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Topic: Sneaky Pete - Christine's Tune
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Gabriel Aaron Wynne
Member From: Dallas, Texas, USA
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posted 28 December 2004 10:26 AM
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Perhaps this question has been asked before, but how are some of these licks executed on this tune?
I've heard that Sneaky Pete used an 11 string steel. . . any truth to that?
Also, what steel was he playing and what amp? I've rarely heard anything similar.------------------
aaron
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Jerry Overstreet
Member From: Louisville Ky
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posted 28 December 2004 11:40 AM
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Gabriel, Sneaky has always played an 8 string Fender 400 pedal steel as far as I know. On this tune, I am hearing a little Mooney influenced pedaling.
Also, he is using a fuzz tone, possibly of his own designed units. He commonly used other effects including an envelope filter, chorus and octaver.
In an issue of Steel Guitarist mag, Joe Goldmarks interview header states that he favors a phased tone much like playing with a wooden bar. I don't think he ever sought a traditional steel sound, instead thinking more like a guitar player.
Pete was one of my earliest influences and he is one of the reasons I play steel today.
As to the amp, I can only guess it was probably a Fender model.
Searching some old posts reference is made to a pair of Session 400's. [This message was edited by Jerry Overstreet on 28 December 2004 at 11:58 AM.] [This message was edited by Jerry Overstreet on 29 December 2004 at 03:37 PM.] |
Gerald Pierce
Member From: Maydelle, Texas, USA
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posted 29 December 2004 01:48 PM
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There used to be a thread on the forum about his tuning, but I couldn't find it in a search. He tunes his Fender 400 to B6th. He also has a couple of pedals set up like the A & B pedals on an E9th tuning, pulling the Fifths a whole step and the Thirds a half step (sort of a semi-universal 8-string tuning). Seems like I remember seeing a post about someone seeing him playing through 2 Peavey amps.
He may play an unorthodox tuning on an ancient guitar, but I sure do like what he does! |
John Daugherty
Member From: Rolla, Missouri, USA
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posted 29 December 2004 03:09 PM
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Pete must be playing the Fender 400 he got from me in 1960 or 1961. We were working together in Escondido. Pete was going through a divorce and somehow lost his guitar. Probably the "goldmine and shaft syndrome". Since I was playing lead guitar on that job, I sold him my 400. He took it home and brought it back to work with a whole row of pedals added. It looked like a porcupine.
I believe he did use a "6th" tuning and played some unbelievable stuff on it. Not too country, but VERY GOOD. I will never forget the experience of working for quite some time with him.
At that time he had a day job as an animator on the "Gumby" cartoon series.....JD |
ebb
Member From: nj
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posted 29 December 2004 04:45 PM
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LK 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 RK
D+ C+ E D
B A+ C+ A+ C+
G+ A G
F+ G+ F A
D+ E D
B C+
G+ A G
F+
probably another for the faq
gerald is correct p 1,2 are day style corn
p 5,6 are same as c6 but down 1/2 step |
Rich Weiss
Member From: Woodland Hills, CA, USA
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posted 29 December 2004 06:42 PM
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His playing on Christine's Tune is like the Holy Grail. He pulls notes out of nowhere, that can't possibly go together. But they do, and there's almost no way to duplicate it. On a side note, a friend of mine talked with Pete recently, and it turns out that when he was playing with Gram, and the Burritos, he thought the group was just goofing on country music. He didn't really take it seriously, or see what was happening at the time, and how much of an icon he, and the Burritos was yet to become.
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Bob Carlucci
Member From: Candor, New York, USA
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posted 30 December 2004 09:06 PM
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Sneaky Pete is tough to copy as his style is very unorthodox. I do a pretty close approximation and I think this is because I lower my 3rd and 5th strings on separate PEDALS which is an unusual sound. VERY different from knee changes on the same strings. Many many moons ago while trying to work on some of Pete's stuff I heard lots of LOWERS on PEDALS in his voicings. I believe this is what you are hearing. Odd changes on PEDALS and not levers. When I started lowering strings with pedals on my S 10 5+4 I got a LOT of his stuff down and still incorporate it in my playing style.. He is pretty unusual in his approach thats for sure and I've never heard anyone sound like him at all. IMHO he is THE most unique steel guitarist in sound and style that ever heard. bob |
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