A Rolling Stone Gathers no Moss

Actually I play most of my slide work in standard tuning just because I do not want to bring a second guitar to gigs.
But I have found that some PHRASING cannot be acheived unless you are in an open tuning. I also use an open "G"
tuning a lot for more country blues. it is G-B-D-G-B-D low to high. Great for Dobro stuff.
Ry Cooder is also one of the greatest slide men of all time
and he uses many different tuning. I am sure you know of his work already.
Best always,
Howlinwolf73

Wow- Good info howlinwolf73 - I'll mess around with open E... but like I said, If I play it in open E I can't play Dickey's parts. I'm going on ebay now to find "Skydog"
Best,
Skydog7725

Hey Skydog7725,
Hope you can come to our show in Gainesville on May13th Bo Diddley downtown plaza 8pm - 10pm. Free Friday Show.
Tell us what you think of our latest Live@F2F concert YouTube video. Thanks again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v­=iUXY8rip-fQ

Sorry - that's Scott FREEMAN not Fraser.

Hey howlinwolf73,
I'll have to check out "Skydog". There is another good book by Scott Fraser called "Midnight Rider" which is a bio of the band starting from Duane & Greg's childhood days to the 90s (or whenever he wrote the book) and doesn't say specifically but hints that Duane played SB in standard tuning. I guess history depends on who you listen to - hahaha - It does say that SB was the 1st song he learned to play slide on after seeing Taj Mahal at a club in LA. And that he played everything in standard until he met John Hammond who showed him some open tunings.
But another reason I like to play in standard tuning is so I can play Dickey's leads too; that would be tricky in open tuning.
Best,
Skydog7725