Guess this Steeler (mp3 sample)

Jay Ganz · Post by **Jay Ganz** » 3 Nov 2002 9:16 am

Ok....let's see how good you are.
Download this short solo & see if you can
tell who's steelin'.

<a href=http://home.hvc.rr.com/jsganz/MysterySteeler.mp3>*Click Here*</a>[This message was edited by Jay Ganz on 03 November 2002 at 09:18 AM.]

Stephen LeBlanc · Post by **Stephen LeBlanc** » 3 Nov 2002 10:38 am

I don't really know but I'll guess anyway...is it JD?

Marco Schouten · Post by **Marco Schouten** » 3 Nov 2002 10:54 am

Buddy Emmons

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Marco Schouten
Sho-Bud Pro III Custom; Sho-Bud LLG

Roland van Beveren · Post by **Roland van Beveren** » 3 Nov 2002 12:46 pm

Lloyd Green?

Roger Kelly · Post by **Roger Kelly** » 3 Nov 2002 2:22 pm

Jay Ganz?

Jay Ganz · Post by **Jay Ganz** » 3 Nov 2002 2:36 pm

Well, here's a couple hints anyhow.
1. He recorded it in 1972
2. His picture is shown in Winnie Winston's
first "Pedal Steel Guitar" book.

Mike Selecky · Post by **Mike Selecky** » 3 Nov 2002 2:40 pm

That's either Toy Caldwell or Jerry Garcia!

Jon Light (deceased) · Post by **Jon Light (deceased)** » 3 Nov 2002 3:48 pm

Jeff Newman

Gary Walker · Post by **Gary Walker** » 3 Nov 2002 8:05 pm

Sure sounds like Jimmy Day.

Jim Bob Sedgwick · Post by **Jim Bob Sedgwick** » 3 Nov 2002 10:04 pm

Jay Dee Maness?

CrowBear Schmitt · Post by **CrowBear Schmitt** » 4 Nov 2002 12:04 am

Jimmy Day ?

John P. Phillips · Post by **John P. Phillips** » 4 Nov 2002 5:30 am

Sounds just a little to me like Weldon or "Mooney".

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"Let's go STEEL something"
If it feels good, do it. If it feels COUNTRY, do it twice
jpp

Jay Ganz · Post by **Jay Ganz** » 4 Nov 2002 7:11 am

Good guesses, but so far no cigar.
Another hint: He played an Emmons back then,
but subsequently gave up steeling not long
after that.[This message was edited by Jay Ganz on 04 November 2002 at 07:12 AM.]

David Decker · Post by **David Decker** » 4 Nov 2002 7:13 am

Bill Keith?

Jay Ganz · Post by **Jay Ganz** » 4 Nov 2002 10:15 am

<blink>YOU GOT IT!!!</blink>

All right David!!! I knew that last clue
would tip somebody off. Congrats to ya!

Sam Minnitti · Post by **Sam Minnitti** » 4 Nov 2002 2:05 pm

I think this demonstrates how truly difficult it is to develop your own true voice on your instrument and have it recognized by a majority of musicians and non-musicians alike without the listener playing guessing games.

When one reaches this almost unobtainable goal, then that in my opinion is really 'making it' and you are pretty much written in the history books.

I will use a non-steel player and jazz musician as an example. If someone plays you a snippet of Louis Armstrong (him playing not singing) and said guess who this is, no doubt a majority of people would know right away without guessing. Same would hold true for Coltrane, Charlie Parker, etc. Yes there are many people who can now sound like them, but the fact that they invented the sound is what makes them truly great.

I am curios as to why there was so much random guessing when you guys heard this example, from Emmons, to Newman, to Jay Dee Maness??, all such different players . ...What were you guys basing these guesses on?

Donny Hinson · Post by **Donny Hinson** » 4 Nov 2002 5:07 pm

Let me say this about that...

1) Mike Selecky's guesses were good

2) All the rest weren't

3) I didn't have the faintest idea who it was

4) I recognized the song as "Desafinado"

5) I'm sure that...sooner or later...someone will get #4

Stephen LeBlanc · Post by **Stephen LeBlanc** » 5 Nov 2002 12:15 am

I am curios as to why there was so much random guessing when you guys heard this example, from Emmons, to Newman, to Jay Dee Maness??, all such different players . ...What were you guys basing these guesses on?

Well I don't know about anyone else but I can tell why I guessed Jay Dee.

First off I haven't heard this Steel player before so right there I didn't have a chance to accurately identify it. I've heard Jay Dee Maness play like several different players before...he does a lot of legends justice depending on the song, some songs you just have to play the solo a certain way...since I know from experience Jay Dee does this style well...I just guessed him for fun.

Now that I know it's not him it sounds less like his tone, etc.

And while I'm making excuses for myself

(just kidding)...I heard this thing through some really crappy computer speakers.

Gary Lee Gimble · Post by **Gary Lee Gimble** » 5 Nov 2002 2:05 am

"First off I haven't heard this Steel player"

Bill Keith is known as a banjo player. Rather good too!

Donny Hinson · Post by **Donny Hinson** » 5 Nov 2002 4:48 pm

Nope...nobody "got it" yet!

(No wonder the "big dogs" don't visit here!

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Donny Hinson · Post by **Donny Hinson** » 10 Nov 2002 12:27 pm

Oh puuuleeeze! How anybody could have guessed this was one of the major players (one of the "big dogs" as I call them), is beyond me...really!

Let's just say the "intonation" leaves a little to be desired! Now, Buddy Emmons, Lloyd Green, Jeff Newman, Jimmy Day, and Weldon Myrick may have sounded like this when they had only been playing for 6 months...but, after that?

Not Hardly!

Jeff Evans · Post by **Jeff Evans** » 10 Nov 2002 5:13 pm

Marty Pollard?

Reggie Duncan · Post by **Reggie Duncan** » 11 Nov 2002 4:19 am

I could certainly tell you who it wasn't.
Lloyd Green, Buddy Emmons, Weldon Myrick and JD Maness, for sure. I thought it might have been Mooney, but my best guess was that it could have been someone I didn't know. I guessed it with the clues given. I asked my wife who it was and she said it started off sounding a little like Hal Rugg. I could hear where she was coming from.

Bob Carlson · Post by **Bob Carlson** » 16 Nov 2002 10:20 pm

Stephen,
I also thought it sounded like young Jay Dee.

Bob.

Buck Grantham R.I.P. · Post by **Buck Grantham R.I.P.** » 19 Nov 2002 3:37 pm

Sounded like John Buffington to me.