The Steel Guitar Forum

She's still available.

I don't have any pics yet of my current band, so I'll send this one of when I was picking with Doug and the guys. Okay, I am not, and never have been, a member of the Marshall Tucker Band. But being invited to sit in with one of my all-time favorite groups (formed by fellow South Carolina natives) -...

I've mentioned it before, but Don Herron has been one of my best friends for almost 33 years, and he just keeps getting better and better as a musician. He was just a 21-year-old fiddle, mandolin and beginning lead guitar player new to Texas from his West Virginia home when we first started working ...

Hey everyone! Just checking in.

Thanks! I REALLY appreciate the encouragement.

I'm not in any hurry to sell it, just thought it might be a tad overpriced.

Thanks again!

I have two standing offers of $1600 for this BMI, but I just think it's worth more than that.

I'm open to offers as low as $1650.

Thanks!

I've posted before about how I got my BMI D10 with the intention of learning how to lay down those jazzy Western Swing leads on the C6 neck, but it's just not going to happen. I've been playing the E9 tuning for more than 30 years, but playing the C6 neck with anything like confidence and competence...

I first knew Kenny when he was playing with one of Herb Graham's project bands out of Odessa, TX. Then, a couple years later, I found he was playing with my old friend Clay Mac in Ruidoso, NM. MAN those two guys could do some awesome twin guitar parts, even though Clay has always primarily been know...

Having PSG string spacing more like a dobro would really nice.

When I was in the house band of a large North Texas nightclub back in the early 1980s, everyone who was anyone in country music came through on tours (many of them came through several times in the three years I was there); and I saw some of the best steel players in the business in that time. One p...

Even all these years later, everyone wants to be Lynyrd Skynyrd, the Marshall Tucker Band or the Eagles. I have nothing against those bands; especially Marshall Tucker. But country - the music of ordinary working Americans - arose as the soundtrack of the common man, and it was never supposed to be ...

I lived in Colorado Springs for eight years, and played (country) music for a living the whole time. And I found out that when it came to music there were at that time 2 Colorados. One is in the mountains, where just about everything west of the Front Range depends on winter and summer visitors (wit...

Sorry to be so long in getting back to this thread. I was playing some bookings out of town and I don't like trying to type with that irritating "touch keyboard" on my tablet. Anyway, thanks for all the responses! With the information and insights you guys provided, I'll give trying to pic...

I've always played single-neck 3+4 pedal steels. Their simplicity of operation always worked nicely with the airy guitar-esque early '70s country/rock way I like my steel playing to sound. Then, I somehow got the idea that I'd like to learn to play the C6 neck, too. This is Texas, after all, and (as...

If we're talking about playing songs by listening to the melodies and developing an innate understanding of how the chord changes will probably work (even if you've never heard the song before), and not strictly pitch-based ear training, I'm sure there are lots of us with similar experiences. I alwa...

They're sure easier for me to adjust. I'm 6', but my son - who's learning PSG on his own Maverick - is 6'4", and he has to raise the back legs when he plays my BMI. So we re-adjust the legs quite a bit. I just measured, and the outer sleeve is nine and a half inches from where the top threads i...

That's the way they're made, yeah. And they were with the steel when I bought it. They're just as sturdy as the legs on any other PSG I've had over the years, they just make more sense than the conventional kind.

I'm just curious as to why they aren't more common.

Okay, the photo didn't upload. Let's try it again (and, yes, I do use the same Shubb SP2 bar for both dobro and pedal steel).

Don Fritsche, at BMI, says according to the serial number my D10 is from 1980 and that surprises me since I figured it was at least five years older. So that's pretty cool. But it also has back leg peculiarities I've never seen on another pedal steel of any kind. You can see in the photo that the ad...

I thought I'd seen every kind of pedal steel guitar there is, until I ran across this Craigslist ad: http://nashville.craigslist.org/msg/4880881512.html I'm not (as my old granny used to say) throwing off on it, I've just never seen anything like it before. I can see where it would work nicely for a...

Yeah. Even way back then it made more sense to me to buy one already made by experts for a relative few dollars more than it cost to get a kit and make one. And after owning so many different brands and quality levels of pedal steels over the years, I know I'll never be more than a dabbler when it c...

Emmett Roch wrote:My GFI goes sharp when it gets cold. The aluminum body is not going to affect the maple die board very much, so it's usually within just a few cents.

My BMI does the same.

Back in the late 1970s, when I first started playing music for a living as a teenager (you could get lots of 6-nighters back then, and the drinking age was 18 in lots of places), one of the guys in one of the first country road bands I was with had a 3-pedal/1-lever PSG he made from a kit. He was al...

Makes sense.

Don has been one of my best friends, and a musical hero of mine, since 1982. He just played fiddle, bluegrass mandolin and some lead guitar when we first worked together, and I showed him his first pedal pulls - how they change the chords - and that's all he needed. You don't "teach" someo...