The Steel Guitar Forum

Thanks, this is helpful. It should be moved to permanent status with the tuning and other advice at the top of the thread list.

Marc, excellent performance, recording, and mixing. Back in the day, I wasn't really a GD fan, I was more a fan of Dylan, the Band, the Byrds, Jesse Colin Young, etc. But thanks to YouTube clips, I've developed an appreciation for the Dead and its offshoots. In some of the early clips, the Dead's vo...

Beautiful job all around vocals and instuments!

Guitar players sometimes resort to a clean boost or treble boost pedal to click on for taking solos. This should work equally well for steel. That way, you can keep the sound of the 705 but just boost when you need it.

I use the polytune clip from T.C. Electronic. I don't clip it, just place it on the deck of my steel beside the keys. Works well.

Gary, fascinating improv with drone. Well done.

Little Pete from the Dillards' Wheatstraw Suite LP features Rodney Dillard on steel playing some basic fills and even a brief solo towards the end. Back in the day I was a bluegrass picker and hadn't heard much pedal steel so this track really caught my ear at the time. https://www.youtube.com/watch...

Wow, nice matching pair! That looks like a pull-string Tele, am I right?

I'm not sure if anybody has posted a link to this cover of a Sheryl Crow song by Dan Baker with some nice steel on it. In any case, here it is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tv48tmSAWag

For $600 that's what you call a steal steel.

My pleasure. I wasn't sure if somebody else had linked to it, so I posted it.

Ted Smouse wrote:Thank you Dennis Brown for posting that link!

I could not tune in during that weekend. There is some excellent playing in that two hour video.

Thanks again!

Ted

You would have to ask Scott Finch about his build, I just posted the link. But definitely a unique project.

Scott Finch built his own pedal steel using pulleys and ropes instead of rods. Doesn't list his copedent. Plays his version of the Tennessee Waltz.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1XvCbNpFz0

Kiyoshi Lion Kobayashi is in the video at the link below [at 57:58] explaining his Excel no pedal all lever guitar, 9 levers on a 10 string. His copedent is shown [at 100:09]. He then proceeds to demonstrate some fine playing...at 89 years of age. Hope for a youngster like me at 77. https://www.yout...

Bob, many thanks for your work setting up and maintaining this forum. After lurking on this forum for about eighteen months, I made the decision to buy a psg. The information and advice available here was instrumental (pun intended) in making that decision. Enjoy your retirement.

Thanks for this pointer to this fantastic channel, Bill. Some great listening (and great playing!) there.

Love it, especially using the E9 in a jazz context. Bass clarinet sounds fantastic.

Another vote for FEDEX here. Ron Anderson shipped my Justice to Canada via FE and it arrived safe and sound, securely packed, even mostly in tune.

The first real attention I paid to pedal steel guitar was to Sneaky Pete Kleinow's work in Christine's Tune on the first Flying Burritos recording. The combination of the singers, the song, and the way the steel fills and solos all came together really defined what would come to be known as country ...

I too have recently taken delivery of a Justice S10 3x4 guitar in red. Here's a picture amid the clutter of a room that is yet to be organized around the new arrival. I'm a new member but have been lurking for some time and my discovery of the Justice guitars came from other owners' posts about its ...