The Steel Guitar Forum

The last week of January each year is Australia's largest country music festival in Tamworth NSW. It has the usual mix of has-been and wanna-be rockers but some good western swing and "proper" country can be found with a smattering of nice PSG. Hopefully the covid restrictions will allow i...

Greg, have you tried the for sale section of the Brisbane Pedal Steel club web site?

The Australian ABC (public broadcaster) popular music comedy TV quiz show "Spicks and Specks" gave the PSG some time in the spotlight this week. They have a regular segment where well known pop songs are played by incongruent genre/ethnic bands (jug, gypsy, bouzouki, chamber etc)and the te...

Mike,
I have had one for a few years now but am about to trade it out. I like the concept and the sounds but it adds complexity to my setup that I don't really need. One of the attractions was the jazz box options but none of them really cut it live with a band in my opinion,

Clinton, I was watching this item from Brisbane (I got the seller to add the undercarriage and end-plate pictures to help check it out) Unfortunately, the "local pick up" was going to be complicated for me over the next month so I decided not to "buy it now" - good luck, I'm sure...

Folks, I was at the Brisbane (Australia) Pedal Steel Club meeting on Sunday and when I looked around the room I was taken with the fact that almost all the steels had no keyhead. On closer inspection four of them were actually Anapegs, all together in the one place. Should be no surprise I guess, gi...

The Feral Swing Katz do a great version on their second album (won the Australian Country Music Instrumental award for that track). That album isn't available from their web site but may be elsewhere.

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Regards,
Brett Foster,
Brisbane Australia
(Shobud Maverick 3+1)

Pete, I have an American Deluxe 90's Tele Thinline (beautiful looking guitar, natural/Ash with all the right tone) with a Graphtech Ghost saddle piezo installed by the Fender custom shop. It has certainly replaced the need to take two 6 string guitars to most gigs but the piezo pickup will always so...

Folks, I had the pleasure of seeing Les Paul live at his Iridium club in NY last week, very tasty trad jazz and he is still a class guitar player even though his hands look fairly restricted these days He mentioned his new CD's, one in each of 5 different musical genres if I remember correctly, ----...

Thanks to Reece and all for replies (including those off-forum), us Aussie steelers have a limited range of options down here in paradise and the retailer that I linked to is one of the few (if not the only) that makes the effort to source decent steels from the US to service and then on-sell, so if...

Reece, Down in Australia we don't see too many PSG's floating around outside captivity and I was wondering if you had any observations about the steel model in this link: http://www.northcoastguitars.com.au/msa.html Prices down here are well out of kilter with what I see mentioned on the Forum for U...

Greetings, I also was in Tamworth (not so far to travel from Brisbane) and saw the FSK at the Family Hotel. I must confess I preferred teh opriginal configuration but as long as Stuie and Michel are on stage it's worth being there. It seems strange that there is no PSG related events at Tamworth but...

Thanks, other Bob. I got it for a pretty good price on ebay ($50AU, $35US) so was wondering if it was in full working order. Now all I need to do is learn to play well enough to let it do its thing,

I'm not sure the freestyle rhythm thing is limited to amateurs but I guess Willie Nelson has paid his dues long enough to do whatever he pleases. I must admit when I saw him tour in Australia, I was glad I was not his drummer. But maybe he does the anti-rhythmic thing predictably and tastefully enou...

Thanks Bob, but even I kind of sussed that out. I was wondering if turning the battery off necessarily meant no signal passed through at all, sorry if that seems obvious to others but I was just trying to A/B the sounds without unplugging and replugging etc. ------------------ Regards, Brett Foster,...

Folks, I'm a new member with a recently acquired Matchbox 7A. I have searched the forum archives on the unit so have got lots of good opinions (one way or the other) but my question is whether the on/off toggle is supposed to mute the signal throughput completely (as it does on my unit) or whether i...