Ralph Mooney w /Buck

Bob Carlucci · Post by **Bob Carlucci** » 26 Mar 2013 7:11 am

Just found this great old tune and wanted to share it.. Moons incomparable playing is all over it and that old Fender is just singing loud and proud.. Mooney is one of my heroes, and this confirms that adoration is well placed... bob

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vHjzCfv ... 7B6592B0B9

Dave Harmonson · Post by **Dave Harmonson** » 26 Mar 2013 3:19 pm

That's a great track. I've been led to believe from previous discussions here that Ralph played his homemade Magnatone pedal steel on all his recordings with Buck. After the fire that destroyed it he got his Fender and Buck didn't like it. At least that's what I remember reading here on the forum.

Bob Carlucci · Post by **Bob Carlucci** » 26 Mar 2013 4:36 pm

Pretty accurate for a console steel with some chicken wire and parts from a car jack!

I always thought by the time he played with Buck he was using the Fender 1000... I could be wrong I guess.. Most old pictures I see of Moon he is at the Fender and then later on with his Bud..

If thats a Magnatone console steel with chicken wire, someone ought to start selling them again.. I would buy the first one off the line

bob

Dave Harmonson · Post by **Dave Harmonson** » 26 Mar 2013 4:51 pm

I know he definitely played some of his Buck tunes on the Magnatone, Under Your Spell, Above and Beyond and his early recordings with Wynn Stewart.
BTW I think it may have been coat hangers which are much more accurate than chicken wire

Jerry Hayes R.I.P. · Post by **Jerry Hayes R.I.P.** » 27 Mar 2013 7:52 am

Bob, thanks for posting that. Moon has always been and will always be my steel guitar hero. No one played like him and he'll always be an original. His style fit with Buck, Merle, Wynn and was made for the west coast but the rest of the country loved him too............JH in Va.