Luke Goetz - lap steel with palm pedals

b0b · Post by **b0b** » 21 Feb 2021 9:16 am

Forum member Luke Goetz has great technique with palm pedals on his Deusenberg lap steel. Check out this rendition of Neil Young's "Old Man".

https://youtu.be/pn3mR0HRcbg

Also, notice that the vertical right knee movement from his volume pedal doesn't seem to hurt his playing one bit!

b0b · Post by **b0b** » 21 Feb 2021 9:22 am

Here's another one.

https://youtu.be/kN2XDKzSYHQ

Andy Volk · Post by **Andy Volk** » 21 Feb 2021 9:24 am

Luke is one of my favorite players; great touch, tone and musical taste!

Larry Carlson · Post by **Larry Carlson** » 21 Feb 2021 9:32 am

I've been watching Luke for over a year now.
He is amazing. I can't think of anyone who is better at using benders and the VP.
He is also the reason I bought my Fairytale.
For some reason I don't sound a lot like he does.
Yet.........

Larry Dering · Post by **Larry Dering** » 25 Feb 2021 2:06 pm

Nice technique and modern music. Good job.

D Schubert · Post by **D Schubert** » 25 Feb 2021 8:45 pm

After watching these videos, i've got the bug for this tuning. My eureka moment was that, with pedals down, it's like a Dobro. I just ordered a Certano bender for my old Supro lap steel. With the shorter 22.5" scale, I'm not sure if I will use D6 over G, or E6 over A......

b0b · Post by **b0b** » 25 Feb 2021 10:16 pm

I play D/G on my Rickenbacker and on my reso. It's just a slack of 2 strings from G major: G B D F# A D. I don't have the palm pedals, but even without them it's a very versatile tuning.