the best steel guitar player ever?

[backwoodsbob]

this dude is just just some guy from England who loves steel guitar and country music...he just got DAMNED good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7gglnk7geg&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZU9Y2gTzr8&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8aXS3_ZN_c&feature=related

[VenusRising]

1. No one will ever top Robert Randolph for me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xja6GuGqk3Y

[bluesbassman]

4. Awesome! RR cooks!

Very tasty indeed!

[VenusRising]

7. I saw him one night on Austin City Limits

It was right before their first album came out. He was rocking that thing like Jerry Lee Lewis rocked the piano. My husband (another bass player) was asleep at the time and I grabbed the first tape I could find to record it for him. I was an instant fan, and after my husband saw the tape the next morning, so was he.

[bluesbassman]

8. Man, I'd love to see him live!

I bet he blows the roof off!

Your husband is a bass player too? Cool.

Ask him if he heard about the drummer who locked his keys in the car....Took the bass player a half an hour to get him out!:rofl:

[VenusRising]

9. Oh, those rascally drummers.

:rofl:

[Ptah]

2. Very good!

I wish I could do that.

:thumbsup:

[triguy46]

3. Bruce Kaphan, try "Slider". He's a true virtuoso who transcends preconceptions of the steel.

[blitzen]

5. Buddy Emmons. Lloyd Green.

Buddy:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Htmf8MkuHhE

Lloyd:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=IbjViunwfvQ&feature=related

[BrotherBuzz]

6. Best Ever? I believe Sol Hoopii belongs on that list

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJcjBbQeNmc&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqbelAJEv-c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW8adsb-e4c&NR=1

[Redstone]

10. I second Robert Randolph. There are things that CANNOT be done on a pedal steel,

and he does them.

Redstone

[Gold Metal Flake]

11. Any list must include Red Rhodes.