I'm not the worst steel player in the world

Bob Knight · Post by **Bob Knight** » 30 Dec 2008 1:04 pm

WOW!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xECNrYx ... re=related

John Drury · Post by **John Drury** » 30 Dec 2008 1:09 pm

Bob!

This is wonderful news! I'm not either!

Happy New Year!

Josh Haislip · Post by **Josh Haislip** » 30 Dec 2008 1:18 pm

Wow. That is crap.

David Nugent · Post by **David Nugent** » 30 Dec 2008 1:56 pm

The real shame here is that in my opinion all things considered, Ron Wood is the most talented member of that group.

Tommy White · Post by **Tommy White** » 30 Dec 2008 2:06 pm

Buddy Elkin · Post by **Buddy Elkin** » 30 Dec 2008 2:36 pm

I think I'll take a hostage!

Donny Hinson · Post by **Donny Hinson** » 30 Dec 2008 2:52 pm

I think he tuned "equal torment" when he should'a tuned "just incarceration". Fantastic tone, though. Like they say, you can recognize an Emmons a mile away.

Ron Page · Post by **Ron Page** » 30 Dec 2008 3:01 pm

Let's give them high marks for just plain guts. Or, if you want to meet half way, just plain nuts. I was a Stones fan right before I turned on the Haggard and Buck. If they'd followed Waylon's footsteps a bit closer, I'd still be a fan, especially with an Emmons on the gig.

Les Anderson · Post by **Les Anderson** » 30 Dec 2008 3:07 pm

I have to agree; give the guy ten stars for absolute courage. When a hard rocker can sit down to a pedal steel and hammer out recognizable chords, he has to be doing something right.

I wonder how much learning or practice time he had on that Emmons?

Matthew Carlin · Post by **Matthew Carlin** » 30 Dec 2008 3:10 pm

whew .... I was worried somebody put one of my shows on youtube.

Ron must have wanted to do it, they could have hired in anyone for that gig.

Rex Wiseman · Post by **Rex Wiseman** » 30 Dec 2008 3:12 pm

WOW !! Giving Ron Wood a steel guitar is kinda like giving a scare crow a machine gun - WHY? I would like to have that old Emmons he's playing though. I started out with a black one just like it (Sticker instead of emblem) but let it get away from me. We do some foolish things when we're young.

Bill Cunningham · Post by **Bill Cunningham** » 30 Dec 2008 3:28 pm

Yea, but consider all the great exposure he is giving the steel guitar

Post by **Dave Mudgett** » 30 Dec 2008 3:33 pm

Well, why not go the rest of the way - I found this one out there a few weeks ago, from 1979 (with Keith Richards and The Barbarians) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuUr-cB7PnY - along with a discussion about it here - http://bb.steelguitarforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=147361

Or these Stones clips that I think are fairly recent: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBhSQTv0GcU or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLNx5Fv8vOc

How many years is that?

You're right, Ron - they got guts. I think most anybody will concede that Ronnie is a guitar player, not a steel player.

Yea, but consider all the great exposure he is giving the steel guitar

Yeah, that's one of the things that worries me about this kinda' stuff. The strange part is that - it seems to me, anyway - that an awful lot of rockers think this is what country music is about. I don't understand it, but I think it's true.

Ben Jones · Post by **Ben Jones** » 30 Dec 2008 3:55 pm

Dave Mudgett wrote:Well, why not go the rest of the way - I found this one out there a few weeks ago, from 1979 (with Keith Richards and The Barbarians) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuUr-cB7PnY - along with a discussion about it here - http://bb.steelguitarforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=147361

Or these Stones clips that I think are fairly recent: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBhSQTv0GcU or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLNx5Fv8vOc

How many years is that?

You're right, Ron - they got guts. I think most anybody will concede that Ronnie is a guitar player, not a steel player.

Yea, but consider all the great exposure he is giving the steel guitar
Yeah, that's one of the things that worries me about this kinda' stuff. The strange part is that - it seems to me, anyway - that an awful lot of rockers think this is what country music is about. I don't understand it, but I think it's true.

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nice find Dave on that barbarians clip. That was rough. Geez, heroin is a harsh mistress. well Ronnie has been playing steel for at least thirty years then right?

for the record...The stones are my favorite band. I liked em best during the Mick Taylor years. rock on.

Mike Perlowin RIP · Post by **Mike Perlowin RIP** » 30 Dec 2008 4:02 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuUr-cB7PnY -

Hey, I sing better than Kieth.

Randy Gilliam · Post by **Randy Gilliam** » 30 Dec 2008 4:03 pm

If he Plays Steel He Cant Be all Bad. Wonder How Much He Got Paid For that gig? Probably a Little More Than the Rest Of Us Make! Randy Gilliam.

Chris LeDrew · Post by **Chris LeDrew** » 30 Dec 2008 4:26 pm

http://bb.steelguitarforum.com/viewtopi ... t=ron+wood

I criticized his intonation on the above thread and got lambasted! I guess it's safer to speak your mind on this thread.

Ed Javner · Post by **Ed Javner** » 30 Dec 2008 4:31 pm

WOW!! What a relief. All this time I thought it was me.......

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Kevin Hatton · Post by **Kevin Hatton** » 30 Dec 2008 4:48 pm

Ron, you are embarrasing yourself. Get off that one fret, pleeeeeeeeease. He played the same A/B pedal stomp through the whole song. This lets me off the hook!

Paul Graupp · Post by **Paul Graupp** » 30 Dec 2008 4:56 pm

But, then what does he do with those other 5 or 6 pedals ??

Regards, Paul

Bill Hatcher · Post by **Bill Hatcher** » 30 Dec 2008 5:04 pm

To 99% of the fans in the audience he is a steel virtuoso. They are the ones buying the tickets....

Kevin Hatton · Post by **Kevin Hatton** » 30 Dec 2008 5:21 pm

You're probably right Bill. After all, its Ron Wood.

Tommy White · Post by **Tommy White** » 30 Dec 2008 6:31 pm

Austin Tripp · Post by **Austin Tripp** » 30 Dec 2008 6:39 pm

WOW!!!! That made me sound like Buddy Emmons and Paul Franklin put together. All I can say is look out Nashville!!!!

Eric West · Post by **Eric West** » 30 Dec 2008 6:45 pm

I don't need to watch it to maintain my status as "A Contender"..

HNY all. Off to a gig in the AM and a couple days storm watching at the Ocean.

Thanks too for all the help in a tough year.

EJL HFLE Augie