Steel Guitar Instrumental song you dislike most

Jerry Roller · Post by **Jerry Roller** » 21 Jun 2003 11:11 am

I believe any song can be great if it is played well enough. Like Jody said, take a listen to Buddy Charlton and Leon on Steel Guitar Rag, I bet none of us would mind playing it if we could do it like that. If you don't like playing a certain song which is usually one that the public requests just learn to play it a lot better with some new arrangement and it will be good as new. I bet we all would enjoy any song that has been mentioned in this thread if Buddy was playing a great tasteful arrangement of it.
I think the songs we don't like to play are the ones we are sick of our arrangement on.
I have that problem with a lot of songs but I think its my fault and not that of the song. (I didn't get much sleep last night, please forgive me)

Jerry

Bud Angelotti · Post by **Bud Angelotti** » 23 Jun 2003 6:42 pm

I was in this band for awhile and they played FREEBIRD almost every time. Now THAT was the worst. BUD

Jesse Pearson · Post by **Jesse Pearson** » 23 Jun 2003 8:00 pm

The thing I like about SGR is the minor 3rd is a little sharp, like a minor 3rd & 1/3. That's the real deal blues interval that bottle neck players came up with back in the beginning of time. Some guys probable don't hear it and therefore don't play it, but I think that is one of the things that makes that song so special.

Winnie Winston · Post by **Winnie Winston** » 23 Jun 2003 10:25 pm

to take a vote AWAY from SGR, just listen to the one Lloyd did. Bee-u-ti-ful!
I've worked it up, and I really like it. But I'd never try to do it like Leon.
For me, the tune I dislike most is San Antonio Rose, but, again, that comes from being asked to play it by bands, who did NOT understand their ass from their elbow.

JW

Graham Griffith · Post by **Graham Griffith** » 24 Jun 2003 12:18 am

Winnie,

Seems we've had the same experience ... a great song but usually a token thrown in by the bandleader/singer and played "ricky ticky". Poor Rose!!

Graham

Joerg Hennig · Post by **Joerg Hennig** » 24 Jun 2003 10:56 am

Nothing against SGR, it depends on how you do it. I really dig Jimmy Day´s and Buddy Charleton´s versions.
But here´s something - my band leader/singer just loaned me a CD with steel instrumentals hoping that I might like to do some of them. It contains Take Me Home Country Roads arranged as an SG instrumental. Now that one surely qualifies as the one I dislike most.

Regards, Joe H: