Dan Tyack playing 'A Way to Survive'?????

Dan Tyack · Post by **Dan Tyack** » 31 Jan 2009 10:28 pm

Well......yeah.

Here are a few videos from last weekend's SWSGA convention in Phoenix.

Hallelujah I Love Her So

A Way to Survive

Roger Rettig · Post by **Roger Rettig** » 1 Feb 2009 2:31 am

How wonderfully refreshing!!!!

Brian McGaughey · Post by **Brian McGaughey** » 1 Feb 2009 6:21 am

Great! I enjoyed those. It is refreshing.

A couple other names I recognize from these parts in Stu Shulman on guitar and Doug Livingstone on keys, right?

I like the non-moving stockinged feet shot about 4 minutes into Way To Survive.

richard burton · Post by **richard burton** » 1 Feb 2009 6:41 am

Edited for being unnecessarily opinionated.

I expressed my preference for how I think a steel should be played, and, upon reflection, it was a harsh and unjustified post, as all styles of playing should stand on their own merit.

Dan Tyack · Post by **Dan Tyack** » 1 Feb 2009 8:28 am

The funny thing was that I was the only guy to play A Way to Survive at the show....

Tony Glassman · Post by **Tony Glassman** » 1 Feb 2009 9:06 am

very soulful, Dan..........I also enjoyed the Ray Charles tune.

Rich Peterson · Post by **Rich Peterson** » 1 Feb 2009 9:12 am

Thank you for showing that a PSG has more than a couple tones/voices. If I weren't watching, I'd have been wondering how that Stratocaster player was playing those licks.

Now, what would I have to do to put a second pickup on my MSA Classic? Hmmmmm.......

Very fine and expressive playing, Dan.

Dan Tyack · Post by **Dan Tyack** » 1 Feb 2009 9:40 am

Thanks for the nice comments (and for your restraint, Richard

).

Rich, this new guitar can really sound like a big fat strat. Normally I use a Lawrence 705 in the bridge position and a Tonealigner in the neck, but my Tonealigner pickup was damaged in transit, so I used a Lawrence 710 that Big Jim was nice enough to lend me. Both of those songs were played with both pickups on, in phase, through a THD 40 watt amp (prototype) into a 15" BW cabinet. No efx except for a little echo (I think I used the least effects of any steel player on the show).

Chuck S. Lettes · Post by **Chuck S. Lettes** » 1 Feb 2009 10:24 am

Hi Dan,
Nice arrangements! I enjoyed picking with you in Phoenix and hope we get a chance to do it again.
Chuck

Chuck S. Lettes · Post by **Chuck S. Lettes** » 1 Feb 2009 11:58 am

Hi Dan,
Nice arrangements (you and Dr. Livingston, I presume)! I enjoyed picking with you in Phoenix and hope we get a chance to do it again.
Chuck

Stu Schulman · Post by **Stu Schulman** » 1 Feb 2009 12:42 pm

I was watching an episode of "Roseanne" the other night and Roseanne's husband is reading the newspaper and tells her about a woman who stabbed her husband 61 times to death...And Roseann said at least she showed some restraint.

Jan Jonsson · Post by **Jan Jonsson** » 2 Feb 2009 2:10 am

Great playing there, Dan! You have the most wonderful human-like voice on the steel on several occasions in these videos. Great back-up band, too. Would that be three forum steelers in the same band?

-- Jan

Dan Tyack · Post by **Dan Tyack** » 2 Feb 2009 6:24 am

Thanks Jan. That's indeed a great backup band (including formumites Doug Livingston and Stu Schulman. I always try to play with musicians that are better than I am, whenever possible. Now if I were Buddy Emmons, that might be problematic, but I usually have no problems attaining that goal.

Paul Wade · Post by **Paul Wade** » 2 Feb 2009 7:18 am

great job dan a little differnt twist i like it

p.w

Drew Howard · Post by **Drew Howard** » 2 Feb 2009 9:18 am

Love it!!!!

David Doggett · Post by **David Doggett** » 2 Feb 2009 9:49 am

Nice stuff, as always, Dan.

Stu Schulman · Post by **Stu Schulman** » 2 Feb 2009 10:59 am

Dan has the most amazing tone,His guitar just sings.Playing in his band is always my favorite thing to do at the Phoenix show...It's such an honor for me to play music with Dan,and Doug Livingston.

Barry Blackwood · Post by **Barry Blackwood** » 2 Feb 2009 2:59 pm

Dan. Different .....

Jack Francis · Post by **Jack Francis** » 2 Feb 2009 7:36 pm

Dan, I LOVED IT!!

Nathan Golub · Post by **Nathan Golub** » 3 Feb 2009 2:15 pm

Sweet! I dug that.

steve takacs · Post by **steve takacs** » 4 Feb 2009 5:09 pm

Careful Dan... sounded a bit like the Devil's music snuck into both of the tunes. Watch out for those blues notes...... steve t

David L. Donald · Post by **David L. Donald** » 5 Feb 2009 8:42 pm

Very cool.
Sacred Steel, Lapsteel and PSG styles combined
with a good dose of 60's soul music. What's not to like!

Tamara James · Post by **Tamara James** » 6 Feb 2009 8:46 am

beautiful playing.

I like your style very much.

I noticed the Desert Rose. What a beautiful guitar.

Johan Jansen · Post by **Johan Jansen** » 6 Feb 2009 11:05 am

Dan, this is beautiful!
Your tone, soul to the bone!!

Johan

David L. Donald · Post by **David L. Donald** » 6 Feb 2009 5:09 pm

I notice similar tone in his recordings with the lapsteel too.
So it's NOT the PSG steel so much in this case,
but his fingers.

And some amp settings choice too now doubt.
Just pushing that THD enough for a bit of grit.

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