The Steel Guitar Forum

Seen as a dissertation, not a magazine article, the detail is understandable. Almost humorous to see it broken down into such excruciating detail, but good on her for taking it on. I thought she did a good job with it. Skimmed through a lot of it but found it interesting nonetheless.

Thanks for sharing! Excellent doc. Bout halfway through.....

They used to open for us. Now we're lucky to open for them! All good guys and proud of their well deserved success.

Yep. 18 1/2 years. Hard to believe. Best guy to work for in the business. And best live show!

The thing about pedal steel is that when you get good enough to just play chords, it sounds good. Many years ago I tried banjo but the sound of me practicing was like nails on a blackboard. Not to mention what I was doing to my neighbors. I imagine fiddle would be similar. I learned the basic chords...

My bad!
Ha! Too many Johnnys!

Alive and kickin'!

Got to hang out with Johnny a couple of weeks ago when he came out our gig in Corpus Christi. Super friendly dude. You'd never know he was musical royalty!

There's a great documentary called "Sir Doug and the Genuine Texas Groove"
I saw it on Amazon a while back but now says unavailable and I can't find it anywhere.
Here's the trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4kpXZ6i9cE

WOW! Who knew?
Thanks for sharing

Steve Cattermole wrote:On Top of Ole Smoky, from a Mel Bay book

Yes! That's the book I was thinking of- not ShoBud

On Top of Old Smokey
from the Sho-Bud(?) book with Jeff Newman on the cover. First one I really figured out was Teach Your Children

Is that the velvet lining?
It's time for a new case and I think
I'm gonna give em a call.

And if there had been the Steel Forum in the 30s we'd be complaining about all the newfangled country swing music with horns and drums and electric guitars and some guy hollering in the background, and harkening back to the good old days of simple country music. What's popular is ALWAYS changing and...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaVXmk5FcH0

Here's a great clip with what could be the same guitar, featuring Eric Johnson, Steve Hennig and Steve Palousek

Ha! Steven, If I had to deal with random sound guys that would definitely be the case, but we have the best in the biz in Daren Fleming. He has heard every note I've played for the past 16 years and I trust him implicitly. I'm lucky and very spoiled, I admit.

Any advice for using the 202 as more of a direct out to monitor/FOH without a speaker cab? We use in-ears and I have a Steelaire I plan to continue using on most gigs, but occasionally we are in a smaller setting where stage volume can be an issue and going direct gives the FOH engineer more control.

Happened to mine a couple of years ago. I was lucky enough to have a friend playing steel in the opening band who lent me his amp.
Quilter took care of it quickly. Hope I got one of the "solved" switches but not sure when they solved it. Haven't had any issues since, though.

https://bb.steelguitarforum.com/userpix1712/2590_slim_and_omar_1.jpg That's me on the left with Slim and Omar Oyoque, a great young steel player and musician now playing bass with Mike and the Moonpies. This was in July of last year, we were opening for Mark and this is during a frantic changover i...

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Great job, John - sounds as wonderful as we all knew it would.
See you in Dallas!

Been using them for several years now with no problems. Had that happen a few years back with Cobra Coils. When they wouldn't acknowledge any potential responsibility or make it right, I switched to Jagwires until they became hard to get. Have had great luck with LS so far, (I use .011s on the 3rd) ...

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Very cool! Thanks for posting this Glen!
I saw them around this time in Boston and sat right in front of Ernie Hagar!

Match-Bro dobro simulator, Earthquaker Talons distortion, Strymon Lex B3 sim. Stopped used external reverb when I got my Quilter Steelaire.