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  • Excellent!

  • That was AWESOME!!!!!...gave me chills too!!!...Thanks for posting!!!

  • Great version. Sounds better than fantastic!

  • you just gave me chills man

  • i feel happy listening to this

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  • Very smooth. Good playing and great tone!

    

  • I love your style

  • I have heard this about 30 times or so and I think it is Just Beautiful. Please put some of this out on a CD so that we can all buy a copy. I think this is fantastic, sensitive and expressive playing.

  • I have heard this about 30 times or so and I think it is Just Beautiful. Please put some of this out on a CD so that we can all buy a copy. ~Fantastic, sensitive and expressive playing.

  • Thanks for the nice comments. I appreciate it! I recorded this on a solid mahogany Gold Tone which is a great guitar in the $1000 and under category. My main Weissenborns are a mid-1920's style 1 and a style 1 made by New Zealand based luthier Tony Francis.

  • @robadobro cool instrument...i love this blues tones :) is that an acoustic/electric?

  • Man, that is incredible! Really nice, can't get enough of it. I knew Ry's version - but this is wonderful too. I've listen to it now at least 30 times. Thanks a lot. - What sort of Weissenborn do you play?

  • Hello-This is a great played tune -sounds great.Barry.

  • love the sound of the ol box. you and MR. MARTIN GROSS are the stuff. I play regular 6 and 12 strings kids got me a reso and dang it is different. keep on keeping on .well done, thank you for the video.

  • The lap slide's song is so cool!

    I love this song !!

    Thumb up! :D

  • I agree dislikers... I have been a Ry Cooder fan for 30 years and this man does his song justice. I like how he adds a little more bluesy riff to it. Ry does the song on his Strat and to do this on a lap is wonderful. Unfortunatly, I play elec. slide and can't make it sound as good as a Weissenborn.

  • i'd like to ask the 2 dislikers, WHY?

    Amazing dude!

    Made me pick up and play :)

  • Excellent job!

  • smoking!!!!

  • They don't come with pickups. You have to either order one with a pickup installed or have it installed after you purchase the guitar

  • do these weissenborn acoustic guitars have pickups in them?

  • absolutely! The basic musicianship skills transfer over immediately, the trick is to get started and stay with it!

  • do you think that since i have a six years of playing standard guitar under your belt do you think that i'd be able to pick up playing lap steel?

  • @goldtop52 This is just a fellow lover of slide. I played guitar for over 20 years and thought I could just pick up a lap slide and go. UMMMMM, nope. Good luck though. I learned Ry Cooder's version in about an hour. On my lap, it took me 8hrs...lol.

  • Coooooool! Keep on slidin!

    Regards,

    BEDIAZ-MUSIC

  • AMAZING!!! you have some nice chops. I'm considering getting a dobro. Do you prefer the type that you have or a regal. I don't know much about either of them but there is a Regal at a pawnshop near by. Any advice you could give me would be great. Oh and I would play blues/bluegrass on it. Thank you and awesome playing

  • That was GREAT.

    Peace.

  • That kicked butt brother. Love that tune. Keep postin' , looking forward for more

    Peace and Music !

  • Absolutely exquisite performance of a truly fine blues slide composition.

  • Generally speaking, Weissenborn guitars are much quieter than dobro's. Of course, volume and ability to "cut" through the mix can have as much to do with the players right hand strength as it does the instrument. It takes a lot of work - IMO - to build the right hand strength and dexterity need to pull tone out a dobro. Weissenborn guitars naturally have better tone than dobro's so you have to adjust your approach for each instrument.

  • how does this compare volume wise to a dobro? Most of the dobro players I seem at the music jams I attend have rather low volume and the rest of us have to back off a bit when the dobro is being played.

  • Wow - that's som damn fine playing!

  • what an awesome post this is !

    truly a work of art by a great player !

    Cheers ! 5*

  • i dont usually leave positive comments for “youtube-musicians” and at first i thought this was going to be another “fail” video. but i will say, from one musician to another, YOU ARE GREAT! keep up the hard work.

  • Very nice Rob. MB

  • hell yeah

  • Reminds me of the ole 'Crossroads' video, sweet..

  • absolutley amazing! that's the blues

  • Great intonation! and tone!

  • Bro that was just straight bad ass. Thank you posting.

  • Beautiful, i love it!!! The sound is perfect.

  • excellent

  • Awesome!!

    My kindest regards,

    Bediaz

  • amazing, awesome

  • oh crycy keep on slidin' this strings

  • every note...pure beauty. truly. don't you ever try and do another take. lolol

  • Super WOW das will ich auch können.

  • Lovely piece beautifully played.

  • Fantastic.

  • Thanks for the friend request... Sounds great! 

  • sweeeeeeeet

  • Nice work. Great feel and talent.

  • Wonderful.

    Thank you for posting!

  • Very nice!!!!

  • Very good! I could listen to this all day. you have some skilz my friend wow!

  • this man has been to the crossroads. Nicely done!

  • robadobro, sir....it's as close to hearing it for the first time as i'll ever hear. very good job sir...Bravo!!!

  • Very cool!

  • Sweet...that's all i can say sweet!

  • wicked good job sir i well enjoyed that

  • good job!!!

  • Nicely done. The guitar sounds unusually resonant - are you using any effects like a vibrato in the recording?

    Have you worked out tablature for your version of this piece?

  • No effects used in this recording. I made this at home using standard home studio gear for the recording and a cheap camcorder for the video.

    A friend of mine tabbed this out for me a few years ago. Its posted on my website.

  • @WhatChanged

    The resonant sound is typical of the weissenborn lap guitar style.

  • Yes! Its available from my website

  • Yes, its available from my website

  • sounds alright

  • haha nice version of the song

  • Fantastic !!! I could listen to you all day..Great!

  • It was a real pleasure listening to that.

  • very very good !

  • Rob-

    very sweet. Where can I get tabs of your stuff?

  • stavebarrettfilm, when the neck of a bottle is used,you would hold the guitar in the normal way with the neck perhaps but not necessarily on the little finger, this is called bottle neck. to use a metal bar or slide (made as well in other materials such as glass) held in one hand while picking or strumming with the other hand while the guitar rests on your lap,this is called lap slide

  • thank you very much. you alone have inspred me to pick up the steel. keep it up

  • Brilliant...

  • beautiful. wow. very very impressive sir. now when you say open e its just like duane allman open e right... no crazy C6 type tricks or anything?

  • It's actually D tuning (DADF#AD) which is same intervals as E tuning, just whole step lower.

  • @robadobro you call that Open D tuning, right? Not D tuning?

    Peace.

    Nice playing btw :)

  • Hey Robadobro,

    do you find it easier playing with a tone bar / hawaiian slidee as opposed to a bottleneck?

    If so are there many differences in technique with the 2 if playing lap guitar?

    Cheers

  • I tried to play bottleneck style early on but lap style just felt better for me. Technique wise there are some similarities between bottleneck and lap slide - for example just learning to play in tune is one of the major challenges. But they're really pretty different...lap style makes it possible to play hammer-on's and pull-offs which are not possible with a bottleneck, while bottleneck has a different tone. Its not a question of good or bad, just different

  • Really cool

  • Well I was in a bad mood... but guitars seem to pick me up

  • that was awesome!! thanks for posting that...very very very cool!! :))

  • Nice big fat sound. Didn't realize that the Weissenborn had that much more sound than a Dobro. Keep it up, and thanks for this one.

  • Lovely sound and perfect intonation - just bought a nut lifter (sounds painful!) to emulate this lap-style (or try!).

    Any tips?

  • I was looking for Ry Cooder's original version of this song, but I have to admit you do a damn fine job playing it.

  • can you tell me if there's any problem to tune this guitar to open E? thank you very much..

  • It's probably ok. It really depends on the design of the guitar and what gauge strings you are using...

  • @Joaomota87:

    I tune my Weiss to open E. Just listen to the strings as you tune. You can generally tell if they are gunna flip off and take your eye out.

  • Anyone have any tabs for anything like this? I have been playing lap steel for a while but using my regular guitar...however my new Weissenborn is arriving this week and I want to greet it with such awesomeness like the guy rocking above. lol.

    Excellent video. I play this video when people ask me why I have bought yet another guitar. hahaha.

  • Well I guess the cats out of the bag and we know who robadobro is. LOL

    One of my favorites is "Cant find my way home" that you did some time ago. I play is somewhat same but on bottleneck. Happy New Year.

  • you've got the feelin' .. gold tone weissenborn LM am i right?

    greetings from Portugal. I play a Fender FR50 and recently ordered a Gold tone weissenborn SM.. can't wait for the try out.

  • It's solid mahogany

  • its DADF#AD

  • Hello Rob,

    Beautiful version of what has to be my all time favourite slide guitar tune. Love your version of Amazing Grace too. Keep up the good work.

    All the best,

    Joe (aka Mairena Red)

  • What's the tuning?

  • Absolutly fantastic, so nicely played and that real deep blues feeling in the air, love it! what tuning do you use on this one?

  • Great sound, great playing ... BRAVO!!!

  • hey good sound ! do you want to make little solo at the end of on my song "Now you know" ? :D

  • Excellent tune and playing! Ken

  • That was sooo sweet!!!

    Jack

  • I'd lke to add something but the comments say it all! Your voice speaks through your guitar.

  • Very nice playing! :)

  • Exquisite and sweet as can be!

  • Wow! Amazing audio! Great sound! Killer licks! 5 *

  • nice

  • awesome dude....clear perfect

  • what tone are you using? thanks

    great song and inrerpretation!

  • Gorgeous sound and very well played!

  • Sounds nice!

  • REAL NICE!

  • Sounds beautiful. Nice one, man 8)

  • hi!

    Have you got a tone bar Shubb?

  • I use a stainless steel Scheerhorn bar...

  • listen to what the blues just have said: AMAZING PLAY

  • Wow! Very cool, loved it!

  • Absolutley BLUE!

  • sounds freekin lush!

  • Yay!! Love slide, that's wonderful!

  • well done, man!

  • excellent

  • rich, full, organic and raw. perfect!

  • whats the tuning your using mate?

  • The sound is so warm!! nice job!!!

  • Makes me wanna just sit on the porch swing with a bottle of Jim and zone out... excellent....

  • nice .....!!!!

  • Hello

    I would to buy a Weissenborn Gold tone SM.

    It's a serie SM ? ( Solid MAhogany top ) , because you have a great sound!

    ++

  • yes, it's the solid mahogany model

  • a feelin bad blues it aint no more .D

  • I've only listened to this 30 or so times.

    Great playing! Love those bluesy triplets..

  • Great playing!

  • oh damn i want a weissenborn so bad, the sound is really amazing

  • aw yeah mama

  • check out other videos (there are some amazing ones and soo many from the plyayerrs who got here....atleast I think so.......so please no offence....keep on pickin') but in my opinion this one says quite alot.

    Thanks Rob....I've been following your site for a long time but(and) I still keep coming back to this one.

    Keep on Pickin' it till the End.....

  • I do not know what to say. I think I will just watch it again and again.

  • WOw man,this is magic,you are very big,my congratulations,i love this kind of instruments and his tunning,and his way of playing. And then ,people like you giving us this moments. Thank you.

  • that resonance is gorgeous.  i want one! i just ordered a goldtone banjo yesterday and can't wait

  • coffeescup: didye get by now? put a vid on utub, when u are ready - how about playin "man of constant sorrow"?

  • WOW Great playing. Mr Cooder himself would probably be impressed.

  • you are my hero

  • awesome mate

  • smooth man real smooth

  • Great stuff!!!

  • SICK!

  • Has to be said, best Weissenborn playing on Youtube. Hats off, Sir!

  • Amazing - really smooth playing!

  • I'm really blown away. I've just seen your version of Amazing Grace. Are you recorded? I want to buy a CD if you have one. Fantastic.

  • I'm gonna have to go with this guy here. You've got some serious skills, man. I'd like to buy an album of them.

  • Ive listened to all types of blues at hundreds of biker rallies around britain and for the most part, I bloody hate it.

    This however is a masterpiece. Beautifully played with a lovely fluid hand and great accents. I'm that impressed I'd actually pay to get in a venue to see this guy. Very very well done mate.

  • Mighty fine sir. Love your smooth style. Thanks. Goldtone makes some nice stuff.

  • u got me sir..now i'm listnin' a real true music..

  • Beautiful.

  • very very great!

  • strange instrument...

  • nixt on needing the tuning. read past threads, so I've got it. SWEET version!

  • the more I come back to listen to this, the more I realize just how good this is! this is DAMN FINE blues!!!! I've been looking at material - just got a Weissenborn at NAMM. THe one I got they had set up with a steel bridge like the originals and they liked how it sounded, so left it like that for me. Could I ask you what tuning you're using for this? This is DAMN fine music!

  • yeah!!!

  • Nicely played :D

    Love it

  • beautiful ;)

  • If that is an off-the-shelf Goldtone, I guess I'll buy one. Doesn't sound like a Bear creek, but the price isn't the same either. Nice playing. Just realized who you are. Enjoy your lessons on RN.

  • ☆☆☆☆☆*•¸¸.•*¨'* ƸӜƷ Kudos, i really enjoyed your playing "bravo" Ms BT

  • you rock men

  • nice. not a single flaw, sounds perfect

  • Really nice version of the song. Thanks!

  • Nice.

    Why not have a shot at Little Rosalina Sings With The Angels (on youtube)?

    You could make the whole world cry!

  • Fantastic, bought a Goldtone SM after I heard this. Incidentally, I suspect the action on my instrument is a bit low: could you please tell me how did you set yours? Again: bravo!

  • this is an off-the-shelf Gold Tone, no modifications. Replacing the nut should be a fairly straightforward modification. Just make sure you have the work by someone that knows what they are doing! Use a bone nut which is about 1/2" high from underneath the strings. This will also allow you to use a capo, which comes in pretty handy for certain tunes.

  • Hi, thank you so much for your answer! Definitely I need more action: got a Beard capo and can't use it from the fifth fret (where it starts to touch the fingerboard). Tomorrow I'll visit my luthier: hope he knows what is doing, at least more than I do!

    Thanks again

    Franco

  • Excellent, thanks *****

  • You played it beautifully

  • great great sound,Bravo!i have a problem in sliding my martin d 35..can i help me please?i use a glass medium bottkleneck,but in the open tune i have problem with buzz string.I use the factory standard martin nut/capo.Salut!

  • I'm guessing that you need to have your guitar set up with higher action to play slide...lap style like I'm playing and bottleneck are pretty different... in general, higher action=more string tension and better overall playability for slide purposes, but of course, beyond a certain point this is not a good thing if you want to play your instrument like a normal guitar.

    Once again, lap style and bottleneck and pretty different...

    Hope this helps!

    Regards,

    RobA

  • your interpritation of that tune was cool as ice.

  • Greater than Ry's original!

  • That was beautiful. Thanks for posting.

  • Great playing. Killer tone in that instrument too.

  • greatness!

  • That's absolutely beautiful playing!

  • Oooh good man!!! Very good...It's nice...you rule!! =)

  • Sweeeeeeeeeeet!

  • LOve the sound way better than a Dobro, I guess it's in Key "D" D.A.D.F#.A.D

    I am always tring to find the perfect tuning to alow me to play the largest range of tunes on one lap steel, any ideas? Thanks for the posting.

  • Open E or G is probably the best if you want to play with others. I like open E because it leaves a lot of the positioning the same as standard tuning. EX: F=1st fret F#=2nd Fret G=3rd Fret etc. I found it easier to solo and play along with records with these tunings. Hope this helps.