The Steel Guitar Forum

Chain of coincidences... I happened to see Robbie Robertson interviewed on the excellent PBS American Masters biography of David Geffen last week, and that made me want to hear Richard Shindell's cover of The Band's "Acadian Driftwood." Listening, I noticed again Larry Campbell's sweet und...

Lenny put a bunch of Marlen parts up for auction on eBay earlier this year and I picked up a few of them and had the pleasure of trading a few emails with him. He mentioned his illness but I didn't want to think he was this close to the end. I was very much impressed by his kind manner and his dedic...

"American Music Shop" for sure. It was the highlight of my week. The guests were great, but Mark O'Connor, Jerry Douglas, and Brent Mason in the house band... Are you kidding me?

Great example, I'll definitely be studying that.

And maybe Tom had had an extra glass of iced tea that day or something but he really kicks the volume up through the first half of that solo. Love that overdrive.

Nicely done there. Cool stuff!

Located my dial caliper and my round tuit... My puller barrels, both plastic and the brass set-screw ones, are all 1/4" diameter and 3/8" long--in case that helps. Oh, and in reply to Michael's earlier question, the rod clearance holes look like they're more or less supposed to be centered...

Just a note from recent personal experience: My Marlen (early 80s S10 pull-release) uses those little plastic "bullets" along with set-screw shaft collars on strings with more than one raise or lower. I bought some 1/8" TIG rod to replace the coathangers a previous owner had used, but...

Joachim Kettner wrote:I guess my father wouldn't have cared for the original very much back than. I don't care for this, now that I'm on the other side of the generation gap.

That's quite philosophical of you. So basically you're saying you're a lot like him.

So who got this gig? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcmvwWRqOn4 There's lots of cross-cultural stuff going on. It's a cover of Jaz-Z and Kanye West from last year, a big deal although of course I didn't know about it. And in the original, "We're gonna skate to one song, and one song only" ...

Old thread woken up... Just in case someone finds this while looking for Marlen parts, that's being discussed in another topic: http://bb.steelguitarforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=222243 Nutshell: Lenny Stadler (Len's son) is retired now and is selling Marlen parts from the remaining stock. And that's on...

I'd love to figure out what the argument is, so I can take sides and call somebody an ignorant slut. :D It does seem to have drifted a bit from what the title says, and that's a good thing IMHO. Having a discussion based on one's own opinion of whether someone does or doesn't really love their past...

Ps... Are people really arguing with PF???? Crazy.... No dog in this fight but really? Nobody here's infallible, unless the P stands for "Pope" and no one told me about it. :D There have been some excellent thoughts on both sides in this topic. And if challenging an acknowledged master ge...

A message in a bottle, so to speak... Found a scrap of string wrapper beneath the pickup of my new-to-me S10 Marlen: http://bb.steelguitarforum.com/userpix1029/10368_message01post_1.jpg Written on the back of this: http://bb.steelguitarforum.com/userpix1029/10368_message02post_1.jpg Anyone know or k...

Sure enough, that was it. Gone now. Thanks again!

Thanks Greg. More is better. I'm still wondering about that "2A" on the 6th string in the 5th measure though. An A pedal doesn't affect that string, does it? And I was just browsing through the Winnie Winston/Bill Keith book and happened to notice the chord listing on p.43, which includes ...

Thanks for the super-easy transaction, Jim!

I got a couple of pieces from Lenny last week. He mentioned his health situation as Glenn says, but in my case at least he replied quickly and shipping was very prompt. And the parts look great.

Thanks, that's good stuff Greg. Just scanning through it looks like something I could definitely use for honky-tonk and swing comping. I'll work on it for sure. Oh: Is there a typo in measure 5, on the second C chord? There's "2A" for string 6 but the A pedal changes 5 and 10. Would that b...

Most of the content has been archived by the Wayback Machine at archive.org: http://web.archive.org/web/20110207213757/http://wesleydick.com/index.html By a quick random sample, some of the .zip files of BIAB tunes are also archived there but not all of them. There's a note on the front page from so...

I've been working a little bit at a time setting up my single-neck pull-release Marlen before trying to learn to play it, and finally it's at the point where there are three pedals and two levers working and in tune. I was just testing things out, unplugged, no bar or picks, and happened to notice a...

According to the Bluegrass Today website, he passed away on Friday afternoon. Funeral services were this evening. I never had the pleasure of meeting him but his name came up quickly when someone asked about getting a quality setup on an acoustic instrument in this part of the world, and no one I kn...

Putting bad ideas in my head, man...

Is this one? David Lindley w/ Jackson Browne - BBC 1978 - "Doctor My Eyes" & "These Days":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08i-2j6OmmA

Kevin, if I didn't already have unfinished projects piled so high I can barely see over them, I'd be right there with you joining in on the fun for sure. Love Danelectros, made in Neptune NJ during the Cold War by lefties who couldn't get clearance to work in defense manufacturing, or so the tale is...

I wonder if this is just one of those "lesser artists borrow, great artists steal" things. The rest of us might worry about a song sounding too much like Bruce, but maybe it's just never been his way to waste time thinking "Is this too much like Woody Guthrie?" or "I wonder ...

One of the guitarists - Smokey Hormel. Really? I've heard that he's a real ham. (Bah-dum-bump) Steve Khan: First heard of him when Steely Dan's Gaucho came out. Great stuff there. Interesting survey overall. I recognized a few names, way less than half. Some like Erin McKeown and Jill Sobule I thin...