Nickie - lady steel guitarist - VIDEO

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 28 Jun 2015 10:39 am

This video has been posted a couple of times in the Steel Players section, but I thought it also deserved mention in the non-pedal section.

The video looks like it was made in the 1960s. She's playing a Gibson ElectraHarp, but she doesn't touch the pedals at all. I love her playing! This makes me realize how much I Don't know about steel guitar history and some of the players.

Nickie Annick Gabelout --click it--> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqhzeGKh9UI

Larry Lenhart · Post by **Larry Lenhart** » 28 Jun 2015 11:33 am

Thanks Doug, that was very interesting and entertaining. I wasnt familiar with her. I have a friend in Az, Margie Mays, that might know of her. Margie is a wonderful non-pedal player and has been playing steel since she was 8. She plays the Texas and Az show and I think has played in St Louis...good friend of Scotty and she was a good friend of Jerry Byrd as well...sorry, didnt mean to hi-jack your post, just made me think of her. I go over to her house and take lessons from time to time...a wealth of info and talent too.

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 28 Jun 2015 11:42 am

I've been enjoying Margie's playing on youtube, recorded at steel shows. She plays B11 tuning a lot, and she plays a lot of beautiful older songs that aren't heard much any more. She's keeping it alive!

C. E. Jackson · Post by **C. E. Jackson** » 28 Jun 2015 12:15 pm

Doug, here is a photo of Nickie with the Multiharp she bought new in the 1960s. Photo from A. R. Duchossoir's book, "GIBSON Electric Steel Guitars 1935-1967".

C. E.

Andy Volk · Post by **Andy Volk** » 28 Jun 2015 5:37 pm

That was beautiful, Doug. Looks like her heyday was the 60s but the duet video looks much later .... 80s or 90s maybe.

Cartwright Thompson · Post by **Cartwright Thompson** » 29 Jun 2015 2:32 am

Cool stuff.
She uses pedals in this one:
http://youtu.be/XM7DRz9OTLI

Charlie McDonald · Post by **Charlie McDonald** » 29 Jun 2015 3:17 am

My gosh, she plays it like it's a classical guitar. Beautiful.

Roy Thomson · Post by **Roy Thomson** » 29 Jun 2015 6:14 am

Very Nice with a European Sound!
I like the Guitar Player also. Good Match!
Thanks for posting Doug.

Charlie McDonald · Post by **Charlie McDonald** » 29 Jun 2015 6:24 am

Cartwright Thompson wrote:Cool stuff.
She uses pedals in this one:
http://youtu.be/XM7DRz9OTLI

Wow. I have a new favorite.
She is so still, and the way she uses her pinky to mute is very subtle.

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 29 Jun 2015 8:33 am

I like her playing more in the video where she's not using the pedals. She sounds more assertive and more in tune. Heck, she didn't need pedals! I too like the European/French flair in her music. It sounds like the songs are in a minor key. I like that.

Roger Shackelton · Post by **Roger Shackelton** » 29 Jun 2015 8:45 am

Here is a spirited tune by Nickie, played a bit faster than previous tunes.

"Apollo"
Published on Aug 4, 2012
Annick " Nickie " et Jacques Gabelout
duo " Multiharp " & guitare

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpTAnVPxabQ

Roger Shackelton · Post by **Roger Shackelton** » 29 Jun 2015 8:55 am

Island Blues By Nickie

Published on Aug 4, 2012
la " Multiharp " est prÃ©sentÃ©e par Gibson comme " la Rolls " de sa production d'electric steel guitars dans les annÃ©es 196O ( " Electric Steel Guitars " Gibson de A.R. Duchaussoir, publiÃ© en 2009 Ã New York ) Page 142, on trouve un poster de Nickie " a renowned French steel player ..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krH6DGXR1XQ

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 29 Jun 2015 9:07 am

I really like "Island Blues". She has a nice touch and vibrato.

Chris Sattler · Post by **Chris Sattler** » 1 Jul 2015 2:36 am

Lots of people ask about volume pedals and their use here on the forum.

Look at the way she uses the VP. Lots can be learnt from this. Notice the way she hardly moves it, if at all. Still sounds great don't it??

Jacques Gabelout · Post by **Jacques Gabelout** » 22 Feb 2016 11:46 am

Thank you Chris, for this comment very fair !
Do not confuse " volume " and " expression "...
With his classical training, Nickie uses his pedal to
"express" his own musical intentions.But it is also,
of corse when it interprets covers of standards...

Friendships !
Jacques

Michael Devito · Post by **Michael Devito** » 23 Feb 2016 10:10 am

That's beautiful stuff. Love "Apollo"!!
MD

Miles Lang · Post by **Miles Lang** » 23 Feb 2016 12:13 pm

This one is knocking me out - La Laïta

https://youtu.be/XM7DRz9OTLI

Jacques Gabelout · Post by **Jacques Gabelout** » 24 Feb 2016 11:23 am

Michael Devito wrote:That's beautiful stuff. Love "Apollo"!!
MD

Thank you Michael! But this music is less strange than
that heard by your Astronauts of Apollo 10 ...

Friendship

Jacques

Jacques Gabelout · Post by **Jacques Gabelout** » 29 Feb 2016 7:45 am

[quote="Miles Lang"]This one is knocking me out - La Laïta
Thank you Mile,
Friendship

JG

Matt Berg · Post by **Matt Berg** » 29 Feb 2016 12:07 pm

Jacques,

I have watched all of the videos on YouTube. They're magnificent.

I especially enjoy the closeups that show the instruments being played.

Thanks for sharing this music.

Bill Leff · Post by **Bill Leff** » 29 Feb 2016 12:52 pm

Miles Lang wrote:This one is knocking me out - La Laïta

https://youtu.be/XM7DRz9OTLI

Wow! That is hauntingly beautiful.

Jacques Gabelout · Post by **Jacques Gabelout** » 2 Mar 2016 3:41 am

Matt Berg wrote:Jacques,

I have watched all of the videos on YouTube. They're magnificent
Thanks for sharing this music.

Hello Matt, Thank you !
You looked at our 12 videos? We are very surprised
and touched by this interest for our little musics(?)
Yes ! It is a great pleasure to share!
Friendships !

Jacques and Nickie

Joe Breeden · Post by **Joe Breeden** » 2 Mar 2016 7:55 am

Really great. And we thought they could only cook.

Jacques Gabelout · Post by **Jacques Gabelout** » 21 Mar 2016 3:49 am

Thank you Joe,
Yes! But sometimes, when Nickie plays her flute or Multiharp, there is smells "burned" in the kitchen...
and
(Look what your children are not watching...)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Skt4Y4JWpWE

Friendships
Jacques

Jacques Gabelout · Post by **Jacques Gabelout** » 7 Apr 2016 2:44 am

Bill Leff wrote:
Miles Lang wrote:This one is knocking me out - La LaÃ¯ta

https://youtu.be/XM7DRz9OTLI
Wow! That is hauntingly beautiful.

Bill, sorry, I forgot to thank you to your comment!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl6t1Bhhf8E
I hope you will also like " la greve blanche "...
(It's very close to home!)

Frienships Jacques

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Nickie - lady steel guitarist - VIDEO

Nickie - lady steel guitarist - VIDEO

APOLLO by Nickie

Island Blues By Nickie

post 1/07/15 of Chris Sattler...

K.o. (?)

only cook ...

Thank you Bill !