Jerry Byrd + Marty Robbins on rhythm Guitar

[derekafarmer]

Hi basil. On a totally different thread............. Hula records used to provide free downloads of the wonderful Hawaii calls radio shows of the ,50's.

Do u know if there is any way to get these since hula records have stopped this service?

derekafarmer@aol.com

[basilhenriques]

Yes, I have a lot of them as mp3's.. I'll send you a link to where I've put them .

[popokali91]

@basilhenriques mahalo for these videos! could you email me that link as well, please? i love these shows.

pookela808@gmail.com

[ProfDavo3000]

@ 0:36 "Well you won't find a Mexican without a guitar", nice...

[Emmett2000]

anyone know the tuning he's using for this???

[basilhenriques]

On one of the other Jerry Byrd/Marty Robbins videos I described the tuning in full. Briefly it's C6th BUT a 7 string version that uses a C# as well. From the 1st string, E-C-A-G-E-C then, A or C# depending on the song/tune. Commonly called the C6/A7 tuning.

[basilhenriques]

The other video where I explained the tuning's versatility is "Jerry Byrd and Marty Robbins Beyond the Reef"

[tonebarista]

JB!!!!!!

[Lancebakemeyer]

Most historical accounts confirm Jerry Byrds account. It is also mentioned in Lap Steel Guitar by Andy Volk. I don't believe it is nonsense.

Jerry Byrd is considered to be one of the all time greats of non pedal steel guitar

[DesiMan]

Nice clip. Good music. But that story about the origin of slide playing is nonsense.

[Piggylou]

basilhemriques, you've sure got a lot of posters who need to be right rather than listen to the music. Great clip, do you know the year?

[basilhenriques]

Piggylou, INDEED (As Teal'c would say) the steel guitar comment below is interesting, but not correct, the original resonator guitars WERE called steel guitars or Hawaiian guitars by the makers and players!

The year of the video is .... going to be in my next reply after I finish a 500 mile round trip to Cornwall to collect a printer. !! It's not too bad, I rum on cooking oil at half the price of commercial diesel oil.

[Piggylou]

basilhenriques, that's quite a trip for a printer, I hope it;s a good one! I'd recommend using the remove button on a bunch of the replies, I only leave the nice folks on mine. And good one the biodiesel as Willie would say!

[basilhenriques]

1965 was the year the show was shot, there was another Hawaiian one shot in 1966 and I will post the tracks from It next week.

That recommendation was a good one.

[xms32]

I thought it was called a resonator guitar all these years because of the cones that resonate in the guitar and that a steel guitar was a complete different instrument.

[vac]

the guitar itself is a resonator. the style, i suppose, is steel guitar.

[xms32]

I'm being coy. The style does not designate what type of instrument it is. It is called a resonator guitar. A steel guitar is a completely different instrument. I'm just amazed that as talented as Byrd was, he didn't even know the correct name of the instrument he played.

[revcdp11]

The names were interchangeable 45 years ago. There was a time when the resonator guitar was more commonly called the dobro...but I think that was more of a name given by a manufacturer.

Rickenbacker and other companies used to make a lap steel. You can look them up using Google.

[xms32]

thanks for the info

[TEB1952]

rev: you are right. Two Armenian - american brother in California started making resophonic guitars to help guitarists keep up with loud horns in the band the Dobro. National Steel is another. Electric guitars came along, they replaced resophonic guitars. Hawaiian steel lap guitars are different in many ways.  Bob Brozman is a master at steel lap. Anyone interested in a better hist and the music, check him out. He has several instructional videos as well as concerts with Ledward Kaapana.

[Barnekkid]

Guys! What about the music?

[pedalman]

To me what Marty said was you will not find a mexican without a guitar is a compliment, they love music. Marty's "sound on many of his records was very "Mexican" I think he loved that very identifiable sound from that part of the world. Anyway his part as one of the legendary people of country music is set in stone and as he has passed away several years ago, noone should label him racist just for saying mexican people have guitars.