My dad raised me listening to these guys on albums. To this day they are my favorite musicians for sure. Leon was the best guitarist of his time and will always be in my opinion best picker that Nashville has had. Never heard him chicken-pickin but I imagine he could do that as well. So glad to have talked to him a few years before he passed. Great person.
Your dam right about that. Buddy Charlton is the guy who really made me to dig deeper in the great world of pedal steel guitar.Players to day may play more chords and play alot faster,but they dont have the smoothness of a Buddy Charlton brand of steel
@@MrPatdeeee I so remember when EMMONS helped Leon Rhodes to excellence. Then when Charleton came on board with ET, Buddy became a master playing with Leon. Funny how worked that way. They had to dig and did it.
Great stuff here! I learned this tune back in the early 70s and still pick around at it! Buddy in my opinion was the greatest steel player of all time! "Cool It" = Too Cool!
at :38 just listen to the control Buddy exhibits; the precision with which he executes that 16th note flourish. Wow. An extraordinarily gifted professional of the highest rank.
Yup. We have the Hawaiian influence to be thankful for. They are the ones who came up with slide. Think about it: all those guitars brought over by imported vaqueros to control the results of King Kamehameha's kapu (protected by decree) on a gift of some cattle. You KNOW a lot of those guitars bowed over time in tropical conditions, rendering them unplayable in the style for which they were designed. The Hawaiians were a very creative and playful people with no European influences. They are the ones who f'd around with these "ruined" guitars by altering the tunings - "slacking" the strings to create open chords. The slide technique was only a playful experiment away. This was in the mid 19th century, mind you. And it spread like wildfire across the Pacific.
@grandstef I bet ET gave $100 a piece for them hats. Still look MUCH better than what todays fools out of nashville wear on stage today! Holey britches, plastic bent up Cowboy hats and the like! And the music sounds like 70's-80's HARD ROCK!
@@MrPatdeeee there aint nothing good about the stuff they label as country music today. Why a lot of bands dont even have steel guitars in them. There is something very wrong with that.
@steinsteel No need to play faster than this,it will just move away the music.Buddy can make you jump and relax at the same time.Thats how music is supposed to be.
@dgtxdutch I totally agree with you. You got to dress up like that stage is someplace special to be, and look better than anyone in your audience. When people came to see these guys, nobody had to wonder who the band was.
@@MrPatdeeee Look where he's picking it, close to the neck. Seems like he picked close to the neck and muted sound on whatever he played....notalotta real brite tones in his playlng.
I took pedal steel lessons from Buddy back in the '70's at Oxon Hills Music....a cool cat indeed!!!!
I watch this video three times a day. The look on Leon Rhodes' face after the Charleton Massacre is priceless. Gonna watch it again..
My dad raised me listening to these guys on albums. To this day they are my favorite musicians for sure. Leon was the best guitarist of his time and will always be in my opinion best picker that Nashville has had. Never heard him chicken-pickin but I imagine he could do that as well. So glad to have talked to him a few years before he passed. Great person.
Leon Rhodes proved significant chops pulling those solos off on an acoustic cowboy guitar! Bring It On. Kudos
A true master! loved it! Iwas lucky enough to get a two hour lessen from this great man..it will always be a treasured memory. thanks for posting...
Buddy or Leon ?
@@timhitt9541 Buddy Charlton had two hours in Billy Coopers music shop, i have it recorded
That steel guitar sounds like pure, sweet heavenly joy. Mmmmmm--MMMM! Thank ye sir, may I have another'n?
Classic sound. Fabulous pedal steel!
Rip Buddy Jan 26 2011. Another hero gone.........
Buddy is the BEST! What an inspiration!
Your dam right about that.
Buddy Charlton is the guy who really made me to dig deeper in the great world of pedal steel guitar.Players to day may play more chords and play alot faster,but they dont have the smoothness of a Buddy Charlton brand of steel
Buddy Charleton-second ONLY to Buddy Emmons. Dear friends and may Jesus rest their precious souls.
@@MrPatdeeee I so remember when EMMONS helped Leon Rhodes to excellence.
Then when Charleton came on board with ET,
Buddy became a master
playing with Leon. Funny how worked that way.
They had to dig and did it.
@@barbarakaminski1695 Amen! The greatest of all time...And that goes to those, yet unborn!
That's the best pedal steel playing I've ever heard, and I've heard a lot. Please, please post more?
Then you haven't heard Buddy Emmons
@@MrPatdeeee Buddy Emmons is great but Buddy Charleton never got the recognition he deserved. Hes at the least as good as Buddy Emmons.
Don't forget Ralph Mooney A N D
Shot Jackson.
@@t4texastom587 Listen to Jimmy Dey, Lloyd Green all good.
Tom Brumley with Buck Owens and the Buckaroos was also outstanding.
I could listen to this kind of music all day long
Wish there was music like this on TV today!
Great stuff here! I learned this tune back in the early 70s and still pick around at it! Buddy in my opinion was the greatest steel player of all time! "Cool It" = Too Cool!
If you exclude Buddy Emmons yes.
at :38 just listen to the control Buddy exhibits; the precision with which he executes that 16th note flourish. Wow. An extraordinarily gifted professional of the highest rank.
Absolutely!! Back when these guys were hot you could tell one from the other just by their tone!
Now days they all are generic sounding..all alike!
Leon Rhodes is absolutely shredding that grammer guitar with a really high string action setup.
Brilliant . Love it . 😀👍
What a find!
Man I just love pedal.steel.so.much
Yup. We have the Hawaiian influence to be thankful for. They are the ones who came up with slide. Think about it: all those guitars brought over by imported vaqueros to control the results of King Kamehameha's kapu (protected by decree) on a gift of some cattle. You KNOW a lot of those guitars bowed over time in tropical conditions, rendering them unplayable in the style for which they were designed. The Hawaiians were a very creative and playful people with no European influences. They are the ones who f'd around with these "ruined" guitars by altering the tunings - "slacking" the strings to create open chords. The slide technique was only a playful experiment away. This was in the mid 19th century, mind you.
And it spread like wildfire across the Pacific.
We'll miss you, Buddy.
AMAZING, TY
Awesome 😮
good very good wish i had fellers like that in my band.johnny
Dig the c 6th . That hat is top shelf!
These guys are a new find for me. I'm usually listening to Joe Satriani or Yngwie Malmsteen. They have nothing on Leon.
+Richard A. Lawrence AGREE!!
Or the rest of the rest at is still the king of Texas
The real deal. Thank you.
everything cool here: the change to the c6 neck, his outfit, his gum.....
RIP you will be missed
Just great..
That cat is good!
Do you see how H-I-G-H the strings are on that acoustic guitar??? Shazzaam!!!
They only played them cause they looked country.
@grandstef I bet ET gave $100 a piece for them hats. Still look MUCH better than what todays fools out of nashville wear on stage today! Holey britches, plastic bent up Cowboy hats and the like! And the music sounds like 70's-80's HARD ROCK!
And it's BAD "rock" to boot!
@@MrPatdeeee there aint nothing good about the stuff they label as country music today. Why a lot of bands dont even have steel guitars in them. There is something very wrong with that.
@steinsteel No need to play faster than this,it will just move away the music.Buddy can make you jump and relax at the same time.Thats how music is supposed to be.
Eles Tem intimidade com os intrumentos, é pra poucos. maneco - Brasil.
hott damm man!!!!!!!!!
Cool hat!
sweeeeeeeet.
Leon passed away today, Dec 9. Jazz man.
In 5 years it will be June 2023.... let's hope Big trees get Bigger & Bigotry comes to an END.
I wonder if Buddy has ever looked at these videos and said "Damn, that's a gooffy ass hat."
Jack Greene on drums!!!
INSCRITO, SUCESSO.
Great right hand!!!
Why aren't ALL of these shows available on DVD?
;D
Really liked that kid...
@dgtxdutch I totally agree with you. You got to dress up like that stage is someplace special to be, and look better than anyone in your audience. When people came to see these guys, nobody had to wonder who the band was.
Daaaaaayuuum
Ahhhh Leon
If I'm not mistaken that's Leon's signature Gower guitar so he must've have wanted it that way. Why? 'Cause Leon's a MONSTER!
Grammer.
Wow!
I feel like chewing some spearmint now!
"Awwww Buddy now..." - ET
haha right? How does that work?? You can read print in someone's voice?? Just like that. hahahahaha
I didn't know hats were mail ordered in shoe boxes?
I wonder why Leon didnt use an electic guitar on this?
Don't forget the tone...Many players today just don't get it....Shame...
TAKE IT AWAY LEON!
Bought his fingers from the same guy who made Hendrix's.
Great tone
What fingernails!
Dan Van Hoose That’s what I was thinking! Dire need of a trim!
@@juleswins3 if i had someone in my band that could play like Buddy i wouldnt care how long his nails were. Lol
Buddy actually used those claws to pick with his bar hand sometimes...
Ah leon
Jack Greene on the drums
お茶の水カワセのグラマーギターだな。
steel guitar face
...Grammer guitar....he could play a decent Gibson
The Grammar sound terrible. Like it was dead. Why Leon used this is beyond me.
I thought that looked like a Grammer, especially the pickguard.
@@MrPatdeeee Look where he's picking it, close to the neck. Seems like he picked close to the neck and muted sound on whatever he played....notalotta real brite tones in his playlng.
Those hats are really gay. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Rip Buddy Jan 26 2011. Another hero gone.........
hott damm man!!!!!!!!