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Roddis Franklin 'Pete' Drake was a record producer, record company founder, and musician whose steel-guitar playing was heard on hundreds of hit recordings. One of the most sought-after backup musicians of the 1960s, he played on such gigantic chart toppers as Lynn Anderson's 'Rose Garden,' Charlie Rich's 'Behind Closed Doors,' Bob Dylan's 'Lay Lady Lay,' and Tammy Wynette's 'Stand by Your Man.'
Drake played on thirty-eight of forty-eight BMI (Broadcast Music, Incorporated) award-winning recordings in 1966 alone. He also played his steel guitar on five of Elvis Presley's movie soundtracks.Drake had a productive association with folk singers Bob Dylan and Joan Baez.
He played on Dylan's three historic Nashville-recorded albums, including Nashville Skyline, and on Baez's David's Album.After Drake met George Harrison of the Beatles at Bob Dylan's New York home, Harrison invited him to England to work on All Things Must Pass. In turn, Harrison persuaded fellow Beatle Ringo Starr to come to Nashville to produce his Beaucoups of Blues album with Drake in 1970. Why is one thing a gadget and the other thing is okay?
I play with a 'purist' who is not really so pure. He hates it when I use a phaser or my variax or other 'gadget' and yet his pedal steel through a solid state amp is all just one bowdlerized gadget.I think it strange that we define some stuff (like the Alvino Ray doing the boo wah thing) is 'within bounds' but using a talkbox is the stupidest thing ever. How is Rey's steel not a gadget itself? Much less his use of the tone knob?The guy I play with even plays a guitar synth sometimes (mando/hex pickup/roland guitar synth) but just bristles about modeling amps or variaxes etc. Such a total double standard!
Too funny.I think it is cool that guys innovate and try stuff. God knows audiences love novelty and lots of those novelties turned into cool stuff. Click to expand.Alvino Rey was the KING of gadgets!!!He was the first person to EVER play an electric guitar on live radio.
Back in 1929 he put the needle from a Victrola turntable into the wood on top of his guitar to amplify it. In the '30s he added pedals to his steel to be able to change tunings. '35 he worked with Gibson to design their first production electric pickup. In '39 he used a microphone plugged into a Sonovox (the first talkbox) to make his steel talk. He used delays, reverbs, phasers, and all kinds of effects people had never tried on an instrument before.He used so many gadgets you wouldn't believe, and most 10 to 20 years before anyone else thought to use them!!!!In the '50s the King Family used to do radio jingles, and most featured Alvino Rey's talking guitar(using his Sonovox gadget).Here is an MP3 of one.
Okay, so why I'm not embarassed by the talkbox. It is the experiments that fail that define your success. It is the willingness to give it a try and to think it up in the first place that makes it cool.The first time I heard Mac Gayden on some funky weirdo japanese les paul copy, a wah wah and a slide, it blew my mind! (Crazy Mama on JJ Cale's record with the raccoon on the cover) With some luck we learn over time and we refine what we like. But, man, once we just dismiss innovation and trying stuff as embarrassing, why would anybody try anything?When language stops growing and adding words it becomes a 'dead language' by definition.
When music becomes codified and defined by instrumentation, scale etc. I love hillbilly engineering and shade tree mechanics and as the son of an inventor. I love failure. I love when it doesn't work like you thought and I love when a whole series of doors open because one slammed shut.But, as a creative person, it crushes you when someone dismisses something out of hand and won't even entertain it. It doesn't stop me, but it makes me move away from those kinds of people and it makes me marginalize them.I want to grow, not shrink.
I'd bet a month's pay that Alvino Rey would have kinda dug what Pete was attempting. It is just a song, right? Okay, so why I'm not embarassed by the talkbox.
It is the experiments that fail that define your success. It is the willingness to give it a try and to think it up in the first place that makes it cool.The first time I heard Mac Gayden on some funky weirdo japanese les paul copy, a wah wah and a slide, it blew my mind! (Crazy Mama on JJ Cale's record with the raccoon on the cover) With some luck we learn over time and we refine what we like. But, man, once we just dismiss innovation and trying stuff as embarrassing, why would anybody try anything?When language stops growing and adding words it becomes a 'dead language' by definition. When music becomes codified and defined by instrumentation, scale etc. I love hillbilly engineering and shade tree mechanics and as the son of an inventor.
I love failure. I love when it doesn't work like you thought and I love when a whole series of doors open because one slammed shut.But, as a creative person, it crushes you when someone dismisses something out of hand and won't even entertain it. It doesn't stop me, but it makes me move away from those kinds of people and it makes me marginalize them.I want to grow, not shrink. I'd bet a month's pay that Alvino Rey would have kinda dug what Pete was attempting. It is just a song, right?