Kelsey's Song - My Version

[Jif]

Geoff
I think you’ve just constructed a steel guitar orchestra with pedals and where did all those notes come from?
A great version of this song and although it’s a new song to me this is a very pleasant version to hear, so smooth and well played, you’ll need to write out the tablature for it ,so that we can figure out what notes you might have missed and also give Donnie a chance to learn how to play it now that he’s found his brain!
Well done and I hope your health improves soon.
Cheers
Robert

Thanks Robert. The tab & backing track is available to purchase from Bucks website, though it takes a lot of deciphering, he includes a page with his pedal & lever setup, which needed translating to fit in with my setup. I was actually surprised that I was able, eventually, to get all the way through it. It's probably one of the few Buck Reid tunes that I had any chance of attempting

Anyway, hoping you are keeping well & hope to see you at some point in the future, though the way things have been going, it's any bodies guess when that will be

[Malcolm]

Excellent Geoff, really nice tone, hope your health continues to improve.

[Jif]

Thanks Malcolm

Two steps forward & one back atm on health unfortunately, haven't played anything for about 6 weeks now. Just taking it easy and hoping to ride it out. Still, reading about Davies recent troubles puts things in perspective.

[Ken Byng]

Hi Geoff
Did you buy a hard copy of Buck's tab or does he supply soft copies from his web site. He's such a magnificent player as well as being a really nice guy. He gave me all of his tabs foc in paper form, but I have mislaid them.

[Jif]

Hi Ken, hope you are well. He supplies them in PDF format by email if you ask him. Yeah, really nice guy, I bought the tab & backing track for Cry from him a while back & he sent me all the backing tracks. I can only attempt the E9 tracks though, tbh even if I played C6th I don't think I'd get anywhere near playing his C6th toons they're so amazing

[Gary James Peters]

Nice one Geoff, really poignant, just as the steel should be. Lovely playing throughout, and just for a change the backing track isn't Gawd-awful, like so many are. Having had Covid, then really bad Long Covid for getting on for a year I certainly sympathise with your health problems. But, as you say, you just have to try and ride it out. Ironically, just as I started feeling better I am now having to suffer a 2-month separation from my steel thanks to good ole Brexit and my fear of having to pay customs duty when taking it down to my house in the Pyrenees...still, I know shouldn't grumble about being stuck in the south of France!! I will certainly continue to grumble about Brexit until the day I die...but I digress!

Great playing Geoff...hope you can get back to it soon.

...and the MSA sound sweet.

G

[Jif]

Thanks Gary

Yeah, I've been adding a few nice pieces of hardware over the last year which have enhanced the tone of my MSA. I bought a Fender DeVille 212 MK 4 which sounds really nice after tweaking the valves, the factory setup was really hot, OK for guitar but too much for the steel, so I downed the gain on a few of the preamp valves. I had been using an Ashly 7 band analogue parametric for tone tweaking, replaced that with a BSS Varicurve FCS - 926 digitally controlled analogue parametric. It has 6 band stereo or 12 band mono, bit over the top but it allows preset storage which is handy for comparisons. It also has a frequency analyser, so I used that to set the Fender tone controls flat then tweaked the frequencies on the parametrics, to get the tone I was after.

Yesterday I got a Strymon Dig, dual digital delay with benefits! I blame Calum for that purchase, he's been on at me for ages about Strymon pedals & I have to admit they're the biz, expensive but amazing quality of sound. So something to look forward to getting into when I feel up to playing again.

Sorry to hear about your health, I'm pretty sure I had covid right at the beginning before tests were available & I'm not sure if some of the conditions I'm currently having are related to long covid in some way. I think a lot of peoples health has been affected in some way by this pandemic, even if they haven't had covid. I had an abscessed big toe for nearly a year that went untreated as they were too busy, kept throwing anti-biotics at me until I finally got the toenail removed in March. By that time my right leg had shrank to about half the size of my left leg through non-use & overcompensating with the left.

Anyway, that's enough of my problems, hope you get over your health problems soon.

The Pyrenees sounds nice, been down that way a few times, driven up from Spain into France through the mountains, outstanding countryside & views.

PS I feel the same way re brexit