The Steel Guitar Forum

This is the exact amp I have used the last 6 years. Probably the best amp I have ever owned. He has it priced right, I think it cost me around $1,500. If you need a amp it is a killer.

Bobbe was one of my Hilton pedal dealers for years. I can tell you this much---Bobbe was a honest guy. Bobbe was a talented salesman, but always honest and straight forward with me. I grew to like and respect Bobbe, wish he was still around.

One other thing Paul. I remember you introducing me to Bill Lawrence? I know you got a real kick out of that. Bill was a interesting, different kind of person. You were smiling as Bill unloaded theories of magnetics--eddy currents---and other phoneme, in an unending tie raid. After that meeting with...

Happy birthday Paul Sr. I still remember the day I first met you, it was when you were working at the Sho Bud Factory. I was playing in Printer's Alley with a show band. I took my Sho Bud guitar to Shot Jackson, and he said I should visit the factory. I remember you taking me in the little sound boo...

Some time back I had a Peavey 112 amplifier that developed numerous problems. I actually thought the amplifier was done for. Everything about the amp was going crazy. I took the amp out of the enclosure to see if there was anything obviously wrong. I could not see anything wrong. Sometime in the pas...

Many of the big rack mount amps need a pre-amp to drive the input. Many people use powered mixer boards with preamps that drive the input of these big rack mount amps. I was told today that some pedals-- like the Fender 59 pedal-- has a preamp strong enough to drive the big rack mount amps. In that ...

Thanks for posting the time schedule. Let me say you have a great backup band. I have played in different bands with each of these guys, Buddy Lewis, Russ Burns, and Denver Callahan. These three guys are really good players!

Good news. Charlie is a good man.

Sad news, Jan was a dealer for Hilton pedals.

Harrison, keep up the good work. Refreshing to see and hear a steel guitar turn up and turn it on!

Terrible news. Really sad.

Very sad news. Mary was a beautiful wonderful person. This news makes me very sad.

Great news! Al is such a wonderful person, and a truly great steel guitar player.

As you requested Terry, I will play the Beatles song, "All My Lovin". You will also get to hear my version of Sukiyaki. Denver Callahan and I will play San Antonio Stroll like we used to do in Randy Clair's band. Also going to play high speed version of Wheels. By request Harbor Lights, an...

A friend of mine called today and told me Al Brisco died. Is that true or false?
Al has been a dear friend of mine for 40 years, I pay it is just a rumor.

Did Al Petty die in prison? Al was sentenced to 292 months in prison in 2003 for a multi-million dollar Ponzi scheme. The Federal Prison would not let Al have a pedal steel guitar. Gene Fields built Al a special lap steel, and gave it to him. I happened on a picture on the internet of Al playing the...

I like it more every time I listen to it.

One of the best steel guitar video's I have ever seen.

My how times have changed! I was drafted into the Marines and Vietnam war. No guitars allowed, only M16s. But they furnished the M16s.

Glenn, my son lives in Broomfield and works in Boulder. When I go to visit him, maybe I could visit with you. You are a really good steel guitar player. I am impressed with your playing.

Great playing and great tone from the guitar. One of the best instrumentals I have heard in years!

I would like to trade my black Emmons LeGrande II, single neck with a pad, 5 knee levers, 3 floor pedals----For a Justice Judge, single neck with a pad, 5 knee levers with 3 or more pedals. I do not want to trade for any other guitar. Don't want to trade for a double neck Justice.

Great system Scott.

I am going to start offering a balanced output-differential signaling- on my pedals as extra add on feature. Hilton electronics has always been the first to bring new ideas to volume pedals. For those of you who don't understand what a balanced signal is: A balanced signal, sometimes called a differ...

Here is a tip to reduce noise in your guitar. There will be a hot wire, and a ground wire, coming out of your guitar's pickup. The hot wire is extremely subject to picking up noise. Why? Because most of these pickup wires are not shielded. The longer the hot wire, the more subject it is to picking u...