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I heard "Rocky Top" on the radio the other day and it reminded me of something I read ( I forget where ) long ago. It said that the ride Lloyd takes in the middle of the song was done almost twenty times before Lloyde was satisfied with the way it sounded. I cant imagine it taking Lloyde 20 times to get something rignt. Does anyone know if this is true? Maybe Bobbe S. would know. Thanks, Martin.

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Martin W. Emmons LG III 3/5 Peavy 1000

Lloyd is telling that on the back-sleeve of his album "Lloyd Green and his Steel Guitar"
I have the reissue in the Steel Guitar Vintage Classics.

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Steelin' Greetings
Marco Schouten
Sho-Bud Pro III Custom

Martin, this wouldn't surprise me with any</i> steel guitarist, or any <b>other artist, as well. People who are in the limelight and make a living doing this stuff have to be very discriminating.

What sounds "perfect" to you and I probably doesn't sound "perfect" to them!

I would take it a step further, and suggest that what LLoyd wasn't satisfied with is something where we ALSO would have noticed the imperfections. When you listen to tremendous players play live, they always make mistakes, and sometimes more than just a few.

Great Steelplayers make mistakes? That's true! I remember one time when Ricky Skaggs was between steelplayers or something and he came on Nashville Now with his whole band except he had Lloyd Green on steel. They sounded great. On the Saturday Opry show they did Country Boy and everything went well except Lloyd blew his solo and almost stopped playing. Like the true professional he is he laughed about it and so did the rest and it didn't diminish from the performance. I think the worst lowlife in music is one who'll get mad when someone makes a mistake. Everyone does it and anyone who says they don't is a liar with a capital L..........Now me, I never make mistakes 'cause I'm a Semi-professional musician.

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Have a good 'un! JH U-12

I wish I could make mistakes like Lloyd..........

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Steelin' Greetings
Marco Schouten
Sho-Bud Pro III Custom

Yes, Lloyd admitted several times to me and everyone that he had a problem with that turn around. It just plain wasn't his style (bag). He also blew this break on "Rocky Top"with Ricky Scaggs on the opry one nite, several years ago. He freely admits that his style of playing doesn't encompass this fast single string ,rapid fire style, nor does it need to (most of the time).I'll admit the same thing about my playing, How fast a guy can play has very little to do with how great a musician he is. Lloyd is total proof of this statment. I feel that Lloyd is one of the finest , weirdest,greatest players of the E9th style ever.(his thumb style sucks!)
We all have the thing that we do best,Lloyd has his,(and WOW), I have mine,Chalker had his, Byrd has his Etc.Etc>
Whether Lloyd had trouble or not with this turn around,I'm sure the guy that might have done it better would have had trouble on a lot of things that Lloyd did in his sleep, Know what I'm saying here? We all have our nitch----------------(I'm gonna' go scratch mine now!)
Bobbe

Jerry Hayes.....I believe I saw that Opry Show.... I admired Lloyd Green for the manner in which he merely folded his hands atop his steel and smiled from ear to ear.
We (musicians) knew what had happened and some in the audience might have as well, but the classy way Lloyd handled it and the fact that Ricky didn't in any way attempt to focus negative attention on Lloyd was IMHO, a truly class act all the way around.

Thanks for all the great replies from everyone. I really dont care how many mistakes he makes, he remains my Hero. I understand he owns a lot of songs that he has not released yet. I hope he realease's them soon, I'm not getting any younger. Again, Thanks. Martin.

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Martin W. Emmons LG III 3/5 Peavy 1000

.<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Jeff Lampert on 26 November 2001 at 06:17 AM.]</p></FONT>

Jeff made a good point there

Well; I've heard of guys missing solos but now the step-daughter tells the wife she's missed a period and then Jeff leaves a period for us to ponder over.......

I'm going out and rake leaves until I find out what it is that I don't understand !!

Regards, Paul