Fastest or Slowest Picker? ""it's NOT aFORMULE one RAC

Henry · Post by **Henry** » 8 May 2002 12:16 am

For me MUSIC is NOT a FORMULE 0ne RACE.
For STEELGUITAR music....?
The come out is BUDDY EMMONS,,,,,,,,,
TASTE-TOUCH-TONE-DIXIE-,,,,and when the music
ask for it,,,,he will be FAST,,,but also
TAST-TOUCH-TONE-DIXIE,,,,!For me on the highest level,,,The BIG E
Henry

Andy Greatrix · Post by **Andy Greatrix** » 8 May 2002 8:21 am

The question should be,
who gives you the biggest goose-bumps
when he/she plays?

Jim Smith · Post by **Jim Smith** » 8 May 2002 8:23 am

Still Buddy Emmons!

Rick Collins · Post by **Rick Collins** » 8 May 2002 9:20 am

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Chris Forbes · Post by **Chris Forbes** » 8 May 2002 9:30 am

Lloyd Green and he's not anywhere near the fastest picker around

Jeff Lampert · Post by **Jeff Lampert** » 8 May 2002 9:36 am

Lloyd Green and he's not anywhere near the fastest picker around

He is still fast. LG knows the value of playing creative hot licks. Listen to "Quicksand" and "Rolling In My Sweet Baby's Arms" from his "Ten Shades Of Green" album if you need to be convinced.

C Dixon · Post by **C Dixon** » 8 May 2002 9:43 am

hmmmmmm

Richard Sinkler · Post by **Richard Sinkler** » 8 May 2002 10:56 am

For goosebumps, it's got to be Hughey. His playing can get the hair on my neck (and back) to stand up straight. Then again, so can Buddy.

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Rick Collins · Post by **Rick Collins** » 8 May 2002 12:24 pm

His playing can get the hair on my neck (and back) to stand up straight. Then again, so can Buddy.

A Tesla coil can do this also.

Rick

John Knight · Post by **John Knight** » 8 May 2002 3:48 pm

I agree with Richard, Hughey, Speed does not get me goin as much as tone and feeling. JB's chime solos are still hard to beat.

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Pete Grant · Post by **Pete Grant** » 8 May 2002 4:17 pm

A Tesla coil can do this also.

Oh, goody! How do I hook one up to my steel? Or two?

JACK HEERN · Post by **JACK HEERN** » 8 May 2002 7:33 pm

I heard a wize old guy or a old wize guy that had a steel guitar store on Hgw 31 W near Millersville Tn. say that "a steel guitar wasn't made to be played fast, it was made to be played beutiful" I never heard this guy say much of anything else that made sense, but this certainly did and still does to me. B T W that old f--t kin play one beutiful when he lays the bull crap aside.
jp

Jeff Lampert · Post by **Jeff Lampert** » 9 May 2002 8:19 am

"a steel guitar wasn't made to be played fast, it was made to be played beutiful"

You could say the same thing about a violin, which is certainly as expressive an instrument and can arouse tremendous emotions. YET, where would bluegrass be without hot fiddle playing. Answer: Nowhere. IMO, every instrument can and should be played both with great feeling, as well as fast and furious. And it behooves all players to be adept at these two sides of the musical equation.

Donny Hinson · Post by **Donny Hinson** » 9 May 2002 4:55 pm

Hey Rick...

A Tesla coil can do this also...

I think you meant Van De Graaf generator!

(That's the static-generating machine that makes your hair sand on end.)

Tesla coils (with their hi-freq AC) just burn you.

(Been there...done that...OUCH!)

Rick Collins · Post by **Rick Collins** » 9 May 2002 8:46 pm

Donny,
I wasn't sure about the Tesla coil. Actually I meant fingernails across a blackboard.

Rick