Any Slide Guitar Players Hanging Around?

Discussion in 'The Musician in U' started by dobro49, Oct 13, 2022.

  1. #1 dobro49, Oct 13, 2022
    I enjoy all things slide but lean to the clean Strat tone with a Medicine bottle slide. I have a resonator and several acoustics that I patch up to play on. Country, Blues, Country/Blues, Rock, are all enjoyable.
     
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  2. #2 Haggis420, Oct 13, 2022
    I had an 80’s Strat, (I called her Black Betty), tuned to a permanent open E… Bottle neck slide period…

    I’m older now,,, She and all my resonators have gone to Granddarlings,,, and they play them quite well…

    Here are a couple of them

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  3. #3 dobro49, Oct 13, 2022
    I went to slide because of a spine ailment screwing up my left hand and I have taken to a mini Strat that’s just like that but a rosewood board. I have a full size Strat but that little one is just easy to handle. It’s great to see kids jump into music like that and I thought it was a video so I kept tapping the photo.:bongin:
     
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  4. #4 Haggis420, Oct 13, 2022
    Not a slide, but one of my own tunes I wrote, playing with a band I was part of some years ago… Playing my hotrodded Telecaster here…

     
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  5. #5 dobro49, Oct 13, 2022
    Nice tune man. That Tele has some bite.
     
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  6. #6 Haggis420, Oct 13, 2022
    Thanks… I’ve had a bunch of really nice guitars, but for tone and playability, this Tele holds its own… I was playing it through a 1985, 85w Mesa Boogie…
     
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  7. #7 Saint Duck, Oct 13, 2022
    I picked up a Lap Steel guitar about a year ago. Can't play for shit but fun to eff around with. A 'Rogue' Lap Steel. $149 everywhere BUT someone always has it on sale for $79. I think they must rotate the sale. Plus a lot of youtube videos on the basics of how to play. This video right here is what hooked me on Lap Steel for Good. Street busker in England. Maybe the best lap steel player I've ever heard.
     
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  8. #8 dobro49, Oct 13, 2022
    I keep looking at the exact same one you mentioned.
     
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  9. #9 Saint Duck, Oct 13, 2022
    The guy in the video looks like he's playing the same one. Slightly earlier model but I still think it's a Rogue. Like I said someone always has it on sale at half price. $79 is almost too good to pass up. Hardware kits to build your own are only $10 cheaper, you just supply the wood.
     
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  10. #10 dobro49, Oct 13, 2022
    I’m sure not the greatest but I think those actually come with legs and a bag too. They seem to have a good pickup too.
     
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  11. #11 dobro49, Oct 13, 2022
    While Duane Allman certainly earned and deserves the heaps of praise that he gets, another Southern player who I don’t hear near as much about is the late great Ed King from Skynyrd. While his offerings on slide are somewhat limited in number, the dude wrote one of the most well known parts in Rock with “The Ballad Of Curtis Loew”. He co-wrote many of the LS classics like Sweet Home Alabama and Sat Night Special. His slide on the later 90s LS records are worth a spin.
    It’s worth noting too that he played mostly in standard tuning.
     
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  12. #12 dobro49, Oct 15, 2022
    I’m sure it’s floating online but I have the dvd of LeeRoy Parnells instruction video. The guy is a great player and equally a great teacher and that’s not always the case with high level players but Parnell is totally comfortable with it. And that tone. WOW is the tone that he gets from that Strat. He even gets into some Allman Bros stuff and provides humor when he screws up and shows a tune in the wrong key but corrects himself. It’s well worth the watch.
     
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