The Steel Guitar Forum

With respect, you are going to have to "go to where no man has gone before" if you're going to try to play McCoy Tyner and Cecil Taylor stuff on steel (as far as I know). But don't forget, those guys learned to play over standards before they ventured "outside" first. Sun Ra evo...

My experience has been that the best performers are, generally, not good teachers. There are exceptions, but that are exactly that - exceptions. A successfully established performer will also, most likely, have developed an individual style, and what they will be most inclined to teach is based on t...

I've always been a big fan of using a couple of powered full range speakers, like the JBL Eons, run straight off the XLR outs of the POD Pro: plenty of volume, accurate reproduction of the tones you've dialed in at home, and a quick setup. You can get something like the MIDI Mouse or other single bu...

Tom, RMS power ratings should be stated as being at x% total harmonic distortion, or they're fairly meaningless. Yes, a 100 watt tube amp can get louder than a 100 watt solid state amp. It has largely to do with the fact that a solid state amp has voltage rails (that's the maximum amount that the vo...

Also if somebody can be so kind, ONE MORE TIME please explain the "Watts/Loudness" thing that makes this amp so much hotter than my 80 "watt" NVL112 in spots. Also how the 22 watt Super Reverbs, or whatever they are called do so well on stage next to a 210 "watt" Nvl 4...

When I posted last week about needing a control plate for my early '50's Dual Pro 8-string, several forum members jumped in with offers of photos, templates, etc. so I could make one (thanks Jon Light and John Dahms for those). Then Bill Creller offered to fabricate one for me from some stock he had...

While doing some organization in the studio (a/k/a throwing out some junk), I stumbled across something I picked up at a yard sale many years ago, stashed away, and forgotten I had: a correspondence course in Hawaiian Guitar from the U.S. School of Music in Port Washington, NY. There are 96 lessons ...

Is this *the* George Van Wagner from the Line6 forum? Welcome dude!!! Well, I haven't been with Line 6 since March of 2006, but yeah, that would be me. Having fun designing steel tones for the Dual Pro with my Vetta and with Gearbox. Say, do you know if Terry Christopherson from Buck Owens' band ev...

Larry Robbins wrote:Aint this a great place!!!

To quote Stan Laurel, "It certainly is, Ollie."

Bill,

I would really appreciate that, as I'm a pretty fair hand with a soldering iron and can get by with woodworking tools, but metal work has never been my strong point. Just let me know how much you want for it. I'm dropping you an email through the forum with my information.

John,

Done. And thanks again.

Jon,

Thanks. I've sent you an email with my return address.

I bid on that very eBay auction, but wasn't the winner. I've been calling and emailing all the specialty steel shops I can find (and thanks to b0b and Brad Bechtel for their very helpful link sections, as well as countless others) but with no luck thus far (with "thus far" extending back a...

I lucked into this early '50s Fender D8 pro a while back, still in the original case. When I got it, the guitar was totally in pieces, as in completely disassembled. Got everything back together, and discovered that it was missing the jackplate/control plate, as you can see from the picture. I've be...