I'm Just a Guitar (Everybody Picks on Me) by Peter Drake

[3rdSquirrelRecords]

On our record store page, I just uploaded a video of this with a little better quality of sound. Awesome sound system,but cheap camera,hahahahah CHEERS!!!

[grammrene]

I loved this whole album ( Forever). I used to listen to it for hours on end. I believe Peter Drake's talents were VERY unsung.

[rustyrhoads]

I am here to set the Record straight once for all about the talk BOX Pete did not invent it SHOT JACKSON did Pete Drake snuck in to a closed session Buddy Emmons was doing for Shot Jackson Trying out the talk box that Shot built out of a horn driver Pete stole the idea and in week's to follow recorded Forever with it !

Shot Jackson never got the credit he so deserved From nashville

[beaconmike]

@rustyrhoads Lucille Ball made one of her earliest film appearances during the 1930s in a Pathé Newsreel demonstrating the Sonovox. In 1939, Alvino Rey used a carbon throat microphone wired in such a way as to modulate his electric steel guitar sound. The mic, originally developed for military pilot communications, was placed on the throat of Rey's wife Luise King (one of The King Sisters), who stood behind a curtain and mouthed the words, along with the guitar lines.

[powerharp60]

People thought Frampton, Joe Walsh and Stevie Wonder were talk box pioneers; here's the real one.

[4torigirl]

I stole this record from my dad around 1969 and never returned it. I still have it. As a musician, this record had a HUGE effect on me.

[MichealDarwin]

this guy had soul...you hear that old country wetern sound with a mix of the blues Wow

[ilovecats748]

this must have been like Autotune of back in day

[rodrigofstoll]

Im jealous that you own that, great job man. I have Drake's best of on cd - and I yet have come across an LP. this song just hits it....daaaammmnnn

[rayhuttoguitar]

Did anyone know Pete Drake is from right here in Augusta, Ga.?

My Dad John Hutto knew his Brother ,William Drake, very well. As a kid I remember Dad making trade deals with William. I guess Pete had already moved to Nashville by that time.

He was a real genius inventor and great Steel player.

Thanks for this video, Ray Hutto

[pedalman]

Pete Drake ,legendary session man , producer , one of the big contributors to the Nashville sound, promoter of pedal steel into other genres of music, played on hundreds of hits , and is regarded as the person who single handedly opened the door for pedal steel guitar in Nashville.

[doctorblues53]

He's the guy who (during the recording of George Harrison's All Things Must Pass) introduced Peter Frampton to the talk box. Without Peter Drake there would be no "Do You Feel Like I Do"!

[andrewjordanmiller]

Ah, don't forget about Alvino Rey (the gentleman responsible for introducing the talkbox to Pete Drake)

: )

[pedalman]

It is true Alvino Ray had a talking effect on lap steel which was more to do with volume swell and wah wah pedals but the talk box Pete Drake developed was totally different.

[BarnacleBillsBastard]

Actually, what Rey introduced was the Pedal system to the steel guitar (although it was much different than Bud Isaacs' version (which bent strings individually). Rey helped co - design the first one. It's pretty cool history!

[teenagemachineage]

@doctorblues53 I'm reading the Tammy Wynette bio " Tammy Wynette, Tragic Country Queen'' and the author talks about Peter Drake . He was a part of Billy Sherrill's musicians, known as the "A- Team He also mentions a few of the songs he played on later like " Lay Lady Lay'', and ''I Never Promised You A Rose Garden ' .The author also talks about George Harrison contacting Peter Drake to play on the " All Things Must Pass " album.

[hootinouts]

There's an old movie titled "That Tennessee Beat" that features Pete Drake performing this tune. I saw it a long time ago before Frampton appeared on the scene and popularized this effect.

[nostalgiahistoria67]

Absolutely brilliant! I definitely agree!

[H0bz]

wonderful, but finding this on any format is impossible.

[DannyWhitten]

Absolutely brilliant.

[hookalakah]

Donny G used to do a voice-over to this record for a commercial for Norm's Rare Guitars on the old King Cotton White Blur Show. Now THAT was real radio!

[Incubus2596]

Omg..

[ChinleMiller]

Hey, this guitar is singing the BLUES! Love it!!!

[etansivad]

Thanks for posting this video.  I'm going to go find some of his music. :)

[etansivad]

Why have I never heard of Peter Drake before? He's quite good.

[tommarques]

Great found!

[nostalgiahistoria67]

Wow!This guitar really talks!A fabuloso tune & another instrumental he did of "Forever" is awesome as well.This is far-out totally original & loads better than what Peter Frampton did while he was foolin' around years later, but what Peter was doin' just don't come nowhere close to this Pete Drake classic.

[gusmactavish]

FUCK that is tasty playing!!!

[yak6ex]

I don't like the song but the speak box is

genuis.

[Factnotfictionpeople]

Not a fan of the 'talking steel' sound, but thanks for posting this anyway. Pete Drake was a great steelie and a top producer too. :-)

[evanfrmheaven]

thanks for posting, I have Peter,s record, with him covering Fat's D songs, and Irving B "always", and Peter's talk box makes is so cool, He is also on Jerry Lee's "The Killer Rocks On" LP, I have it posted on my channel "C.C.Rider"

[hothands8080]

The Greatest Steel Player , his CD,s are quite rare but absolutely fab a credit to Country Music Pete R.I.P

[hothands8080]

The Greatest Steel Player , his CD,s are quite rare but absolutely fab a credit to Country Music Pete R.I.P

[trousers5183]

This is great. I'm gonna get into this guy's '60s stuff

[phantom1170]

Good luck finding any, you'll have to go to eBay or a used record site. All of Drake's 1960s "Talking Steel Guitar" LPs have been out of print for years and have never been re-issued on CD.

The only thing currently available from Drake on CD is an early '60s LP titled "For Pete's Sake", which has a couple of his later "Talking Steel" songs included as bonus tracks.

Record companies - how 'bout some re-issues??

[batsinyourbelfry]

I saw a movie, many years ago, and one scene had a band playing this song the scene wasset in a tavern. I'm going to try and google the title and movie together, to find which movie it was, and if the players were an aactual "bonified" band, as in one of this Drakes. Anyone know right off? Very cool song, in any case.

[no1countryfan]

maybe his family will do something.

[pedalman]

Pete Drake played a major part in promoting pedal steel guitar in many other genres of music, hear him on Bob Dylans "Nashville skyline" album and George harrisons "All things must pass"

Thanks for posting this track I hope someone will post a video of Pete on youtube someday even if its as part of a band behind a singer .

do you have any more of petes music ???

[jasonlava]

The first talkbox! Played on a steel guitar.