b0b
From:
Cloverdale, CA, USA
Posted 5 Feb 2016 9:29 am
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Here's an interview where Jerry talks about how he discovered the logic of the pedal steel. www.relix.com/articles... |
Jerry Overstreet
From:
Louisville Ky
Posted 5 Feb 2016 9:48 am
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Interesting read. Sounds a lot like my own introduction to the thing. |
Mark Eaton
From:
Sonoma County in The Great State Of Northern California
Posted 5 Feb 2016 10:32 am
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Thanks for finding that one Bobby. How cool. Just when I think I've read every Garcia interview in existence there is more to be found. Great stuff. He mentions how you just didn't find pedal steels for sale in stores in the Bay Area. Jerry, I've got news for you: 20+ years after you left us - nothing has really changed there! |
b0b
From:
Cloverdale, CA, USA
Posted 5 Feb 2016 1:57 pm
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I saw my first pedal steel in the old Guitar Center on Van Ness in San Francisco. Must have been in '72 or '73. All I remember was that the strings were so close together! A guy there was trying to explain it to me - I think it might have been Larry Petree! _________________ -𝕓𝕆𝕓- (admin) - Robert P. Lee - Recordings - Breathe - D6th - Video |
Roger Kelly
From:
Bristol,Tennessee
Posted 5 Feb 2016 3:09 pm
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b0b, I've wondered what Jerry Garcia would have been like as a Steel Player if Jerry Byrd had been willing to give him lessons? Jerry Garcia told Byrd that if he would give him lessons he would move to Hawaii for as long as it took to learn. Byrd didn't want to give him lessons for reasons unknown but I believe Byrd just didn't think that Garcia would play the "Right" kind of music on the Steel...and wouldn't agree. |
Brad Bechtel
From:
San Francisco, CA
Posted 5 Feb 2016 4:03 pm
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Here's another interview from 1971 where he discusses pedal steel a bit more thoroughly. If I recall correctly, this was reprinted from Guitar Player magazine. |
Charlie McDonald
From:
out of the blue
Posted 6 Feb 2016 6:35 am
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Garcia: 'It’s not a guitar, and it’s not a banjo, either.... It would be like picking up a saxophone and, “What is this?†You know?' --------------------------- JERRY: That was the whole thing. DENNIS: You know— JERRY: That was exactly what it was. DENNIS: Get your hands on it and the feel, the inspiration. JERRY: That’s it, getting my hands on it, feeling it.... DENNIS: Makes sense. JERRY: Yeah, really. DENNIS: Makes sense. JERRY: It was very obvious, you know, when— DENNIS: Once you know. |
Mark Eaton
From:
Sonoma County in The Great State Of Northern California
Posted 10 Feb 2016 9:53 am
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Brad, thanks for digging up that Garcia interview from Guitar Player - hadn't read it in years. I like this comment: And because there are ten strings, you have to be able to select different strings. There are some really terrible discords. Amen Jerry! I am an authority on many of those "really terrible discords." |
Dave Zirbel
From:
Sebastopol, CA USA
Posted 10 Feb 2016 12:20 pm
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He talks about PSG for 30 seconds in this interview. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ve3NqNo7yEA _________________ Dave Zirbel- Sierra S-10 (Built by Ross Shafer),ZB, Fender 400 guitars, various tube and SS amps |
John Bresler R.I.P.
From:
Thornton, Colorado
Posted 11 Feb 2016 12:24 pm
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Interesting article. I bought my D-10 Emmons about 1970 and contacted Jerry about his tuning after hearing him play on one of the Grateful Dead records. He didn't have a lot of information for me but I got a lot of invitations and tickets to their concerts later. I never did take him up on the concerts because I have always been a Country player and his music was a little too different for me at the time. Wish I still had those letters!! I wonder who sold him the steel here in Denver? Dick Meis?? or it could have been Don Edwards, but I think Don was pushing Domeland steels and Jerry's first one was an Emmons, I believe. Anyone have more info on the purchase??
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Dave Zirbel
From:
Sebastopol, CA USA
Posted 11 Feb 2016 12:37 pm
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His first guitar was a Fender 1000 but never played it. He bought a ZB D-10 after he gave the Fender to Banana of the Youngbloods....I think.... The Emmons came later. _________________ Dave Zirbel- Sierra S-10 (Built by Ross Shafer),ZB, Fender 400 guitars, various tube and SS amps |
Paul Awalt
From:
Greenwich, Ct.
Posted 3 Mar 2017 7:45 pm
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Just found a old album, "Baron von Tollbooth and the Chrome Nun", that was one of my favorites back then (73'), in a record store. Little did I know back then that Garcia was all over it on Steel and guitar, along with David Crosby, Grace Slick, and the rest of Airplane. |