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Topic: Rusty Youngs pedal steel handbook? |
Keith Bolog
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Posted 16 Dec 2019 8:04 am |
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Seriously. Is this really a rare book worth 100+ bucks? Amazon $295 get real. I have a copy, didnt think it had much value unless you were going to do a Poco tribute on an old Fender pedal steel.
I think Ill post it on ebay for 99 cents to discover the true value. can you say profiteer?
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Jim Cohen
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Keith Bolog
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Wisconsin, USA
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Posted 16 Dec 2019 10:40 am ....
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but who is going to pay the 20% royalty?
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Tucker Jackson
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Posted 16 Dec 2019 11:10 am
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It's expensive because it's rare.
It's rare because not many steel players bought it.
Not many steel players bought it because the examples are written in standard music notation.
It's written in standard music notation because Rusty Young is a great musician.
So, by the transitive property of mathematics, the handbook is expensive because Rusty Young is a great musician.
You want a cheap handbook? I wrote one. I'll let you do the math. |
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Keith Bolog
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Wisconsin, USA
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Posted 16 Dec 2019 11:47 am tab
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True, but there is some tab in there, for
pickin up the pieces
Hoedown
rocky mt brakdown
makin love
sagebrush serenade
rose of cimmaron
banjo man
bad weather
and a few licks.
Im not knocking it - for the record
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Tucker Jackson
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Posted 16 Dec 2019 12:09 pm
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For sure, I'm not knocking it either. All hail Rusty and anybody that shares their knowledge. It's a cool book and people should check it out (Jim -- Poconut #1 -- I'm lookin' at you. Just pay the man). There's some good discussion by Rusty on his approach.
I haven't seen a copy in a decade, but I thought all those songs were in musical notation, not tab. Of course, I can't remember what I just typed in that last sentence. So there's that.
Even for the stuff that isn't tab, folks can learn to read music and find those notes on the steel, especially if they ask Mike Perlowin nicely and he sends them a short guide he wrote that demystifies things. |
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Jim Cohen
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Posted 16 Dec 2019 6:06 pm
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Several years ago a copy of this book was making the rounds, being mailed from one Forumite to another, all over the country. People were in a waiting list to check it out. Pretty cool idea but the trail went cold and nobody (except maybe for one person) knows where the trail ended.
Oh and check this out after all these years. Chalker fan, I guess, huh? 
https://youtu.be/Zbdmxe8Lt2A
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Tucker Jackson
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Posted 17 Dec 2019 11:59 am
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| Jim Cohen wrote: |
Several years ago a copy of this book was making the rounds, being mailed from one Forumite to another, all over the country. People were in a waiting list to check it out. Pretty cool idea but the trail went cold and nobody (except maybe for one person) knows where the trail ended.
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Yes, I remember how that deal of 'passing the book' along went...and then died on the vine.
According to the old thread where that was being tracked, the last known recipient was David Wren. I wonder if he passed it along but just didn't post that he had done so? There are several other people who were listed as being next in line. Maybe one of them still has it and forgot to mail it out?
https://steelguitarforum.com/Forum15/HTML/004693.html
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