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- From: floyd@starsend.chbrk.pa.us (Floyd Miller)
- Newsgroups: alt.guitar
- Subject: Re: Frampton Talkbox Schematic (Other Performers)
- Message-ID: <0074@starsend.chbrk.pa.us>
- References: <1992Nov6.184819.18176@meaddata.com> <1992Nov5.042925.22653@hubcap.clemson.edu> <weyJsna00WBNE3kmkF@andrew.cmu.edu> <1dglj8INNt6n@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Date: 15 Nov 92 06:18:22 GMT
- Reply-To: floyd@starsend.chbrk.pa.us (Floyd Miller)
- Organization: Just Me
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- In a previous article bk233@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jack W. Weinmann) wrote:
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- >
- >There used to be a steel (slide) guitarist in the '50's that used one to
- >make his steel guitar talk. I can't remember his name, but I remember that
- >one of the songs that he did was something like:
- >
- >"I'm just a guit-ar.... why does ever-y-body pick on me!"
- >
- >He really made it sound good, and with a steel guitar he got more constant
- >tone and less percussive effects. It was the clearest, most understandable
- >talkbox usage that I have ever heard.
- >
- >If anyone remembers who he was I'd appreciate hearing from you. I'd like
- >to find some of his recordings. AHHHHH nostalgia - ain't it great?
- >
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- It was Alvino Ray. He used to appear regularly on the "King Family Show"
- sometime in the mid-sixties.
-
- He played pedal steel guitar and made it sound as it it was talking
- but he didn't use any effects or "talkbox". It was all technique.
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