Pete Drake
Pete Drake | |
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Birth name | Roddis Edward Drake |
Born | producer | October 8, 1932
Instrument(s) | Pedal steel guitar |
Roddis Franklin "Pete" Drake (October 8, 1932 – July 29, 1988)
Career
Drake was born in
In 1959, he moved to Nashville, joined the Nashville A-Team, and went on the road as a backup musician for Don Gibson, Marty Robbins, and others. In 1964 he had an international hit on Smash Records with his "talking steel guitar" playing on Bill Anderson's 1963 album Still.
The single "
You play the notes on the guitar and it goes through the amplifier. I have a driver system so that you disconnect the speakers and the sound goes through the driver into a plastic tube. You put the tube in the side of your mouth then form the words with your mouth as you play them. You don't actually say a word: The guitar is your vocal cords, and your mouth is the amplifier. It's amplified by a microphone.
The equipment was only loud enough to be useful in the studio for recordings.[7]
Drake played on Bob Dylan's three albums recorded in Nashville, including Nashville Skyline, and on Joan Baez's David's Album.[1] He also worked with George Harrison on All Things Must Pass,[1] and produced Ringo Starr on Beaucoups of Blues in 1970.[6][8]
Drake produced albums for many other musicians, and founded Stop Records
Death
Developing
References
- ^ ISBN 0-85112-726-6.
- ^ Pete Drake Bio Archived 2012-02-18 at the Wayback Machine @ Augusta.com
- ^ a b Kristin M. Hall, AP Entertainment Writer (May 1, 2022). "The Judds, Ray Charles join the Country Music Hall of Fame". ABC News. Retrieved May 1, 2022.
- ^ "Ray Charles, The Judds to join Country Music Hall of Fame". The Seattle Times. August 16, 2021. Retrieved August 24, 2021.
- ISBN 0-214-20512-6.
- ^ a b Green, Douglas. "Pete Drake: everyone's favorite" - Steel Guitar Stories @ Calsharp.com
- ^ "ProSoundWeb. Forum: Recording Engineering & Production. Thread: JUNE is "Ask Bob Heil" Month! Message: 347458. Bob Heil responds about the origin of the Talk Box. Posted June 6, 2008". Archived from the original on September 29, 2011. Retrieved June 22, 2009.
- ^ Review: Shultz, Gary. Beaucoups Of Blues Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine - June 9, 1999
- ^ Paulson, Dave; Leimkuehler, Matthew (August 17, 2021). "Charles, Judds join Hall of Fame". Vol. 117, no. 229. The Tennessean. p. 1.
External links
- PeteDrakeMusic.com — Official web site, including bio, credits, timeline, photos, videos, and store
- Pete Drake - It Shore Ain't No Vocoder - Pete Drake on Record Robot
- Davies, Phil. Pete Drake
- First Generation Records @ CountryRecords.com
- Pete Drake Biography by Craig Harris @ AllMusic
- Old video of talking electric guitar
- Pete Drake at Find a Grave
- A version of "Forever", performed live it looks like, on YouTube Forever (live) - Pete Drake