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Chris Templeton


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Post  Posted 7 Dec 2021 5:11 pm    
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What happened @ 1:50?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpCpIh3LdDk
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Brint Hannay

 

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Post  Posted 7 Dec 2021 5:31 pm    
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Pretty sure it's just a glitch in the YouTube. I, like many, learned that break back when the song was on the charts, and if that hiccup had been in there I would d*** sure have noticed it!
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Chris Templeton


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Post  Posted 7 Dec 2021 6:02 pm    
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Right you are, Brint:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y41B-TAHy4
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b0b


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Post  Posted 7 Dec 2021 10:07 pm    
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Who played that classic C6th?
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Jerry Overstreet


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Post  Posted 8 Dec 2021 3:44 am    
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It's Emmons and it's E9, believe it or not.
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Lee Baucum


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Post  Posted 8 Dec 2021 4:01 am    
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Jerry Overstreet wrote:
It's Emmons and it's E9, believe it or not.


That's what I recall hearing. Also, "The Lady Takes The Cowboy Every Time".
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Jerry Overstreet


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Post  Posted 8 Dec 2021 4:04 am    
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I think Buddy had tab for Houston. Maybe on his old website.
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Chris Templeton


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Post  Posted 8 Dec 2021 5:11 am    
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I may have posted this before, but they recorded "Houston" in Florida and Buddy was driving back to FNashville he saw the saw the Space Shuttle Challenger blow up.
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Richard Sinkler


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Post  Posted 8 Dec 2021 6:31 am    
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Jerry Overstreet wrote:
I think Buddy had tab for Houston. Maybe on his old website.


Buddyemmons.com
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Tim Sergent

 

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Post  Posted 9 Dec 2021 8:53 pm    
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I remember Buddy's rendition of I Love You Because on his E9 Expedition cd and I had a hard time believing it was E9th tuninig
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Richard Alderson


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Post  Posted 10 Dec 2021 6:35 am    
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I think most of "Houston" is played with the A&B pedals engaged which of course turns the E9th tuning into an A6th tuning; Or at least key phrases with those signature c6th sounds are played in a no pedals style, but with A&B engaged, if that makes any sense.
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Bill Terry


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Post  Posted 10 Dec 2021 7:34 am    
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Tim wrote:
I remember Buddy's rendition of I Love You Because on his E9 Expedition cd and I had a hard time believing it was E9th tuninig

Same here. A bit off topic, but anyone (maybe somebody living in a cave somewhere? LOL) that hasn't heard Expedition E9, it's incredible. It's the record that really got me interested in pedal steel. Textbook stuff... The whole thing is on YouTube:

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

Also available for purchase with tab at the link below.

http://buddyemmons.com/CEE9.htm
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Richard Sinkler


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Post  Posted 10 Dec 2021 8:37 am    
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Buddy's tab for Houston is on the Buddyemmons.com website. It is indeed done on E9.
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Post  Posted 10 Dec 2021 10:03 am    
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I stand corrected. http://buddyemmons.com/Houston.htm
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Richard Sinkler


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Post  Posted 10 Dec 2021 12:37 pm    
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I used to play it on C6. Back then I didn't know you could play C6 stuff on E9.
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Garry Vanderlinde


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Post  Posted 11 Dec 2021 10:57 am     Buddy's Houston
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I was at Jeffran College in the early 1980's taking one of Buddy's seminars and he had just shown us how to play Houston on E9th. I asked him why he played Houston in the E9th tuning. He gave me a puzzled, knowing look, like it was a real stupid question, and said he did it because of the way it sounded. That opened my ignorant ears to the E9/13 tuning jazz sounds of the early swing players.
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Jim Cohen


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Post  Posted 11 Dec 2021 8:34 pm     Re: Buddy's Houston
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Garry Vanderlinde wrote:
I was at Jeffran College in the early 1980's taking one of Buddy's seminars and he had just shown us how to play Houston on E9th.

I wonder if we might have been in the same class, Gary.
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