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All Things Lap Steel!
Posted: Sat May 12, 2012 8:50 pm
by MEC
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Re: All Things Lapsteel!
Posted: Sat May 12, 2012 8:50 pm
by MEC
Here's something to get the juices flowing:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LplwW-v4MEM[/youtube]
Re: All Things Lapsteel!
Posted: Sat May 12, 2012 10:06 pm
by devnulljp
I haz this nice old Harmony Roy Smeck...
Re: All Things Lapsteel!
Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 7:38 am
by D.o.S.
Lapsteels, like slide guitar, always seem to sound amazing.
Mostly, I figure, because they're impossible to play... so if you're laying down a lapsteel part, you'd better have your shit together.
Re: All Things Lapsteel!
Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 11:28 am
by Mudfuzz
I made me own..
maple "neck" pine "body" ash front and back, koa board, godin pickup.
it sounds like.. this..
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCvnZIPTWao[/youtube]
Re: All Things Lapsteel!
Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 12:44 pm
by DallasLemonade
Mudfuzz wrote:I made me own..
maple "neck" pine "body" ash front and back, koa board, godin pickup.
it sounds like.. this..
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCvnZIPTWao[/youtube]
i like it!
the drums remind me of Dog Door by Tom Waits
Re: All Things Lapsteel!
Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 5:52 pm
by kosta
That shit is sweet Muddy! Great stuff.
No ILF lapsteel discussion would be complete without these jams from our own Blooghost:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kW0EKP0x_7o[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yT8AsXqMAOU[/youtube]
And then there's this amazing Pete Drake pedal steel talkbox clip. Shit blows my mind...
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGDlCViI6k8[/youtube]
Re: All Things Lapsteel!
Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 7:05 pm
by Mudfuzz
Thanks guys! Yeah Bloo, fuck yeah!
Oh and...
Tunings: open E and D and CFCGCC and CFCGCF
I use a Ernie Ball round tonebar and a Dunlop Ergo tone bar
Strings.. I like flats on the thing best.
Picks&things: anynormalguitarpick... coins, a brass pick I made and a ebow.
Re: All Things Lapsteel!
Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 7:14 pm
by Ryan
I really love the sound of lapsteel, geeez it's haunting! It really helped me get into lots of the country music that Tanya loves but I didn't... I hear some lapsteel and it brings me around bigtime.
Here's some nice lapsteel from TPB:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNn0cCpkMWo[/youtube]
Muddy, yours is totally awesome.. what a project!
I don't think I'm in the league of players that can play lapsteel, seems really tough to me.
Re: All Things Lapsteel!
Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 7:16 pm
by Moustache_Bash
kosta wrote:And then there's this amazing Pete Drake pedal steel talkbox clip. Shit blows my mind...
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGDlCViI6k8[/youtube]
That's awesome. I'd love to learn pedal steel, but I'm left handed. Maybe if I ever learn more theory, I can pick up lap steel.
An obvious hit:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bEf_wOp1b8[/youtube]
Re: All Things Lapsteel!
Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 7:50 pm
by Mudfuzz
BASSSTEEL! I WANT!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCMjAdqtD0I[/youtube]
Re: All Things Lapsteel!
Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 8:12 pm
by bigchiefbc
Red Sparowes rocks that shit pretty hard:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diMHtsrBiR0[/youtube]
Re: All Things Lapsteel!
Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 8:26 pm
by Zounds Perspex
lap steel is cool and fun. pedal steel is fucking IMPOSSIBLE.
Re: All Things Lapsteel!
Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 8:51 am
by lapsteel
Ahhh!
Steel revolution!
Any one out there gots a Moog lapsteel? I guess it is the same as playing with an ebow, but you can hit slants cause it works on all strings.
Mudfuzz nice clip....care to share some homemade ebow tips?
Re: All Things Lapsteel!
Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 9:58 am
by Mudfuzz
lapsteel wrote:Ahhh!
Steel revolution!
Any one out there gots a Moog lapsteel? I guess it is the same as playing with an ebow, but you can hit slants cause it works on all strings.
Mudfuzz nice clip....care to share some homemade ebow tips?
I made a
brass pick not a ebow... I just have one
NOW if any of you attempt on ebow making let me know because I have a few ideas in what I would like as a custom one
