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 Heres how a Steel Guitar Was Meant to Sound: Not One Bit a Twang (L) |
Old Time Country Preacher |
The steel comes in at about .25 seconds, smooth as silk, nectar to the ears, nary a hint of country whine or bluegrass twang.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1jL8A20H_k |
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| It starts off with pitch bending/sliding like every steel guitar lead. Just not as good as most. I love Gilmore's lead play, its at the very top, but this was poor. Just a bunch of full chord slides. It can be learned in about 10 minutes if you play any instrument at all. Not impressive at all. |
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10/25/16 10:04 am
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bonnie knox |
| Ole Timer, what are them cats talkin bout when they say "Great Gig in the Sky." Is at anything like the meeting in the air described in the redback? |
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Old Time Country Preacher |
Talented, but twang. |
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10/25/16 10:37 am
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Old Time Country Preacher |
| UncleJD wrote: | | It starts off with pitch bending/sliding like every steel guitar lead. Just not as good as most. I love Gilmore's lead play, its at the very top, but this was poor. Just a bunch of full chord slides. It can be learned in about 10 minutes if you play any instrument at all. Not impressive at all. |
Ahhh, but JD, the untrained ear, untrained in terms of the Floydian/Gilmourian sound, can never appreciate a masterpiece. The steel solo at the end of High Hopes can never be surpassed. |
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10/25/16 10:40 am
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Old Time Country Preacher |
| bonnie knox wrote: | | Ole Timer, what are them cats talkin bout when they say "Great Gig in the Sky." Is at anything like the meeting in the air described in the redback? |
Pink Floyd keyboardist, Rick Wright (now deceased), wrote the "Great Gig in the Sky." It was written to have choral overtones, i.e., the use of vocal chords as instrumentation. The song is about dying and the popular notion of the afterlife. It is indeed the Floydian counterpart to the Redback meeting in the air. |
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10/25/16 10:44 am
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bonnie knox |
Well, I can't listen to it without having an empty feeling because "the notion of an afterlife" comes up short of believing in Jesus and having eternal life.
Sorry, didn't intend to get off your main topic of twangy versus smooth. |
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10/25/16 10:49 am
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Old Time Country Preacher |
| bonnie knox wrote: | | Well, I can't listen to it without having an empty feeling because "the notion of an afterlife" comes up short of believing in Jesus and having eternal life. |
You exactly right, Miss Bonnie. The Great Gig don't equate with the Rapture an spendin eternity with Jesus. It was just the best Floyd could do in a secular sense. |
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| Old Time Country Preacher wrote: |
Talented, but twang. |
It don't mean a thang if it ain't got that twang 
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c6thplayer1 |
Nice accompaniment on a 6 string lap steel , but try this out for smooth sound with a touch of jazz on the C6th neck.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYCAkNx6nFg |
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c6thplayer1 |
Pretty good but its Gilmore what else would one expect. I still like his guitar
better. He does licks on the guitar that cannot be easily reproduced by other players and he gets the sound from his equipment that is only dreamed about. |
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10/25/16 8:30 pm
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