Tim mentioned Sneaky Pete. Check out his work with the Flying Burrito Brothers (especially Gilded Palace of Sin). Not only is his playing superb, but he uses some great effects including some gnarly fuzz. "Christine's Tune" and "Wheels" immediately come to mind if you want shortcuts to the effects, but really I'd recommend getting the album. The cover is phenomenal as well. Cheers!
Alright - here is a fun story. in Spring 2003 I was a music intern for SNL and helped the music coordinator manage the Dixie Chicks rehearsal and live process. Basically I was the kid that got all the backing musicians lunch and made sure they had their paperwork filled out. I was a loud brash guitar player more familiar with punk, classic rock and metal and really wasn't into country so I wasn't even paying attention to the slide guitar until the first rehearsal and Lloyd maines steps on what I discovered was a SANSAMP GT on the floor and produced this GOD-Like overdriven sound. it was like the sound of a giant semi-truck downshifting and passing at the same time - so deep and guttural. It changed my life because it was that sound that carried me into pedal distortion and overdrive - where previously I just played amp distortion. here is video of another time they played Sin Wagon on that same tour - which is the song he did this trick on. ua-cam.com/video/qLLg14q27vI/v-deo.html
Gotta admit- I saw the video title and thought, "This is gonna be lame". I was sooooooo wrong! Love this stuff. I never ever considered that steel guitar could be this cool. Thanks for expanding my mind a bit.
Tim Marcus is so awesome. Submitted a question to the general dropbox on the milkman website when buying an amp thinking he would have some intern or shop buddy checking on those, and got a nice email back from the man himself. Truly a one-man operation, and a very humble and talented guy.
Garcia is my favorite steel player. His work on American Beauty, Workingman’s Dead, NRPS, and Teach Your Children, The Wheel (Garcia solo) are amazing. I like it with really deep Fender Twin reverb and some echo/delay.
If you like the instrument keep diving.. even Jerry would have NEVER said he was a real steel player.. I mean he was jerry so he was musical on EVERYTHING but... wow.. if you like his playing keep looking as Jerry's playing was great but with a very basic vocab.. but great.
Josh, awesome episode! I’ve never been much of a steel player. But as a part time Lap Steel guy, I am big fan of fender reverb, might use a little blues driver mixed with a pedal you designed with your buddy Tim. The Milkman. On another note, I met sneaky Pete in Northern KY years ago when he was playing in a band with Garth Hudson from the “Band” on keys called Burrito Deluxe. He was a really nice guy. Interesting note he did stop action work for “The Empire Strikes Back” when he was not doing as much with music. He told me he only ever used 1 pedal steel in his whole career.
amazing! i also got into steel guitar in NY when i lived there 10+ years ago. And i also got into it from Bob Hoffnar. He was my first teacher and he helped me find and by a Rains double neck steel guitar. I bought it from Gary Carpenter directly. Still have it and love it. I mainly make ambient music with it. Susan Alcorn is an amazing experimental steel guitar player that i highly recommend checking out. As well as Bob - his music is amazing!
Nice one guys! Get ahold of Buddy Emmons Live in Denver if you can. It's from '76 and he goes way into effects during the show then talks about the fx pedals he's using in a Q&A afterwards. He uses delays for a rhythmic multiplying thing, an MXR harmonizer, all kinds of stuff. Still sounds futuristic 40+ years later.
Greg Leisz, Greg Leisz, and more Greg Leisz! Greg plays on several albums with Bill Frisell, Ryan Adams, Beck, John Mayer, Lucinda Williams, and Ray Lamontagne's "Gossip in The Grain."
I saw Greg Leisz play live with Jackson Browne a couple of years ago. Greg can play anything! Regular guitar, lap steel, pedal steel, Weissenborn, he can do it all!
I have always loved the pedal steel - I really dug 'Dark side of the bitcoin' - Tim really nailed that Gilmour sound and style. That dude has some serious talent!
i remember hearing the opening to the eric clapton mtv unplugged version of running on faith and it was simple but i just fell in love with that sound and have always loved it since.
Love this! As a pedal steel player (who also plays Williams guitars and Milkman amps:) Tim has been my go to guy for advice when buying my steel and pairing it with just the right amp and fix. He mentioned Greg Leisz who is my steel idol. That guy has played with Clapton, Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne but then his steel play is all over newer records, my favorite was Bon Ivers self titled album. Steel all over it. Another steel hero of mine will always be Eric Heywood, he toured with Ray Lamontagne and I got the pleasure of listening to him and Greg live. 2 steels. Amazing!
*Ya'll McCartney*! This is some fantastic programming (once again), guys! Love the milk container cameos in every frame. I love the old Slim Whitman catalog for pedal steel X yodeling = WIN
My best memory of hearing a pedal steel guitar out of country was in ATV Off-road Fury 3 with Robert Randolph and the Family Band in the track Squeeze.
HEY JHS! 2:50 that vibe sound from the jhs pedal is soooooo thick and chewy very very nice!!!! i know this was not an add for that pedal BUT i am going to buy one!
I see your milk jug of choice is Anderson-Erickson; I live in Iowa and the home town of Anderson Erickson Dairy ....so Bravo to you!!! As a pedal steel guitar player, I use reverb(BossRV-6), chorus(Boss), delay(Roland DE7), a resonator simulator pedal, and a Harmonist(Boss) but not very often. Attached to the guitar is a Goodrich Steel Driver which is an impedance matching box that also has a killer distortion in it. Thanks for doing something for us steel players!!!!!!!!
Thanks for making this video and promoting use of pedal steel that breaks the stereotypical mold. Pedal steel guitar is most recognizable when it is used in its traditional setting in Hawaiian or Country music, but it has so many other applications. After playing guitar for about 15 years I finally made the plunge into the world of pedal steel. I've been there for about 10 years now, and every time I sit down at the instrument I find new ways to use it in all kinds of music. Here is my rig: Sierra Timberwolf pedal steel guitar -> Lovepedal Tone Bender -> Origin Slide Rig -> Ernie Ball MVP -> TC Polytune Mini (outside of signal path) -> Hudson Electronics Broadcast -> Wampler Tumnus mini -> TC Viscous Vibe -> Keeley Memphis Sun -> TC Hall of Fame Reverb -> Supro Dual Tone (I have a footswitch for the amp's tremolo). I use an E-Bow on the steel sometimes, too. Pretty much every steel player uses a volume pedal and reverb or a delay, but I find that fuzzes, overdrives, boosts, compressors, tremolos, phasers/flangers/vibes, and synthesizers can all work well with the pedal steel. I wish there were more pedal steel players talking about how they use effects with the instrument, and I appreciate what JHS and Milkman are doing to promote pedal steel in all genres of music.
Also check out Carl Broemel (of My Morning Jacket) for an example of a guitarist who plays both six-string guitar and pedal steel. He uses a bunch of effects for both and he sounds great.
Peter Gilmour & Steve Howe had some fantastic lap/pedal steel guitar stuff during the early parts of Pink Floyd & Yes. Also, "Y'all McCartney" was brilliant. Would definitely jam that on Spotify.
All time favorite pedal steel song is "Squeeze" by Robert Randolph and the Family Band. Just an absolute jam. That man changed my opinion of the pedal steel forever
When i started learning to play steel I used a Big Muff, FOX fuzz wah, Maestro 3 button phase shifter, moved away from all that for a long time as i became a player. Sneaky, Buddy Cage, & Rusty Young were influential. Now years later it’s an overdrive dejour, auto wah , RESO sim, and a Lexicon for all time based EFX, delays, rotary, chorus, phase, flange etc. There are some great and creative players out here today but to quote Herbie Wallace in 1985 , “ everyone wants to play like Buddy Emmons” and it’s still true. Also, I noticed the various milk containers too. Very cool
That was a great jam. I played it for my kids 8-18. Damn I’m getting old as fuck!? It matters none, the kids liked it too. There’s hope for the future - rock on.
That "Ya'll McCartney" section I swear sounded like it could be something off the Flaming Lips album "The Soft Bulletin" (I think that's the album name). Either way - its very close to the sound. I think the similar sound is right there on the first track of that album. Really cool to see these demonstrations. The sounds of pedal steel, lap steel and then just slide period have to be my favorite guitar and guitar-esque sounds. I'm an off and on country fan, but I listen to all genres of music and I think pedal steel guitar (or the other variants) can make music of any genre more expressive or heart-tuggingly beautiful. Good stuff. :-)
Josh! Love the episode on pedal steel! I play the instrument myself. My favorite pedals: the sarno freeloader variable load/buffer. The pigtronix philosophers tone micro and the tighty Whitey for parallel compression (they are tied for top spot, ATM). For dirt I stack a sarno earth drive and a Durham mucho boosto both set very low. Delay is an MXR carbon copy bright. Reverb is a hardwire digital reverb (digitech). I’d like to hear your thoughts on pigtronix pedals. I love the philosopher’s tone germanium on guitar, and their key master is pretty amazing. Also, I’ve loved every Durham pedal I’ve tried. Take care!
True, pedal steel has been on a bunch of top 40 and classic rock since the 70's, not just country. Interesting ideas with the pedals in this video. I could see a pedal steel, bass and drum trio playing in the prog/jam band scene.
Man, steel guitar. Love it. My grandpa modded them back in the day. Gave me one before he passed but it was stolen a couple years ago! The mel9 is insane! Sounds so ballad-ish. And the unicorn on a steel! Sounded so good. Fresh sounds coming out of the pedal steel would make my grandpa smile.
Josh, as usual you offer the most intelligent, fun, inspiring content on music and effects! I loved the univibe and wah tones the best. I play psg and this opened my eyes and ears. Thank you.
I've always loved the Pedal Steel and tried emulate it when playing slide. But there's nothing like the real thing and Tim is the real thing. My favorite effect for the pedal steel, all of them, for real. In the right hands they all work. There is a Trailer Park Boys Chrismas episode that features the pedal steel, And It so captivating, I'll find out who it is and edit my post. Thanks Josh and Tim for such a cool segment
As a keyboard player, I was trying to focus to see which ones are in the background. I also dabble in lap steel with an old copper colored Harmony with a weird looking stainless steel nut that is circular and notched for the strings
The sound on “Dark Side” reminds me of Buddy Cage’s sound on Meet Me in the Morning, which I always assumed was his steel through a Rat. Must have been a fuzz of some sort.
I used to think that pedal steel was just that slidy, twangy country thingy, but Christoph Hahn from Swans taught me that this thing can be the instrument of hell!
"Hot Milk" by far the best track! I'm sure after being posted up for a year you're probably not going to see this but one of my favorite "modern" albums with a pedal steel is "Plays One Sound and Others" by the band Knife in the Water.
I'm a lap steel player-pedals I use are a compressor for sustain mostly, a reverb/delay pedal and also a Volume pedal for pedal-steel-like swells (this can be a lot fun especially within a band setting-it gets you a poor man’s pedal-steel sound- it really works once you get the hang of it). I like Jerry Garcia's playing on his solo LP "Garcia" for it 's simplicity- specifically the track "the Wheel".
Can’t talk about steel guitar without talking about Speedy West! I highly recommend his stuff with Jimmy Bryant. Also Nels Cline has been know to play some out there lap steel.
Hey Josh .. I have been into slide & pedal steel since Dark side of the Moon & Lowell George .. Robert Randolph .. of course .. jerry Donahue ? plays with Vince Gill & Alison Krauss union station .. Brad Paisley said about Alison if he ever gets to Heaven he expects the angels to sing like her .. so true .. But you know somepeople think everything happens for a reason .. I'm not so sure but I try to find the positive when I can .. so when I got a skin condition that meant I couldnt play gtr & I started getting arthritis .. I learned to play keyboards & started working on my slide .. a good pedal steel is beyond my budget for now .. but this is why I have been ragging on you about making a decent wah & volume pedal .. & why so far in the Jhs range it would be the Milkman b4 the Ryan Adams .. for me .. Although I see now that your new bigger colorsound thingy that is like a big mixing desk one channel .. D.i. & again would take me half a years pension to get two .. But I do love real controls & not menus etc .. Anyhow Y'all McCartney .. lol .. but I just loved that vintage guitar you played at the start.. Dark tobacco burst .. looked like an Epiphone ? .. thats my style .. B4 I go if you haven't heard of " Larkin Poe " .. give them a listen .. two sisters from the bluegrass circuit .. seriously good blues & slide Americana .. & not hard on the eyes to look at either .. lol .. The story goes they jumped up to sing along with Elvis Costello .. not knowing he was famous & the next thing they were on tour with his Band .. Bye Y'all .. from the Deep woods of ye olde Englande ..
This blew my mind, especially the "Y'all McCarteny" with the EH Mel pedal. If you like steel guitar, check out Friends of Dean Martinez - lots of great steel guitar but not a country/western song anywhere.
Double dip as the old guys in AA use to say. Got home finished listening in my truck . Ironic Sneaky Pete + the same solo I mentioned was mentioned. Ok so you know what (Edit-we) to I want, I don't have a b bender tele but did briefly. Invent it the BG bender pedal for guitar . Like a wah wah but way smaller with a small sweep for B + G bends or any string I guess could bend .I know you can do it + I want the - 1st one.
Going to the local music store with the data corrupter in the morning... I'll bring some leads in case they refuse me theirs once they discover my intentions. Only afterwords will I tell them about this very eye opening video.
I play my Sho-Bud pedal steel through a Keeley/JHS Steak N Eggs all the time. Pretty much every guitar needs to be played through that pedal though... My two big tricks on pedal steel are chorus and reverb (or slapback delay). Again, I think all guitars can benefit from a bit of those two a lot of the time, but a pedal steel is so sonically complex that giving it some extra breathing room is really nice. But here’s the trick - go digital! A TC Electronic Gravy is a killer digital chorus, I love the Tri-Chorus sound. I don’t really like a modulated delay or reverb with pedal steel, so I go with my trusty Dan-Echo (the greatest delay pedal ever, I don’t care what anyone says) and Keeley Aura Reverb. I have never really noticed digital artifacts, but I love the clean headroom of digital effects for pedal steel. If you want saturation in your pedal steel signal, that’s awesome, but I don’t really like my non-drive effects clipping my pedal steel signal, there’s just too much dynamics and harmonics that get lost and smushy. One last thing - fuzz. Just throw any fuzz in your line and see what works. If I wanna get weird, I’ll use a Keeley Sfocato, and the Keeley Psi is really gnarly on pedal steel, especially with the tone down and gain up, it gets all muffled and weird. I really like my Lovepedal (or it could be Hermida Audio?) Dover Drive with the gain up for pedal steel.
I have to admit, the Metal Zone sounds great on a Pedal Steel.
Guess he put his pedal *through* the metal, huh.
Tim mentioned Sneaky Pete. Check out his work with the Flying Burrito Brothers (especially Gilded Palace of Sin). Not only is his playing superb, but he uses some great effects including some gnarly fuzz. "Christine's Tune" and "Wheels" immediately come to mind if you want shortcuts to the effects, but really I'd recommend getting the album. The cover is phenomenal as well. Cheers!
Link to the album on YT: ua-cam.com/video/P7_3ak3OmkM/v-deo.html
The solo,by Sneaky pete on Jackson Brownes version of "Take it easy" is mind bending w/ phaser...
Burrito brothers essentially used Sneaky Pete’s playing as the lead guitar.
1) It's nice to see someone using a Metal Zone non-ironically. 2) Anderson Ericson whole milk kicks ass!
Josh just drinking a half gallon of chocolate milk.
Milkman, baby!
yum
haha!
6:26 "The Metal Zone is a shocker... sometimes" pure grace Josh ❤
Alright - here is a fun story. in Spring 2003 I was a music intern for SNL and helped the music coordinator manage the Dixie Chicks rehearsal and live process. Basically I was the kid that got all the backing musicians lunch and made sure they had their paperwork filled out. I was a loud brash guitar player more familiar with punk, classic rock and metal and really wasn't into country so I wasn't even paying attention to the slide guitar until the first rehearsal and Lloyd maines steps on what I discovered was a SANSAMP GT on the floor and produced this GOD-Like overdriven sound. it was like the sound of a giant semi-truck downshifting and passing at the same time - so deep and guttural. It changed my life because it was that sound that carried me into pedal distortion and overdrive - where previously I just played amp distortion. here is video of another time they played Sin Wagon on that same tour - which is the song he did this trick on. ua-cam.com/video/qLLg14q27vI/v-deo.html
To be kind - era swans has a lot of really great atmospheric pedal steel parts on them. That's where I first learned about the instrument tbh
Gotta admit- I saw the video title and thought, "This is gonna be lame". I was sooooooo wrong! Love this stuff. I never ever considered that steel guitar could be this cool. Thanks for expanding my mind a bit.
Thanks for watching!!!
Same thought process here Ted.
check out a band called "pink floyd"
think hes talking about "It might be a one shot deal" on Waka/Jawaka. Such an amazing solo. Took me awhile to figure out I coudn't play it on a guitar
Tim Marcus is so awesome. Submitted a question to the general dropbox on the milkman website when buying an amp thinking he would have some intern or shop buddy checking on those, and got a nice email back from the man himself. Truly a one-man operation, and a very humble and talented guy.
Garcia is my favorite steel player. His work on American Beauty, Workingman’s Dead, NRPS, and Teach Your Children, The Wheel (Garcia solo) are amazing. I like it with really deep Fender Twin reverb and some echo/delay.
I used to be a king, laughing, eep hour etc
If you like the instrument keep diving.. even Jerry would have NEVER said he was a real steel player.. I mean he was jerry so he was musical on EVERYTHING but... wow.. if you like his playing keep looking as Jerry's playing was great but with a very basic vocab.. but great.
Josh, awesome episode! I’ve never been much of a steel player. But as a part time Lap Steel guy, I am big fan of fender reverb, might use a little blues driver mixed with a pedal you designed with your buddy Tim. The Milkman.
On another note, I met sneaky Pete in Northern KY years ago when he was playing in a band with Garth Hudson from the “Band” on keys called Burrito Deluxe. He was a really nice guy. Interesting note he did stop action work for “The Empire Strikes Back” when he was not doing as much with music. He told me he only ever used 1 pedal steel in his whole career.
amazing! i also got into steel guitar in NY when i lived there 10+ years ago. And i also got into it from Bob Hoffnar. He was my first teacher and he helped me find and by a Rains double neck steel guitar. I bought it from Gary Carpenter directly. Still have it and love it. I mainly make ambient music with it. Susan Alcorn is an amazing experimental steel guitar player that i highly recommend checking out. As well as Bob - his music is amazing!
and obviously Daniel Lanois is a genius. He's last album is all steel and slide.
That was fun! I love Pretzel Logic. I've also recently discovered Larkin Poe who play blues with Megan Lowell on lap steel with a lot of pedals!
Nice one guys! Get ahold of Buddy Emmons Live in Denver if you can. It's from '76 and he goes way into effects during the show then talks about the fx pedals he's using in a Q&A afterwards. He uses delays for a rhythmic multiplying thing, an MXR harmonizer, all kinds of stuff. Still sounds futuristic 40+ years later.
Hi Brett!
Greg Leisz, Greg Leisz, and more Greg Leisz! Greg plays on several albums with Bill Frisell, Ryan Adams, Beck, John Mayer, Lucinda Williams, and Ray Lamontagne's "Gossip in The Grain."
I saw Greg Leisz play live with Jackson Browne a couple of years ago. Greg can play anything! Regular guitar, lap steel, pedal steel, Weissenborn, he can do it all!
This is the first time I am that captivated by Josh's playing. Great rhythm section!
great performans, great to see and hear you play!!!!
Great Video guys!!!
I have always loved the pedal steel - I really dug 'Dark side of the bitcoin' - Tim really nailed that Gilmour sound and style. That dude has some serious talent!
this is awesome... Cheers from Brazil !
When you show up to you’re country gig with a metal zone on the pedal steel
Favorite episode to date!
i remember hearing the opening to the eric clapton mtv unplugged version of running on faith and it was simple but i just fell in love with that sound and have always loved it since.
Love us some pedal steel. Great vid, nailed it.
Love this! As a pedal steel player (who also plays Williams guitars and Milkman amps:) Tim has been my go to guy for advice when buying my steel and pairing it with just the right amp and fix.
He mentioned Greg Leisz who is my steel idol. That guy has played with Clapton, Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne but then his steel play is all over newer records, my favorite was Bon Ivers self titled album. Steel all over it. Another steel hero of mine will always be Eric Heywood, he toured with Ray Lamontagne and I got the pleasure of listening to him and Greg live. 2 steels. Amazing!
Seeing Josh playing bass is so special
Shout out for the Anderson Erickson whole milk!!!! That’s my life. I live in Des Moines, IA and that is hands down the best dairy in the nation!
Zappa-One Shot Deal. Thanks for reminding me of that, I haven’t heard it for 30 years!
*Ya'll McCartney*! This is some fantastic programming (once again), guys! Love the milk container cameos in every frame.
I love the old Slim Whitman catalog for pedal steel X yodeling = WIN
Bought my first JHS pedal last week. Thanks to your videos. Morning Glory.
Awesome! Thanks, and hope you love it!
My best memory of hearing a pedal steel guitar out of country was in ATV Off-road Fury 3 with Robert Randolph and the Family Band in the track Squeeze.
OMG totally!!!!!
Great game
HEY JHS! 2:50 that vibe sound from the jhs pedal is soooooo thick and chewy very very nice!!!! i know this was not an add for that pedal BUT i am going to buy one!
Nice! Thanks!!
I see your milk jug of choice is Anderson-Erickson; I live in Iowa and the home town of Anderson Erickson Dairy ....so Bravo to you!!! As a pedal steel guitar player, I use reverb(BossRV-6), chorus(Boss), delay(Roland DE7), a resonator simulator pedal, and a Harmonist(Boss) but not very often. Attached to the guitar is a Goodrich Steel Driver which is an impedance matching box that also has a killer distortion in it. Thanks for doing something for us steel players!!!!!!!!
Thanks for making this video and promoting use of pedal steel that breaks the stereotypical mold. Pedal steel guitar is most recognizable when it is used in its traditional setting in Hawaiian or Country music, but it has so many other applications. After playing guitar for about 15 years I finally made the plunge into the world of pedal steel. I've been there for about 10 years now, and every time I sit down at the instrument I find new ways to use it in all kinds of music. Here is my rig: Sierra Timberwolf pedal steel guitar -> Lovepedal Tone Bender -> Origin Slide Rig -> Ernie Ball MVP -> TC Polytune Mini (outside of signal path) -> Hudson Electronics Broadcast -> Wampler Tumnus mini -> TC Viscous Vibe -> Keeley Memphis Sun -> TC Hall of Fame Reverb -> Supro Dual Tone (I have a footswitch for the amp's tremolo). I use an E-Bow on the steel sometimes, too. Pretty much every steel player uses a volume pedal and reverb or a delay, but I find that fuzzes, overdrives, boosts, compressors, tremolos, phasers/flangers/vibes, and synthesizers can all work well with the pedal steel. I wish there were more pedal steel players talking about how they use effects with the instrument, and I appreciate what JHS and Milkman are doing to promote pedal steel in all genres of music.
Also check out Carl Broemel (of My Morning Jacket) for an example of a guitarist who plays both six-string guitar and pedal steel. He uses a bunch of effects for both and he sounds great.
Peter Gilmour & Steve Howe had some fantastic lap/pedal steel guitar stuff during the early parts of Pink Floyd & Yes.
Also, "Y'all McCartney" was brilliant. Would definitely jam that on Spotify.
Peter's brother David wasn't too bad either.
Mario Driessen SAVAGE.
Wow. I just realized a massive typo. That should've been David Gilmour. I guess I get several points for 0 double checking >_>
what a cool episode :) love the humble little crumar synth in the background :)
All time favorite pedal steel song is "Squeeze" by Robert Randolph and the Family Band. Just an absolute jam. That man changed my opinion of the pedal steel forever
UNIVOX BASS SPOTTED - and the super fuzz woot!!
I love my Milkman pedal amp 🥛 Tim is the man. Great episode nice playing lads!
When i started learning to play steel I used a Big Muff, FOX fuzz wah, Maestro 3 button phase shifter, moved away from all that for a long time as i became a player. Sneaky, Buddy Cage, & Rusty Young were influential. Now years later it’s an overdrive dejour, auto wah , RESO sim, and a Lexicon for all time based EFX, delays, rotary, chorus, phase, flange etc.
There are some great and creative players out here today but to quote Herbie Wallace in 1985 , “ everyone wants to play like Buddy Emmons” and it’s still true.
Also, I noticed the various milk containers too. Very cool
It took me a lot longer than it should have to get why there was a carton of milk there.
lol
Nice jamming - something you don't see a lot of on this channel. Tim's a great pedal steel player, too.
That was a great jam. I played it for my kids 8-18. Damn I’m getting old as fuck!? It matters none, the kids liked it too. There’s hope for the future - rock on.
Hugely underrated episode.
Josh, I am a Sacred Steel Guitar player in Huntsville, AL...I must say I appreciate the exposure...Dwight
That "Ya'll McCartney" section I swear sounded like it could be something off the Flaming Lips album "The Soft Bulletin" (I think that's the album name). Either way - its very close to the sound. I think the similar sound is right there on the first track of that album. Really cool to see these demonstrations. The sounds of pedal steel, lap steel and then just slide period have to be my favorite guitar and guitar-esque sounds. I'm an off and on country fan, but I listen to all genres of music and I think pedal steel guitar (or the other variants) can make music of any genre more expressive or heart-tuggingly beautiful. Good stuff. :-)
Josh! Love the episode on pedal steel! I play the instrument myself. My favorite pedals: the sarno freeloader variable load/buffer. The pigtronix philosophers tone micro and the tighty Whitey for parallel compression (they are tied for top spot, ATM). For dirt I stack a sarno earth drive and a Durham mucho boosto both set very low. Delay is an MXR carbon copy bright. Reverb is a hardwire digital reverb (digitech).
I’d like to hear your thoughts on pigtronix pedals. I love the philosopher’s tone germanium on guitar, and their key master is pretty amazing. Also, I’ve loved every Durham pedal I’ve tried. Take care!
awesome sounds!
True, pedal steel has been on a bunch of top 40 and classic rock since the 70's, not just country. Interesting ideas with the pedals in this video. I could see a pedal steel, bass and drum trio playing in the prog/jam band scene.
Actually does anyone know of a band like that? I'd like to check them out.
I can’t get over how full it makes the band it’s like he is the Edge of slide. Very cool. I need some chocolate milk now
Coolest episode yet Josh!!!!
Russ Freeman did some cool pedal steel work with Rippingtons....
Great episode.
John Neff in his time with Drive By Truckers. Incredible slide player.
David Gilmour on One of These Days: some of my favorite steel guitar. Oh my yes. Also a bunch of the tracks on I, Flathead by Ry Cooder.
Man, steel guitar. Love it. My grandpa modded them back in the day. Gave me one before he passed but it was stolen a couple years ago! The mel9 is insane! Sounds so ballad-ish. And the unicorn on a steel! Sounded so good. Fresh sounds coming out of the pedal steel would make my grandpa smile.
Oh no! That's terrible, man :(
JHS Pedals I’ll get another one eventually and get back on the seat and have some fun with pedals now too. Awesome topic to tackle for your vlog!
Way to be! I love that you're so positive :)
I forgot to mention how much I've loved the crazy lap steel work of Queens of the Stone Age. Loved all the pieces you guys played.
This was amazing!!
Robert Randolph and the Family Band blew me away, too. As good as Tim Marcus' plays, the song titles may steal the show.
All the jams were killer!
Josh, as usual you offer the most intelligent, fun, inspiring content on music and effects! I loved the univibe and wah tones the best. I play psg and this opened my eyes and ears. Thank you.
love the steel guitar on Queens of the Stone Age records, tasty and adding so much texture. Troy Van Leeuwen and Dave Catching in the early days.
I've always loved the Pedal Steel and tried emulate it when playing slide.
But there's nothing like the real thing and Tim is the real thing.
My favorite effect for the pedal steel, all of them, for real. In the right hands they all work.
There is a Trailer Park Boys Chrismas episode that features the pedal steel,
And It so captivating, I'll find out who it is and edit my post.
Thanks Josh and Tim for such a cool segment
Trailer Park Boys pedal steel players name is John Johncampbelljohn
My favourite track with pedalsteel is probably 3‘s and 7‘s by Queens of the Stone Age.
That lead riff is so glorious!
Outro song was the best!
Anything with Speedy West, especially if Jimmy Bryant is on the record. :-)
One of the best videos yet! I really enjoy the diversity you explore with your channel. 👊🏼
As a keyboard player, I was trying to focus to see which ones are in the background. I also dabble in lap steel with an old copper colored Harmony with a weird looking stainless steel nut that is circular and notched for the strings
The sound on “Dark Side” reminds me of Buddy Cage’s sound on Meet Me in the Morning, which I always assumed was his steel through a Rat. Must have been a fuzz of some sort.
dark side of the moon do you mean
Breathe in the air
that Ibanez delay looks awesome...I love those old, massive pedals even though they're impractical as far as the space they take up.
Milkman amps are now the first thing I think of when lap steel comes up. Perfect
I used to think that pedal steel was just that slidy, twangy country thingy, but Christoph Hahn from Swans taught me that this thing can be the instrument of hell!
"Hot Milk" by far the best track! I'm sure after being posted up for a year you're probably not going to see this but one of my favorite "modern" albums with a pedal steel is "Plays One Sound and Others" by the band Knife in the Water.
I'm a lap steel player-pedals I use are a compressor for sustain mostly, a reverb/delay pedal and also a Volume pedal for pedal-steel-like swells (this can be a lot fun especially within a band setting-it gets you a poor man’s pedal-steel sound- it really works once you get the hang of it). I like Jerry Garcia's playing on his solo LP "Garcia" for it 's simplicity- specifically the track "the Wheel".
Can’t talk about steel guitar without talking about Speedy West! I highly recommend his stuff with Jimmy Bryant. Also Nels Cline has been know to play some out there lap steel.
I'm gonna need at least one of those as well. Thanks!
Holy mother of mellotron, that Mel9 sounded amazing on slide
so nuts! I've wanted to get into steel guitar for months now.
Do it!
4:10 same here and now I know why we seem to have a similar approach to the instrument
Daniel Lanois is a master at pedal steel, listen to his album Belladonna, just magnificient.
Thank You For This!!!
Great talents, all!
Hey Josh .. I have been into slide & pedal steel since Dark side of the Moon & Lowell George .. Robert Randolph .. of course .. jerry Donahue ? plays with Vince Gill & Alison Krauss union station .. Brad Paisley said about Alison if he ever gets to Heaven he expects the angels to sing like her .. so true .. But you know somepeople think everything happens for a reason .. I'm not so sure but I try to find the positive when I can .. so when I got a skin condition that meant I couldnt play gtr & I started getting arthritis .. I learned to play keyboards & started working on my slide .. a good pedal steel is beyond my budget for now .. but this is why I have been ragging on you about making a decent wah & volume pedal .. & why so far in the Jhs range it would be the Milkman b4 the Ryan Adams .. for me .. Although I see now that your new bigger colorsound thingy that is like a big mixing desk one channel .. D.i. & again would take me half a years pension to get two .. But I do love real controls & not menus etc .. Anyhow Y'all McCartney .. lol .. but I just loved that vintage guitar you played at the start.. Dark tobacco burst .. looked like an Epiphone ? .. thats my style .. B4 I go if you haven't heard of " Larkin Poe " .. give them a listen .. two sisters from the bluegrass circuit .. seriously good blues & slide Americana .. & not hard on the eyes to look at either .. lol .. The story goes they jumped up to sing along with Elvis Costello .. not knowing he was famous & the next thing they were on tour with his Band .. Bye Y'all .. from the Deep woods of ye olde Englande ..
Great steel guitar on CAKE tracks too. Greg Vincent is his name. "Mexico" comes to mind.
This blew my mind, especially the "Y'all McCarteny" with the EH Mel pedal. If you like steel guitar, check out Friends of Dean Martinez - lots of great steel guitar but not a country/western song anywhere.
what a great time to be alive
Man, I’ve been looking at pedal steels on Reverb and some forums. This might just push me over the edge to get one.
do it!!
milkmansound just did! I keep coming back to this video. Thanks for the inspiration. 🤘🏻
I love running steel through the warped vinyl.
Double dip as the old guys in AA use to say. Got home finished listening in my truck . Ironic Sneaky Pete + the same solo I mentioned was mentioned. Ok so you know what (Edit-we) to I want, I don't have a b bender tele but did briefly. Invent it the BG bender pedal for guitar . Like a wah wah but way smaller with a small sweep for B + G bends or any string I guess could bend .I know you can do it + I want the - 1st one.
M.Ward "Paul's song" has a really great pedal steel solo in it.
Yeah thats Paul Brainard from Portland, OR - very inspiring steel guitar playing
@@milkmansound does he still do session work?
Second David Gilmour. The pedal steel on 'Great Gig in the Sky' makes the song. And another vote for Daniel Lanois. (great producer also)
Milk was a GOOD choice.
Going to the local music store with the data corrupter in the morning...
I'll bring some leads in case they refuse me theirs once they discover my intentions.
Only afterwords will I tell them about this very eye opening video.
Love this! I play lap stell, hope to graduate to pedal someday. I love the pulp n peel on steel!
oh man we should have tried that! I like using a compressor *before* the volume pedal on days where my right hand refuses to cooperate :)
milkmansound yes!
I like Jerry Garcia pedal steel playing on Crosby, Stills and Nash’s song “Teach your Children”. Thanks
Thats the classic! I am sure many people first heard about pedal steel from hearing that song
Earthquaker's Spatial Delivery (specifically sample & hold mode) sounds incredible on pedal steel. Anything Earthquaker works, really!
I play my Sho-Bud pedal steel through a Keeley/JHS Steak N Eggs all the time. Pretty much every guitar needs to be played through that pedal though...
My two big tricks on pedal steel are chorus and reverb (or slapback delay). Again, I think all guitars can benefit from a bit of those two a lot of the time, but a pedal steel is so sonically complex that giving it some extra breathing room is really nice. But here’s the trick - go digital! A TC Electronic Gravy is a killer digital chorus, I love the Tri-Chorus sound. I don’t really like a modulated delay or reverb with pedal steel, so I go with my trusty Dan-Echo (the greatest delay pedal ever, I don’t care what anyone says) and Keeley Aura Reverb. I have never really noticed digital artifacts, but I love the clean headroom of digital effects for pedal steel. If you want saturation in your pedal steel signal, that’s awesome, but I don’t really like my non-drive effects clipping my pedal steel signal, there’s just too much dynamics and harmonics that get lost and smushy.
One last thing - fuzz. Just throw any fuzz in your line and see what works. If I wanna get weird, I’ll use a Keeley Sfocato, and the Keeley Psi is really gnarly on pedal steel, especially with the tone down and gain up, it gets all muffled and weird. I really like my Lovepedal (or it could be Hermida Audio?) Dover Drive with the gain up for pedal steel.
Great stuff!
Charlie Hunter’s “bing bing bing” has some fantastic pedal steel playing.
Really?!?! Who is playing pedal steel on the record?
@@photog_matt_elder According to Google, his name is Dave Phillips.
Crazy, if I heard the more distorted/overdriven Riffs without the visuals I would’ve thought it was a synth