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Norman Evans


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Tennessee
Post  Posted 1 Sep 2019 1:44 pm    
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I stumbled across this today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXT25TNtPHI
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Jack Hanson


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San Luis Valley, USA
Post  Posted 1 Sep 2019 8:05 pm    
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Awesome! Thanks for sharing.
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Rick Abbott

 

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Post  Posted 1 Sep 2019 9:50 pm    
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That's really great! Those folks were really having fun.
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Jeremy DeHart


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North Carolina, USA
Post  Posted 4 Sep 2019 8:27 am    
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The video says Pedal Steel but that's just a triple neck regular steel correct?
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Mitch Drumm

 

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Post  Posted 4 Sep 2019 8:50 am    
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Jeremy DeHart wrote:
The video says Pedal Steel but that's just a triple neck regular steel correct?


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Jeff Mead


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London, England
Post  Posted 4 Sep 2019 10:10 am    
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Jeremy DeHart wrote:
The video says Pedal Steel but that's just a triple neck regular steel correct?


It's a triple neck pedal steel.

Actually, this should really be in the pedal steel section of the forum.
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Jeremy DeHart


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North Carolina, USA
Post  Posted 4 Sep 2019 10:55 am    
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Dang that's a one of a kind right there! Was Wakefield using the pedals can you tell? Sounded to me like straight lap.
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John Herb

 

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West Virginia, USA
Post  Posted 4 Sep 2019 5:09 pm    
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I'm pretty sure that in the video Jeremy used no pedals. Speedy rarely used pedals from what I know.
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Jeff Mead


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London, England
Post  Posted 4 Sep 2019 11:34 pm    
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Fredrick Herb wrote:
I'm pretty sure that in the video Jeremy used no pedals. Speedy rarely used pedals from what I know.


Speedy rarely used the pedals for typical "Nashville style" bends but they were a huge part of his sound for sure.

I think Jeremy is using them too (one at least) - certainly sounds like it to me - and you can just about see his left foot moving as he appears to engage it. He moves his foot at exactly the same time in the signature phrase each time he plays it and you can hear the major third lower a semitone (if he was tuned to A6 - which he probably isn't - it sounds like the C# string is dropping to a C).
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John Herb

 

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West Virginia, USA
Post  Posted 5 Sep 2019 3:24 am    
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Thanks for clearing it up Jeff. Always great to learn some stuff about Speedy.
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