The Steel Guitar Forum

I'm a relatively new member to this forum and the pedal steel guitar and also an avid Dead Head for >35 years (can't count all the shows I went to). I am very impressed reading all the comments about about Jerry and the Dead. A very diverse collection of people on this forum. Way to go!

Gary - What a great song - have you heard Neils Lofgrin (probably wrong spelling!) from Bruce Springsteen play this?
If you find any tab on this song, please post. Thanks

Bobby - it's breaking at the tuning peg. I read a lot of information on the forum that suggests leaving enough string to make sure it is not over the hole in the tuning peg when it approaches A ( thanks Ron)- i will try this tonight. I need to get past this problem so I can start learning how to pla...

I should have searched the forum before i posted this problem. Looks like I found many solutions to my problem. BTW, this is all new to me but i'm very excited. What a great sounding instrument. I'm done with reading - it's time to learn and play.

I have a 3+1 maverick/E9 tuning. I'm trying to get the G# string in tune w/ pedalB raising it to A. I have no trouble tuning to G# but when I try to tune to A, the string breaks. It is always breaking at the tuning peg. What is the correct way to wind the string? I am using D'Addario strings; .011p....