I would ove to have tab on that.

Billy

i bet that was a sweet session. it was done in Nashville with L. Green as hired gun for the Byrds in 1968-69 i think. not that quick but classic chops!

BTW: has anyone listened to Clarence White any? old guitar played for the Byrds, etc.
he develpoed the Tele B-Bender and sold it to Fender in the late '60s. he's about as quick and clean as it gets (early chicken picker).

later
Billy

BTW: who digs Gram Parsons music? try 'I've Lied', 'Thats All It Took', 'Brand New HeartAche' and others. 'Sin City' is sweet as is 'Return of the Grievous Angel' which where i got my studio's name from "Grievous Angel Productions". he is "My Man", i.e. written by Bernie Leadon for Gram after GPs death in '71 i think. if you are into GP get the book about him. goes into where 'Dead Flowers', 'Wild HOrses' and others came from (Gram lived with K. Richards (Stones) and his wife Anita in S. France for about 2 years. "Dead Flowers' was written about some flowers Kieth and Gram (received via jet) from some groupies in the States that arrived dead. thats all that took.

check out my web site, i have a page or so devoted to GP. www.grievousangelpro.com

later,

billy

my studio is in SE Georgia. pass it arond, we do unlimited session time on a 74 min CD. pro sound with 1000 glass mastered CD with art, etc. for $4995! $45 to $30 (4 hour block to 40 hour block) per hour straight time. we do short run CDRs 500 per day in-house with thermal label on silver CDRs in a slim case (100 for $140).

i ahve not spent enought time on steel to due studio and live sound gigs. i/ve also played ons stage for 20+ years i guess. a few times in 20-30K seat arenas. what a rush!

later,
Billy

From time-to-time, we will pick an artist and/or a particular piece of work and highlight the music for one of our weekly gigs. I have a "standing-order" in to do a Sweetheart of the Rodeo "night". I need to remind my cohorts that we need to get this one done!

Yep, NRPS blew me away. i played that first NRPS album over and over and still do. the lead singer, Daves ???, wrote and sang about topics i felt like i understood. its a moving album.

talking about ahead of you time. .
i had a sucessful rock band called Critical Mass and were a loud stones type band. anyway, about 1970 pr 171 i had grown tied of teh same tunes and the 'country rock scene or 'cosmic aamerican' music scene was really getting my attention. you got understand this was like 1971 in SE Georgia and we had hair to our shoulders (some few of the local 'youth' many times chased us out town, etc.) as we too threatening to there women or something??? we had to get the chops to help us out of a fast food place at 3AM several times. anyway, me the lead singer, left the grojup (broke it up) and reformed a day later as Rockin' Horse ( later Sage Brush, Cosmic Cowboys and South Cactus). i went down to Portmans music and believe it or not they had a Sho-Bud Maverek, so i got it. all i knew was that i liked the sound and Poco, NRPS, Eagles, N. Young, Byrds, Comander Cody, GP, FB Bros, etc. all used a steel! so we were doing that west coast hippie music with long hair in SE Georgia while others were playing Stones and ohter rock sounds. we were out on the edge, i.e. not exactly rock adn not exactly country! think of this in 1971 in SE Georgia then, now its cool in all the states and social circles. we went from making money to being broke and playing dives! but, it was exciting. would do it agan. wish i could. there is no doubt in my mind, that music and youth is magic like John S. of the Lovin' Spoofull wrote in 'Do You Believe in Magic'. yes i do and it was magic.

billy

was it an amp? it didn't really know, just assumed a guitar.

yes i will check out some those sites.

Great picker!

billy

great song.

I'm waiting . . .

later,
billy

billy

so Mr. Emmons played only on That's All It Took? L. Green was on the Byrds Sweet Heart ablum. whaat other steel players were on teh Sweet Heart ablum?

i have not read those liners notes in awhile. in todays techy life, liner notes kinda get left behind. its shame actually as the art and liner notes were great to read while listening.

thanks,
billy

I first learned it with Don's help, too. He should know it pretty well by now!

Billy, you can use the Forum's "search" function to find old threads about topics you are interested in. There has been quite a bit of discussion about "Sweetheart of the Rodeo", including information supplied by Lloyd Green himself. J. D. Manness also played steel on that album.

have ya'll listened to the 1st NRPS album with Jerry Garcia on steel. his steel style is not typical Nashivlle for sure. you are the man Mr. Garcia. I wish he coajuld kick off 'Momma Tried' right now! i loved his 6 string guitar pick up sound. he kept it rather secret, real thick 7 hot, slightly dirty and had a phase sound also. he had them wound for him plus wired the guitar special also i understand.

billy

billy

There is a lot of information packed into those first two dozen notes or so...

To nail that phrase and pick it cleanly (on my lap steel, anyway) took reasonable "mastery" of cross-picking, left-hand/bar blocking, pick-blocking and palm-blocking.

Now I gues i am correct. which steel player played on most of FBB songs, e.i. Wheels, Hot Burrito No. 2, Sin City, Close Up the Honky Tonks, etc? 'Sneaky Pete' correct? at what song/album did AL Perkins appear.

on GP's studio solo ablums (all two them) there a variety of steel plays on those 2 albums, correct?

i read that GP had asked Merle Haggard to use his band as GP wanted to get that 'real coounry' sound, but Merle Haggard tuned GP down. GP tried really hard to merge country sounds into the rock scene. "I'LL CHANGE YOU FLAT TIRE MERLE" WAS GP'S RESPONSE TO MERLE'S 'OAGIE FROM ...'. MANY OF NASHVILLE'S PLAYERS FAILED TO SEE GP'S INTENT AND WAS ACTUALLY IN HONOR TO THE COUNTRY SCENE. HOW DID GRAM SAY IT (PARA-PHRASING)? "I'LL FIX YUR FLAT TIRE MERLE, DON'T GET YOU'RE HANDS ALL COVERED WITH ERLE . . ." . . . SOMETHING ABOUT "GETTING CAUGHT IN A TLELPHOINE BOOTH" . . . "SMACK . . . WEED ANY DAY" . . . ( HARD HITTING GUITAR DITTY). Great song by Pure Pairie League. (sorry for caps key)

any way,

later,
billy

billy

On the GP album Mr. Emmons played on both "That's All It Took" and "Streets of Baltimore." If you listen carefully You will learn to recognize his tone and fluid style.

you must have seen myweb site page on teh GP tribute CD? GREAT.

i am still lining up artists so stay in touch. i plan on starting tracking this spring.

past the word on.

yea, GP's voice on certain songs that HE wrote was so stained with thought and pain that it is his signature no doubt. his vocal would crack just so beautifully and with sincerity but yet controlled. The honesty of his voice consumes you, at it does me. Brass Buttons, 1000 Dollar Wedding, Hot Burrito No.2, I've Lied to name a few. it is still sad to me to think of him and his music. They called him the 'King of Excess' and he lied up to that from what I've read about him. That i feel was what really killed him. Of couse the whisky and the samack ddn;t help, but you to ask yourself why so much of every thing? i read that Ms. Mercenary of the Go GOs stopped by to see him at the Burrito Manor and he pulled out a few George Jones albums. while playing them and saying that George was the 'king of heartbreak', tears appeared in his eyes. Ms. Merceanry said she never forgot that, as it was so real and heart felt it even moved her! GP's dream of bringing together rockers and country folks just wasn't happening he thought. he had trouble with relationships abd separating himself from reality and what his heart was feeling. GP could not walk awa easily, i.e. musicm women, drugs his mother (as in 'Brass Buttons'). that was GPs burden and gift, at least from what i've read and the few i've talked to that knew him. GP was a romatic akind to maybe Bob Dylan (at least in Dylan's lyrics). listen to 'Bell of Ryhmey' and 'My Back Pages', i.e. 'unharnful gentle souls' . . . 'i was older then than i am now'. anyway, GP was a drawn to a losing cause. enough. . .

what was this thread about . . .

later,
billy

you have me curious now. i'll check it out.

billy