You guys have probably been asked this 50 go-zillion times, but I'll ask it anyway.

If you had to pick 2 of your favorite solo's on any singers' session you've done, what would they be?

And second, of your own recorded CD's, tapes and/or albums, what is your favorite tune?

Thanks for your time.

Ricky

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[This message was edited by Ricky Littleton on 09 December 2003 at 01:06 PM.]

Instrumentals....I like from the Players cd, "Coltrane Boogie" for its harmonic stretching and I am still amazed that I survived Mark O'conner's"Pick It Apart".

How do you do this crazy rhythm lick on the Dire Straits rceord "Calling Elvis!? I have been slaving for days and still can't get it right???

Greetings from Vienna, Austria, Walter

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Pat, this is the basic pattern.

6__0B__2B(h)_____2B__0B(H)_________________7______________________________2B___0B(H)__8____________2B____________2B______________
*(h)=hammer on/don't pick

*(H)=hammer off/don't pick

Paul

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...well, I can't get it to print right on here, but if you click the link below, you'll see Paul's original post with the tab in a legible format..

....he also gave us a bunch of other good stuff in that same thread...here's the link..

http://steelguitarforum.com/Forum5/HTML/005865.html

...at someone's recent suggestion, I forget who, I bought the concert video of Dire Strait's "On The Night"...thanks!, whoever suggested that...I believe it was $13.95 on Amazon, and you get some great shots of Paul Franklin on steel, especially playing this lick on "Calling Elvis"...

[This message was edited by Pat Burns on 12 December 2003 at 07:44 PM.]

Buddy, I almost ran off the road the first time I heard "So Much Like My Dad". That is truly one of my favorites. There could not be a more perfect steel solo. Buddy, your soul was laid out on the strings on that one. It starts to get even more interesting in the fade out, and I would love to have heard the full cut before the fade. Do you recall who played guitar on that song?? The muted strings were so tasteful.

I'm still mesmerized by "Pick it Apart". It is hard to belive that it is humanly possible for someone to play something like that. Paul, I don't suppose you would like to tell us how many takes that took???

Thanks for sharing this information.

I wasn't on the Forum in July, that's why that escaped me!!!

Walter

Buddy I just got the new Albert Lee cd, and you have some great stuff on there.
There is a slow one and the solo on that is real sweet.

Paul, I have The Players and it is just that some great players having a great time.

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[This message was edited by Dave Van Allen on 16 December 2003 at 08:05 AM.]

Amen, brother.

Merry Christmas all,

I notice it was written by Chips Moman and Bobby Emmons...any kin to you Buddy?

And the break...the man can take some simple three and five string stuff, throw in some single string and make it sound far out.

I was just starting on the steel about that time and ordered the intro and break to several of Strait's songs that Buddy had played on from Scotty, and was so surprised when I looked at the tab to "So Much Like My Dad"

Isn't this nice when two of the greats of steel guitar respond to the Forum!

Bob

[This message was edited by Bob Carlson on 18 December 2003 at 08:41 AM.]

As for So Much Like My Dad, we were on the third take when it occurred to me that no one had played the solo yet, so I jumped in. I hadn’t paid attention to the solo chords up to then so everything I played was drifting from one chord to the next and strictly by the seat of my pants. When we were through they decided that was the take so I told the producer, Tony Brown, I was more familiar with the chords now and would like to have another stab at it. He said okay but he’d keep the original track. I spent the next fifteen minutes trying to beat the original, until finally we all agreed that it wasn’t happening.

I'd guess a lot of times it's hard to beat that spontaneous combustion you get on the first take.

I played that song at least six times after I signed off last time hoping he'd tell me just what it was his his daddy used to say...but he never did.

Bob

Playing it live on the American Music Shop was much harder than the recording session.
For those of you who saw that, we also did three passes thanks to the camera crew .....Paul

[This message was edited by Franklin on 19 December 2003 at 05:44 AM.]

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