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Caleb Melo
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Porterville, CA
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Posted 21 Feb 2021 9:44 pm |
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I’m looking for some examples of pedal steel played with a sitar bar, or with a sitar effect. Specifically some examples from 60’s and 70’s records. Please share as many songs as you can think of! Thanks everybody!
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Dave Zirbel
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Sebastopol, CA USA
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Jack Stanton
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Somewhere in the swamps of Jersey
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Dale Rivard
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Ontario, Canada
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Dave Zirbel
From:
Sebastopol, CA USA
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Posted 22 Feb 2021 8:54 am
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I forget which album but I remember I hearing Ralph Mooney with Waylon on some tracks with the sitar bar....maybe Honkytonk Heros????
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Dave Zirbel-
Sierra S-10 (Built by Ross Shafer),ZB, Fender 400 guitars, various tube and SS amps |
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Dave Mudgett
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Central Pennsylvania and Gallatin, Tennessee
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Posted 22 Feb 2021 9:55 am
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I know this is Hal Rugg on steel and there's definitely sitar sounds on it. I think, but don't know for sure, that the sitar sound is steel, but it could be someone with an old Coral electric sitar 'cause I've played it both ways.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aKEQfWfQaI
Whatever, I love the song and have been doing this one for a long time with a few different bands. |
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Joachim Kettner
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Germany
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Posted 22 Feb 2021 11:00 am
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I would also say that it's a Coral, never noticed it before, Dave. They sound very similar.
Here's one that Buddy Emmons played on:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1yANWkF370
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Last edited by Joachim Kettner on 22 Feb 2021 11:10 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Fred Treece
From:
California, USA
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Posted 22 Feb 2021 11:05 am Rusty Young / Poco / Indian Summer live
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This is a bit of a false alarm because the steel is so far back on the mix. But at 3:42 there is a closeup on Rusty’s hand and you can see him switching from his hex bar, which he is using for a very subtle sitar effect, over to a regular bullet. Some nice textural stuff toward the end.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4bKzPxP1Po8
There are a couple tunes from the Ghost Town album, Break Of Hearts and High Sierra, where he also does some subtle sitar bar work. |
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Caleb Melo
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Porterville, CA
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Posted 22 Feb 2021 12:12 pm
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I’m loving all of these! Keep ‘em coming!
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James Mayer
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back in Portland Oregon, USA (via Arkansas and London, UK)
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Posted 22 Feb 2021 4:12 pm
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This is in a different context, but I used the largest hex wrench I could find because I thought it sounded better than a sitar bar I had at the time.
It first appears at 31 seconds in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N80h6rl-E6w |
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scott murray
From:
Asheville, NC
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Mark Greenway
From:
Lake Kiowa, Texas
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Posted 9 Mar 2021 7:24 pm Sitar bar
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Paul Franklin on a Lee Ann Womack record:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RV-Z1YwaOiw
Paul's father made his sitar bar out of a 4" piece of 1/8" thick channel aluminum and ever so slightly round off all of the sharp edges with a belt sander...Took some 600 sand paper and smoothed all of the rough parts. |
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Marty Broussard
From:
Broussard, Louisiana, USA
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Posted 9 Mar 2021 10:30 pm
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Glad I’m catching up and found this topic....
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Former steel guitarist for Tracy Byrd & The Byrd Dawgs, Mark Chesnut & The New South Band, Mark Nesler & Texas Tradition, Wayne Toups & ZydeCajun, Belton Richard & The Musical Aces
"Technique is really the elimination of the unnecessary..it is a constant effort to avoid any personal impediment or obstacle to achieve the smooth flow of energy and intent" Yehudi Menuhin |
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