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Bruce Springsteen's steel player?
Posted: 25 Feb 2003 9:23 pm
by Russ Young
Did my eyes deceive me, or did the E Street Band have a Melobar player during the Grammies broadcast? Was that Nils Lofgren?
(You know you're getting old when you have to tell your kids that "Little Steven" Van Zandt played with the Boss before he became a Sopranos cast member ...)<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Russ Young on 26 February 2003 at 09:10 AM.]</p></FONT>
Posted: 26 Feb 2003 1:53 am
by Steinar Gregertsen
I won't bet on it (didn't see the show), but my guess would be Lofgren. I've seen him play lap steel before, with Neil Young among others.
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Posted: 26 Feb 2003 7:43 am
by Joey Ace
Nils played a PSG on Bruce's HBO special about two years ago. The song was, "Mansion on the Hill", not the Hank Williams song of the same name. I believe there's photos at the Cater website.
Posted: 26 Feb 2003 8:13 am
by Michael Brebes
That was Nils actually rotating his guitar. He had an arm sticking out from the neck that held a slide tube. He would flip the guitar up for slide and then flip it back down to play the guitar straight.
Posted: 26 Feb 2003 9:58 am
by Fred Brown
I thought the same exact thing. But as I watched I noticed that it was the Str@t (I think) player and he just rotated his guitar to play slide. He even kept the slide on on one of the tuning pegs when he wasn't using it. It's rare you see slide player play like that. I wondered about his tuning.
Fred