Shot Jackson video at Sho Bud Store

Darrell Criswell · Post by **Darrell Criswell** » 17 Nov 2018 3:12 pm

Roberts Western World posted this interview with Shot Jackson, there is an interesting steel guitar called the "Monster"

https://www.facebook.com/GatorRockVideo ... 4OTAxMzk3/

Brett Day · Post by **Brett Day** » 17 Nov 2018 10:47 pm

Jimy Day recorded an album with "The Monster" Sho-Bud steel guitar and at the time, it was the newest guitar Shot had built.

Tony Dingus · Post by **Tony Dingus** » 18 Nov 2018 7:30 pm

What album did Jimmy use it on ?

Tony

Brett Day · Post by **Brett Day** » 18 Nov 2018 9:21 pm

Tony Dingus wrote:What album did Jimmy use it on ?

Tony

Not sure, but Shot had said in the video that Jimmy had recorded with it

Franklin · Post by **Franklin** » 19 Nov 2018 8:37 am

..Before this guitar was built for Jimmy...Sho-Bud made other single neck versions of the guitar tuning Shot refers to as "The Monster" It has mandolin style strings which had separate tuners but were hooked onto a single finger for pulling....On the single necks I played, never owned, only having one pedal tuner and two keyed tuners was a seriously flawed design which caused impossible pedal tuning. Two unison strings pulling the same distance does not equate to them being in tune with the pedals down... Although I loved its sound, at least on the two single necks I tried to tune, it was not possible to get them in tune enough to get through a single song... I believe Walter Haynes is on a cut somewhere with one...I don't know of any songs Jimmy ever released has that mandolin stringed tuning on it..

Shot said it clearly, It was a "new tuning" and he said it was the first "Double Neck" with the "Monster Tuning" on one of its necks.....I believe the single neck versions were built first.

PF

Barry Blackwood · Post by **Barry Blackwood** » 19 Nov 2018 9:28 am

Anything like the Shoo-Bug?

Bill Sinclair · Post by **Bill Sinclair** » 19 Nov 2018 11:28 am

Here's a thread about a single neck like Paul was talking about and a close up of the changer that Chas Smith had:

viewtopic.php?t=182649&sid=81a4ec4f1037 ... fe9176b131

Barry Blackwood · Post by **Barry Blackwood** » 19 Nov 2018 2:40 pm

Seems to me I heard this played on an old Dottie West ballad years ago. It really sounded terrific. Nowadays, couldn't this effect be duplicated electronically in a stomp box?

Donny Hinson · Post by **Donny Hinson** » 20 Nov 2018 7:53 am

It's a haunting sound, with that slightly out-of-tune sound and the octave lower "harmonic sound".

Buddy Charleton used it here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-0-DY6Yn9c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zr9UM6ld_ws

Buddy Emmons also used it on "Maiden's Prayer":
(go to 18:50 on this album to hear it - but listen to the entire album for some great Emmons stuff!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZ2OaId5s40