The Steel Guitar Forum

Stanford just email Bill He is the greatest. Just click on the send email above his post.
Larry

Probably my favorite trucking song was John Denvers Hey It Good To Be Back Home Again and pretty much echoed the sentiments of most of us that spent the better part of our lives on the road. Todays drivers don't command the respect of the public we once did because they don't show the respect to oth...

ONe place that may have rooms available is the Casino Queen on the east side, there is a metro limk terminal right there. At the present time there is a lot of construction on the Poplar Street Bridge, lane closures with long delays at morning and evening rush hours, so much that the Madison County ...

A good thing the big ISCG wasn't this past week as the St Louis metropolitan area was hit by devastating storms and over 500,000 were without electricity. Many groceries and other businesses had to be closed, no gasloline, food, motels, restaurants, etc available. One week later there are still many...

Erik I was wondering how you like the Yahoo DSL?? I have been considering going to it from Charter cable, two reasons, it is considerably cheaper and the cable is not working a lot of the time, I don't use the cable for TV as we get nore programs from an antenna than minimum cable service Thanks for...

I have had my Carter SD10 a couple years now and started out with Jeff Newmans Right Hand Alfa but the biggest problem I have encountered is getting the music in my head If you get it in your head you can eventually get it to your hands I can play a few tunes but have big problems trying to imagine ...

Bill has a new instructional CD out with examples of lots of sounds and how and where to make them with a chart along with it
Anyone interested just contact Bill for one
Great job Bill and many thanks for your efforts
Respectfully Larry

Bill we had unseasonably warm weather for a couple days and that usually terminates with storms There were numerous storms over Missouri and Illinois, possibly the largest loss of life was at Sedalia, Mo with appx 10 killed, that is about 180 miles west of St Louis It wasn't uncommon years ago to se...

For some that read this thread that do have problems holding onto the bar there are ways of doing something similar to the control ring by just taking a couple narrow strips of the stick on velcro and placing them on the sides of the bar I drilled and tapped out a small hole in the bar that I can pu...

Speaking only for myself, It is much like a fellow that just got bumped off the train in a strange city, penny less, and a kind stranger says hey buddy do you need directions? And you think man I sure do if I just knew where I am and need to go from here. There seems to be plenty of willing, knowled...

Mark sounds like a good idea I have checked this post a couple times hoping someone with more musical knowledge and ability than I have would offer some suggestions Only thing I might suggest is a few tracks to some old standards that would be recognizable to almost anyone with easily followed chord...

I am not an authority on packing materials but most owners of expensive firearms use these cases and if there were an issue of the foam products damaging the finishes on these then the NRA magizines and all the sporting mags would have articles warning of the use of these type of cases and the manuf...

With due respect for everyones opinions on the subject of smoking in public and private places in no way was I advocating changing mining safety laws or work place safety regulations or being forced to work above and beyond a normal workday,or taking seat belts out of automobiles, and yes most of us...

To me this whole issue comes down to the idea if I cant' convince you of my of my point of view then I will force you to conform with it. As a smoker I have no objection to not smoking around someone who objects to it, on the other hand I see no reason that a person should not be allowed to open a b...

Having spent most of my working life as a truck driver(appx 35yrs) I would say that because a lot of 18 wheelers are at a place is no indication of the quality of food that is served there. The first consideration of a truck driver stopping is do they have a place that is easily accesible and ample ...

Bobby although I have soldered many things I am no authority but I'll attempt to answer a couple of your questions A volume pot is a variable resistor, it controls the amount of current going through it and you can vary it manually Yes you need to thouroughly clean the tip of the iron and then tin i...

I would like to be able to play my choice of tunes with an equal ampunt of ability as those players, along with several others I have heard, do with theirs.
Pedal or non pedal steel is a great instrument and can accomodate a lot of styles and types of music
Respectfully Larry

Thanks for posting this good read about Mr Ray Price I was fortunate to see one of his live performances a couple years ago and he still sings a good song and has a great band with fiddles and steel backing him Hope he makes the 100 mark and I'm still around to hear him
Thanks again Larry

This whole post has been an interesting read with all the comments and different ideas about learning Every player had to learn by some method but different approaches have been needed by a lot of them I have had my steel for a couple years and my playing still sounds like two alley cats fighting bu...

Al I was unable to listen to clips from the ones posted here and someone had a post on the war betweem the various players we have on our PCs I uninstalled Quick Time and now can play them with my Music Match Jukebox
Good luck
Larry

David I use a search engine called dogpile on my computer and by typing in embroidery machines, it brought back 120 links for places offering embroidery machines, some as little as five hundred on up. I have seen small portable operations in use around our ameteur radio flea markets or hamfests and ...

Dave it says you are in Nevada, Bill Mayville is in Las Vegas, he has lesson materials and gives lessons there also if that is convienent to you
His web site is http://www.steelguitarlasvegas.com/ and has some samples of what he has you can listen to on it
Good luck
Larry

Bobby I'm with you, years ago several instrumentals made the top, as in Chet Atlins, Jorgan Ingman etc I don't recall any of steel guitar but I have a couiple tapes of Little Roy Wiggins that I sure have played a lot, so bring em back
Respectfully Larry

Joe sorry to hear about your loss. Having had similar occurances here I hope you have more luck with the police than I have, I lost a beautiful Gibson Hummingbird to never see or hear tell of again Check every pawn shop and used store around and keep an eye out on Ebay also, they might possibly use ...

Jason some time when you are on your computer try Bill Mayville's website at http://www.steelguitarlasvegas.com/ and listen to a few of his samples and see if that might be of interest to you.
Good luck in however you go about it
Larry