this is cool. the pedal guit-steel

[pucho812]

jr. created a new twanger,...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SknsFbCgLlc

well looks like they removed the vid, so here it is from facebook.

https://www.facebook.com/OfficialJuniorBrown/videos/491110544757862/

 

[pucho812]

I figured CJ would have said something on this.  8)

 

[benb]

Apparently it didn't last long. All I see is "This video is unavailable."

 

[pucho812]

Apparently it didn't last long. All I see is "This video is unavailable."

try this then, it's the same video just via facebook....

https://www.facebook.com/OfficialJuniorBrown/videos/491110544757862/


and here is a video of him still working out how to work it as he plays in concert...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_Hx6GbvMSM

 

[Seeker]

2nd links works...  I love me some jr Brown.... when I first got into slide player he blew my mind.

 

[alexc]

pedal steel is the biz

 

[pucho812]

2nd links works...  I love me some jr Brown.... when I first got into slide player he blew my mind.

yeah that new version of his guitar is awesome.I did like is older versions but this thing with pedals is amazing.

 

[pucho812]

and some shop pics I found on the web.

 

[pucho812]

#3

 

[pucho812]

#4

 

[pucho812]

#5

 

[pucho812]

the idea man and the maker, designer and builder

 

[benb]

try this then, it's the same video just via facebook....

https://www.facebook.com/OfficialJuniorBrown/videos/491110544757862/


and here is a video of him still working out how to work it as he plays in concert...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_Hx6GbvMSM

And now I see.  I'm not familiar with steel players, but he's got a great style.

That kind of switching between different-styled instruments like that looks inherently hard.  The "cheatin'" way to do it is to have a musical pause or have another instrumentalist play a bar or two while you switch. It'll be interesting to see after he gets better at it, and maybe a few more mods on that guitar thing to make for faster switching.

 

[pucho812]

And now I see.  I'm not familiar with steel players, but he's got a great style.

That kind of switching between different-styled instruments like that looks inherently hard.  The "cheatin'" way to do it is to have a musical pause or have another instrumentalist play a bar or two while you switch. It'll be interesting to see after he gets better at it, and maybe a few more mods on that guitar thing to make for faster switching.

well,  jr.'s first design that he has played for ever is basically a double neck with tele on one and steel without pedals on the other....
here is an example

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PWSmMuBNK0

 

[fazer]

Jr is awesome at this with the original git steel.  I remember seeing him at a bluegrass festival at a collage in Wilksboro,, NC.  He’s mesmerizing when he plays.  Great sense of humor in his lyrics.    Wonderful Musician! Does the Earnest Tubb thing.  Actual country music from the 40s-50s.

 

[pucho812]

he does. Wrote a song about it "my baby don't dance to nothing but Ernest tubbs"

Can't wait to see him on the new one with the pedals.

 

[boji]

Modern lyrical topics sung over timeless old country.  Not a bad way to guard the flame.

Someone get that man a cranial implant that sends actuator cv over wifi.  =D