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Topic: Doug Livingston yet again... |
Al Terhune
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Newcastle, WA
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Posted 7 May 2006 9:40 pm |
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My wife and I saw "Cowboy Del Amour" a couple of nights ago, a documentary about a nice, Texan gentleman who used to fix up lonely American men with Mexican women.
Other than being an interesting documentary, it had the most tasteful steel playing I've ever heard. Again and again I was taken by the simple but beautiful (BEAUTIFUL), confident, pedal steel that neither stuck out nor stuck down. My wife didn't even know there was pedal steel in the soundtrack, and she usually picks that up. I was awestruck. In the credits, of course, Doug Livingston. I want to play like him.
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Larry Bell
From:
Englewood, Florida
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David Wren
From:
Placerville, California, USA
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Posted 8 May 2006 8:31 am
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Simply a matter of being "earnest" in your playing 
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Dave Wren
'96 Carter S12-E9/B6,7X7; Twin Session 500s; Hilton Pedal; Black Box
www.ameechapman.com
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Mike Perlowin
From:
Los Angeles CA
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Posted 8 May 2006 9:02 am
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Doug occasionally plays for a local singer named Kathy Robertson, and when he does, the lineup is steel, bass and drums, with no guitar or keyboard. Doug plays every ride and fill.
Kathy's gigs, A.K.A. "Doug Livingston accompanied by a singer" concerts are truly wonderous affairs. I try to catch as many of them as I can.
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Skip Edwards
From:
LA,CA
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Posted 8 May 2006 9:23 am
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Doug is absolutely amazing.... I'm quite sure he's from another planet.
And I mean that in a good way....
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Billy Wilson
From:
El Cerrito, California, USA
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Posted 8 May 2006 10:12 am
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Earnest Bovine
From:
Los Angeles CA USA
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Posted 8 May 2006 1:06 pm
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Thank you very much guys for those nice words. If you practice real long and hard, you too can make 50 bucks and 2 enchiladas at Viva Cantina.
About Cowboy De Amor, I recall carrying my steel into a garage off of San Gabriel Blvd with a bad attitude. I didn't want to do it but I liked the composer; he was a nice earnest young fellow.
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Mike Perlowin
From:
Los Angeles CA
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Posted 8 May 2006 2:24 pm
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SERIOUS, SINCERE cow.
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Dan Tyack
From:
Olympia, WA USA
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Posted 10 May 2006 7:12 pm
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I'd rather listen to Doug play steel than just about anybody. I only wish that I knew how good he was when we used to play together 25 years ago..... (him on keyboards, me on steel). Doug is the prime example of 'great musician who happens to play steel'.
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Earnest Bovine
From:
Los Angeles CA USA
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Posted 10 May 2006 9:45 pm
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Thanks, Dan.
And as for the rest of you legions of adoring fans, you may worship at the altar of http://www.vivacantina.com/ in Burbank. When the website says Cody, Jimmy Lee, the Brombies, or Kathy Robertson, I'll probably be there with a Sho-Bud (acoustic reso with the Brombies).
For Kathy's date on May 19 we anticipate the great David P Jackson on bass/vocals, and on drums, the superlative Jimbo, whom you see here as lead vocalist, front and center with a foot up in the air:
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Ben Jones
From:
Seattle, Washington, USA
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Posted 11 May 2006 2:41 pm
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Chip Fossa
From:
Monson, MA, USA (deceased)
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Posted 11 May 2006 6:19 pm
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Thanks too, Doug, for that very tasteful steel in "Fools Gold". I know you probably don't like being reminded of that venture, but I was living in Leadville,CO at the time that album came out, and instantly recognized that although it sounded E9ish, it wasn't. Something else was going on.
I still play it. Those were some great songs, to me: "I Will Run", "Rain, Oh Rain", "Old Tennessee" - come on, this was Dan Fogleberg and "Fools Gold" at their best.
I know a lot of smartie-pants dismissed it as typical syrupy Southern Cal folk-rock; but I sure didn't.
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