The Steel Guitar Forum

Ricky, Thanks for delivering the message! I love it when the legendary steel players answer the question definitively. Also, being a huge Lloyd Green fan, (I named my favorite dog after him.) I can't believe that one got by me. I know that Lloyd played on Gene's early stuff, but for some reason, the...

That's what I thought the first time I heard it. However, I know that Sonny Garrish played on a lot of Gene's tunes, and I could hear that in-your-face tone in this recording that Sonny had in his early recordings with the Po' Boys, so it made me second guess myself.

Anyone know who the steel player is on this song? To my ears, the tone and the licks sound like Sonny Garrish from that time, but I thought that it might also be Pete Drake.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TI5sXVBQPc

Now that I think about it, it's possible that the settings I'm looking for were from Junior Knight. That seems to spark something in my memory. It seems like they were loaded in from a card, but I still don't know who I got them from.

I have recently gone back to my Profex II rig, and I am really enjoying it. Some time ago I loaded in some presets from somewhere that were above and beyond the standard Newman presets. I can't remember where they came from, but I know that some of them are loaded in my PFII. There is a Gary Hogue s...

OK folks, I appreciate the willingness to have a discussion about tuning techniques, but I'm not a novice. I know enough to know how I like to tune my guitars, and I'm not likely to change what has worked for me for a long, long time both on the bandstand and in the studio. This post is not about th...

If I am tuning by ear, I always tune my tonics and major thirds to what sounds good to me. Then I tune my fifths with with the tonic. This gives me a good, sweet major chord. Then I tune the 6 tone with the major 3rd tuning out any beats between the two. This method has worked for every lap steel tu...

My ear just doesn't like the sound of the 3rds not flattened just a bit. I have always tempered the tunings of my lap/console steels, even if its by ear. At any rate, I don't think that's the issue because it would also be a problem on the C6 and E13 necks. Furthermore, since the slant needs to be e...

On my 1955 T8 Stringmaster, I currently tune the necks, front to back, to A6, C6/A7, and E13 (with a G# on top). I have been playing a long time and I am decent with bar slants. I tune my guitar with a Peterson StroboPlus tuner and use the presets LA6, EM6, and EM9 to tune the respective necks. It w...

I've seen that before, and it is always black. I always assumed it was just for instructional video purposes so that the strings were more visible on the picking hand side. It makes it easier to see which strings are being plucked.

Sandro, In 1999 I posted a tab of this type of lick to the tablature section of the Forum. A great local Iowa steel player taught it to me. The trick is to start the lick on string 9 two frets above the pedals up position and keep the strings ringing as you slide the bar back. Below you will find a ...

Thanks for the kind words, everyone!

Thanks a lot, Kevin. That was very kind of you to say. On my middle neck I use a C6/A7 tuning, like Kayton Roberts, with the low A on the bottom string, although I don’t think that string came into play on this song. FWIW, I use a straight A6 on the front (farthest) neck, and I’m experimenting w...

I've been a member on the forum here for a long, long time, and I don't think I've ever shared a video or an audio clip of myself. I posted this video on my YouTube channel about a year ago, after I just got my 1955 Stringmaster. The playing is quite raw and less than perfect, but I had waited a lon...

That's a great looking guitar and a fantastic restoration! I have a 76 P/P that needs a few new tuners. The Klusons are what I need. Can you tell me where you got the tuners and any size requirements I need to know when ordering? I ordered some single tuners from Bobbe Seymour once, but the the stem...

The Brisbane Bop cd is at the top of my list of "stranded on a deserted island" cds. I have listened to it probably more than any other single recording I have, and I'm still blown away every time I listen to it. I love it when new recordings of Jimmie and Vance pop up. These guys' playing...

I installed BIAB 2017 yesterday, and there are no chords showing in my chord view. When I type chords, nothing shows in the box, but the chords are actually there. In other words, my page looks like I haven't typed anything, but when I play the song, the chord changes I entered actually play. Has an...

Does anybody know where I can purchase a copy of this cd? It's not available on any of the websites that feature the cd. I would really like to have it, but can't find it anywhere.

The Blue Hawaiians are a surf group that has predominant steel guitar on their recordings.

I rewired my '55 T8 Stringmaster today and installed 3 spst switches to turn on/off each neck. The previous owner had it wired so that all 3 necks are on all the time, and he had bypassed the volume knob. I put the volume knob back in the circuit with this rewire. All switches work like they're supp...

I would believe it was Tom. The tone is rich and darker sounding like Tom used to have.

Leon Rausch and Tommy Allsup - A Tribute to the Music of Bob Wills. Here's a link to the album on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tribute-Music-Bob-Wills/dp/B00BZZIYUC I have heard this recording and the non-pedal steel work was really good, to say the least. The recordings sound like they were all d...

Thanks for the response! I don't know a lot about pickup construction and rebuilding, but if the bobbin needs replaced, wouldn't that require rewinding the pickup as well? BTW, the guitar I am working on is a Stringmaster, which I know is different than the Dual Pro, so maybe my questions are irrele...

I know that I'm resurrecting an old post here, but this describes exactly the problem I'm having with the thin, telephone-sounding pickups on one neck of my T8. Coincidentally, it is also the neck closest to me as I play it. I have tried reversing the leads from one pickup as suggested here, but to ...

Thanks for the replies! I posted this question in another thread that I started because I didn't know if folks would read to the end of an older thread to see my questions. Would you please read my other post about how to wire the switches to get the results I want? http://bb.steelguitarforum.com/vi...