Jackson Steel Room Pictures-Dallas Show?

Brett Day · Post by **Brett Day** » 12 Mar 2011 3:42 pm

Do any of y'all have pictures of the Jackson Steel Room and Jackson crew at the show in Dallas this year? I love the Jackson Steel Guitar Company and all three Jacksons-David, Harry, and Dawn build beautiful steels and they're friends of mine.

Brett

Danny Letz · Post by **Danny Letz** » 13 Mar 2011 4:05 pm

Brett, I'm sorry I don't have any pictures, but you would have been proud of it. Have you heard about the new steel with the acoutic sound chamber in it. Rusty Roads played one on his first set and it sounded good.

Brett Day · Post by **Brett Day** » 13 Mar 2011 5:30 pm

I've seen pictures of the acoustic steel on the fanpage on Facebook. Haven't seen it up close yet, I don't think.

Brett

Mike Castleberry · Post by **Mike Castleberry** » 16 Mar 2011 4:26 pm

Mike Castleberry · Post by **Mike Castleberry** » 16 Mar 2011 4:39 pm

Roy Thomson · Post by **Roy Thomson** » 16 Mar 2011 4:50 pm

Mike , I would love to hear a sound clip of that
acoustic pedal steel. It looks like a beauty but
how can we hear it??

Roy T.

Alex Wilcox · Post by **Alex Wilcox** » 16 Mar 2011 4:57 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07c3IWZY4ho

Here's a clip of Rusty playing the Jackson Acoustic on Saturday.

Roy Thomson · Post by **Roy Thomson** » 16 Mar 2011 5:28 pm

Rusty has a very seasoned sound and is a great player! He demonstrated beautifully!
The guitar has good response and sustain right up the
fret board. The sound is somewhat "contained" with
much less "edge" but I surely like it. I was expecting something different.
So was that miked or does it have a built in
or internal pickup?

Alex Wilcox · Post by **Alex Wilcox** » 16 Mar 2011 5:56 pm

there is a pickup right behind the acoustic chamber.

David Wright · Post by **David Wright** » 17 Mar 2011 4:13 am

Jackson had a Great l@@king room, lot's of guitars, and Rusty & Zane were on fire!!! I always make it a point to go see David & Harry, They are building some Great guitars, and most of all, Great Guy"s!!!...and lets not forget Dawn Jackson, )))AKA....Shorty!!!

Jay Jessup · Post by **Jay Jessup** » 18 Mar 2011 7:36 am

Roy,
My guess (and it is only a guess) is that what you are hearing on that youtube clip is just the guitar through it's normal steel guitar pickup through an amp. IMHO pedal steel guitar strings are way too thin to ever get a good acoustic only sound as I think Paul Franklin proved with his pedalbro guitars.
I often practice with no amp turned on and an acoustic pedal steel would certainly enhance that process and having those acoustic chambers on the guitar would almost surely color the tone in a way that might turn out to be very pleasing. So certainly an experiment worth pursuing but I would not expect to ever be able to play one acoustically and get good tone and volume from it.

Barry Blackwood · Post by **Barry Blackwood** » 18 Mar 2011 7:48 am

My guess (and it is only a guess) is that what you are hearing on that youtube clip is just the guitar through it's normal steel guitar pickup through an amp.

Jay, the guitar has a somewhat different sound to it because the acoustic chamber is in some way influencing the electronic tone don't you think? I don't believe the purpose of the design was so you could play the guitar acoustically.

Jay Jessup · Post by **Jay Jessup** » 18 Mar 2011 7:51 am

Yup Agree 100%, I just thought that was the direction Roy was headed with his question above.

Ernest Cawby · Post by **Ernest Cawby** » 18 Mar 2011 10:30 am

i will be posting some started working on them last night,

ernie

Jim R. Harrison · Post by **Jim R. Harrison** » 18 Mar 2011 10:09 pm

Brett, I took very few photos in the Jackson Room but here are two of them.

Cheers, Jim H.

Richard Sinkler · Post by **Richard Sinkler** » 19 Mar 2011 12:19 am

I wasn't real impressed with the sound either. Sounded like another steel guitar to me.

Rusty did a real good job, though.

Bill Mayville · Post by **Bill Mayville** » 21 Mar 2011 6:05 pm

My Jackson is a beautiful sounding steel.Easiest guitar playing I have Ever owned.
Some will like it,some won;t.I havn;t heard that sound but twice since 1986.
You can tell by the strengh of the sound,at both ends of the neck.It doesn;t waver at all.Different
amps and effects will be another story.
But the strength of the tone will not change.
If a person wants the old sound,I don't think it will be on that guitar.if I were not so old,I think one like that would be in my Studio(bedroom studio).I am just starting to play again.we'll see.
I would take one like that even if they Decided to stop making them.Not evry one is suppose to like that sound.
bill

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Jackson Steel Room Pictures-Dallas Show?

Jackson Steel Room Pictures-Dallas Show?

Brett, I took two pics, here they are.

Jackson Acoustic Pedal Steel on the bench

bret

Solid like a rock