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Topic: Junior Brown’s pedal guit-steel? |
Patrick Thornhill
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Austin Texas, USA
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Posted 19 Jan 2018 10:23 pm |
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| Is anyone aware of any videos of Junior Brown playing the pedal guit-steel that he had built a while back? |
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David Mason
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Cambridge, MD, USA
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Charlie Hansen
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Halifax, NS Canada and Various Southern Towns.
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Posted 20 Jan 2018 5:55 am
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No videos of the "pedal" guit steel though.
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Bill Miller
From:
Gaspe, Quebec, Canada
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Posted 20 Jan 2018 5:57 am
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| Do you mean he actually had a 'pedal' guit'steel built? Would it have been built by Stevens? I've always wanted to own a guit'steel but they are very expensive...something like $14000, so if they designed a model with some sort of pedal set-up it must be worth an absolute fortune. |
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Jon Light
From:
Saugerties, NY
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Patrick Thornhill
From:
Austin Texas, USA
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Posted 20 Jan 2018 7:58 am
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Yep, that's the one!
And yeah smart-ass Dave Mason, of course I searched youtube first. 
That contraption is pretty ingenious. I've seen Junior twice but both times were in the late-90s/early-00s when he use Big Red pretty exclusively. I've never heard him play with pedals and am curious to know how he works it into his repertoire.... |
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Bill Miller
From:
Gaspe, Quebec, Canada
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Posted 20 Jan 2018 8:30 am
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| That's pretty cool and probably a lot less expensive than a regular Guit-Steel. ...assuming it's just a garden variety Sho~Bud there with extended pedal rods. I'd love to see and hear him play it. |
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David Mason
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Cambridge, MD, USA
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Posted 23 Jan 2018 2:41 pm
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Four million videos and not a one of that, I guess it must not sound very good....  And funny things happen to "value" when people evolve from being "a guy who makes guitars" to being a "famous luthier to the stars." Like you could saw off a clump of wood and stick it on a ShoBud with a Fender neck stuck to it, and it would cost as much as a Shobud and a Fender neck and a clump of wood plus your labor time. I don't eee-ven wanna know how much for that thing but I'd bet MORE than the non-p.
Except and unless Junior were to successfully argue that, because he's playing it, that will boost Mike Stevens' builder profile a few branches up the beanstock, in which case it'll be the NEXT ones that are more than $14,000. According to this book, Mike Stevens really wants to be a cowboy when he grows up, so I don't think he'd be too susceptable to sweet-talking as it pertains to discounted price:
https://www.amazon.com/Electrified-Art-Contemporary-Electric-Guitar/dp/1402747748
(This is a coffee-table type book but reasonably-priced and quite a bit of depth about the little guys. Even the aspiring cowboys....) |
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Jim Cohen
From:
Philadelphia, PA
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Brett Day
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Pickens, SC
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Posted 23 Jan 2018 9:38 pm
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| I saw a video where he talks about the pedal guit-steel-it's the fourth guit-steel that was built for him. He said the guitar is a stick for a neck and wood big enough for a pickup and the steel is a Sho-Bud ten string pedal steel. He stands up to play it because he doesn't like to sit down and sing. His main guit-steel, though, is the second one built for him, "Big Red". He nicknamed the pedal guit-steel "Old Bud" |
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