The British Steelies Society

He uses all those effects with taste, he's on a lot of great recordings. Although, I never knew you could use the steel as a vocoder, why I might be able to sing almost in tune one day!
As an aside......No Fingerpicks!!! Veeerrry interesting.

O yes, great stuff, really outside the box. Some player!

If you enjoyed that brief clip of Russ above. here is over an hour of him playing and talking about his career and various stuff. Plenty of close-ups of that mystical Show Pro pedal steel that he helped to design.

Thanks for posting this Ken, its very interesting. I’ll second his choice of the Strymon Iridium and its Fender setting though like Russ, if I want to go up to 11 the the Marshall has its place. I like his set of controls in front of the steel and this is something I’ve been considering too. At the moment I use a joystick which allows control of critical functions and has the advantage that you can use a looper and operate it in sync with a wrist flick while still playing. I prefer the volume pedal further up the chain though I understand why he’s putting it after all his eq and stuff. I tried that but found the Hilton couldn’t cope with the amount of boost from my Empress eq and I lost too much tone. Picture attached in case anyone is interested.
Somehow though, I think my tunes would be a little too far ‘out of the box’ for general consumption!
Cheers
Calum

I finally got a clear window to watch this, and in the words of The Incredible String Band, 'Lord, how happy I am'.

Ken, that was one fascinating find he covers so much. Great interview, top post.
Calum, set those 'out of the box' tunes free, for the good of the land.

Danny Mitchell wrote:I finally got a clear window to watch this, and in the words of The Incredible String Band, 'Lord, how happy I am'.........

You are easily pleased Danny

I met Russ Pahl at Jeff Surratt's place in Nashville once when he was playing guitar behind Lloyd on Venus Moon. He came across as a slightly shy individual - totally unlike the personality on the YouTube clip.

Ken, what a pleasure that must've been. Venus Moon is one of my favourite Lloyd tunes, beautiful.
I found that first half of the interview illuminating, where
Mr Pahl explained his approach to being a sideman, keeping in the background, and only serving the song. Even the fact that the thing he enjoys most is playing rhythm guitar!
Mind you, when your first lesson is from Ralph Mooney, I suppose you're hitting the ground running.

Thanks Ken!! Superb video...such an inspirational guy! And his words in the last 2 minutes should be listened to carefully by all musicians!!

Gary