Word: dobro
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rusty Young's steel and dobro playing is the instrumental core of Poco. His strength is his willingness to explore the rock possibilities of his country music instruments. From the steel, he pulls the Hammond organ sound vital to the ballads by playing through a Leslie tone cabinet, the standard Hammond amplifier. He's content to play the dobro through a wah-wah pedal, making "Good Feeling" sound like it's being played in a wind tunnel. Yet he can also provide country licks that would do the folks at the Grand Ole Opry proud...
...Dobro took a more skeptical view of the problem. "You get some overzealous guy from the Globe and he doesn't know what the hell it's all about, anyway," he said...
Independent Taxi Association President Max Dobro yesterday defended the overflow practice and noted that "it's not done all the time...