The Steel Guitar Forum

Well...I guess I don't know who all these new folks are, what they do, what they stand for and don't care one whit. They will come and go and next month some other flash will take their place. If they are waiting for me to buy their music ...they are gonna starve.....yaaaawwwnnnnn........

Another plug for Don Mare...I have them in two of my tellys...one a b bender. Great tone and bite too for "that" sound...

This price is beyond ridiculous, even if it works......

Here is our band, Standard Country Time, after a gig a few weeks back......

Put me down for one please.

Try playing at an open mike venue. Singers (loosely used) think just because you play an instrument that you should know every toon ever written, along with the timing, the kick off, the melody line, the breaks, and the key to said toon. Even if they, the so called "singers" themselves don...

It's pretty thin around here too. As we age, so do the crowds. Last year I worked a small gig with some good pickers and the place was full. The owner was lamenting after that even tho' we had filled the place up, he did not make any money because he didn't sell much booze. I commented that the 60's...

I realize this is an old thread but I don't get on here much any more. Anyhow, I just wanted to comment that I think a lot of the older pickers have given up the bad habits that were so common back when. Most have lost a lot because of booze and drugs and many even their lives. I am currently workin...

Here is a little history...... http://www.jag-stang.com/guitars/jaguar/fender-jaguar-history/ Also...there were two series of necks on the originals. One had square inlays and one had "dots", but which one is more desirable I can no longer remember.I think I purchased my first one in 1964,...

I have two old Fender Jags and wore one completely out.Takes a lot of tinkering to get the bridge and vibrato system to work and stay in tune, but worth the trouble. I did but a Japanese copy a few years back, but found that while it played OK, it suffered from the same vibro maladys. I also found o...

Didn't Bobbe Seymour (RIP) say "we're dieing as fast as we can"????

We discuss this over and over but I guess it's because it is important to a majority of players. Like it or not, steel guitar is/was the backbone of classic country and more. We can all point to the three or four pickers who use it for other styles, but the rest play country. Our country. Our genera...

Thanks Ray and Merry Christmas to you too.....Al

I feel your pain....believe me, I feel your pain........

It's a problem with ALL instruments, not just the big bad guitar player. Working with a steeler who plays pedal down thru a twin amp and never stops is not great fun either. Over use of effects on steel guitars renders some un needed racket also. I have worked with steelers who play WAY louder than ...

Some years back I worked with a group that was pretty good. The funny part was that the singer, who really DID have it together, drove a meat truck between Nashville and Champagne, Illinois. We played in Illinois, and usually the bass player started the night off. Then he would introduce the singer ...

Awwww..c'mon.....look at the good side.....all these new crap toons have far less words to memorize than in the "old days"....three or four over and over and over and over and over....what could be easier????

My wife had on a local "new country" radio station Saturday morning. After a half hour of the most discordant,loud, non harmonious, no talent, asinine noise makin', no word, conglomeration of CRAP, I turned it off. It was nothing but irritating. If there were steel guitars in there, who wo...

Non of my teen to early 30's nieces and nephews know, or intend to find out, what a steel guitar is or what it sounds like..........

Interesting....the big bad guitar player won't let me play, I don't get any solos, one guy sez all guitarists are a-holes, another guy sez bass players are idiots, another sez fiddle players are idiots, another sez drummers have no talent, but when ONE guy stands up and sez steel players are just as...

Back in the 60's and 70's I played all around that area. Prolly everyone I knew is either gone home or in a nursing home. When Chanute was there, a lot of music got played in that area.....

I believe it is gone and what is left is slowly dieing a painful death. Around this area, back when manufacturing was king, automotive components, GM truck plant, Frigidaire,National Cash Register,etc and all the support shops that went with it, there was a three, four, or five piece band in almost ...

It works both ways. We have a steel picker here who plays extremely loud, plays constant, and gives no breaks. Kicks everything off at half speed and "noodles" in between songs. He's been playing over 50 years. I, and most others, will not work with him any longer. Then we have the guys wh...

Good stuff Ray.....we need more. Do you ever use BIAB for backing tracks???

Like I posted in your OTHER thread, gravity is not your friend as you age. For some, just staying upright is a challenge. I still carry equipment in and out, but I dont unnerstand why stuff gets heavier as the night goes on. Maybe it is the buildup of electrons in the bottom of the cabinet. After th...