I grew up watching and listening to a young Herb Pedersen practicing with my dad (Ray Park) and Vern Williams. Vern and Ray. I was a young guitar player around 9 or 10 and was always awe struck watching them. Herb always took the time and would patiently show me things like drop D tuning, Day Tripper by the Beatles, on and on. He was like a big brother to me back then. Years later he got me on some great sessions where I had the pleasure to play with you Lee on a couple. Thank you sooo much for sharing your stories on all who you’ve played with, and especially showing the awesome talent of Herb Pedersen! Love your RUclips channel!!❤️🎶
To those waiting for the book: it’s so worth the wait! To Leland and all: IMHO the Seventies were the best era for recordings. You LA cats were like a family and it shows on the records. Where and when else would a major label (Epic) release a Herb Pedersen LP, a relative unknown except to pickers like me and all the West Coast talent who had him on their records,and have Linda Ronstadt, Ray Park, Larry Carlton, Uncle Josh Graves and Leland Sklar playing Ralph Stanley tunes? What a time to be alive!
I ordered my book not long after Lee published it, took 2 months to get to NZ but believe me it was well worth the wait, patience people you will be well rewarded when it arrives.
Nice harmony there as well as bass.🥰 I think I might gotta go to itunes again. I know this'll keep me moving down the street, especially when it kicks up even faster there after Cora Gone. Bread and music. 💃
It'll soon be Christmas Mr Sklar ! One of my favourites from Herb Petersen was when he guested on the bluegrass album from the late ,great Dan Fogelberg ,titled High Country Snows . He ,along with an array of other world class musicians including Mr Russ Kunkel helped produce a superb gem of a record which should be checked out for its musicianship alone , plus the superb songcraft of Dan Fogelberg....a veritable who's who of country/ bluegrass artists of the finest quality of which Mr Petersen was a first choice pick . All the best ...
Wow! Herb can certainly draw amazing artists to join him. A real treat to hear Lowell, Larry, and Linda, Dolly, among others. Lowell, man! There's a woman backing Cora is Gone that sounds like Emmy Lou. Love and Thanks ❤👍❤👍
Hi Leland….Yes… really hard for doing postal stuff….thats why I’ve not ordered one yet….Id love one… so what I’d have to do is have you send it to my shipper in Texas …then they would send it to me here in Belize…. So…. It would take at least a month… up to 3 ….. I do most of my shipping from Amazon….. it works but, sometimes…..it’s crazy…..too much for the moment…. So … better to just wait… for now….love the music today… Herb Peterson….wow!!! So lovely country…kinda stuff I like listening to in the truck…. Singing and smiling…🤗🥰… love to all…. 🌹🪷🌹🪷🌹🪷❤️🖕🖕🖕🖕👍🙏🏼
Leland, not sure if you might have heard, but since I live in Tucson, it was on the news here locally, but Linda Ronstadt's older brother, Peter, passed away this past Sunday at age 82. He & Linda had sung together & he was the Chief Of Police for Tucson PD for a number of years.
You forgot to mention that BG on Cora is Gone is the unmistakable voice of Dolly Parton! Certainly plenty of great musicianship on these cool compositions.
Hey, Leland...at least the USPS doesn't take mail out to a piazza and burn it like they do in Italy. All my best from Carolyn in Sherman Oaks. Happy New Year.
🪕🪕Wow, that's banjo (and Dolly). I needed a nap after just listening to that Wikipedia. I guess the music biz lesson from this one is have talent, start early, persevere, and network! I wiki'd Roy Halee yesterday and I was thinking that would be an interesting mini-course for Sklar U, although he was a producer. You worked on at least one Art Garfunkel project he co-produced, I don't know if there was anything else where you would have crossed paths. I read the wiki and could not help but think of all the music majors I have known (quite a few), and all the kids in music schools/taking class in sound engineering, etc. Your job in TV tech goes away so you start working for a music recording corporation. Eventually you start engineering recordings and your first project includes Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone" and things continue to roll on in that fashion. Makes me happy I didn't try to become a music major hoping for that kind of outcome. (Kind of ironic because I was a huge S&G fan as a kid, had their whole catalog, and learned to use the Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature in jr high to try to find articles on the subject).
Mr. Sklar,, I don't know if there is a specific place to email you a "request", so pardon me using the comments section. Anyway, have loved your work for so many years. If the spirit should move you, I would love to see you do a playover on Whole Cloth from the Crosby,Nash album. It's a brilliant piece and your playing it's priceless. Thank you so much! Mark
Beautiful music ... Reminds me of Gramm Parsons... I can't fathom how someone can think that committing an act of terrorism , would further their cause ... ... I'm sure most people just think that they are 'Nut Jobs'...
For New Year's Eve I kept hearing Auld Lang Syne by Dan Fogelberg and I was wondering if you played on it and I went through his whole discography and never saw you. Saw Russ. Seems Dan used Norbert Putnam or he played bass himself on his albums. Interesting.
Going postal!?!?! 0:41 "Once it gets to the post office, that's when all hell breaks loose." 6 lbs. X 80 = 480 lbs.YIKES! Tryin' to work-up a hernia? Sounds like "Neuman" is handling your books. Give FedEx a try. They offer scheduled recurring home pickups. You don't have to be home for them to take your items to be shipped. I mean, the post office is such a swell place to visit... "Make It Easy On Yourself" (Walker Bros.pop song). ; )
@@KittyCarlile-490I'm still trying to catch up from being days behind again, but I think today the 6th is really your birthday, Sue❣️ Happy Birthday! 💖🥳💃
@@splashesin8 Audrey! You remembered my birthday! That's so sweet and kind of you! I don't know what you need to get caught up with but you may be the busiest person I know. I've been awake all night reading n listening to music. I think I'll hit the hay, as they say and get some zzz's..Hope you have a wonderful day
@@slipperynoodle20 Dang! I know so people now with strange handles....and I've tried to memorize the names that go with them. Sorry Tom. I'm going to have to make a list. 😏😁
Leland, are you sending the books out via ‘Media Mail’ or ‘First Class Mail’? Marketing a heavy weight ‘coffee table book’ is a challenge for a single person operation for both profitability and logistics. The balance of ‘quality’, ‘serviceability’, and ‘profit’ is a problem. When automobiles were being developed one of the big problems not anticipated were the availability of roads.
There is good reason to rethink why Benjamin Franklin became the First Postmaster of our Nation. The easy access to information is paramount to free exchange of ideas. Thomas Paine needed to be able to pass his pamphlets on to others for their reading. The US Postal Serviced has been taken from what Benjamin Franklin thought was needed for a vibrant community. Today ’prophet’ is another King.
@@lelandsklar6363 I worked in the U.S. Postal Service as a mail clerk in the APO/FPO Rincon Annex and later Regular Mail Carrier in San Francisco. The workers were mostly World War ll veterans, but even then the funding was inadequate. Those past workers would be appalled at the work they had done with pride is now such a mess.
@@KittyCarlile-490 DeJoy is a pipe bomb to what Benjamin Franklin wanted. There was a time before 1965 when Postal Workers were a good job for veterans and other good workers. Today it is a disaster. ⚠
Happy New Year Lee!!! You need to talk to me about being a tracker for you!!! I used to have to track construction equipment from factory to shipper to job site when in the elevator biz. I think I might be of some help?? Later my friend!! Bob Love
Good try. You raise good points, but I still think that ancient wolf like breeds are closest to the original dog, which is the Wolf. NGSG and Dingoes are part of a lineage of SEAsian dogs, which all look basically alike, and they seem to be only about 5000 years old.
I grew up watching and listening to a young Herb Pedersen practicing with my dad (Ray Park) and Vern Williams. Vern and Ray. I was a young guitar player around 9 or 10 and was always awe struck watching them. Herb always took the time and would patiently show me things like drop D tuning, Day Tripper by the Beatles, on and on. He was like a big brother to me back then. Years later he got me on some great sessions where I had the pleasure to play with you Lee on a couple. Thank you sooo much for sharing your stories on all who you’ve played with, and especially showing the awesome talent of Herb Pedersen! Love your RUclips channel!!❤️🎶
Thank you for sharing your story here ☮
@@Tele-dog What Artemis said.👍
To those waiting for the book: it’s so worth the wait! To Leland and all: IMHO the Seventies were the best era for recordings. You LA cats were like a family and it shows on the records. Where and when else would a major label (Epic) release a Herb Pedersen LP, a relative unknown except to pickers like me and all the West Coast talent who had him on their records,and have Linda Ronstadt, Ray Park, Larry Carlton, Uncle Josh Graves and Leland Sklar playing Ralph Stanley tunes? What a time to be alive!
I ordered my book not long after Lee published it, took 2 months to get to NZ but believe me it was well worth the wait, patience people you will be well rewarded when it arrives.
I haven't ordered a book yet.....Not during the holidays...But I will..Everybody still loves you,Leland.
There's a cult bluegrass album by David Grisman called "Here Today," which features vocals by Herb Pedersen and a young Vince Gill. It's a real gem.
Boy you were right about that tune Tom!!!! Love the harmonies!!! And now Vince is an Eagle!
@@47heritage Vince Gill was the guitarist for Rosanne Cash when out performing, before with her help, he became very much noticed.
I'll check that out. I think he also played w Jerry Garcia
@@artemisXsidecrossI didn't know that. Thanks for the info
@@KittyCarlile-490 Rosanne Cash is great from her first album on
Children of the sun. Thankq for sharing your particular creative genius. Happy day sweet creator soul.
It turns out the fabulous Dolly Parton sang harmony vocals on "Cora is Gone" !!! And Lee's playing is a masterclass of bass !
Love your videos. Love that you list the players on the tracks you play and the songwriters.
Thanx for all you do!! 😊
I think there was a point where they used to take some of the flowers from the floats and take arrangements to hospitals.
Thanks for covering this Lee! It's such a fantastic album. It's everything that's great with the Rockford Files music plus new songs.
Sorry bout your book problem. People please be patient. Don’t bug the sender.
You’ll get your book eventually. 🩵👍🏻
Just watched your performance with Toto from 2007… excellent!!! 😎❤️
Just bought the DVD. 😁
Nice harmony there as well as bass.🥰 I think I might gotta go to itunes again. I know this'll keep me moving down the street, especially when it kicks up even faster there after Cora Gone. Bread and music. 💃
☮
It'll soon be Christmas Mr Sklar ! One of my favourites from Herb Petersen was when he guested on the bluegrass album from the late ,great Dan Fogelberg ,titled High Country Snows . He ,along with an array of other world class musicians including Mr Russ Kunkel helped produce a superb gem of a record which should be checked out for its musicianship alone , plus the superb songcraft of Dan Fogelberg....a veritable who's who of country/ bluegrass artists of the finest quality of which Mr Petersen was a first choice pick . All the best ...
One of my all time favorite songs is on that album. Hard To Go Down Easy. I just love every note on that cut.
He sounds like his musical ear is immaculate!Thank You As Always!
Hi Leland, I'm a big fan of yours and Herb's. Thanks for giving him some great light!
Wow! Herb can certainly draw amazing artists to join him. A real treat to hear Lowell, Larry, and Linda, Dolly, among others. Lowell, man! There's a woman backing Cora is Gone that sounds like Emmy Lou. Love and Thanks ❤👍❤👍
Hi Leland….Yes… really hard for doing postal stuff….thats why I’ve not ordered one yet….Id love one… so what I’d have to do is have you send it to my shipper in Texas …then they would send it to me here in Belize…. So…. It would take at least a month… up to 3 ….. I do most of my shipping from Amazon….. it works but, sometimes…..it’s crazy…..too much for the moment…. So … better to just wait… for now….love the music today… Herb Peterson….wow!!! So lovely country…kinda stuff I like listening to in the truck…. Singing and smiling…🤗🥰… love to all…. 🌹🪷🌹🪷🌹🪷❤️🖕🖕🖕🖕👍🙏🏼
Leland, thank you so much for today, and as always 😊
Thank you Lee 👍🏻
Happy New year to you, Leland! I hope you and your loved ones have a great, safe and prosperous year!
Evening Lee and all
Greetings from Epping UK
Cheers Barry 🎸
Hello Barry! Greetings from Alberta, Canada! 🖐✌️
@@barrywaples8150 Morning Barry, Epping 🌳 🇬🇧 ☮️
Andy ⛵ 🛥️ Whitstable 🧙🏼♂️ 🇬🇧 ☮️ 💖
Hope 2025 is a blast for you and the Family Lee. All the best from the Bassment of the world, NZ 🙂
Leland, not sure if you might have heard, but since I live in Tucson, it was on the news here locally, but Linda Ronstadt's older brother, Peter, passed away this past Sunday at age 82. He & Linda had sung together & he was the Chief Of Police for Tucson PD for a number of years.
Thank you. ❤❤🙏✌️
Great music, as always! Have a great evening! ❤🇨🇦✌️
Good evening Leland
From North Wales
Evening Leland 🧙🏼♂️ 💖
Thanks for Herb 🌿 Pedersen ,#2...
Special Healing energy ⚡ to Maureen ,yourself and the boys 🐾 🐾 🐾 🧙🏼♂️ ☮️ 💖
Hello Andy! 🖐✌️
@dwaynewladyka577 Hello Dwayne, Alberta 🍁 🇨🇦 💖,
Andy ⛵ 🛥️ Whitstable 🧙🏼♂️ 🇬🇧
I appreciate you and thank you for making content.
@@BasicDrumming Alan 🥁 ❤️
It sure is hard not to like these tunes!!!! BL
Thanks for Herb!
I thought you rock stars had people to do the menial chores! As a fellow working man, I applaud you!
Obrigado lee , Recife Pe Brasil presente.
Hello Leland and everyone! Canada Post still has issues, because of the strike. I wish Maureen all the best. Cheers! 🙏✌️
You forgot to mention that BG on Cora is Gone is the unmistakable voice of Dolly Parton! Certainly plenty of great musicianship on these cool compositions.
Hey, Leland...at least the USPS doesn't take mail out to a piazza and burn it like they do in Italy. All my best from Carolyn in Sherman Oaks. Happy New Year.
Lee, you spend more effort and sweat doing a 2 hour concert than the average postal worker does in a month.
🪕🪕Wow, that's banjo (and Dolly). I needed a nap after just listening to that Wikipedia. I guess the music biz lesson from this one is have talent, start early, persevere, and network!
I wiki'd Roy Halee yesterday and I was thinking that would be an interesting mini-course for Sklar U, although he was a producer. You worked on at least one Art Garfunkel project he co-produced, I don't know if there was anything else where you would have crossed paths.
I read the wiki and could not help but think of all the music majors I have known (quite a few), and all the kids in music schools/taking class in sound engineering, etc. Your job in TV tech goes away so you start working for a music recording corporation. Eventually you start engineering recordings and your first project includes Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone" and things continue to roll on in that fashion. Makes me happy I didn't try to become a music major hoping for that kind of outcome. (Kind of ironic because I was a huge S&G fan as a kid, had their whole catalog, and learned to use the Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature in jr high to try to find articles on the subject).
I enjoyed this, Lee.
Mr. Sklar,, I don't know if there is a specific place to email you a "request", so pardon me using the comments section. Anyway, have loved your work for so many years. If the spirit should move you, I would love to see you do a playover on Whole Cloth from the Crosby,Nash album. It's a brilliant piece and your playing it's priceless. Thank you so much! Mark
Beautiful music ... Reminds me of Gramm Parsons...
I can't fathom how someone can think that committing an act of terrorism , would further their cause ...
... I'm sure most people just think that they are 'Nut Jobs'...
For New Year's Eve I kept hearing Auld Lang Syne by Dan Fogelberg and I was wondering if you played on it and I went through his whole discography and never saw you. Saw Russ. Seems Dan used Norbert Putnam or he played bass himself on his albums. Interesting.
Evening Leland👍👍
Evening KJ - BB 🧙🏼♂️ 💖 ☮️
(on time ⌚ 2025)🧙🏼♂️
@ start as you mean to go on🤣🤣
👋🏻
@@kjbunnyboiler Indubitably.. ☮️
@ is 2025 going to be the year of big words?🤣🤣
😎👍👍
😎✌👍❤🖖
Love Brother
Going postal!?!?! 0:41 "Once it gets to the post office, that's when all hell breaks loose." 6 lbs. X 80 = 480 lbs.YIKES! Tryin' to work-up a hernia? Sounds like "Neuman" is handling your books. Give FedEx a try. They offer scheduled recurring home pickups. You don't have to be home for them to take your items to be shipped. I mean, the post office is such a swell place to visit... "Make It Easy On Yourself" (Walker Bros.pop song). ; )
The Walker Brothers, great singers
@@KittyCarlile-490I'm still trying to catch up from being days behind again, but I think today the 6th is really your birthday, Sue❣️ Happy Birthday! 💖🥳💃
@@splashesin8 Audrey! You remembered my birthday! That's so sweet and kind of you! I don't know what you need to get caught up with but you may be the busiest person I know. I've been awake all night reading n listening to music. I think I'll hit the hay, as they say and get some zzz's..Hope you have a wonderful day
@@KittyCarlile-490 ✨🥳
Hi Lee!!! 👋👋🤗
Helene! 👋
@ hi Ronnel! 😁😁
@@helenespaulding7562 Please, don't fret this, but it's Tom.
@@slipperynoodle20 Dang! I know so people now with strange handles....and I've tried to memorize the names that go with them. Sorry Tom. I'm going to have to make a list. 😏😁
@@helenespaulding7562 I know how you feel.
Hola como estas saludos desde Uruguay 🇺🇾
Leland, are you sending the books out via ‘Media Mail’ or ‘First Class Mail’?
Marketing a heavy weight ‘coffee table book’ is a challenge for a single person operation for both profitability and logistics. The balance of ‘quality’, ‘serviceability’, and ‘profit’ is a problem.
When automobiles were being developed one of the big problems not anticipated were the availability of roads.
There is good reason to rethink why Benjamin Franklin became the First Postmaster of our Nation. The easy access to information is paramount to free exchange of ideas. Thomas Paine needed to be able to pass his pamphlets on to others for their reading. The US Postal Serviced has been taken from what Benjamin Franklin thought was needed for a vibrant community. Today ’prophet’ is another King.
@@artemisXsidecrossDeJoy was installed to basically make it as inefficient as possible….
@@lelandsklar6363DeJoy, there's your trouble
@@lelandsklar6363
I worked in the U.S. Postal Service as a mail clerk in the APO/FPO Rincon Annex and later Regular Mail Carrier in San Francisco. The workers were mostly World War ll veterans, but even then the funding was inadequate. Those past workers would be appalled at the work they had done with pride is now such a mess.
@@KittyCarlile-490 DeJoy is a pipe bomb to what Benjamin Franklin wanted. There was a time before 1965 when Postal Workers were a good job for veterans and other good workers. Today it is a disaster. ⚠
Have you done a Mike Post episode?
Yes
Hello
That has to be Dolly Parton on harmonies?
Happy New Year Lee!!! You need to talk to me about being a tracker for you!!! I used to have to track construction equipment from factory to shipper to job site when in the elevator biz. I think I might be of some help?? Later my friend!! Bob Love
At this point I am taking every book in and having it scanned so then the post office is fully responsible. A lesson learned.
Good luck with that Lee. Hope it works!!!! I remember years ago like mid 70's you could go see the floats for free. Enjoyed Herb Peterson.
Good try. You raise good points, but I still think that ancient wolf like breeds are closest to the original dog, which is the Wolf. NGSG and Dingoes are part of a lineage of SEAsian dogs, which all look basically alike, and they seem to be only about 5000 years old.
😃😃
Media mail is to slow least effective way to mail. You may want to go first class.
Dillards!
BOM DIA, MESTRE! SOU MUITO ADMIRADOR DO BOM GOSTO DAS TUAS LINHAS.... EM ESPECIAL ESTA ruclips.net/video/dDvfMMNtfAA/видео.htmlsi=GcpYtl--uiDUozaz