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Original Klon Centaur. The Klon Centaur is an overdrive pedal made by the American engineer Bill Finnegan between 1994 and 2008. Finnegan aimed to create a pedal that would recreate the harmonically rich distortion of a guitar amplifier at a high volume. Finnegan struggled to meet demand, and used units sold for inflated prices.
Cortez lifts his hands from the strings. “Kind of,” he says. With school work and sports, sometimes it's hard to find the time. The Hawaiian steel guitar became a cultural force in America at ...
Bill Finnegan died of Parkinson's disease at his home in Sag Harbor, New York, on November 28, 2008, at the age of 80. [1] He and his wife, Patricia Finnegan, had four children – Michael Finnegan, a political reporter for the Los Angeles Times; William Finnegan, a staff reporter for The New Yorker; Colleen, a doctor; and Kevin, a labor lawyer.
Zane Beverly Beck (1927–1985) was an American steel guitarist and builder of pedal steel guitars. [1] He is best known for his 1952 innovation of adding knee levers to the pedal steel guitar to alter the pitch of certain strings, [2]: 2 a feature which has become a standard on all modern-day instruments.
Buddy Gene Emmons (January 27, 1937 – July 21, 2015) was an American musician who is widely regarded as the world's foremost pedal steel guitarist of his day. [1] [2] He was inducted into the Steel Guitar Hall of Fame in 1981. [3]
Bennett Keith Schaeufele (March 6, 1937 – July 26, 2010), better known by his stage name Ben Keith, was an American musician and record producer.Known primarily for his work as a pedal steel guitarist with Neil Young, Keith was a fixture of the Nashville country music community in the 1950s and 1960s before working with numerous successful rock, country and pop artists as both a producer and ...
Pedal steel guitar 1987 Exit 0 [8] Steel guitar, vocals 1988 Copperhead Road [8] Pedal steel, lap steel, dobro R.E.M. Green [8] Pedal steel guitar 1990 Steve Earle The Hard Way [1] Mullins pedal steel guitar 1991 Shut Up and Die Like an Aviator: Steel guitar, electric and acoustic guitars, six-string bass 1995 Bob Dylan: Unplugged
He began playing guitar and soon added dobro and lap steel, inspired to pick up the pedal steel after hearing Sneaky Pete Kleinow and Buddy Emmons. In 1975, he toured with John Stewart (formerly of The Kingston Trio). He was a member of Funky Kings who released their eponymous debut album on Arista Records in 1976. After the band broke up, he ...