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"All they wanted was a steel guitar player," says Rick Schmidt about his appearance in a Shania Twain video. Schmidt, a Carlsbad-based pedal steel player, says he's done work "for everyone from Minnie Pearl to Scott Weiland." Last fall, though, while playing downtown with the Shadowdogs, Schmidt caught the attention of a producer who cast him in the Twain video for "I Ain't No Quitter." The video, which is aired on the CMT channel, was shot in Tijuana.

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"They drove us down to a restaurant in Lord-Knows-Where, Tijuana," says Schmidt. "It was converted to look like a honky-tonk. They shot it in TJ just to save money. I met a bunch of hot dancers at the border, and they took us all down in a van. Shania wasn't even there. She shot her part the day before....

"I thought I was gonna be in [the video] big time. I ended up being in there for two or three seconds; it's just my hands in front of a video screen with Shania singing. All I am is a hand model. I'm 54, so they had a makeup artist fix up my liver spots.... I got $350. I had to negotiate to get that much. It was more than what the dancers got. You know what they say about the squeaky wheel."

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"All they wanted was a steel guitar player," says Rick Schmidt about his appearance in a Shania Twain video. Schmidt, a Carlsbad-based pedal steel player, says he's done work "for everyone from Minnie Pearl to Scott Weiland." Last fall, though, while playing downtown with the Shadowdogs, Schmidt caught the attention of a producer who cast him in the Twain video for "I Ain't No Quitter." The video, which is aired on the CMT channel, was shot in Tijuana.

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"They drove us down to a restaurant in Lord-Knows-Where, Tijuana," says Schmidt. "It was converted to look like a honky-tonk. They shot it in TJ just to save money. I met a bunch of hot dancers at the border, and they took us all down in a van. Shania wasn't even there. She shot her part the day before....

"I thought I was gonna be in [the video] big time. I ended up being in there for two or three seconds; it's just my hands in front of a video screen with Shania singing. All I am is a hand model. I'm 54, so they had a makeup artist fix up my liver spots.... I got $350. I had to negotiate to get that much. It was more than what the dancers got. You know what they say about the squeaky wheel."

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