I discovered my favourite tuning - G minor - thanks to the Bob Brozman interview with tuning list in your lap steel book!
(I mentioned this to Bob recently, and he told me he doesn't use that tuning often, but proceeded to play a tune in that tuning at his concert a few hours later - video here! )I think an important distinction, or at least a comment, ought to be made about tunings that lend themselves well to unaccompanied playing vs. tunings that are more beneficial to the steeler in a band. (For instance I play mainly in the D and G tunings as I need the important root and fifths in the bass, in order to "be the backing band too"). Just a thought.
Cheers,
Fred
