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 Gerald Menke's Profile |
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Playin' for the song on steel, dobro and guitar! |
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| Location: | BROOKLYN, New York |
| Country: |  United States |
| Last Login: | May 7, 2008 (577 days back) |
About Me |
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| I am a Brooklyn-based sideman, specializing in pedal steel guitar, dobro, lapsteel and six-string guitars. I started playing guitar in 1983, when I was given a nearly unplayable Hondo acoustic instead of the set of drums I'd asked for. Praise the Lord for that. My first sideman job was playing bass guitar for Mercury Rev. We opened for Porno for Pyros and Spiritualized. My next job was playing guitar and percussion for Babe The Blue Ox. We logged about 30,000 miles opening for Cake and Marcy Playground. It was on that tour that I heard a Red House Painters song, "Have You Forgotten" that featured Bruce Kaphan's gorgeous steel guitar work, I knew instantly I had to learn how to do that. I bought my first pedal steel guitar in 2000 and played my first show in June of that year. That July I did my first recording session, for Brooklyn's avant garde pop bliss maestros Stars Like Fleas. Since then I have played on many records, played on Carson Daly, performed on a few soundtracks, and done dialogue beds for TV. I average 125 shows per year. Some of the artists I have recorded and performed with are: Stars Like Fleas, Super Furry Animals, Downriver, J Granelli and Mr. Lucky, Pale Horse and Rider, Lori Michaels, Justin Tracy, Arum Rae Valkonen, Marc Gartman, The Glaciers, M Shanghai String Band, Emily Zuzik, Mr. Lucky, Todd Adelman, 20 Mile, Christian Gibbs, Kristin Mueller, Kelly Snyder, and Melomane... I am grateful to some of the artists I have worked with who graciously allowed me to use their music for my page here: Alec Gross - All The Pretty Women Sam Barron - The Muse Eugene Benjamin - Steelin' Chappaqua Downriver - The Waltz Kristin Mueller - Liberty State Park I composed and recorded the Credit Music for Bacchanale, and Frontier Lawyer is a song from my Practice Tracks for Instrumentalists CD. Drums by Daniel Menke, bass by Tim Lefebvre, engineered by Michael Kohler at Golden Bug. I play an Emmons D-10 push pull pedal steel and a Williams 400 Series D-10, I like Peavey Nashville 400 amps with the Ken Fox mod for the steel, and Fenders for Telecaster. I am most fond of Vibroluxes and Deluxe Reverbs. I am a fan of Bob Keeley's pedals, PedalTrain pedal boards, Canare cables, Goodrich volume pedals, and SIT strings for the steels, Ernie Ball 10-46s for the teles. For resonator guitar I use a Beard Vintage cherry, and I like bars by BJS for the steel and Elmer Bradley for the resonator and lap steels. Gear geek anyone? |
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Music:Member Since: 9/12/2006Influences: My biggest influences on the pedal steel guitar are Paul Franklin, Buddy Emmons, Greg Leisz, JD Maness, Bruce Kaphan and Lloyd Green. On six string, I am a fan of Bill Frisell, Leon Rhodes, Allen Epley, Hank Garland, Jim Campilongo, Clarence White and James Burton. My heroes on the resonator guitar, BKA, the dobro are Jerry Douglas, Mike Auldridge, Josh Graves and of course, Bashful Brother Oswald. Bands, solo artists and composers: Alan Jackson, George Strait, George Jones, Life and Times, Shiner, Red House Painters, Ernest Tubb and the Texas Troubadors, Idaho, The Byrds, Low, Talk Talk, Flying Burrito Bros., Ours, Slint, Swervedriver, The Meters, Townes Van Zandt, Arvo Paert, Michael Nesmith, American Music Club, Blind Idiot God, Cocteau Twins, Dead Can Dance, Dif Juz, Ui, Neil Young, Iron and Wine, Rein Sanction, Allison Krauss and Union Station, Seldom Scene, Palace Bros. ...and many more Record Label: unsigned Type of Label: None |
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My Background and Lifestyle |
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| Occupation: | Music Artist (Country / Americana / Alternative) |
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Genevieve, Emmons Pedal Steel Guitars, Jerry Douglas, Clarence White, THE DIXONS, ARUM RAE, Kelly Jones, Shannon Mcnally, Kristin Mueller, Rench, Emily Zuzik, Abby Dobson, Tim Lefebvre/Skip Herbertson, Jim Campilongo, DOWNRIVER, Stars Like Fleas, Blind Idiot God, Tim Wyskida, Arvo Part, Bruce Kaphan, the life and times, Pinataland, Bob Hoffnar, federica_ photographer, Alec Gross, Brian Kantor, Curtis Eller, John Simonelli, rocketship park, Fulton Lights, Serious Business Records, Mike Pride, Jeremy Schonfeld, GEN TAMURA, The Blue Flower, Ryan Vaughn, Swiss, Pedal Steel, Benjamin Hoare, AlonsoAndFriends, Jon Itkin, Lex Paul Project, Kono Michi, Jason, Rein Sanction, Adam Franklin/Toshack Highway, DJ Simple Simon, Alec Berlin, Don DiPaolo Music, Kelly Buchanan, sergio, Jake Nolte, Brooklyn County Fair, Hannah Lindroth, mathias, GOLD TONE INSTRUMENTS, becca, Jesse, tianna, REID PALEY TRIO, Rosy Nolan, Frank Palmeri
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