The Howl and The Hum - Live Video

Steven Hicken Jr. · Post by **Steven Hicken Jr.** » 6 Sep 2024 7:38 am

Not long after the new year, I was fortunate enough to have been invited to play on a live video version of "All Your Friends Hate Me" by Leeds/York band "The Howl and The Hum". This was at the time was an unreleased song of theirs but came out on their album today.

The theme was to bring traditional crying pedal steel to the song. They are self described as an alternative/indie band so it was nice to get "country" steel into other genres!

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

Andrew Roblin · Post by **Andrew Roblin** » 6 Sep 2024 9:56 am

Sounds great!

Steven Hicken Jr. · Post by **Steven Hicken Jr.** » 6 Sep 2024 2:37 pm

Andrew Roblin wrote:Sounds great!

Thank you!

Larry Jamieson · Post by **Larry Jamieson** » 6 Sep 2024 4:06 pm

I enjoyed your music, Steve.

Steven Hicken Jr. · Post by **Steven Hicken Jr.** » 7 Sep 2024 10:42 am

Larry Jamieson wrote:I enjoyed your music, Steve.

Thanks Larry, certainly something different! Glad you enjoyed it.

Andrew Frost · Post by **Andrew Frost** » 7 Sep 2024 11:38 am

Great playing Stephen.
Nice tune...killer harmonies!

Steven Hicken Jr. · Post by **Steven Hicken Jr.** » 7 Sep 2024 12:18 pm

Thanks Andrew! That reminds me, I need to work on some other types of harmonics because they're the only ones I can do

Nigel Mullen · Post by **Nigel Mullen** » 7 Sep 2024 2:11 pm

I really enjoyed it Stephen. Really tasteful nice playing. Great job. NM

Dale Rottacker · Post by **Dale Rottacker** » 7 Sep 2024 3:32 pm

Stephen I've enjoyed watching you grow as a musician, from the "early" days. You guys have a great sound, and if "killer harmonics" are the only kind you know how to do, then keep on doing them.

Steven Hicken Jr. · Post by **Steven Hicken Jr.** » 9 Sep 2024 10:24 am

Nigel Mullen wrote:I really enjoyed it Stephen. Really tasteful nice playing. Great job. NM

Thank you, much appreciated! It was a little difficult to find the balance of overplaying with this as there wasn't a lot of space between the vocals, but they asked for prominent steel.

Dale Rottacker wrote:Stephen I've enjoyed watching you grow as a musician, from the "early" days. You guys have a great sound, and if "killer harmonics" are the only kind you know how to do, then keep on doing them. Winking

Thanks Dale! I hope you know how much I've appreciated your support over the years. Crazy that we've known each other on the internet for pretty much 10 years now. 2015 was a different but sweet time of my life.