Some nice Pete Drake steel playing?

Marcus Provis · Post by **Marcus Provis** » 26 Jan 2013 11:24 pm

Hi guys

I Found this on you tube of the Blackwood Brothers Quarter with Porter Wagoner, and what sounds like Pete Drake on the steel...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7kYSndjh5M

Marcus

Paul Graupp · Post by **Paul Graupp** » 27 Jan 2013 6:58 am

I recall Pete doing a session with Kitty Wells and especially the song PASSWORD. Wish I knew how to bring it to life but I don't...at least I can remember how good it was !!

Henning Antonsen · Post by **Henning Antonsen** » 27 Jan 2013 10:20 am

Here it is

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x83y8d2r8fI

Paul Graupp · Post by **Paul Graupp** » 27 Jan 2013 4:12 pm

Thank You !!! I never would have gotten that run if Tom Vollmer had not told me it was on the C6th neck. Hadn't hear it in over 20 years but it was just like yesterday !!! Again...Thank You !!

Regards, Paul

Gary Carriger · Post by **Gary Carriger** » 27 Jan 2013 5:36 pm

Don't know who the steeler is...but would bet money it is not Pete.

Paul Graupp · Post by **Paul Graupp** » 28 Jan 2013 3:35 am

Gary...Some of Pete's instrumentals from that era are the same C6th lick. For Pete's Sake and Southern Sunday are two good examples. No other player to my knowledge ever used it. It was really His Thing !! Perhaps that he used it on Password/Kitty Wells, sort of to a lesser degree, identifies it for me as being Pete's work.

He even used it on Teresa Brewers recordings from that time period, and she was a pop/rock star. While he was a giant in that time period, a lot of players and writers, myself included, ignored him. There was even a story that he recognized the diffetence in his work and others but saw that difference when he went to the Bank !! I, sadly, have never been able to ignore that failure on my part and regret it to this day...

Regards, Paul

Jack Stoner · Post by **Jack Stoner** » 28 Jan 2013 5:17 am

Pete Drake was known for his "head sessions" (arrangements at sessions). He was also a shrewd businessman; I've heard he had contracts with several artists that they didn't go into the studio without him or if no steel was used he still got session pay for the session.

Those same "Pete Drake Licks" were used on many sessions. He made a good living off that same set of licks.

Paul Graupp · Post by **Paul Graupp** » 28 Jan 2013 6:36 am

A Note...I crossed paths with the Drifting Cowboys way back in the past. It was Don Helms who told me about Pete's passing and I recall how hard it hit me. How could that be...we were born in the same year ???

David Hartley · Post by **David Hartley** » 29 Jan 2013 7:22 am

I was watching him on YouTube recently. (search for pete drake talking steel guitar forever).......

That was clever technology, I think, from many years ago..

There must surely be a modern equivalent of the voice box gadget?

Gary Carriger · Post by **Gary Carriger** » 1 Feb 2013 11:40 pm

Paul,

I would agree that the player on Password sounds like Pete, but the Kitty Wells tune....don't think so.

Gary

Franklin · Post by **Franklin** » 3 Feb 2013 6:29 am

Gary Carriger wrote:Don't know who the steeler is...but would bet money it is not Pete.

Get your check book out.......Its Drake...He played this C6th style for about 8 years on nearly every Opry acts recordings.

Paul Graupp · Post by **Paul Graupp** » 4 Feb 2013 7:07 am

Paul...I was trying to think of someway out of that situation but could not ! Thanks for the hand up !!

Regards, Paul

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Some nice Pete Drake steel playing?

Some nice Pete Drake steel playing?

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