Jessica Simpson steel player

Barry Blackwood · Post by **Barry Blackwood** » 28 Jul 2008 3:37 pm

I will take Jessica's song over the last two NASAL releases by SUGARLAND any day ...

She sings alot better than "SugarLand" Jennifer N.

Agreed, and IMHO, (she sings) better than Sara Evans as well! Flame away, fans.

A. J. Schobert · Post by **A. J. Schobert** » 28 Jul 2008 4:00 pm

Let me be the first, or second to say, I am not putting the steel player down, I am glad for him/her. Heck I would do it if given the chance.

The song is not bad, but Randall Wisconsin doesn't like her at all and they made that very clear.

Remember her sweet sister Ashley's Boo's when she played live, during a football game, I think this is normal.

Theresa in a nut shell she came out to sing and the audiance was booing, some would chear, but the boo's where heard!!!

Bobbe Brook Hogan is next!!!! Brother!!!!

Danny Bates · Post by **Danny Bates** » 28 Jul 2008 4:05 pm

Theresa, It may be Jay Leach on the record. He's the guy that plays steel guitar on "American Idol"

Here's a link to a video of Jay playing steel with Jessica live on "The View"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4j30jkLOSM

Theresa Galbraith · Post by **Theresa Galbraith** » 28 Jul 2008 4:06 pm

A.J.
I still don't know the whole story. Thanks, Theresa
Thanks, Danny

Danny Bates · Post by **Danny Bates** » 28 Jul 2008 4:24 pm

Here's a short YouTube blurb that Celeb TV did regarding her getting Booed..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYk5x-tnh0E

Theresa Galbraith · Post by **Theresa Galbraith** » 28 Jul 2008 4:32 pm

I'm glad she didn't bow down.
If her heart is in Country Music,,,,,,,,, Go Jessica!

Come On Over!

Thanks Danny

Bobbe Seymour · Post by **Bobbe Seymour** » 28 Jul 2008 7:03 pm

To Paul Papanek, I think the question was answered,Who is the steel player? The answer is, there is none. He was an actor.

I have had many video companies rent steels from me for videos they were shooting and when I'd ask who'd be playing them, the answer would be: "No one, we'll just have somebody in the office fake it!"

ALL videos are pantomimed, and I mean ALL! Nothing you see is going on as you see it. Ever.

However, once in a while, the musician that did the tracks will actually get to do the "acting".

Remember the Eddie Rabbit video with the steel player playing the triple neck Bigsby? He was Eddie's road player! Paul Franklin was who you were hearing on the track. But Eddie's road player faked it well as he had to duplicate the instrumental break on Eddie's show on the road. The Bigsby was mine and just a prop during the filming,

Yes, FILMING, all Video's are shot with film, the "Film Look" is what the networks demand for air time production.

Bobbe Seymour

Jim Walker · Post by **Jim Walker** » 28 Jul 2008 10:46 pm

If Jessica ever needs a steel player I'll be there, and that's all I got tuh say abouyat thayat. LOL

JW

Al Udeen · Post by **Al Udeen** » 28 Jul 2008 11:06 pm

Jessica does have a steel player on the road and his name is Jay Jackson. He is from South Carolina and was w/ Jack Ingram for the past year and a half until Jack cut the steel and decided to go w/ a Keyboard player instead of steel.

Jay Leach did play "The View" w/ Jessica before the hired Jay Jackson, and i believe Mike Johnson played the steel parts on the record.

The Video for 'Come on Over' was filmed in LA and they took out an add on craigslist for good looking models to sit behind the instruments for the video, the kid playing steel in the video had never sat behind a steel before that video shoot.
Hope this helps...

Tony Glassman · Post by **Tony Glassman** » 28 Jul 2008 11:35 pm

3 possible hypotheses to explain the steel player:

1] Steeler is a model, never played in his life

2] Steeler is real, but they forgot to do PSG tight shots so hired a hand model for the close-ups.

3] Steeler is real & the video is pantomimed. He is purposefully using an absurd left hand technique to let us know the performance is bulls%*$t.

James Kerr · Post by **James Kerr** » 29 Jul 2008 2:19 am

I'm surprised to see that Mr. Seymour is almost alone in having the knowledge that Show Business is all fake. Here in the UK the powers that be gave instructions that there would be no more Dummy Mic's with Singers miming, no more unplugged Instruments, no more pre-recorded Videos, that the performance had to be live. Result, Top of the Pops, a program which had been running for centuries was dropped from the schedules because none of the top poppers could actually perform live, and none of the Band could actually play, many so called "Concerts" are really just a Sound Engineer playing CD tracks for the Band out front to Act out and mime to.

There have been several Lawsuits down the years from Session Singers who actually supplied the wonderful voice in the Studio, for that handsome face you saw on TV, vocals are routinely dubbed over squeeky Film Actors attempts at singing.

Yep, that's Show Business.

Ken Byng · Post by **Ken Byng** » 29 Jul 2008 3:16 am

James
I remember in the 70's, Elkie Brooks on Top Of The Pops singing Pearl's a Singer (live but with a backing track). Eric Weisberg played steel on the backing track, and John Edmed was brought in to mime to the track. At least John was a steel player, and a good one at that.

The Clint Eastwood films that feature country bands in honky tonks all have badly mimed singing and playing. The non-playing public would not have a clue if the steel player was playing the correct parts or not.

Bob Bowden · Post by **Bob Bowden** » 29 Jul 2008 3:28 am

All the talk about whether or not the steel is real in the video but not one comment about the big "acoustic" sound supposedly coming from a semi-solid Hagstrom electric guitar.

Reminds me of the old rock and roll saying, "It's not how good you play, it's how good you look while playing".

chris ivey · Post by **chris ivey** » 29 Jul 2008 8:05 am

is jessica related to o.j. ?

Joe Drivdahl · Post by **Joe Drivdahl** » 29 Jul 2008 8:22 am

Has anyone heard when Homer Simpson will be starting his country music career?

Bobbe Seymour · Post by **Bobbe Seymour** » 29 Jul 2008 8:58 am

In the movie "Nashville Girl" filmed in 1976, (Pierre Openheimer release) I was hired to be on camera during many shots to pantomime the tracks that I had done in the studio, however, I still held the bar in my right hand and put picks on my left hand to see if anyone over the years would ever notice, I hear that one player did. In other words, who really cared? No one.

Bobbe

Gabriel Stutz · Post by **Gabriel Stutz** » 29 Jul 2008 9:14 am

Theresa, I seached "Jessica Simpson gets booed" and I got a decent number of hits on google. If you want to read about this for yourself (as it appears that you do) this is the first link that popped up....

http://www.theinsider.com/news/1077829_ ... Gets_Booed

Gabriel

Bill Ford · Post by **Bill Ford** » 29 Jul 2008 5:51 pm

Bobbe...I just found out rasslin is fake, now you tell me music video's are fake, guess next you gonna tell me that Dolly.........Oh never mind, think I'll just go to bed and cry myself to sleep. Hey that sounds like it would make a good country song.

BF

Danny Bates · Post by **Danny Bates** » 29 Jul 2008 9:32 pm

I just watched Bobbe playing steel backwards in "Nashville Girl". Very funny!
In the credits he is listed as Robert Seymour
If anybody wants to see the movie you can download the movie for free here... BTW,it's a huge AVI file (535 megabytes)
http://cultrararevideos.com/cultranightwarning69.avi
I couldn't handle the whole movie but Bobbe's part is hilarious.
Bobbe plays at 1:15 minutes into the movie.

Here's the Movie Poster...

Ron ! · Post by **Ron !** » 30 Jul 2008 6:35 am

Thanks Danny.....downloading it now.With 16-Mbit connection it will be in in 15minutes or so.

Ron

Bobbe Seymour · Post by **Bobbe Seymour** » 30 Jul 2008 8:02 am

Yea, Robert Seymour! Ha! This is the way I had to sign the time card for the union, and this is where they got my name.

Bobbe

Billy Carr · Post by **Billy Carr** » 31 Jul 2008 4:06 am

I don't care for her first country video or song but I do the like the way she did LOVE ME TENDER on You Tube. I'd like to hear her do some Classic Country with a real group of country session players. Get her matched with the right country material and she's got everything else including the Daisy Duke shorts! Wow!

Danny Bates · Post by **Danny Bates** » 31 Jul 2008 10:29 am

Country entertainment is sure changing it's image!
(I changed the word 'music' to entertainment)

Bobbe Seymour · Post by **Bobbe Seymour** » 31 Jul 2008 12:26 pm

What do you mean?

Neither of these two sing!

You should have said: "Country entertainment!"

That is also what changed.

Bobbe

Theresa Galbraith · Post by **Theresa Galbraith** » 31 Jul 2008 1:20 pm

Is this topic about her steel player?

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