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Topic: Sweet Bigsby Steel |
Gary Lynch
From:
Creston, California, USA
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Marty Smith
From:
California
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Posted 20 Dec 2006 7:48 pm |
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| I cant see the video but i know its a Bigsby played by Lee |
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Gary Lynch
From:
Creston, California, USA
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Posted 20 Dec 2006 8:08 pm
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| Really great tone. |
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Lee Jeffriess
From:
Vallejo California
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Posted 20 Dec 2006 10:45 pm
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Gary,thank you for the complimant,but I have a vague memory that I used a Carvin D8 on that recording?, what ever it was it makes me cringe.
Its funny when i go back and listen to recordings of gigs rehersals etc, half the time i cant tell what is what ie Bigsby Fender Rickenbacker carvin Wright, it seems like once you settle in to a guitar your signature sound surfaces.
There is a debate about this happening now on steel players, religion politics and, tone.
Lee |
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Blake Hawkins
From:
Florida
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Posted 21 Dec 2006 4:18 am
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I really enjoyed the video. Big Sandy and the boys did a fine job.
The producers went to great lengths to produce a "period" look.
The old microphones, the Roberts Stereo Recorder. (Ok, it could be an AKAI) 
Even the girls dresses look like something from my High School days.
But somebody forgot to tell the director and the video editor.
Those fast cuts and wacky camera angles are very much today's "MTV."
We'd never do that in the 1950's.
Still, it's worth it for the music.
Blake |
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c c johnson
From:
killeen,tx usa * R.I.P.
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Posted 21 Dec 2006 4:28 am
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| Lee, I agree with what you said. This has been my greatest asset or my greatest downfall. I sound the same irregardless of what I'm playing. CC |
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Gary Lynch
From:
Creston, California, USA
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Posted 21 Dec 2006 6:42 am
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Lee,
If you look close at the beginning of the video, the steel has a logo on the corner and it does not say Carvin. Maybe they have a model name that looks like Bigsby?
By the way, what is the string spacing on a Bigsby? |
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Erv Niehaus
From:
Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 21 Dec 2006 7:59 am
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| In one of the opening scenes, the camera pans the corner of the steel and it clearly shows "Bigsby". |
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Stephen Dorocke
From:
Tres Piedras, New Mexico
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Posted 21 Dec 2006 8:17 am
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| Sometimes in music videos, when there appears to be a band playing "live," they'll dub a pre-recorded track over the film. So, even though it says Bigsby on the guitar in the film, if Lee says it's a Carvin he recorded on, I'd probably believe him, and not what you see on the video. In the world of modern media, they use this technique quite often to fool people........ho, ho, ho. |
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Bobbe Seymour
From:
Hendersonville TN USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 21 Dec 2006 9:07 pm
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Sure is a Bigsby,(In the video anyway) triple eight, a early one, late forties or very early fifties.
Now let me say, I personally love this video, I love Lee's playing on it, the band kills me, great tuning, arrangment and over all feel! A group like this in Nashville could get me off the couch and make me break out my Bigsby and look forward to going to work live. What fun these great bands were, (still are).
Lee, I'm jealous
Bobbe Seymour[This message was edited by BobbeSeymour on 21 December 2006 at 09:08 PM.] [This message was edited by BobbeSeymour on 21 December 2006 at 09:09 PM.] |
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Jon Zimmerman
From:
California, USA
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Posted 22 Dec 2006 2:09 pm
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| 50's authenticity? Styrofoam cups on the sound booth console (paper ones don't have the same lip) Oops! Well, everyone looked the part and were having a fun time doing it up...that made it a good'un. |
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Lee Jeffriess
From:
Vallejo California
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Posted 22 Dec 2006 3:14 pm
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Im positive, Im playing a Carvin on the sound track of the Video, that D8 was very challenging, the fret boards were glued down about a 1/6 too far towards the bridge and being challenged myself, oh boy.
Blake, that day we shot two vidoes, the other was a very straight town hall party looking version that we liked, but was nixed by the mineons of satan at the media company,that are label was with.
Bobbe, hey Im jealous of you, man you got that couch and, all those blondes. |
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Chuck S. Lettes
From:
Denver, Colorado
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Posted 22 Dec 2006 3:19 pm
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Hey Lee,
Great video! I love the photography, and of course, your steel guitar.
Chuck |
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Alan Brookes
From:
Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 22 Dec 2006 4:04 pm
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....and they said C6 was out of fashion !!!??!!!
I love it. |
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Dave Mudgett
From:
Central Pennsylvania and Gallatin, Tennessee
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Posted 23 Dec 2006 8:05 am
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| Cool, man. |
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Chris Boyd
From:
Leonia,N.J./Charlestown,R.I.
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Posted 23 Dec 2006 8:22 am
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| What a great video.... |
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Bobbe Seymour
From:
Hendersonville TN USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 25 Dec 2006 4:05 pm
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This is a bump for Lee and a video that is a work of art.
(Lee, I just found out that one of those blonds isn't really a blonde, but I know your Bigsby is real!)
Your jealous friend,
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