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[cozmik_cowboy]

I just read that Pete Drake will be in this year's class of inductees to the Country Music Hall Of Fame.


He will be the first pedal-steel player thus honored.


The first.  By the Country Music Hall Of Fame!


Is it just me, or is there something wrong with this picture?


Peter

[edwardofhuncote]

Well Coz, the last thing you want to do to Nash-Vegas right now is to give a buncha' Resophoniacs an inflated sense of self-worth. One at a time, buddy... 


~Gregory (who agrees with you, it's a bit of a travesty, but knows deep down the average Country Music fan ain't got a clue who is playing steel guitar with who)

[rv_bass]

I nominate Waldo Otto!

[lbpesq]

I understand that the CMCHOF (Classical Music Composers Hall of Fame) is considering inducting Mozart this year.

hehehehe

Bill, tgo

[bigredbass]

I can think of a list w/ Doug Jernigan, LLoyd Green, and more, but how to you NOT make the first steel guitar in the CMHoF Buddy Emmons ?

[cozmik_cowboy]

I can think of a list w/ Doug Jernigan, LLoyd Green, and more, but how to you NOT make the first steel guitar in the CMHoF Buddy Emmons ?

And how do you not do that with the very first entering cohort???  I mean, 60 years without a single bar-dragger?  For shame!

Peter (who would have said Leon McAuliffe for the 1st one)

[hankster]

Yup. That’s a strange choice. Pete Drake’s no slouch, but Emmons or Lloyd Green would make more sense.

[edwardofhuncote]

I'm amazed watching anyone play one of those wretched things and get anything out of it. My first exposure to steel guitar was an old gentleman named Wayne Fleming, who had played with Ernest Tubb many years ago. Later on, I worked with a resonator guitar player who also played lap-steel, console, and pedal steel. He'd been a student of the late Mike Auldridge, and was therefore well-schooled in Leon McAuliffe, et al. We didn't get to use that a lot around here, (dobro being the main dish) but it was a fun jam. I keep hoping we'll do it again sometime, giving me a chance to work in something with an electric guitar again. 

*I would like to second Waldo Otto.

[cozmik_cowboy]

I'm amazed watching anyone play one of those wretched things and get anything out of it.

Likewise; I mean, it's like playing a drum kit - but with music added!

Peter (who, being the father of a damn good percussionist, has to throw a drummer joke out there whenever possible)

[bigredbass]

I was fortunate to work with several great pedal steel players, and they are without a doubt the most confounding instruments known to man.  The tunings are incomprehensible, this pedal pulls THAT string, this bar sharps THIS string, and BTW, it's all fretless.  I utterly love them, but if someone asked me I could either A) learn to play pedal steel, or B) lose one arm, I'd hold out my left one . . . . .

[peoplechipper]

Alan Jorgenson (Ministry) who actually can play pedal steel once said that almost anything you knew how to play on guitar worked against you on pedal steel and the lame stabs I've taken on lap steel seem to confirm it...Tony

[keith_h]

A high school friend of mine decided to take up the pedal steel. He eventually became a pretty good player but those early years were rather painful on the ears. 

[hankster]

My brother is a pedal steel Player, as well as a dobro player and a player of other slide instruments. He spends some time each year in Texas at the Texas steel guitar Association show in Dallas, where he is a regular on the main stage and the so-called non-pedal room. I’ve been fortunate enough to spend some time with him there over the years with many of the best steel and slide players in the country from Nashville, St. Louis, New York, Florida, Los Angeles, and other places. It’s been a real eye-opener. These are lovely people and great musicians. We are all lucky to have them in our midst, and to listen to the great music that they’ve made and virtually every genre we all love. God bless ‘em.