Buddy Merrill plays "South" on the Fender Steel Guitar

[SteelguitarLane]

The tune may be South, but there from 1:00 to 1:11, it sounds like West to me :-D

[TenDNews]

you got oom pah pah in my wang dang doodle, Vern.

[CMLittleboot]

ok, WOW! that was awesome!

[lrhshawks]

this is my grandpa :D



[joehiggs100]

An education, thanks.

[bgdenham]

What did LW whisper in Buddy's ear? "Be sure to smile and look at the camera" Maybe? Cause that's just what he did.

[SteelguitarLane]

just awesome. cool stuff

[bramley1001]

Thankyou for postiing these videos, I hadn't realized what an amazing talent Buddy was. truly mindblowing ability.

[Dust6chap6]

Buddy knew a lot of trick even back then!!!

[conor30000]

Can someone in the know please detail the differences between steels, and tunings if possible?

[bigdaddystinkeye]

That was awesome! Buddy is great here. I want one of those four-neck Stringmasters!

[holmes1978]

Excellent !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[BlessedByAburden]

DANG THAT WUZ SICK AND rele weird

[grandstef]

Seems that all the necks are "on" all the time ? How comes ? Is there a footswitch ? I can't let both necks "on" on a double-necked guitar because of the harmonics , and here he is, going from one neck to the other without switching anything ????

[MrGert1960]

@grandstef

Hi you!

A few days after posting my comment here I' ve got my blonde Fender Quad. It was offered as a 1957 Q8 but it' s dated 8-55 ! If I put down all knobs together(!!!) with the palm, all necks are active but there is less volume. On e-bay you will find sometimes such guitars, mine is from Oklahoma. Expensive shipping to AUSTRIA. But' s it' s an amazing instrument. My other main steels are 2 Fender Triple necks; a 02/54er 26" long scale and a "white blonde" 09/55 T 8 (22,5scale).

[DrumLine21Ninja]

my favorite part was at 1:01-1:08

[soundsfromnothing]

Was that the tuning knob he was pulling on?! I saw Speedy West do a similar thing on an old vid? Fantastic! zMerill was a legend!

[funstuff2006]

@soundsfromnothing

Sounds more like the Tone pot to me.

[MrGert1960]

@soundsfromnothing The technique using the tonepoti is called BooWah! Rick Alexander(he died 2009!) demonstrates it here on you tube. I' m sure, many musicians

miss him. He was really a great guy. R.I.P. Alex!

Yeah, Buddy plays here excellent! Another true musician!

[soundsfromnothing]

@MrGert1960

Thank you for that MrGert! Been trying to figure that out for a while! :)

[firefighter390]

@soundsfromnothing  He is rolling the tone knob back and forth to get a wah-wah effect.

[Stringmaster]

Fanfuckin'tastic - thanks Deke!

[hillbillyboy77]

Awesome!

[rlpete2]

Deke, thanks for putting this up. After 50 years of trying, I still can't play guitars half as well as Buddy did in his teens. Bravo!!!