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Johnny Cox


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Post  Posted 4 Mar 2013 12:02 pm    
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I got a text from a friend that said Rusty had been in touch with member of her family this morning. That's all I know. It's very easy for us to sit at our computers and judge people, talk about them as though we were all gather in a big room. We are not and if we can't say something good we should keep our keyboards put away.
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Dave Hopping


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Post  Posted 4 Mar 2013 1:03 pm    
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Herb Steiner wrote:
Being outspoken is not a luxury that is afforded to many professional musicians. We've all known many great pickers who've played their way into excellent gigs and very shortly talked their way out of them.

Don't ask me how I know... Crying or Very sad


Herb,I won't ask if you won't Winking
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Ben Jones


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Post  Posted 4 Mar 2013 1:09 pm    
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nice to know I have threatening private messages from one of the greats...I guess. Confused
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Alex DePue


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Post  Posted 5 Mar 2013 12:08 pm    
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Paul Norman wrote:
I would not want a wife or children around his mouth.


Are there many women and children here at the Steel Guitar Forum?

Kevin Hatton, thank you so very much for the compliment.

And Bob, could you please direct me to the rules of the SGF so that I can behave myself as well? Also, Rusty's name is spelled, "Rhoads".

That, to me, is akin to misspelling the name of Mark O'Connor... or Herby Wallace, for example. Herby was a dear friend of mine. I recorded with him for one of his CDs!

Thanx,

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Tony Prior


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Post  Posted 5 Mar 2013 12:28 pm    
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Well I would like to ask Rusty the 3 most important questions..

Whats the best brand of strings ?

How often do you change them ?

How many watts is your amp ?



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Dave Mudgett


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Post  Posted 5 Mar 2013 1:12 pm    
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I hope Rusty's OK. He's clearly a fine player. Life as a full-time professional musician is tough - more than I could tolerate, and I did it for long enough to tell. I hope he somehow finds a way to happiness with his life. For me, it was easier and better to just do something else for my primary income, and the result was that I had more, not less, time to play the music I wanted to play.

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Being outspoken is not a luxury that is afforded to many professional musicians.

Yeah, things are moving that way in a lot of places. Even tenured college professors have to watch what they say - it is very easy to go right over a cliff. Extreme rapid communications has turned the world into a fishbowl - everything you say has the potential to be examined under a hostile microscope.

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Are there many women and children here at the Steel Guitar Forum?

With due respect, I don't think we should be trying to chase away women and children from this forum. This is not a purely 'crusty old boy's club', even though it may sometimes seem that way. But to answer your question, there are quite a few women on the SGF, and some younger players also, and we could use plenty more.

The forum rules are actually pretty simple and reasonable, IMHO - http://steelguitarforum.com/agree.html. I think it's possible to discuss anything worthwhile about steel guitar within their confines, with a little thought and restraint. I think we can even get a bit 'crusty' sometimes. But there are limits to what is reasonable for b0b to tolerate. I don't think he can accept defamatory, threatening, and other outrageous speech without a reasonable expectation of personal liability himself for letting people do that on his playground.

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Whats the best brand of strings? How often do you change them ? How many watts is your amp?

Laughing Yeah, Tony - and there's more 'burning questions' like that we could beat to death again and again. Laughing
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Mike Cass

 

Post  Posted 5 Mar 2013 1:51 pm    
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Dumplin'....amen.

Pete Burak

 

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Post  Posted 5 Mar 2013 2:55 pm    
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Sorry I don't know this, but...
What Pedal Steel playing is Rusty Rhoads is famous for?... Song(s)/Artist(s)?


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Dave Hopping


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Post  Posted 5 Mar 2013 4:23 pm    
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Pete Burak wrote:
Sorry I don't know this, but...
What Pedal Steel playing is Randy Rhoads is famous for?... Song(s)/Artist(s)?


I think Randy Rhoads plays with Jerry Garcia now Shocked

EDIT:Sorry,I just couldn't resist Winking
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David Mason


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Post  Posted 5 Mar 2013 4:39 pm    
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He seems to have been successful at what he really put his mind to.
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Dave Mudgett


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Post  Posted 5 Mar 2013 4:54 pm    
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Quote:
Sorry I don't know this, but...
What Pedal Steel playing is Randy Rhoads is famous for?... Song(s)/Artist(s)?

With all due respect - there are a helluvalotta great players out there - any instrument - who aren't featured on big hits by big names. Name me the big hits that Roy Buchanan or Danny Gatton played guitar on. There are great guitarists galore in this category, and I can think of some examples for steel also, but I don't wanna drag them into this. This is not how I think about playing talent. YMMV.


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Pete Burak

 

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Post  Posted 5 Mar 2013 4:57 pm    
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Woops, Sorry I got the name wrong.
Obviously I meant Rusty Rhoads.
I just wanted to know what his claim to fame was. The other guys you mentioned Dave have famous albums and/or YouTubes. Red Neck Jazz Explosion, etc...
'Just curious because I've never heard him play.
Again, sorry 'bout that. I did a discogrophy search and the other guys name came up... I didn't think He played with Ozzie Osborn.
When I do a search for Sneaky Pete for example... I was hoping for something like that to come up.
I went back and fixed the other post. Embarassed
At least I have Alex's fiddle CD I bought that year he played at the convention!
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Dave Mudgett


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Post  Posted 5 Mar 2013 5:15 pm    
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The other guys you mentioned Dave have famous albums and/or YouTubes. Red Neck Explosion, etc.

Yeah, I know you meant Rusty, not Randy. But I don't think that anything Roy or Danny played on was a big Top-40 type hit. For example, Redneck Jazz Explosion was fantastic, but largely a cognoscenti phenomenon. Roy played with all kinds of great people, but basically flew under-the-radar of the general public for his entire career, and he typically bailed out whenever the stakes got large.

So I agree this far - players like Roy and Danny, and plenty of other great players, have or have had a serious public profile in some corners. But I can name plenty of players I know who play at that level, but there's no point in me naming them because nobody will know who they are. But don't assume that lack of public profile implies any lack of playing talent. IMHO.
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Pete Burak

 

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Post  Posted 5 Mar 2013 6:46 pm    
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Dave Mudgett wrote:
...But don't assume that lack of public profile implies any lack of playing talent. IMHO.


Dave, The only thing I assumed was that, if I asked, someone in-the-know would post his Bio.
Pete
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Chris LeDrew


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Post  Posted 5 Mar 2013 8:08 pm    
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Rusty appeared on the larger steel world radar when David Jackson started using him to demo Jackson guitars in Dallas and St. Louis around 2007/8. His playing impressed many visitors to the Jackson room at these shows, and thus word of his talent spread among the steel community here on the forum. Many I believe knew of his playing in Nashville prior to him demoing for Jackson.

Here's a clip of him in 2008:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcdnySgLV2Y
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Tony Prior


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Post  Posted 6 Mar 2013 2:22 am    
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Please guys..some of us may walk the wild side in conversation , actually at any given point in time we all do...but don't let that be a judge of musicianship..

Rusty is one of hexx of a player !

Here he is with Jimmy S at Tootsie's...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bug3-zNr6U8

here at a Steel Show in Ga.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SK9ukhOtKiI


I still wanna know how often he changes his strings and what brand he uses...and how many watts his amp is !
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Brian Henry

 

Post  Posted 6 Mar 2013 4:39 am    
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How about this one

http://youtube.com/watch?feature=related&v=b2ldM1sEUWQ
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David Mason


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Post  Posted 6 Mar 2013 12:58 pm    
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I wonder which one of "the violinists from Steve Vai's band" he really likes better:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zL7qN_R9c3Y
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Jamie Lennon


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Nashville, TN
Post  Posted 6 Mar 2013 2:38 pm    
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What Johnny said !

Anyway some great playing Rusty

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKg8DIOpBlk
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Colm Chomicky


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Post  Posted 6 Mar 2013 4:56 pm    
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Jamie, I really like the video. And it looks like Rusty just got off a jobsite somewhere with the big steel-toed boots. The boots don't look easy to do that fancy footwork.
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Jim Pitman

 

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Post  Posted 7 Mar 2013 2:42 am    
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I seem to recall Rusty playing on the early James Taylor records. The steel break in "Anywhere Like Heaven" comes to mind. That one is worth dissecting and goes down as a good example of PSG in a pop classic.
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Bob Blair


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Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Post  Posted 7 Mar 2013 3:17 am    
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Jim that was the late Red Rhodes on "Anywhere Like Heaven".
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Greg Wisecup


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Troy, Ohio
Post  Posted 8 Mar 2013 9:28 am    
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As of now he's fine!
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Brad Malone

 

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Post  Posted 10 Mar 2013 12:05 pm     Great player
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Tony Prior and Jamie Lennon, Many thanks for posting those clips of Rusty's playing..he is a real great player..too bad things went wrong for him in Nashville..I hope better things will come his way.
Brad
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Ransom Beers

 

Post  Posted 19 Mar 2013 7:15 am    
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Maybe Rusty is like a lot of us,just burned out.Chalker was kinda like Rusty,or is Rusty a lot like Chalker?
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