Thank you Jim, glad you liked it ... WOW 7 years ago thats pretty early on for me trying to figure out how to record, and you may even hear a spot of distortion in this one, cause I sure do... Every attempt at recording is a learning adventure, always something to learn.
Thanks Dan, did you need a haircut? ;-) ... I've never been a big fan of this song, but decided to try to make it at least a little interesting to me... Sadly recorded a tad too hot and clipped a little... Hey I was new LOL
Thanks Dennis… that was a great guitar… it’s back in Texas now as I sold it about four years ago… one of those I wish I’d maybe kept… sadly it’s hard to keep em all ☹️
+John Coffman Thanks... melody’s I’ve found out, over the years don’t come as easily to me as I though they did... I’ve always sang harmony, so I guess I’ve find it easier or more natural to play around the melody than stay on it... I’m trying to retrain myself to play a little more melody or at least get closer to it... ;-)
Oh boy howdy! Look here, I subscribed right away. I'm not saying that cause I expect a "sub for sub" as they call it. Naw sir. I subscribed right away cause this instrument, (that I love dearly) moves me just as much as a fiddle does. Hot dang! This sounds real good and it's a breath of fresh air! Look forward to hearing more. Take care now.
+Tony Browne thank-you, glad you liked it... I really do like this Mullen, but I also have a Pro lll like you do, I’ve been thinking about doing something on her again too.
March 26, 2016 Very, very nice on that George Jones Song. It gets better all the time. On that Mullen you are playing, when was it made. I am sure it is one of the latest. When did Mullen start putting double pickups on each neck? The Mullen I have is one I bought from a guy about four years or so ago and it has single pickups on it. I really would like to get a more newer one cause at almost 92 years old I think I have a few years left to play one. You can sell that Mullen any time you get tired of it. Of course on the E9th neck I use the Jimmy Day pedal and knee lever set up. That setup is easier to use because of my left knee that I injured more than fifty years ago. The Mullen I have used the Emmons setup on the 9th tuning but when I got it I sent it to Mickey Adams to change it around. If you have any trouble just call Mickey. Good job, my friend. Louis
+Louis Armentaro Thanks for your very generous kind words.... You’d be wrong about the age of this guitar.... this is a 1990 guitar... It was made originally for Jim Lindsey, who played for Ty Herndon for 10 years with it.... Jim sold it, and Mickey Adams ended up with it somehow.... Mickey played this guitar almost exclusively for 3 or 4 years and then about 2 years ago I was fortunate enough that he sold it to me.... As for the Quad Pups... they were a special order, and I doubt that there’s more then a handful of them our there.... I’ve seen 3 or 4, and Jim has one of them, which was one time Gary Hogue’s guitar.
Thanks Edward ... there are a few guitars like this one. I believe Buddy even went as far as 3 pickups once. I didn't fool with the 5 switches associated with them, but they were to give a pseudo dobro sound and put the two out of phase. I didn't notice a big difference. These original 705's weren't the original pups so it may not have been rewired correctly. So I didn't see much value in them so just used the pup closest the changer just like every one with just one pup.
Thanks Lyle... this was a 1990 PRP... arguably the best sounding Mullen era... This particular guitar was made for Jim Lindsey and was a clone of his best friend Gary Hogue's 1986 PRP... both had the Quad Pickups, though not originally with the 705's... Jim ended up selling this guitar to finance buying Gary's... and eventually ended up with Mickey Adams who played it for 4-5 years before I was able to buy it. When this guitar was built Del Mullen told Jim that is was the best sounding Mullen he'd ever made... Mickey called it the Holy Grail... I agree it was a great sounding guitar... There's a little TOO MUCH History for you 😉
@@steelinatune lol...never tooo much history on steel...( new generation kids dont like history) at 66 I love great stories and facts....great to know, I was able to single out tone quality..even though its youtube..some of the Emmons, Zum, early Shobuds, just to mention a few that were older had similar tone qualities in their own rite, yet this one fulfills a lot of categories . Keep playing good!!
@@Sluggo01 Yeah, I always get a kick out the history and stories about stuff... I still have the 77 Pro lll I special ordered back then... I REALLY want to refurbish it one of these days... I always had a little issue with the Mullen even though I loved the guitar, was that above the 12-15th fret it would get a little harsh, and if I could tame that then the bottom was a little muddy... that one thing I really enjoy about both the MSA and Rittenberry, they're both very even and well balanced up and down the neck and across the strings... The MSA plays like a dream, kinda like the Mullen but with more feel if that makes sense... the Ritt really has that Emmon's Bell thing going on... I smile a lot lol
Thanks, I play snippets of that, but not anything hair raising... I tend to put little sections in songs maybe not thought of as Swing stuff... Songs like Blue Eye's Crying In The Rain, even Amazing Grace I think I put a touch in, and Cold Cold Heart, Heart of a Clown... Like I said nothing fully dedicated to Swing, but I seem to get 6th sounds in most of what I do.
Being an electronic guy and not knowing much about musical instruments I have to ask: I see silver levers on the strings at the back of the instrument and hollow tubes moving in and out on the back. I'm assuming they're pedal activated similar to a piano except a piano has no tubes. Can you explain how this works?
Well Roy, you're not too far off. However the pedals on a Piano are used to deaden or sustain the notes played. On a Pedal Steel Guitar like this that happens with a Volume Pedal and deadening with either your picks or the side of your hand. The pedals on the floor and the levers underneath the guitar are attached with rods to belcranks on crossshafts. When a pedal or lever is activated, depending on how its set up it will raise or lower the pitch of the string/strings its attached to, and when released returned to original pitch from the tension of the string and some help from return strings. What you see moving in and out at the back of the guitar are the tuners used for tuning the different string/pitch changes on the pedals/levers used at that time.
LOL... thank you Stuart... this is a Pedal Steel Guitar... it uses a Bar for Fretting and Pedals and Knee Levers Bend (Stretch or Loosen) strings to change pitch separately from what the Bar is doing.
Beautiful...but the drummer was dragging a little. My mom used to play a 10 string MSA single neck. Both my grandparents played steel behind Roy Rogers on the radio, in the 30's.
The Cadillac of steel guitars beautiful sound!!
Thanks Charles, this was a great sounding guitar
Sweet!
Just beautiful man ! Sends chills diwn my spine !
Glad you liked it ... thank you
Really nice. I am so glad that these videos are still here after so many years.
Thank you Jim, glad you liked it ... WOW 7 years ago thats pretty early on for me trying to figure out how to record, and you may even hear a spot of distortion in this one, cause I sure do... Every attempt at recording is a learning adventure, always something to learn.
great Dale keep posting them
I think the "Posuum" would love this.
Nice to think so, Thanks
I really like
Glad you liked it
You dressed that one up with some fancy chord work that lifted my hair about an inch! Nice job!
Thanks Dan, did you need a haircut? ;-) ... I've never been a big fan of this song, but decided to try to make it at least a little interesting to me... Sadly recorded a tad too hot and clipped a little... Hey I was new LOL
❤yes i always caresteel the best😂
Thank you
Beautiful sound!
Dale great take a ltlle extra stuff in there nice as always
Thanks Edward
Beautiful sir
Thanks Chad
So nice!
Great tone, great touch, great arrangement! 😊👍👍
Thanks Lee
WOW 👌
Thanks Josh
Refreshing version to an old tune!
JUST Now saw this... thank you Rene...
Great job! I love it
Thank you! Randolf
Great shot of the hands and fingers at work. Plus on a Mullen😋
Thanks Dennis… that was a great guitar… it’s back in Texas now as I sold it about four years ago… one of those I wish I’d maybe kept… sadly it’s hard to keep em all ☹️
Yea you definitely can play a steel guitar you great i enjoy listening to you play
Thanks so much Sac ... glad you're enjoying some of my playing
Nice job on that tune!! U sure make it look easy to get all that sound coming out. Great job!
Thank you James… if you only knew how I struggle lol 😂
one it's a mullen,two them twin pick ups 3 he's pretty dang good nice job.have you checked out the Franklin signature amp.
Oh that is so nice. Thanks.
Thank you
I like watching the nylon tuners- pretty quick you can tell the E raise & lowers, A,B & C pedals. Good clues in the different fret positions. Love it!
Thanks Stephen
Love your version Just the melody and enough of you to make it yours.
+John Coffman Thanks... melody’s I’ve found out, over the years don’t come as easily to me as I though they did... I’ve always sang harmony, so I guess I’ve find it easier or more natural to play around the melody than stay on it... I’m trying to retrain myself to play a little more melody or at least get closer to it... ;-)
Love this sounds so beautiful
Thanks Penny
This is some great playing Dale...Vern in Seattle.
Just now seeing this Vern in Seattle ;-) .... thank you
Good job! I agree that Mullen sounds great!
Thank you
Love to hear you play. I just hope I can get half that good!
Thank you Sir… I’m not half that good 😉just keep plugging
Russell just keep hanging in there you will get there
bravisimo!!!
Thank you
Oh boy howdy! Look here, I subscribed right away. I'm not saying that cause I expect a "sub for sub" as they call it. Naw sir. I subscribed right away cause this instrument, (that I love dearly) moves me just as much as a fiddle does. Hot dang! This sounds real good and it's a breath of fresh air! Look forward to hearing more. Take care now.
+Steve Tolbert Thanks so much for you kind “enthusiastic” words... Fiddle and Steel do work well together and compliment each other, don’t they.
Beautiful arrangement and very nicely played. Gonna steal me some of them licks!
+Larry C Robbins Thanks for your kind words... nice thing about the instrument... we’re always “Steelin’” something and most of the time its legal.
Super version of this song. That Mullen sounds ace.
+Tony Browne thank-you, glad you liked it... I really do like this Mullen, but I also have a Pro lll like you do, I’ve been thinking about doing something on her again too.
March 26, 2016 Very, very nice on that George Jones Song. It gets better all the time. On that Mullen you are playing, when was it made. I am sure it is one of the latest. When did Mullen start putting double pickups on each neck? The Mullen I have is one I bought from a guy about four years or so ago and it has single pickups on it. I really would like to get a more newer one cause at almost 92 years old I think I have a few years left to play one. You can sell that Mullen any time you get tired of it. Of course on the E9th neck I use the Jimmy Day pedal and knee lever set up. That setup is easier to use because of my left knee that I injured more than fifty years ago. The Mullen I have used the Emmons setup on the 9th tuning but when I got it I sent it to Mickey Adams to change it around. If you have any trouble just call Mickey. Good job, my friend. Louis
+Louis Armentaro Thanks for your very generous kind words.... You’d be wrong about the age of this guitar.... this is a 1990 guitar... It was made originally for Jim Lindsey, who played for Ty Herndon for 10 years with it.... Jim sold it, and Mickey Adams ended up with it somehow.... Mickey played this guitar almost exclusively for 3 or 4 years and then about 2 years ago I was fortunate enough that he sold it to me.... As for the Quad Pups... they were a special order, and I doubt that there’s more then a handful of them our there.... I’ve seen 3 or 4, and Jim has one of them, which was one time Gary Hogue’s guitar.
Nice one Lane. Like the tone. JimE
+Jim E Thanks... but who’s Lane? LOL
+steelinatune I wondered why "he" was playing a Mullen??????????????? :-)$hi! happens when ya get old. My apologies.
+blackemmons non needed ;-)
+steelinatune Do I have to unsubscribe after that Dale. :-)
+Jim E sounds like a good idea to me... lol... Thanks
great Dale whats reason for 2 pickups on instrument?
Thanks Edward ... there are a few guitars like this one. I believe Buddy even went as far as 3 pickups once. I didn't fool with the 5 switches associated with them, but they were to give a pseudo dobro sound and put the two out of phase. I didn't notice a big difference. These original 705's weren't the original pups so it may not have been rewired correctly. So I didn't see much value in them so just used the pup closest the changer just like every one with just one pup.
@@steelinatune thanks Dale
Really like the tone of the Mullins...what year is it?
Thanks Lyle... this was a 1990 PRP... arguably the best sounding Mullen era... This particular guitar was made for Jim Lindsey and was a clone of his best friend Gary Hogue's 1986 PRP... both had the Quad Pickups, though not originally with the 705's... Jim ended up selling this guitar to finance buying Gary's... and eventually ended up with Mickey Adams who played it for 4-5 years before I was able to buy it. When this guitar was built Del Mullen told Jim that is was the best sounding Mullen he'd ever made... Mickey called it the Holy Grail... I agree it was a great sounding guitar... There's a little TOO MUCH History for you 😉
@@steelinatune lol...never tooo much history on steel...( new generation kids dont like history) at 66 I love great stories and facts....great to know, I was able to single out tone quality..even though its youtube..some of the Emmons, Zum, early Shobuds, just to mention a few that were older had similar tone qualities in their own rite, yet this one fulfills a lot of categories . Keep playing good!!
@@Sluggo01 Yeah, I always get a kick out the history and stories about stuff... I still have the 77 Pro lll I special ordered back then... I REALLY want to refurbish it one of these days... I always had a little issue with the Mullen even though I loved the guitar, was that above the 12-15th fret it would get a little harsh, and if I could tame that then the bottom was a little muddy... that one thing I really enjoy about both the MSA and Rittenberry, they're both very even and well balanced up and down the neck and across the strings... The MSA plays like a dream, kinda like the Mullen but with more feel if that makes sense... the Ritt really has that Emmon's Bell thing going on... I smile a lot lol
@@steelinatune all true!! Thanks for sharing I’m gonna pass it off to a couple steel players here thanks again
Again brilliant version. Do you play some Western swing tunes please
Thanks, I play snippets of that, but not anything hair raising... I tend to put little sections in songs maybe not thought of as Swing stuff... Songs like Blue Eye's Crying In The Rain, even Amazing Grace I think I put a touch in, and Cold Cold Heart, Heart of a Clown... Like I said nothing fully dedicated to Swing, but I seem to get 6th sounds in most of what I do.
Being an electronic guy and not knowing much about musical instruments I have to ask: I see silver levers on the strings at the back of the instrument and hollow tubes moving in and out on the back.
I'm assuming they're pedal activated similar to a piano except a piano has no tubes.
Can you explain how this works?
Well Roy, you're not too far off. However the pedals on a Piano are used to deaden or sustain the notes played. On a Pedal Steel Guitar like this that happens with a Volume Pedal and deadening with either your picks or the side of your hand.
The pedals on the floor and the levers underneath the guitar are attached with rods to belcranks on crossshafts. When a pedal or lever is activated, depending on how its set up it will raise or lower the pitch of the string/strings its attached to, and when released returned to original pitch from the tension of the string and some help from return strings. What you see moving in and out at the back of the guitar are the tuners used for tuning the different string/pitch changes on the pedals/levers used at that time.
What is that contraption, its brill.....10 likes from me
LOL... thank you Stuart... this is a Pedal Steel Guitar... it uses a Bar for Fretting and Pedals and Knee Levers Bend (Stretch or Loosen) strings to change pitch separately from what the Bar is doing.
Right. Over. His. Head...
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Beautiful...but the drummer was dragging a little. My mom used to play a 10 string MSA single neck. Both my grandparents played steel behind Roy Rogers on the radio, in the 30's.
Right?!? Lol.... Sounds like you come from a good family Preston