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seldomfed Member From: Colorado |
posted 05 May 2005 03:25 PM
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Is there any well known music featuring steel in this genre? chris ------------------ |
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Jim Phelps Member From: just out of Mexico City |
posted 05 May 2005 03:27 PM
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Good question, I'll be looking forward to seeing the answers. I posted that question on a Tejano board once and the answer I got was basically "huh?" I have heard some pedal steel in a few Mexican records since being here, once in a Joan Sebastian recording and another time in a song by Los Enanitos Verdes, both well-known artists here, but I haven't been able to find out who the player was. If anyone knows, please tell me. If you'd like to hear some old Mexican pop/rock with some pedal steel, I found one of them. Here's a link to a song by Los Enanitos Verdes ("The Green Dwarfs") with some pedal steel. It's in the background but it's there. This song is around 15 years old, the title is "Por el resto de tus dias" (For the rest of your days): http://jimphelps.com/temp/porelresto.mp3 [This message was edited by Jim Phelps on 05 May 2005 at 05:26 PM.] |
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Ricky Littleton Member From: Steely-Eyed Missile Man from Orlando, Florida USA |
posted 05 May 2005 06:17 PM
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While I was working on Ascension Island (south Atlantic Ocean), one of the Brazilian satellite stations featured a band that had a steel player. Very different (in a great way)!. (The "scenery" dancing around the stage wasn't too bad either!!!) Ricky... ------------------ |
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Dave Grafe Member From: Portland, Oregon, USA |
posted 09 May 2005 10:12 AM
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I suppose Ry Cooder's work on the Buena Vista All Stars album doesn't count, it's not really a "steel" that he's playing, but the ideas are there. I have been playing sambas, mambos, soca, calypso and the like for years on the PSG but I have never heard a recording of anyone else doing it. African music, now there's another story.... ------------------ 1978 ShoBud Pro I E9, Randall Steel Man 500, 1963 Precision Bass, 1954 Gibson LGO, 1897 Washburn Hawaiian Steel Conversion |
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c c johnson Member From: killeen,tx usa |
posted 09 May 2005 10:59 AM
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In thr 70s there were two bands that I knew of playing hapa haole music around Monterey. One had a 6 str Gibson and the other a console grand. In the 70s and 80s there was a black group in the Rio Grande valley. They called temselves Country Roland and the musical nites. At that time we had a steel player in Killeen named Roland Nite that played country music. Roland Nite has passed on and I don't know if the other grps are still active. CC |
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seldomfed Member From: Colorado |
posted 09 May 2005 11:51 AM
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Dave, Ry plays a steel on a couple cuts on the recent 'Mambo Sinuendo' CD - it's in the first cut for sure - but being that it's Ry himself I didn't think it qualifies. Last weeks radio show was on 5-5-5, so it got me thinking - I'll keep looking. chris ------------------ |
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Mark Herrick Member From: Los Angeles, CA |
posted 09 May 2005 02:34 PM
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Not a standard instrument in most Tejano or Conjunto music, however, if the song leans a little more toward country it does occur: Texas Tornados - "Texas Tornados" Texas Tornados - "4 Aces" Flaco Jimenez - "Flaco Jimenez" Flaco Jimenez - "Partners" Also, Ry Cooder pops up on a couple of cuts with the Texas Tornados and Flaco Jimenez. ------------------ |
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Will Houston Member From: Tempe, Az |
posted 09 May 2005 11:12 PM
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Has anybody heard Calexico? I never heard of them till I saw them with Nico Case. I never heard anything like them before, its hard to describe them, Psycadelic-Rock-jazz- mexican Mariachi band with a STEEL GUITAR. There from Tucson.If you get a chance to see them go. They have a DVD of a concert in London. There's 6 guys in the band, w\trumpets vibes' acordian,standup bass and guitarsand the steel player then halfway thru the set they bring out a 7 piece Mariachi band with violins more trumpets and guitars. I'm not real big on Mariachi but this was incredible. |
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