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Just a quick thanks to everyone who made this possible.Always great to hang and hear everybody.You guys need to slow down,though,I was barely able to steal anything.

Last bump. If you can`t make it,check out Suman on u-tube. Not a lot of videos, but enough to get the point.

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It`s something of a little known fact,but Los Angeles can boast an Indian steel guitarist equal to anyone from the mother country. His name is Suman Laha and you can his artistry for yourself on Sunday,September 29. The venue is the Meherabode (Meher Baba Center), 1214 S. Van Ness Ave. L.A. 90019 Ma...

I sold one just like for twice that a few years ago. Again, can`t go wrong for that price if everything works.

One last bump for anyone looking for a fun night in L.A.

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Experienced hecklers only,please. Yep,lap steel lessons are available. Topics include Jerry Byrd style C6th,Bluegrass dobro in G,channeling Duane Allman in E, and making strange noises on the Moog lap steel.

I`m happy to say I`ll be playing Saturday,March 24 with Mark Heffington and Zuma at this great venue. We`ll be performing a set of Mark`s originals and a few well-chosen covers at 8 P.M.,followed by our special guest, young blues guitar phenom Chase Walker. We`ll end with a anything-can-happen final...

See you on Sunday,Mike. I'll come by Sat. Afternoon to say hi if I escape early enough.

Wow,another chapter in steel guitar history about which I`m totally clueless. What kind of music did this guy do? Any available anywhere?
Wonder if Gary Swallow ever saw one of those bars.
Sorry if this is off-topic.

I`m amazed nobody`s mentioned Paul`s "Looking Back" CD, available from his web site. If you want bang for the buck, it`s two CDs for $20, with plenty of cuts worth that much each.
Any Buddy albums are worth having, but Live 77 is one of the reasons I play pedal steel.

The set-up would be very different indeed, I think, for that to work. I`d tell you what I paid for my set like that, but you all would hate me. As the owner of two Fripans and one amp exactly like that one,I guess I should be happy to see this but I kind of hope we don`t get like some of my Bluegras...

Now that I`ve got your attention, one (1) free beer or similar libation will be awarded to all Forum members during my gig with Sierra Madre`s own Horses on Astroturf (who said all the good band names are taken)at Cafe 322 in Sierra Madre. We usually start around 2 P.M. and go till 5 or so. Lots of ...

The version on Herb`s site is a live recording from a German CD of radio transcriptions. If you go to the Ask Buddy archives on buddyemmons.com you`ll find a discussion of this tune. Buddy played most of it on an E9 neck tuned (high to low) E B G# F# D B G# E with pedals changing it to E C# A F# E C...

I case you haven`t see it, Stacy Phillips` first Dobro book (called, oddly enough, The Dobro Book) has a tab of Takin` Off. It`s based of Stacy`s version rather than an exact transcription but most of what Dunn played is there. If anybody else has any, I love to see them.

Hey Terry: Check and see if that price includes the little preamp box for the Shertler, you`re probably gonna need it or something close as the pickup (it`s really a hi-tech contact mike,I think)needs phantom power to work. I`ve the Basik for a few months and find it far superior to anything else I`...

Great tune and performance.

Thanks for the input, guys. Bob, I couldn`t seem to make the link work. I`m planning to move to a C6th twelve-string tuning,so I will have the 7th string D as well as the C on the bottom. Having heard Paul (and Maurice Anderson) play amazing bebop stuff with no pedals at all at the TSGA, I know it`s...

Anybody?

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Seems that when she isn`t reinventing the limits of the possible on the steel guitar, the Forum`s Susan Alcorn writes some fine prose. Good enough, in fact to make into this volume, published by a major house (da capo) and edited by a literary big shot (Mary Gaitskill). What`s more, her piece will r...

I keep thinking this has come up before but a search didn`t turn up much... Can someone explain the use of the first pedal in Paul`s C6th tuning? I doubt if I`d ever have the nerve to try something that complex but I`d sure like to know the thinking behind it. Anybody have any new,cool C6th changes ...

Interesting topic. I`ve been studying a little bit of Hindustani music theory lately (I`ll never be V.M.Bhatt but I can dream) and just today I was trying to find Western names for their 10 "thats" or parent scales. The Hungarian minor is called Purvi in their system. Six of the thats are ...

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