The Steel Guitar Forum

I guess some folks say "less is more"!

Why schlep around a T-8 when you can make do with an S-3!

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Just when I've seen everything...

Roy said: "...increasing the stiffness of the body can lessen that portion of “cabinet drop” that results from the flexing of the body..." Cabinet drop eh? So thats whats wrong with my playing! I've been telling my wife for years that its not the scale length that matters, but stiffness &a...

Hi Jon, Sorry for bumping this old thread, but I love my National Dynamic/Special S-8. It has a distinct sound of its own- different from the trebly Fenders, the mid-rangy Gibsons & the roarin' Ricky's. Here are some pix of the Dynamic/Special: Mine is an S-8, black on black sorta like the one a...

Hey wait a minute Bruce! Are you the same Bruce Bouton who played the KILLER non-pedal intro on 'Boot Scoot Boogie' & the nuclear non-pedal fills on Shania's 'Outta Here'? If you are, then you've already got MONSTER tone fella! You're not allowed to buy a stringmaster- we couldnt stand it. And G...

Loni: Was that soul-dripping 'bliss, or soul- dripping 'gliss'?

Hi Terry, Congrats! My current band is more 'folky' than bluesy (spanish acoustic, bass + me on 8-string lap steel & backing vocals) fronted by a female singer/songwriter, but we cover some blues tunes too. Tuesday nite we did 2 sets at the Academy St bar & coffee shop and managed to cover P...

Good suggestion Jay- I have my favourites page on e-bay set up to prompt if I actually mean to search for Rickenbacher or Rickenbacker as well as lab steel, peddle steel, Whine guitar & slide guitar etc....

Hi Kevin, You've gotten really great advice from Ian & Ray, so I'll just muddy the waters a little. There IS one more Rick model not yet discussed: There are some cheap, wooden Ricks with string-through body & the 1.25" pickup around that sound pretty decent. They do not have any of the...

Hi Ron! You have a "find" there if you are the Ron who won the auction. Regal steels were made by the National Dobro outfit out of Chicago in the Late 30's though early 50's. The dual blade pu's are very different from all other National/Valco/Supro products. The knock is that they have ra...

Sorry for shamelessly bragging about our show, but I just have to point out that its quite rare to have a steel show with so many GOOD non-pedalers (the other guys, not me). I'm still enjoying the afterglow! Billy Jones' set alone was worth the price of admission. Billy played some Ellington/Strayho...

Blue Hawaii is great gentlemen, but Jerry's Steelin' the Blues with (I think) Rex Allen Sr (thanks Al for the update) on vocals is just plain scary! Jerry gets both a wah guitar effect & then a muted trumpet effect on this song. He then proceeds to lay down maybe the best single-note blues lines...

Another smashingly successful steel weekend in Winnipeg. We heard from world-class pedal ace Al Brisco & several SGF posters from the pedal side (Don Walters, Dean Neely, George Mcllelan) plus a guy named Bill Simmons from Dallas with the buttery'est tone I've ever heard in my life. But the high...

Thx for posting the pix Don. I thoroughly enjoyed your sparkiling sets both nights, but especially Fri, when you worked mostly on the 'back neck'.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=33037&item=3716572486&rd=1 These limited edition, lawsuit babies with the horseshoe pickups have killer tone both clean & over-driven somewhere between pre-war & post-war bakelites. My question: whut is the function of the 3...

Hi Don, I play steel in a garage band every Wednsday nite- Is that what you had in mind?

I bought a Sho-Bud PSG at Gallagher's music on W. Warren Rd back in '82'. That neighbourhood then was a workin' man's area with lots of country bars etc. Gallagher carried Sho-Bud and Fender products & a full line of steel accessories (if my fuzzy memory serves me). But that district is all Mexi...

b0b, That "E6add9" tuning would be the same one you refer to as "pentatonic" on your web site (B E F# G#B C# E G#? If so, where are the power chords you refer to? I can see power chords on the Sol Hoopi E6/C#m7 (E B E G# C# E)lo to hi.... Please enlighten me, I'm askin' ya, not a...

I love all those country-rock groups too- PPL; NRPS; Poco; Burritos etc.

One clarification: Al Brisco from Toronto 'ghosted' the beautiful E-9 work in Angel, Jazzman & other cuts on the first PPL album. John Call played on the "live" album...

Hi Bob,

I'd very much like to purchase one of your DVD's. Could you please tell me how much postage to add for Canada?

Thx,

Patrick Elazar

Hi Bill- Happy new year! I lucked out & heard both masters themselves: Maurice 'Ted' Beard & Calvin Cooke. Calvin taught Robert Randolph, Alvin Lee & also Chuck Campbell how to play. In my opinion, he's the master & they are very good but still students. I compare Calvin to the maste...

I was in Detroit on a family matter last week. So, the Sunday before Xmas I went to Ted Beard's church & the Sunday after Xmas I went to Calvin Cooke's church. Listening to these masters in their own millieu is both humbling & inspiring at the same time. Studio recordings definitely do not d...

Thank you very much for your replies! Denny- great website, thank you very much for the lesson in modal theory. I'm taking that to the woodshed tonite. Andy- the tab is beyond my wildest dreams (I had just hoped for some references to obscure Bob Wills or Bill Cody cuts). This is also going to the w...

I'm playing a gig next month with an electric blues band that does several minor blues tunes like 'Laylah', Black Magic Woman & 'Thrill is gone'. I'd like to do something different from the single-note slide lines that fall nicely onto to the blues scale "3 frets up" from the root in t...

Alan, how do you play full minor chords in the DADFAD tuning?