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01-12-2006, 07:17 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Columbus, Georgia | | | Robert Randolph anyone?
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Got the Robert Randolph and the Family Band CD a while back and have been meaning to post this thread for a while. This guy blew my mind. Flat out rips the steel guitar to peices.
Also was watching the new DMB band DVD "Weekend at the Rocks", and Randolph sits in for a tune. Just kills.
Wondering if anyone else digs Robert Randolph, and hoping that if you havent heard him, youll check him out.
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01-12-2006, 07:20 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Dallas | | | Robert IS THE MAN!!!
I'm a huge fan of Robert and The Family Band. Those guys are awesome. Almost met Robert when they did Clapton's Crossroads music festival here in Dallas a couple of years back. If you haven't seen them on the DVD it's a good watch.
AMAZING live show. Entire band is very well qualified to back his astounding pedal playing in my book! |
01-12-2006, 07:21 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Alexandria, VA | | | Yeah, Robert and his band are awesome. I'm not generally into the jam band scene but I've seen them twice and they tore it up both times. I think the bass player is Robert's cousin. I can't remember his name but he's a great player and does some vocals too. |
01-12-2006, 07:38 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Dallas, TX. | | | Danyel Morgan is his name, and he is indeed Robert's cousin. His falsetto just kills me everytime. He's such a big, muscular guy to be singing that high hehe. |
01-12-2006, 07:47 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Beautiful Western Colorado | | | I have never heard Robert Randolph, but I have been very aware of him for several years since I play steel guitar. He gets a lot of attention over on the Steel Guitar Forum, but then anybody under the age of 50 who plays steel guitar is a rarity. We thought we were a vanishing breed, but Randolph may revive the instrument. He plays a Fessenden right now, but all the bigger builders would love to have him play one of theirs.
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01-12-2006, 08:46 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Alexandria, VA | | | Excellent band. They're a ton of fun to listen to.
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01-12-2006, 01:35 PM
|  | put a bird on it | | Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Minnesota | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Juneau Danyel Morgan is his name, and he is indeed Robert's cousin. His falsetto just kills me everytime. He's such a big, muscular guy to be singing that high hehe. | true...the guy is like 6'7 and sings falsetto...
RR plays the steel guitar like jimi hendrix if you ask me...i love it! |
01-12-2006, 01:41 PM
|  | ... activating internal kill switch ... | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Pig's Eye, MN (aka st. paul) | | | yep, a sweet band.
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01-12-2006, 01:56 PM
|  | What In The World? | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Ohio | | I saw them live in a med sized venue. They were incredible! At one point in the show, everyone exchanged instruments. Robert held his own on bass, guitar, drums, and keyboards. and so did everyone else in the band. The next day I went out and bought the cds. 
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01-12-2006, 02:25 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Metro NYC | | | I have a couple of their CDs and enjoy them. My take is that the band plays and sounds terrific, but that the songwriting is nothing special (yet). Not that the songs are terrible, just that IMO they get over, to the extent they do, not because the songs themselves are particularly good, but because they're played with such fire and talent.
If RR and company could keep playing the way they do, but do it on a somewhat better set of songs ... man, that would be monstrous.
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01-12-2006, 02:37 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Keith, Scotland | | | I heard Robert Randolph and the family band in Glasgow when they supported Eric Clapton. I was really wanting their set to last a lot longer. I am hoping that they will tour the U.K. in their own right. They are a unique and very tight band and well worth making a point of going to see.
I agree with the comments re Danyel Morgan, a superb player.
The drummer is Robert's brother Marcus hence the title family band.
There is also a keyboard player in the lineup but I don't know his name.
Check them out. Buy the CD!
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01-12-2006, 03:49 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: From Aptos CA to Solon IA | | You guys need to check out Clapton's dvd "CROSSROADS" Almost 3 hrs of top shelf blues guitarists.
Randolph sat in on Jimmy Vaughns "Six String Down"......
OOOH! I gots the chills watchin' this guy. He also plays one of his tunes "The March". He's up there with the Stevie Ray's and Duane Allmans................fabulous pedal steel player. 
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01-12-2006, 03:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Dallas, TX. | | | BTW, for superbassman2000, go pick up Soulive's new CD - Breakout. RR plays on all the interlude tracks, and does an amazing cover of Crosstown Traffic with them. He plays all the vocal parts on the pedal steel. |
01-12-2006, 08:28 PM
| | put a bird on it | | Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Minnesota | | | I might just have to do that! |
05-03-2006, 09:47 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Los Angeles | | | I like them too. Their performance on Clapton's Crossroads DVD is quite entertaining. The bass solo with the octaver was rather interesting. Cool effect. |
05-03-2006, 03:01 PM
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05-03-2006, 03:04 PM
| | | Have him on the Bonnaroo 2002 dvd. 
He opened for Clapton the last time he came to Columbus. Didn't make the show, but all the reviews said Robert blew Eric off the stage!  |
05-03-2006, 03:08 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Palm Coast Florida | | | His playing reminds me alot of Duane Allman's slide playing.....I have not purchased a cd yet, but one is in need.
+1 on the Clapton Crossroads Concert DVD - Excellent, Excellent, Excellent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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05-03-2006, 03:18 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Michigan, USA | | | Robert is the man! His band is sick too. I really want to see them live. |
05-03-2006, 03:22 PM
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Applications Engineer, QSC Audio | | Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Costa Mesa, Calif. | | RR is very cool! I thnk of him and the Family Band as what Sly and the Family Stone might've been like if Sly played pedal steel.
Speaking of steel guitar, a friend of mine, Marty Rifkin, is playing steel on Bruce Springsteen's current tour. Seeing as I always get Marty and his kids NAMM badges every year, I'm hoping he'll return a favor …  | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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