Alembic Guitars Club
Connecting => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: lbpesq on January 06, 2022, 08:35:04 AM
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We should never forget that on this date in 1958 Chuck Berry first recorded “Johnny B. Goode”. A truly historic event!
Bill, tgo
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Well played, Sir!
Peter (who is addressing both Brother Panzer and the esteemed Mr. Berry)
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Very well played…. Was admittedly concerned with the subject title.
Also Earl Scruggs birthday!
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To me January 6, has always meant Kings day. Epiphany.
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To me January 6, has always meant Kings day. Epiphany.
indeed. i always thought it was the day that followed the 5th and preceded the 7th. just goes to show ya.
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Here are a couple of versions that I really love.
Jimi Hendrix
Peter Tosh.
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Stop the Steel. All FOUR of them.
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We REALLY need a “like” button!
Bill, tgo
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Brilliant, Joey! Both the playing and your wonderful pun.
Peter
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For our younger readers, and those not privvy to the magic of steel guitar:
The quad-neck you see above was a precursor (and actually the inspiration for) today's pedal steel guitars. These were essentially as many lap steels as you wanted to build into a common chassis (you don't often see more than four), and each one is a different tuning. These were common in the 40's and 50's, and listen to country music that featured steel guitar, it was often these things. Steel guitars have never really ever settled into a common, standard format. They came from the Hawaiin guitar craze in the 30's, which usually were played on acoustic instruments in a Weissenborn format with crude pickups, or of course, Rickenbacker's original 'frying pan' lap steel.
Guys got tired of sitting down with them, and you began to see these come to the fore, though Gibson sold a 'console' style sit-down steel with piano-looking brass pedals for a brief time. Mr. Fender catered a lot to the country players on the West Coast, and so the double or triple-neck Fender stand-ups became catalog items for a while.
Here's a master of the 'stairstep' steels, the great Leon McCauliffe, one of the pillars of the Bob Wills Texas Playboys. This is the sort of steel you heard in those old records, like the Maddox Brothers and Rose or early Ernest Tubb or Jimmy Dickens.
Eventually, the thinking came along that you could have one neck with a pedal arrangement to sharp or flat individual strings, and began the pedal steel format we see today. Here's a Scandanavian player working up the Buddy Emmons transription of Elton's 'Blue Eyes'. This has become like learning 'Teentown' or 'School Days' for us in the steel community. Stunning.
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Well you know, Cowboy, some things are just so dreadful, all you can do is try and laugh.
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I will add to Joey's nicely informational post that I was mistaken all those years I thought the name "steel guitar" came from the predominance of metal-bodied Nationals during the first mainland heyday of the style; it comes, if fact, from the bar, or "steel" one drags across the strings whilst playing.
Peter