The Steel Guitar Forum

...thank you. some killer stuff in there, Ricky. love that old school outro in D. thanks for sharing your knowledge. a bargain at any price.
Patrick

...never mind, i found the video in the dropbox. sent you a donation...thanks again!

Ricky this is great. thanks from a newbie who missed earlier posts. i'm happy to donate to your growing "cause". i was wondering, i downloaded the tabs with no problem, but don't see the video included. is that in another link? again, thanks for this...a big assist to a struggling new guy....

many thanks from a three-pedal, one-knee lever newbie. i'm working my way through it as we speak. great job!

Well, I tried that and still couldn't get it to work. I don't know if you know Dick Meis out here in Denver (pedalsteelguitar.net) , but I'm going to bring it to Dick this weekend and see if he can suss it out. Again, I do appreciate you taking the time to comment.

Thanks for tip. I'll try that tonight. Appreciate you taking the time to respond.

yes, i guess it has. time flies when you're not playing steel. :-\

you know, i made a CD, started playing guitar in a band, and it sort of slipped away. and now i have the bug again. i just hope i didn't buy a stinker.

Just getting in to my first steel, which i may or may not have mistakenly purchased, and i'm having issues with knee lever tuning. it's a 1970 Fender Sho-Bud with three pedals and one knee lever. my problem, with the exception of the guitar generally staying in tune, is that when i tune the knee lev...

Love to see someone do a video, or a book for that matter, of the old style (Helms, Byrd) country stuff. Those old Hank Williams licks and all that. Anyone know a source for that kind of material? Bill Chaviers is helpful, but one doesn't want to impose too much, you know what I mean?

Anyone have Mooney's (I think) intro lick from Buck Owens' "Storm of Love"? What a great lick. I couldn't find anything in the archives. Thanks in advance.

I was at dobro workshop and Tim Scheerhorn took a 300 dollar FlintHill (they're all the same, the cheaper ones I think and are made in Korea by Samick) and put a Quarterman cone and an ebony-tipped maple bridge in the thing in about 15 minutes and it sounded like a dream. I have his number at home s...

Man, I had an 40s, white mother-of-you-know-what double-neck Ohau that was sweet as pie. And I sold it in a fit of madness twenty-five years ago. It had a red and white case lined with red plush. My firend says, "Just to be safe, never sell a guitar or a car you've paid off."

my .02 cents worth. a mid-30s regal/dobro squareneck and a 50s harmony mother-of-you-know-what lap steel through a black-face 60s fender princeton and, since i'm assuming they count cuz there's no pedals either, bottleneck slide guitar on a 70s dobro roundneck and a 1999 national delphi. but, i just...

Chuck - that's great. i was wondering when the next one would be. i'll see you there. i'm moving forward, trying to get at least an hour a day of practicing in every day. i'm waiting for my nashville 400 to come in any day now.
cheers,
patrick

ricky - that was the solution i was looking for. thanks guys!

Sorry for seeming thick, but i've been playing in G and D for years on dobro and nationals. i've recently taken up pedal steel and want to start to explore the C6. Using my National, do i lower the 6th string all the way to C? seem slow. and do I raise the D all the way to G? it will snap for sure. ...

Can anyone help me with the intro to Flying Burrito Brothers (Pete Klienow) intro to Juanit? I've got most of it, but it's not quite right. Only been playing a couple of weeks so I'm not kicking my self too hard, but the last couple of measures aren't what Pete's playing. Any help would be appreciat...

thanks for your responses. still trying to figure out richard's but i'm getting closer. thanks richard for taking the time to drill down into the subject.

brad - that's great. am i correct though, that the fourth string G is a fourth above the normal D in concert tuning, and not below?

apologies if this have been covered here recently, but i see lap tunings, C6 in particular that call, for example, for a G on the fourth string, or a G on top. my conclusion is that the fourth string G is raised a fourth above the usual D and the G on top is a step and a half above the usual E. Do y...

mick - thanks for the review. i'm bidding on one on ebay and i'll see if i get. if i do i'll post a review as well. brad - here's the URL if you want to check it out. http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1422240840 also brad, great job on your pages of steel. i've been many tim...

i just saw this book on ebay for sale that i've never seen before. It comes with a cassette and is published by Cherokee Point Productions and is written and illustrated by Jim Calhoun. Has anyone seen it? Is it worth purchasing? Says E6, E7 and E minor tunings. Figured I'd pick it up and if no one ...

i've seen these sonicas on ebay. they claim that they are factory seconds, fell over in a photo shoot or something. maybe it's straight up but it sounds fishy to me. glad to hear someone post that they sound like mud. i think the caveat applies.