Pete Drake Unique Steel clips / Check Back I'll add more

Franklin · Post by **Franklin** » 11 Feb 2012 11:23 pm

With so many threads talking about playing outside the box I thought you all might enjoy a few songs from a legend.

Check out the Rhythmic C6th low string work he does here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzC5OU0W ... re=related

And this one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FBKCQYb ... re=related

Hook Moore · Post by **Hook Moore** » 12 Feb 2012 4:44 am

Thats a side of Pete I had not seen before. Thanks Paul
Hook

Joshua Grange · Post by **Joshua Grange** » 12 Feb 2012 1:34 pm

I enjoyed that!

Franklin · Post by **Franklin** » 12 Feb 2012 3:30 pm

I thought a lot of the newer generations might not be aware of how well Pete played the C6th tuning.....Check this out, especially his solo starting around 40 seconds in.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnTf_Wdr ... re=related

And this tasteful version.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7RyMwu-TSQ

I love his solo on this one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uea85zklZpM

Paul

Franklin · Post by **Franklin** » 12 Feb 2012 3:42 pm

I love how soulful he plays this original composition........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vOB7Hwu ... re=related

Paul

Danny Bates · Post by **Danny Bates** » 12 Feb 2012 4:09 pm

http://soundcloud.com/danny-bates/pete- ... off-in-the

Jack Stanton · Post by **Jack Stanton** » 13 Feb 2012 6:13 am

Thanks Paul, cool stuff.
analyze Pete's playing anyway you want, it's hard to argue with success!

Quentin Hickey · Post by **Quentin Hickey** » 13 Feb 2012 6:50 am

Franklin wrote:I love how soulful he plays this original composition........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vOB7Hwu ... re=related

Paul

WOW. Now that tune really talks to me. Thanks for posting.
Quentin

Ransom Beers · Post by **Ransom Beers** » 13 Feb 2012 6:58 am

I knew Pete's bro.,can't remember his first name ,everybody just called him "Pappy Drake",a great jazz style guitarist,nice guy too.

This is a cool version of Ferlin's song:
http://youtu.be/cnvlDDMXpXA

Greg Cutshaw · Post by **Greg Cutshaw** » 13 Feb 2012 7:51 am

Pete's brother Jack Drake played bass for Ernest Tubb for 24 years.

Pete sang on a few non talking steel songs also. I've got one at home and will post it unless someone beats me to it.

Greg

Ransom Beers · Post by **Ransom Beers** » 13 Feb 2012 8:05 am

Thanks for clearing that up for me Greg.I remember the name now,guess when you get to my age the first thing to go is.......,what was the question?I forgot.I didn't know "Pappy" played bass,I knew him from Bill Testers 1440 club in Santa Clara Calif. & when there was a jam he played guitar.Had a lot of good times there.This was in the mid to late 60's.

Roger Shackelton · Post by **Roger Shackelton** » 13 Feb 2012 2:02 pm

Pete recorded a tune on C-6, written by Hal Rugg. The title is "My Bluest Day".
Can someone post this tune?

Roger

Jerry Overstreet · Post by **Jerry Overstreet** » 13 Feb 2012 3:51 pm

I just found time to watch all those videos Paul. Great stuff. Enjoyed them very much. Thanks.

Ransom Beers · Post by **Ransom Beers** » 13 Feb 2012 5:11 pm

Roger Shackelton wrote:Pete recorded a tune on C-6, written by Hal Rugg. The title is "My Bluest Day".
Can someone post this tune?

Roger

I couldn't find a you tube video of that song,Last-FM radio has a entry of Pete Drake music but they don't have that in their catalog,it is on the "Forever" album I'm told.

Bob Hoffnar · Post by **Bob Hoffnar** » 14 Feb 2012 12:55 pm

I'm pretty sure the organ part on Dylan's "Tell Me That It Isn't True" is Pete Drake. Its brilliant! I can't find a youtube of it though.

Greg Cutshaw · Post by **Greg Cutshaw** » 14 Feb 2012 4:09 pm

Pete Drake singing and playing on "Color Of The Blues":

Color Of The Blues

Greg

George Rozak · Post by **George Rozak** » 14 Feb 2012 5:57 pm

Greg Cutshaw wrote:Pete Drake singing and playing on "Color Of The Blues":

Color Of The Blues

Greg

I've got that on an old Starday album. I never realized that that was Pete singing. I always thought that maybe it was the Willis Brothers doing the vocals for Pete.

Robbie Daniels · Post by **Robbie Daniels** » 15 Feb 2012 11:05 am

Bill Drake in California was Pete's brother. I worked with him in the bay area at different times and yes he like to play jazz style lead guitar. It is true Jack Drake was upright bass player for Ernest Tubbs for many years.

Pete Finney · Post by **Pete Finney** » 16 Feb 2012 8:23 am

Great stuff, thanks Paul...

Danny Bates · Post by **Danny Bates** » 16 Feb 2012 2:42 pm

Dan Tyack · Post by **Dan Tyack** » 16 Feb 2012 4:18 pm

Very cool, Paul. Great tone!

Thanks for posting these.

Alan Miller · Post by **Alan Miller** » 4 Mar 2012 4:02 pm

It always disappointed me how many people criticized Pete Drake, I put it down to them not listening to enough of his work and picking up on a few memorable licks which are still remembered and sometimes copied today.
Listening to these videos that Paul has linked us to Pete was a man way ahead of his time and had he lived a while longer the pedal steel just might have diversified into other genres of music earlier......I might be correct in saying we had about a 20 year gap until a certain Paul Fanklin kicked it off again world wide with Mark Knopfler as Pete had done with Dylan , Harrison etc.

Alan Miller · Post by **Alan Miller** » 4 Mar 2012 4:08 pm

Bob Hoffnar wrote:I'm pretty sure the organ part on Dylan's "Tell Me That It Isn't True" is Pete Drake. Its brilliant! I can't find a youtube of it though.

It probably is , he also did string sounds and once said he was the cheapest string section in Nashville.

Jay Ganz · Post by **Jay Ganz** » 12 Mar 2012 1:37 pm

Just in case this hasn't been posted before > > > >

http://youtu.be/0dTFajHVyHo

Peter Freiberger · Post by **Peter Freiberger** » 12 Mar 2012 3:21 pm

A YouTube search will turn up quite a bit of Pete Drake's recordings, as well as this informational video on his career, recording with Ringo and "Goldie".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFozzX3iVGo

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