The Steel Guitar Forum

If you can find it The Cibilo Smokehouse, which also has a rodeo is just starting up it's new schedule. We are playing there on the 21 March. It is in Bulverde, just South of San Antonio. I'd give directions . but i've got lost going there at least twice. The adress should be on the Lucky Tubb myspa...

Hi Burton, I think I have shared the bill with you a couple of times at Jovitas, you have the same guitar as me (1970's Walnut Emmons Push Pull) except for the leg extensions. You sure are getting a lot of work, It was only when I started playing with Casey Gill and J W of the Prospetrorsin Lucky Tu...

Jimmy Grabowske has been using a Super Sustain for the last few years, and quite a lot of the older players I come across in Texas still play MSAs

My Mum and Dad took me to the Harrow Granada to see Roy Orbison and Freddie and the Dreamers it was in the mid sixties I guess, it was a package tour, I think Lulu may have been on. First concert I went to without my parents would be Jimi Hendrix at the Royal Albert Hall, First steel guitar would pr...

Now I play with "The Modern Day Troubadours"
Previous band names have been pretty cool/silly depending on your take:
Hopalong Einstien
Emerson Biggins...I played with these guys for 6 months before I realised their name was a double entendre

Count me in. North London Born and Bred. (Come on You Spurs) Now 16 years in Austin Texas, and still talking funny.

In Lucky Tubb s Modern Day Troubadours we all wear complete matching outfits except for the singer: White western shirt w/ black string tie or Black western shirt with red string tie, black western pants with white arrow trim pockets. Lucky, the singer, wears a suit or a vintage western outfit of so...

I'm leaving for a week's vacation in San Francisco tomorrow,anyone playing there this week?

Hope my band jobs are still there when I get back (it's getting kind of cut throat here in Austin)

If you are talking about the English country band Los Pistoleros the steel player would be B.J cole

John came out to see us play last wednesday. I'll bet there weren't many bars in Texas with 2 English steel players that night. It was a pleasure meeting him, Too bad he couldn't sit in on my steel (Me Emmons, He Day) if he had I'm sure it would have been better than the noise I was making that nigh...

I sell on E Bay all the time but common sense whould tell you to stay clear of sellers like this. Almost 800 negative feedback s in one month!!!!!! Yikes.

He obviously knows nothing about what he is selling and seems to care even less. Don't knock all E bay seller because of a few clowns

That's my old buddy "Blockhead of the Year 1978" Clive "Slim" Paine on that disc. I thought the name sounded familiar. Last I heard of Slim he was still playing accordion with a band called Slims Cider co. He has a my space site at http://www.myspace.com/slimcyder Send him an ema...

I know we have Rileys' Tavern in Hunter on the 18th, the Blue Bird in Kingsbury, Texas Pride in Adkins Tx on the 27th and The Hanging Tree Saloon in Bracken on the 29th, all in the San Antonio, San Marcos area, It's traditional Texas dancehall music more or less. We'll probably be adding more dates ...

They can play without me this weekend at the Big Red Barn Canyon Lake Texas. I'm off to Dallas

Eeeeee! Turned out nice again

Played guitar since I was 13 years old, but pretty much gave up after taking up steel, I thought I'd got pretty good, but found out I'd forgotten 95% of my chops when I doubled on guitar waiting for our guitar player to show up.

Hey Dave, Congratulations, that is one very pretty axe. How many of Bobby's band now don't play steel?

Hey There's a coincidence, I was about to post a very similar question. I'll be in San Diego from Tuesday 9th Jan till the 14th. Any of you guys playing then?

Friday at Winstons Dance Hall on Hwy 12 between San Marcos and Wimberley, Saturday at the True Blue Texas Roadhouse in La Vernia, Texas. Both with the Emmerson Biggins Band.

Deacon Anderson, Bobby Koeffer, Tom Morrell, Billy Robinson, are a few I can think of off the top of my head that are still around, as are a lot of players who started on non pedal back in the day and then went to pedals

I started playing with a new band about a month ago. The band leader hired me, the guitar player didn't want me, and made it plain the first weekend, playing all over me, telling me I was out of tune every chance he got. Left the gig the second night vowing I would never work with them again. Got a ...

With The Emmerson Biggins Band tonight at Luxello Hall, formerly Cibilo Creek Country Club, on Evans Rdexit of 1 35, behind the Retama Park racetrack north of San Antonio, tomorrow Downtown McQueeny Texas 7-11

Rick, be sure and check out Cowjazz at Pearls on Saturday night after the Swingfest at The Stagecoach. They are a fine western swing band who don't play gigs as often as they should. I'll be there myself if I don't have a gig on Saturday.

That takes me back. I'm sure I heard some of that when it was originally broadcast back when I was a still a schoolboy in london. The Jimmy Young Show was required listening for my Mother and Grandmother. Nice job Basil, being so young at the time I never even knew there was a steel guitar there. TTFN

Ken Put me down for one of those. Now all I have to do is remember to bring my Profex