Tell us about the one steel that got away, And you miss.....

[J D Sauser]

I had a 6 string Gibson UltraTone... really an ugly looking guitar, so ugly it was almost nice again. At the same time I was also playing a D8 Gibson Console Grande and that was among one of the wrong reasons I let the UT slip away. The UT had such an "electric" sound like I never again found on any other steel guitar ever again. I never knew if all UT's had it... it was so "electric" , other members of the band called it the "hair blower". Today I wished I had it just to try to duplicate the pickup to my modern guitars.

... J-D.

[Ray Minich]

In 1977 I had a brand spankin' new MSA S-10 3 and 4 in one hand, and a check for $1000 in the other, and a looming divorce.
I sat the guitar down and left the store.
Those moments get burned indelibly into the brain...

[Jerry Gleason]

The one I always regretted not buying was a Sierra that Buddy Emmons had turned back in to the the Sierra shop. This was around 1994, I think. It was a black 10/12, with some sort of E13 pedal tuning on the 12 string back neck, and it had Buddy's name stenciled on the front. Don would have given me a great deal on it, too. I just wouldn't have had the heart to remove Buddy's name from the front, and I couldn't have gigged with it that way. I was afraid that someone would see me playing it and think " So that's Buddy Emmons... He ain't so hot..."

[Skip Edwards]

I let go of a beautiful brand new '76 Emmons Loafer. Green sunburst lacquer/wood neck with "castle wall" inlay. I only had it a few months, and I got rid of it because I couldn't get the hang of the changer. It sounded great, but I just couldn't get it to play in tune.
I just botched up the works by fooling with it and not knowing what I was doing.
And it's doubly irksome because now my main axe is a p/p.

[Frank Estes]

The first push-pull I bought from Bobbe the one. A 1980 Black Emmons D-10 9+4 #2783D. I think I put it on consignment thru Bobbe. What a mistake! All push-pulls sound good, but some have that "magic" that gets a hold of you. I might consider trading the current owner my 78 Emmons Rosewood guitar if the 1980 is not abused.

As some may recall, I traded my infamous white Derby toward the 1980 Emmons about 10 years ago!

[Rex Thomas]

Delivered there upstairs at Sho-Bud ('73), set up by Duane Marrs. Natural with blue aprons. Wanted to buy it back, no dice.

[Gary Shepherd]

I'd like to have another shot at my blue Sierra.

[Dave Van Allen]

my First pro guitar my '73 ZB S-10:



I miss my skinny '73 body too. Still have the hair though... given enough time to grow it out...


I don't miss the S10 now as much as I used to 'cause I have it's big brother ('73 ZB D10) but it was a long 30 years between them...i could still hear the sound of my S-10 in my head (literally... I have this weird auditory memory), and when I sat down to the D10 it lived up to that idealized memory...