tuning/ for technical details.
Posted: 20 Jul 2020 10:24 am
by Bruce Bouton
Very cool !
Posted: 20 Jul 2020 10:34 am
by Bob Womack
It's great to see him featured and double nice to see him on a non-pedal steel.
Bob
Posted: 20 Jul 2020 1:43 pm
by Ian Rae
Well I was disappointed. He was introduced emphatically as "the...pedal steel guitarist" but all we got was the melody - not a chord to be heard till the end. When you think of how great a hymn tune sounds on a pedal instrument it seems like an opporunity lost.
Not disrespecting Mr Randolph, or your anthem (which has a way better tune than ours) or Nascar. Just wondering what the average viewer (who maybe does not revere R.R. as much as we do) made of it...
Posted: 21 Aug 2020 11:00 am
by Bob Stone
When I first started documenting sacred steel musicians in 1992 I never imagined this!
Another milestone.
Congratulations Robert!
Posted: 21 Aug 2020 2:45 pm
by John Palumbo
I'm with Ian on this.