Swingin' On The Steel - Ray Montee

Skipper Montee plays "Swingin' On The Steel" on his 4 neck Bigsby!
From the Heck Harper TV Show on KGW-TV in 1964!


Johnny Fuhrman, fiddle
Don Baterri, accordian
Steve Malnachuck, bass
Ernie Cutshall, percussion
Hector Flateau (Harper), guitar

Category:

Music

Tags:

• bigsby
• steel
• guitar
• ray
• montee
• heck
• harper

[googuse]

Well, that's gotta be one of the last times that Portland was cool.

[jpeanrkode]

@BarnacleBillsBastard It's a pedal steel, but he wasn't using the pedals.

[ganderatc]

Nicely done!

[b0blee]

That was great! I could hear the Jerry Byrd influence, for sure. But Ray is a master in his own right.

Only in the steel guitar world - a polka is described as a swingin' tune! Maybe as in "swing your partner", huh?

[BarnacleBillsBastard]

Was he playing pedal steel here, or just 4 necks on a console? It doesn't sound like pedal steel. Good playing either way.

[Compass56]

The Skipper is one of my all-time favorite steel guitarists.

[Bossaxe]

Ray, is there any more footage from Heck's show. I haven't been able to locate the earlier shows when I played on the Show. By the way you sounded great. Bobby Gibson

[SteelGuitarCamp]

Ya Just Gotta Love It , "Skipper"

Great -- Posture--Right and Left Hand Technique--Intonation--Vibrato

The Full Montee.

[bobbeseymour]

This is a wonderful flash back, boy Ray must be old like me! Bobbe Seymour

[JoeyAce]

Bravo Ray !!!

Thanks for making this available Rick!