The Steel Guitar Forum

Tony, According to the last line of the chorus of Your Cheatin' Heart (basis of Sears and Roebuck intro), they would be considered harmonies of the IV chord leading directly to the V chord. This is also illustrated in the fiddle solo in the middle of the tune. However, it's probably all mox nix for ...

Paddy, You will hear a noticably better high frequency response with the George L cables than with the blue Belden cables. It's been explained to me that this is because the larger-diameter Belden cable, although extremely durable, has a higher capacitance factor and is therefore more prone to cance...

I use my Peavey Nashville 1000 with my A/B switch and it sounds good with my Emmons LeGrande II (with B.L. 710 pickup) and my G & L ASAT guitar with the large single-coils. These pickups match just about exactly as far as output volume and they are a close match tonally. Everything goes thru my ...

Sweet, sweet, sweet baby sweet! Isn't it amazing how a relatively straight-forward and uncomplicated musical arrangement, in the hands of an accomplished master player like Buddy Emmons, comes off sounding so beautiful? Actually very near heavenly. What a touch he has! Would to God that I may someda...

You can purchase this CD at one of Gene Watson's live shows (and he will sign it for you), or I betcha the E.T. Record Shop could round up a copy. BTW many or maybe all of the recordings Gene did on Step One have Buddy on them and it's fine, fine playing, finer than frog hair! Nobody backs a singer ...

At the Grand Rapids show, that is...

Tim Rowley <FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Tim Rowley on 30 April 2004 at 11:15 PM.]</p></FONT>

Drew, I've been playing country music for well over 30 years and I'm here to tell you that Perry is exactly right about this type of intro when it comes to "traditional" or "standard" music, country or otherwise. It is a whole lot more useful system than the "vamp" type...

I think Larry's on the right track. A lot of it is the player. To my ears, nothing sounds better than a fine "vintage" player on a classic old steel through a good modern amp. There are a number of examples like Don Helms and Kayton Roberts. All right, case in point: yesterday afternoon at...

Smiley Sir, I learn something every day, thanks to guys like you, Carl, Jody, and Al Marcus. I didn't know that was Jeff on "You Lay So Easy On My Mind". Sure do remember the record, it was one of my favorite ballads when it came out. What year was that, 1974 or so? Man, that was great ste...

Actually the SM-58 is a cardioid mic; it has a "heart-shaped" pickup pattern which, although certainly directional, is NOT as directional as the SM-57 which renders the 58 more useful for vocal applications. On shows, I mic my amp with an SM-57 pointed directly at the sweet spot of the spe...

Mike, My feelings are similar to yours. I'm not casting stones either, but just stating a fact. For instance, the new Wal-Mart "Super Center" in a town about 35 miles from here pays their workers $5.50 per hour (supervisors get $6.00/hr), take it or leave it, because it's the so-called &qu...

I know that a lot of you folks have one of these amps. I finally yielded my stubborn will and bought one yesterday. My Nashville 400 got right to the place where I had to tear it apart and work on it before every gig (too much bouncing around over the years), and my Session 500 is just too heavy to ...

Harley:

You should move to Michigan ASAP. We need ya here.

Tim Rowley

Well I'm sticking with Jagwire strings! I've had only one (1) faulty Jagwire string over the past several years that I've been buying and using them: it was a broken twist on an .022 plain which evidently occurred during the winding process. I told Danny about it and he immediately sent me 2 replace...

I have a "classic country" gig every Sunday evening where I play steel as the only lead instrument. Like Doug says, you've gotta have something going almost all the time; rhythm, padding, fills, licks, intros, turnarounds, solos. After all, it's all dance music and this group plays a lot o...

Sure I remember Peggy Little. Fastest vocal vibrato I ever heard in a female voice! I recall listening to her sing, among other songs, a cover of the Lynn Anderson hit "Rose Garden" on one of the half-hour syndicated country music TV shows back around 1969 or so. I always wondered what hap...

Bowler's Pro-Grip. A little dab will do ya. Learned this tip from Don Helms years ago. Later I switched to JF picks and they seem to stay on fine by themselves.

Tim Rowley

No David, not to my knowledge, although I'm glad you asked. Actually we could be distantly related as I've heard that all the Rowleys are related way back in history hundreds of years. Well here we go: my ancestors originally came from Ireland and England, all these serious-looking old guys with big...

My old push-pull loafer is sunburst lacquer. Unfortunately the guitar is loaned out right now and I don't know when it's coming back, so I can't get you a picture. But I know that the cabinet is "bird's-eye" maple and the finish is basically a transparent reddish orange shaded with gloss b...

I wear traditional trifocals because I need them, but they make it "interesting" to see the fretboard properly, to say the least. But I get by pretty well. I don't think that I could manage the progressive lenses though. Everyone I've spoken to says they really give your neck a workout try...

Hi Drew, OK, I finally met Jon Potyrkus last night. A very talented player and a real nice guy. He showed up in Harrison MI at the benefit for Rod Raymond. Jon is playing in the acoustic country/folk/bluegrass band of Rex Raymond (Rod's son). A great band by the way, they play mostly originals. I'm ...

My 2 cents: Seems to me that there was also an old cat by the name of "Ah'-tah" Godfrey on the CBS radio network back in the 1950's and early 1960's who played pretty well on the uke (a lot better than he sang) and I've been told that he made a dollar or two with the thing. I started on th...

WGDN, 103.1 FM, Gladwin, MI. ALL NIGHT LONG! When it comes to "traditional country music" this station is absolutely kickin' butt and takin' names in the mid-Michigan area. I mean Ray Price, Faron Young, Carl Smith, Bill Anderson, Porter Wagoner, Hank Thompson, Ernest Tubb, Sonny James, Ro...

Well-known Michigan steeler Rick Jarvis (now deceased) used a Leslie in a black tolex Miller cabinet for years. He had it hooked into his Sho-Bud Christmas Tree amp and activated it with a stomp switch. When the Leslie kicked in, the speaker in the Sho-Bud kicked out and vise versa. At the time, Ric...

Yes, Jerry is a prince of a guy. Can't say enough about him, he is a great ambassador for our instrument!

Tim Rowley