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Topic: Vern Gosdin - Set 'em Up Joe |
Mark Metdker
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North Central Texas, USA
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Posted 3 Jul 2004 5:35 pm |
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| One of my all time favorite songs. Who played steel on that tune? |
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Ricky Davis
From:
Bertram, Texas USA
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Posted 3 Jul 2004 6:00 pm
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This young man right here>
The man in the hat is Jim Vest.
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Terry Wood
From:
Lebanon, MO
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Posted 3 Jul 2004 7:23 pm
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Big Jim played on the classic Johnny Paycheck tune "Slide Off Your Satin Sheets," too.
A real picker!
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Lee Baucum
From:
McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
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Posted 3 Jul 2004 7:31 pm
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Didn't both of those tunes have a real low, slidey bass lick on the steel parts?
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Lee, from South Texas
Down On The Rio Grande
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Tony Dingus
From:
Kingsport, Tennessee, USA
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Posted 3 Jul 2004 7:44 pm
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I read where he tuned the 10th string to A with the A pedal down. I know Jimmie Crawford
has done that.
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Walter Stettner
From:
Vienna, Austria
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Posted 4 Jul 2004 12:23 am
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Jim released a video a little while back called "Legends of the Steel Guitar", mostly a (very interesting) talk tape, with some music examples. The players are Big Jim, Stu Basore, Tommy White and Don Helms. In that video, Jim explains in detail how he used the lowered 10th string on a lot of records. Really a great idea.
The video was released not too long ago, so I think it is still available.
Kind Regards, Walter
www.austriansteelguitar.at.tf
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Jim Smith
From:
Midlothian, TX, USA
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Posted 4 Jul 2004 12:39 am
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This is the first I've heard of this video. Does anyone know where I can get a copy?
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Jim Smith jimsmith94@comcast.net
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Bill Bailey
From:
Kingman, AZ
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Posted 5 Jul 2004 9:34 pm
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I have a cassette tape I made of Jim vest at Scotties in 97 or so I think? He was playing his steel and singing at the same time with his band he plays with in Nashville, man I swear he is one of the best singers in this old world. I love his steel playing as well but no one I ever heard can touch his singing. I don't understand how this man never was a star vocalist??? What a nice person. His band was great as well. Just my 2 Pesos.
Bill bailey
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Dan Tyack
From:
Olympia, WA USA
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Posted 5 Jul 2004 11:33 pm
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| I was in Nashville (or at least in touch with the scene) when Jim did these great sessions (seems like he also did "Take this Job and Shove it"). The story going around at the time was that Jim got his first break in the studio because Billy Sherrill was peeved at Pete Drake for some reason (don't know why) and decided to peeve Pete back by using somebody outside of the A team on his sessions. Jim Vest certainly did well in the studio, and had a lot of that raw steel vibe that Pete Drake was famous for. |
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Mark Metdker
From:
North Central Texas, USA
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Posted 6 Jul 2004 3:13 am
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| Jim's steel playing transformed a good tune into a country classic. Great tone, great playing...nothing flashy, just good stuff! |
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Craig A Davidson
From:
Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin USA
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Posted 6 Jul 2004 7:00 am
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Jim also played on our bandleaders album a couple years back. I had the pleasure of being at that session and seeing a master at work. He tried to show me that Gosdin lick but I couldn't get the jist of it.
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1985 Emmons push-pull,S-10 Marlin,Evans SE200,Hilton pedal
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Russ Hicks
From:
Pegram, Tennessee, USA
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Posted 9 Jul 2004 1:32 pm
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| Big Jim graced us with his presence Tuesday nite at the NTSGA jam also at my fish fry the week before with a wonderful array of large scale, fully operational (battery powered) model boats which he demonstraed on the fish pond. Big Jim Vest is a joy to be around and I sure do wish I were around him more. |
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chris ivey
From:
california (deceased)
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Posted 9 Jul 2004 5:08 pm
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jim's a great guy... i met him in california..opened for him and joe stampley.
a friend of mine called him once and he talked him through how to retune and play set 'em up joe on the phone...had him play it back and forth, etc..
real nice! |
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