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Topic: Who's the steeler? |
Jon Light (deceased)
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Saugerties, NY
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Posted 6 Nov 2005 9:37 am |
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| Radio airplay, Johnny Rodriguez ("you always come back to hurting me" and a few other songs)--classic p/p sounding steel. Who is playing it? |
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Walter Stettner
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Vienna, Austria
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Jon Light (deceased)
From:
Saugerties, NY
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Posted 6 Nov 2005 9:45 am
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| Gaa. I sure hope you are wrong about this particular record (date unknown) because it would mean I can't tell a Bud from a p/p (from a boil on my butt....) and I would bet my 3rd string that this was an Emmons. |
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Walter Stettner
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Vienna, Austria
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Posted 6 Nov 2005 9:57 am
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Jon,
I just listened to the original recording of "You Always Come Back To Huting Me" - it is definitely Pete Drake!
You can already start taking off your third string! 
Kind Regards, Walter
www.lloydgreentribute.com
www.austriansteelguitar.at.tf |
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Jon Light (deceased)
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Saugerties, NY
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Posted 6 Nov 2005 10:01 am
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Aw boogers!!
But one last possibility is that this was a different recording, I suppose. It was a four song radio set (college radio) and each song had a partial verse sung in Spanish. Was this a JR trademark or did he possibly redo some stuff to cash in on the Tejano wave from a few years ago? |
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Tommy Minniear
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Logansport, Indiana
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Posted 6 Nov 2005 10:22 am
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Jon,
Seems like I remember Johnny doing songs with a verse in spainish included very early on in his career. I don't think it's anything new.
Tommy Minniear |
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Jon Light (deceased)
From:
Saugerties, NY
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Posted 6 Nov 2005 10:26 am
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| Thanks Tommy. Time to clip my .012. |
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Steve Hinson
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Hendersonville Tn USA
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Posted 6 Nov 2005 10:42 am
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Jon,it's very possible that JR recut that song...the original version doesn't have a Spanish verse(I just heard it yesterday on XM)...in which case it's very possible that someone played a P/P on it...
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Tommy Minniear
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Logansport, Indiana
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Posted 6 Nov 2005 11:19 am
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Jon,
Steve is probably right. I didn't mean that the song hadn't been recut, which it probably has been and another steeler playing an Emmons P/P could have recorded it with him at that time. Guess I should have been a little clearer in saying that it wasn't: "anything new". Don't cut the .012 (it'll probably break eventually anyway).
Tommy Minniear |
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Walter Stettner
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Vienna, Austria
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Posted 6 Nov 2005 11:41 am
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In the 1970's, Johnny did many songs (Born To Lose, Faded Love) with one verse in Spanish, this one was sung in English all the way through.
I checked Johnny's discography and found two or three Greatest Hits compilations incl. that song, two on Mercury (probably using the original versions), and one on K-Tel - maybe they did new cuts for that album, who knows!
No need to clip your third string (unless you have to change it anyway)!
Kind Regards, Walter
www.lloydgreentribute.com
www.austriansteelguitar.at.tf |
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Jon Light (deceased)
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Saugerties, NY
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Posted 6 Nov 2005 12:11 pm
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Krazy glue will put it back together. No problemo.
I would describe the steel sound & style as very Texas sounding--what I tend to hear with the fine bunch of players currently picking today in the traditional Texas Shuffle fashion. (It's a danger to lump players' styles together like that and there is no disrespect intended--it sounded great!)
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