The Steel Guitar Forum

Rest in Peace Bob!

I’m close enough to El Paso, to go pick it up, just need $17,950 and two tanks of gas for the round trip.

Seriously I would love to have this Bigsby, but just stuck a bunch of money into an old Martin guitar.

Jim & Jesse did a whole album, Berry Pickin' in The Country, that came out Jan 1965. Banjo, Fiddle, Mandolin, guitar and brother harmonies! Memphis Maybelline Johnny B. Goode Sweet Little Sixteen Roll Over Beethoven Reelin' and Rockin' Brown-Eyed Handsome Man Too Much Monkey Business Bye Bye Joh...

A '58 Fender 400 that's been setup to be a player and looks like it's been played half to death, so it still has another 60 years left on it.

I was just looking at some of my old papers and trying to trace my music history and thought it'd be nice to see where some of the older pickers were playing a half century or so ago and also if you remember, who you were playing with..... About this time in 1966 I was holding forth on lead guitar ...

I think with Wagon Wheel, it's kind of become the hippie national anthem at every drum circle and backwoods jam session. It gets played every night and goes on forever!!!!!! I walked through the camp grounds at a big jamband festival last summer and heard "WW" played 15 times while just tr...

Saw one the other day, leaving a green room, that said "This Stage has been Wagon Wheel Free for 67 days. Please try your best to keep it going!"

Just out of curiosity, does someone like Weird Al Yankovic who makes a living out of writing parody songs have to pay royalties until the end of time to the original composer? Al gets permission from the original artist, and writers, of the songs he does and list the original writers on all credits...

Mike Neer wrote:I know it's unhip to say, but call me a Strat guy!

They have treatment centers, and medication for that, if you ever want to be "hip".

I've watched the scene a few times, and from what I can tell it's a standard base model 0-16. You can buy those for $1500 if you look around, or pay top dollar for one in good shape for about $3500. I don't get Martin saying that it was priceless, unless it was owned by someone famous and they can p...

Although Fender made many (over 50!) changes in the design of their cable guitars, only a few addressed the major deficiencies they had in competing with other brands. By the time they rolled out their famous fizzle, the PS-210, it was just another tale of "too little, too late". The PS-2...

After Great White caught a club on fire, in 2003 that killed 100 people, many of the gigs I've been doing have started asking that the bands, and audio and lighting engineers, carry liability insurance. There were a handful of casinos that require it, and County Fair grounds and most State Parks. Wh...

Dave Hopping wrote:Some of us DO have a thing for older Fenders....

Very true

Some songs are sacred and need to be respected. Didn't care for the NY reference either. Pete Wernick is originally from NY and the festival they are playing at, in the video, is in New York, that was the NY reference. One amazing thing about that show is the just a year earlier, while flying to th...

Sounds like they put a jumping cable on G S's voice box. Let's the G.S ride away with pride and be proud that Mike Daly will do the rest to keep Traditional Country alive with his band who are just super great Musicians & pickers and real down home folks. ;-) Am proud of them all for being my f...

Here is a cell phone video from the show. No autotune, he is a bit off pitch in spots, but this is his last time singing on stage and he's getting choked up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBitfvhjU3Y

I always like the whole step down modulation, not many do it. Conway Twitty, who appeared to modulate more than most, had a song called "I'd Love To Lay You Down". He went from the key of D down to C then to Bb. Always thought it was effective in that song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...

I never could get used to the curved back... Martin making out of USA guitars, Taylor making out of USA guitars, Fender making out of USA guitars, Gibson etc... It's a hard market to compete in. The difference between Ovation and the four companies mentioned above is that all four of the higher-pri...

The plan is, for now, that the cheaper Asian-built guitars will still be produced. I guess the big question was on the fairly expensive New Hartford built Ovations. If one is going to spend some fairly big dough on a new acoustic guitar these days with the plethora of choices including the big thre...

The drummer replied, "Nobody asked you". Time to bail on that situation. His response is too hostile and it will only get worse. In situations where it is possible to reason with said band/owner, arm yourself with a sound level meter. Amazon has them for less than $20. Show them how loud ...

My favorite song changes every 3.5 minutes.

You guys are right it's the 6th string, don't know why I said 3rd.

Ken, I seem to remember Paul saying he has a change that moves the G# (3rd string) up to a B, and another change that drops it to an E. So using the combination of those two changes he can move a note down a 3 1/2 steps, a fifth.

Walk Off The Earth kids are good, I've been fans of them for a few years.
They do funky simple covers of top 40 hits.
Sometimes they do a whole band with just one instrument;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9NF2edxy-M

a claim that Hank, not Faron Young, wrote "Goin' Steady." Apparently, Faron won out. Maybe Cal Sharp can add some insight here.. The story I always heard was Hank wrote it and offered it to Faron, if Faron would let Hank go out on a date with Faron's girlfriend Billie Jean Jones. That end...