The Steel Guitar Forum

Congrats Mike! We are so happy for you. Well deserved, indeed. And, Yes Larry, one of the finest solo's on the Friday night Opry. "The one and only Tommy White". Vince was ill, so Tommy was in his chair, both night's. Enjoyed Terry Crisp, with Skaggs,too.

Thanks Richard, You're right. Jerry just asked, what I was working on when he stopped by, and I showed the new bar to him. It should be on the site soon.

Thanks Jerry, After lots of research, I believe we have a very nice bar. We have them polished before chroming, and another treatment after the chroming. This is not "cosmetic chroming", it is "hardened chrome". Until now, I didn't know the difference. Only a 10 string availabe r...

Maggie was in last week with her Sho-Bud guitars. She is from Denmark, and we've be servicing her guitars for a while, now. The one last night, is one I rebuilt.

My friend Mike just gave me the Gene Watson stuff he worked on with Sonny, recently. All I can say is WOW. Excellent treatment of the early classic Watson hit's by Mike, and Sonny did the hit's he played on. Great tone, and they stayed true to the early production. Proud to have Mike using our guita...

We were there too, for the Georgette Jones tribute to Tammy, and I saw Goldie, again. As you can see the raised fret-boards, which would have been added much later to the guitar. Duane Marrs drove Pete and his manager to the airport for the trip to England, to record with the Beatles. It was indeed ...

Paul is exactly right. That is NOT Goldie. Goldie is in the new Country Music Hall of Fame. And, no Kevin, Duane did not service the guitar, I did. I did it as a courtesy for Rose Drake, and she in return let me record with it, at Larry Marrs studio, with Pete's Sho-Bud amp. and volume pedal. I also...

Thanks very much Jerry. Yes, we did recently acquire the small accessory division of George L's. The girls are like family to us, and I worked for them many years ago. We will try to continue to give a high level of service to all. We have even put other items like the set collars back into the cata...

Yes, it may have been the first time for Tommy with the Time Jumpers, but, I couldn't tell, and apparently the Time Jumpers couldn't either. Within a few seconds of ANY song, Tommy was playing harmony parts, with 3 fiddles, Vince and Andy. Just as another note, had Vince or Andy handed him their gui...

Wayne Addleman is doing the Tonight Show with Trace Adkins tonight, and then the Jimmy Kimmel show tomorrow. Trace has really great players, in his band. We're thankful Wayne is getting better, since the head on collision earlier this year. Wayne and another band member were up front, and hit the wi...

Thanks Jim, Great having you, and your talents,too. For those facebook folks, you can go to the Show Pro fan site, and see close to 200 photos of the day. Also, we have 3 hours of excellent video of the event. The playing was amazing, and we captured artist Randy Kohrs,and his wonderful contribution...

Congratulations Rusty, I heard you were great in St.Louis. Sunday was the best day for our players, and friends, since Labor Day was just that, for some.Many had to travel on Monday. I opened my shop on Monday, as a courtesy to people needing work, or steel guitar services. We had visitors from Norw...

Let me add, my deepest thanks to these two dear friends,also. Mike was here early Sunday morning, to set up his PA for us, and was really a big help in making this happen, in many ways. Mike you are a good neighbor! Tommy immediately wanted to help,too and insisted on playing with Mike. This was ind...

Ken, The NTSGA event can really accommodate more people than us. So,I encourage people to try and make the show at the Preston Hotel, which is open to the public. We gave invites, at all of the shows we have attended and didn't exclude anyone, but we did ask for RSVP's, to help Gloria with how much ...

Ken, We're looking forward to you being with us on Sunday, too. Some of the guys will be out of town, during the show next weekend, but I know they would love to see your amp and reverb unit, while here. It's going to be a blast!

Just wanted to say a special thanks to Albert Talley, and the whole TSGA for their support and generous contribution, to our upcoming "Sunday afternoon social" here at Show Pro. Also, thanks to Jan Jones, who will be lending his talents to our get-together. Should be a great kick-off to th...

Yes, the Marrs was one I had built several years ago. However, Chad started the gig with a Sho-Bud Maverick, and was just learning to play pedal steel at the time. Sounds like he's coming right along.

Hi Eric, That is Abe Stoklasa. He is a very nice young man, who has only been playing steel a few years. He is a trained horn player, who plays several instruments well, and does arranging. Reminds me of a young Jim Hoke, a great horn player, that fell in love with steel a few years ago, and really ...

Our friend Kevin Post will be appearing on Good Morning America, Thursday 8/12 with Blake Shelton. They are doing "All About Tonight". He is doing a solo. The time is 8:30 am eastern time. Kevin always has great tone on TV, I'm sure it will be great,this time too.

Mike will be appearing on Letterman tonight, with Jimmy Webb. They are doing " Witchita Lineman", and Mike is to do a solo. Stripped down band, just Jimmy, Mike, and Paul Schaffer.

Russ will be with Willie tonight on "Letterman", and appearing on "The View" tomorrow, then Concert that night. Not sure how he got out of the neighborhood though. He is a half mile from the Opry House, and most of the residents are under water. We may start offering the Show Pro...

We now have the Russ cut and a few other sound clip samples on the site, at the forum members request. Thanks to Brad Miller for helping us, and to the forum members for their interest.

Thanks so much for posting these pictures. We're glad you were able to make it and it seems like everybody that came had a great time visiting. This may have to be an annual event. Keep checking our website for future events at our factory.

No secret, and we've only had it back a couple of weeks. We'll have to work on getting samples up. However,we're getting rave reviews. A forum member from Alaska wrote and said " it doesn't have all of the same old songs" and an amazing lineup of players and variety. One of the foremost Ca...

This song starts off the new Show Pro CD. Lloyd spent countless hours perfecting this piece. It may be one of his finest instrumental pieces yet. Russ Pahl and Billy Sanford of Don's past band and sessions, were kind enough to help compile the work.
We'll have plenty of copies in St.Louis.