The Steel Guitar Forum

Sounds good to me Chris. How do you prefer to do business?

It's the triangular pulley-housing, Chris. I suppose I might eventually find someone who can assemble cables for me, but the fittings, like the pulley etc, and the hardened hook assembly at the bridge end would be hard to reproduce. It's be great if you had a full cable set up for the fourth pedal, ...

I have acquired a Fender 400, but it has one cable set missing (for the fourth pedal) All I have of it is the hook that connects with the bell crank at the end of the pedal rod. Been searching the net, and the forum, for some mention of spares, or somebody who can make me the cable set. Any suggesti...

Great! Thanks for that Peter.
RD

Friend of mine sent me these pix asking if I could identify the steel. Any takers?
Rick Dempster

Thanks for that David; This was the site through which I originally attempted to buy that record. Dunno what happened; think I wound up somewhere else and bought the wrong thing! Glad you reminded me about it. This time, I contacted the site owner, and Yes! I have bought the thing. My collection of ...

Hey you Hawaiian fans; I am grieving over the loss of an Hawaiian LP. Recently a few of my vintage faves went missing (How? let's not go there!) I've managed to replace some of them, or at least sourced replacement copies (just got a replacement of my 'Bell' records 10 inch George Kainapau vinyl;Phe...

I got an email recently from a feller named Tom Beaty who lives outside of San Antonio, Texas. He had been searching the Forum archives for a mention of his uncle, J.D.Standlee. The only one he found was my 2003 inquiry, which received no follow ups. He was impressed with my comparison of JD with Bo...

Thanks,R.L., Really, I guess it doesn't matter if I know who the steel player in the Rice Brothers Gang was. I'm just an 'infomaniac'. It never ceases to astound me just how many great players the US has produced over the years. Aside from 'the greats', there are so many unknowns who were wonderful ...

I have a tape of a vinyl LP released in Japan in the '70s. One side is Cliff Bruner, the other side a bunch of radio transcriptions by an outfit called the 'Rice Brothers Gang'. As I recall there was no info. about the personnel with the record. The band included a chromatic harmonica player, a sax ...

And how many times has it been covered? Over here in Oz, we had a feller who went by the name of Rob E.G., who covered 'Sleepwalk' and had a string of local national hits, all steel instrumentals, including 'Jezebel' '5,4,3,2,1 Zero' ''55 Days at Peking' etc. etc.This was in the early to mid 60s.All...

Mike;
It appears on 'Master of Touch and Tone'
available from this website: http://www.steelguitarcanada.com/cdcass/byrd.htm though I'm sure there are others (including Jerry's own website perhaps)
Rick Dempster

On Mike Auldridges first album, titled 'Dobro', the opening track was a brief clip of Carmen's 'Hillbilly Hula' with a fadeout (maybe a 'fade-in' too)It's a long time since I've listened to that record, and I don't know if it was actually Tex Carmen's recording; but as I recall it was pretty close. ...

Billy Jack Wills and Bill Haley, distant enough from each other stylistically anyway, have nothing to do with ‘rockabilly’ as such. Terms like ‘Rhythm and Blues’ ‘Country and Western’ ‘Rock’n’Roll’ etc.are misleading handles invented by marketing people for the most part, not musicians, who generall...

J.D.Standlee is a name I've never seen discussed on the Forum. I place him with the early WS players like Bob Dunn. It sounds to me like he's playing a straight major tuning like A high-bass. The little I've heard of him really impressed me. I think his break on 'When My Baby Comes To Town' with the...

John;
What then, in your opinion, are the 'proper value Pots and Cap' for a Custom?
Rick Dempster

Carl; Sounds like you might be the man to put this query to. I have a T8 Stringmaster and a T8 Custom. I bought the Custom after the S.master. The guy that owned it used to do the Speedy 'bombs' ("boo-wah" if you will)and it sounded great to me. It had a trebly bite all of it's own as well...

Jody;You hit the nail right on the head as far as I can see. As soon as I saw this topic I thought '..it's an Italian thing'..and scrolled down to see your identical response. In a similar vein, it has always amazed me that what I like to think of as the 'Gallic flourish' can still be observed in Ca...

Jimmie Tarlton of the pre-war white country blues duo, Darby and Tarlton, played with this handy engine part. So did I when I first started. For Spanish position slide playing, the corresponding small-end bush ain't half bad either; thick, heavy and bronze. It always strikes me as interesting the nu...

Thanks to all for the replies and additions to this post. I wrote it to see what other players thought of Roy. I am glad to see that his eccentric style was/is appreciated. In addition to the 'Shorts' video, I remember a short film was made in the early or mid 'eighties featuring Roy, which also had...

Dear Forumites, I have been following your discussions since Lucky Oceans put me on to the site early in 2002. I have found a lot of very useful information here, and it seems the musical taste is generally ‘right up my alley’ – but that rather comes with the territory, I think. Anyway, this is my f...