What Happened on The Gatlin's "Houston"?

Chris Templeton · Post by **Chris Templeton** » 7 Dec 2021 5:11 pm

What happened @ 1:50?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpCpIh3LdDk

Brint Hannay · Post by **Brint Hannay** » 7 Dec 2021 5:31 pm

Pretty sure it's just a glitch in the YouTube. I, like many, learned that break back when the song was on the charts, and if that hiccup had been in there I would d*** sure have noticed it!

Chris Templeton · Post by **Chris Templeton** » 7 Dec 2021 6:02 pm

Right you are, Brint:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y41B-TAHy4

b0b · Post by **b0b** » 7 Dec 2021 10:07 pm

Who played that classic C6th?

Jerry Overstreet · Post by **Jerry Overstreet** » 8 Dec 2021 3:44 am

It's Emmons and it's E9, believe it or not.

Lee Baucum · Post by **Lee Baucum** » 8 Dec 2021 4:01 am

Jerry Overstreet wrote:It's Emmons and it's E9, believe it or not.

That's what I recall hearing. Also, "The Lady Takes The Cowboy Every Time".

Jerry Overstreet · Post by **Jerry Overstreet** » 8 Dec 2021 4:04 am

I think Buddy had tab for Houston. Maybe on his old website.

Chris Templeton · Post by **Chris Templeton** » 8 Dec 2021 5:11 am

I may have posted this before, but they recorded "Houston" in Florida and Buddy was driving back to FNashville he saw the saw the Space Shuttle Challenger blow up.

Richard Sinkler · Post by **Richard Sinkler** » 8 Dec 2021 6:31 am

Jerry Overstreet wrote:I think Buddy had tab for Houston. Maybe on his old website.

Buddyemmons.com

Tim Sergent · Post by **Tim Sergent** » 9 Dec 2021 8:53 pm

I remember Buddy's rendition of I Love You Because on his E9 Expedition cd and I had a hard time believing it was E9th tuninig

Richard Alderson · Post by **Richard Alderson** » 10 Dec 2021 6:35 am

I think most of "Houston" is played with the A&B pedals engaged which of course turns the E9th tuning into an A6th tuning; Or at least key phrases with those signature c6th sounds are played in a no pedals style, but with A&B engaged, if that makes any sense.

Bill Terry · Post by **Bill Terry** » 10 Dec 2021 7:34 am

Tim wrote:I remember Buddy's rendition of I Love You Because on his E9 Expedition cd and I had a hard time believing it was E9th tuninig

Same here. A bit off topic, but anyone (maybe somebody living in a cave somewhere? LOL) that hasn't heard Expedition E9, it's incredible. It's the record that really got me interested in pedal steel. Textbook stuff... The whole thing is on YouTube:

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

Also available for purchase with tab at the link below.

http://buddyemmons.com/CEE9.htm

Richard Sinkler · Post by **Richard Sinkler** » 10 Dec 2021 8:37 am

Buddy's tab for Houston is on the Buddyemmons.com website. It is indeed done on E9.

b0b · Post by **b0b** » 10 Dec 2021 10:03 am

I stand corrected. http://buddyemmons.com/Houston.htm

Richard Sinkler · Post by **Richard Sinkler** » 10 Dec 2021 12:37 pm

I used to play it on C6. Back then I didn't know you could play C6 stuff on E9.

Garry Vanderlinde · Post by **Garry Vanderlinde** » 11 Dec 2021 10:57 am

I was at Jeffran College in the early 1980's taking one of Buddy's seminars and he had just shown us how to play Houston on E9th. I asked him why he played Houston in the E9th tuning. He gave me a puzzled, knowing look, like it was a real stupid question, and said he did it because of the way it sounded. That opened my ignorant ears to the E9/13 tuning jazz sounds of the early swing players.

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 11 Dec 2021 8:34 pm

Garry Vanderlinde wrote:I was at Jeffran College in the early 1980's taking one of Buddy's seminars and he had just shown us how to play Houston on E9th.

I wonder if we might have been in the same class, Gary.

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