"Hello Mary Lou" - New Riders - Buddy Cage Break

[Jeff Garden]

This is a shot at Buddy Cage's steel break on "Hello Mary Lou". I took it off the New Riders of the Purple Sage "Powerglide" album. This was a lot of work...Buddy is absolutely smoking on this one! If you can't play it at speed, no problem - I can't either! I thought it was an interesting look at one of Buddy's "walk-ups" though and it's a fun speed-picking exercise. I tried a few different options but the 2nd and 4th string combo seems to make the most sense. Think of the walk-up as two groups of triplets with the accent on the first beat (I marked it with an arrow on the tab). Also notice he skips the 14th fret on the way up - this makes everything come out right with the band at the top. Enjoy and let me know if you have corrections or a slicker way to play it.
Here it is on youtube...the break starts about 1:45
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZm3IAe ... pM&index=9

[Alexander Rehfeld]

Nice one, thank you!

[Bill Ford]

Thank you Jeff.

[Dale Rottacker]

Very nice Jeff ... I remember hearing BC play this when I was just starting and like most everyone else was blown away by it ... Jim Lindsey showed me years ago how to do this and telling me the trick with it being to get out of it once you're deeply into it

[Doug Beaumier]

That's cool, Jeff. I too remember hearing Buddy Cage play this solo back in the 70s. I play it occasionally on the bandstand, sometimes successfully, sometimes not. You nailed it!

[Dirk Edwards]

Tasty

[Steve Mueller]

Nice work!

[Jeff Garden]

Thanks for the kind words, guys - I hope the tab is close. There's a bunch of us on the Forum whose "formative years" were when country rock was just starting to explode on the music scene. Buddy Cage's pedal steel sure got my attention! RIP Buddy.

[James Wishart]

Wow. Nice one!

[Ron Pruter]

I remember hearing that way back and thinking Wow, Jerry has really gotten good:-) RP