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Impeccable playing throughout, with a pair of righteously inventive breaks, in a heckuva song by Robbie Fulks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqB5T91 ... 1U&index=1

A little David Lindley remembrance:
https://www.spin.com/2023/03/david-lindley-tribute/

The sensible,, informed, and thoughtful conversation of the Steel Guitar Forum is the direct result of the man who created it. Continuing in that spirit may be our best tribute. This forum is the legacy of a visionary.

Not the case my RusLer, so I'm guessing it's a set-up thing.
John DeMaille on the SGForum has been very helpful to me regarding RusLers. Maybe he can offer experienced thoughts.

I've often wondered what might happen when this day came...
Should have known you'd have it handled gracefully.
Nothing but thanks and gratitude.

May I offer a solution? It's worked unfailingly for me since I came up with it a while back, sparing me untold hours of "Dancing Queen" and "Honky Tonk Badonkadonk," allowing my brain the leisure tine it requires for deeper philosophical pursuits. Like walking while chewing gum p...

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Interesting discussion, circa 2000, from them that knowed 'cause they seen...

Drummer's a keeper — he's listening!

Hey, Mike: In the spirit of inspiration, I thought I'd throw some tunes your way. The central, common thing about this era of music is ... dance. Everybody danced. Music was for dancing, musicians called tunes based on their dance groove way up into the 20th Century, and everything that had Afrocent...

You couldn't be more right about Monk in this context, in his oblique sense of stride emerging from rags and cakewalks. This is a Pandora's box you're messin' with, a magic mirror, a rabbit hole that leads to a forgotten and now foreign land of minstrelsy, coonsongs, cakewalks, gazebo ornet solos, i...

Not enough footnotes and tendentious tautologies to achieve proper peer-review pomposity.

Might I suggest a bit of academic auto-tuning with this handy verbiage-o-matic?
https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/archive/scigen/

The most difficult instrument in both kinds of music — Western & Country.

Maybe the most difficult to get paid on...

Here's a link to Zane Beck playing the student model:
https://bb.steelguitarforum.com//viewto ... t=#2847286

Mickey and Ricky have both been among the most helpful, well-informed, and open members of this forum.

Without making light of the challenges they face, both are gifted, and generous with sharing their TBI — Tons of Brilliant Information.

Thanks, gentlemen.

Floyd Smith: "Floyd's Guitar Blues" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXYZ4AicW4s Hurley Ramey— Earl Hines Orchestran with Billy Eckstine "Jelly, Jelly" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUGK_okFzzw Blind Lemon Jeffrerson: "Jack O' Diamonds Blues" https://www.youtube.com/wa...

Another moment of Ed on steel, hand-tooling a beautifully nuanced filigree in another fine song: Hoyt Axton's "Evangelina."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t43JCQbqOVI

Ed was in Goose Creek Symphony (along with Mickey McGee, Doug Haywood, and Bob Willard Henke) back in Phoenix days. Here's the lead track on Michael Dinner's "The Great Pretender" album; Ed plays steel and guitar throughout the album alongside Mickey, with Doug doing harmonies. Ed's playin...

I like to think that maybe Tony Williams so kindly took him to see Mingus and looked after Willie so carefully because Willie had gone out on the town wearing one of his Buckaroos stage suits.....preferrably the pink Carnegie Hall one. That would explain why the other Buckaroos warned him he'd be mu...

Here's a Part 2 of an interview with Willie Cantu talking about how weeks after joining Buck and the Buckaroos at age 17, he was in NYC to play the Jimmy Dean Show, and went to the Village Vanguard to hear Miles....whereupon Tony Williams took him under his wing. And then.... https://www.youtube.com...

As to the Hankey Upright Fretboard, and possibly a few other upright factors: "There is simply no reason to compare the Hankey Upright Fretboard to horizontal boards. It is entirely new in concept and I am delighted beyond imagination. To say this works for me is the understatement of the year....

First: Brilliant thread title. Eleven extra points for hiphop allusion on SGF.
Second: Sneaky Pete.
(Heavier bar especially handy for opening-act gigs with sketchy security such as Altamont Speedway)[/img]

There was a gentleman on the SGForum (now deceased) named Ed Naylor who would soup-up your Maverick for you, adding levers, etc. It would be worth taking a look at his posts/discussions, but here's a bit of what he said at one point: "Practically all Mavericks I convert or sell parts for, are 3...

A pair of pics of the earlier Rus-Ler fretboard in white:

Hope this doesn't hijack this thread, but thinking about the notorious early Conway Twitty bands, I bumped across this: Harold Jenkins, with the SGForum's late, lamented Gene Jones killin' it on steel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DkgEUqNWUo According to a commenter who seems to know their stuff...

Evidently, green ones sound best.