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Topic: I'll Get The Hang Of It |
Bill Hankey
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Pittsfield, MA, USA
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Posted 14 Nov 2008 8:22 am |
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| I was caught sleeping at the steel! Catnapping would be a better explanation. The only thing that came to mind was; "I'll get the hang of it." Am I alone in this expression? |
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Ron Page
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Penn Yan, NY USA
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Posted 14 Nov 2008 9:00 am
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Not at all... I use that one all the time, Bill. Regarding the catnap, one of the best feelings one can ever achieve is the wake himself up snoring. I have to admit I've never fallen asleep at the steel, or the wheel. 
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Bill Hankey
From:
Pittsfield, MA, USA
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Posted 14 Nov 2008 11:31 am
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Ron,
Years ago, I listened late at night to Radio Station WCKY in Cincinnati. I think that they played some country music. WWVA in Wheeling would fade out, and I'd tune in to your home town station. |
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Bill Hankey
From:
Pittsfield, MA, USA
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Posted 14 Nov 2008 11:54 am
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Ron,
When I drifted off, I was trying to decide who had the prettiest voice with a country touch. I have been listening to Marie Osmond's earlier performances, and whether it be Patty, Martina, or whomever, Marie's "Paper Roses" is on my mind. |
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Andy Jones
From:
Mississippi
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Posted 14 Nov 2008 1:35 pm
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No,Mr.Hankey,you are not alone.I tell myself this every day and one day,I will get the hang of it.I only give up bad habits.
Andy |
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Sam White R.I.P.
From:
Coventry, RI 02816
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Posted 14 Nov 2008 4:54 pm
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Hi Bill don't feel alone I do that lots of time. I will come in the Steel Room to practice and after a couple hours I start to dose off and I keep playing and keep dosing off. Then I sau I can not beleave this and leave the Steel Room and go sit with Anna in the living room and fall asleep watching the BOOB Tube.
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Stuart Legg
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Posted 14 Nov 2008 6:14 pm
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Ric Epperle
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Sheridan, Wyoming USA . Like no other place on Earth... R.I.P.
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Posted 14 Nov 2008 6:37 pm
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Now that's precious! 
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Stephen Silver
From:
Asheville, NC
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Posted 14 Nov 2008 7:02 pm
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| Damn, I just dozed off reading this thread. |
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Bill Hankey
From:
Pittsfield, MA, USA
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Posted 15 Nov 2008 4:57 am
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Hypertension may be the culprit in a round about way. Once the family doctor has determined that your blood pressure ranges under normal conditions, just above upper normal, he'll prescribe a blood pressure lowering medication if you cooperate with his wishes. He'll warn of salt moderation, as well as weight reduction after you step on his scales. Middle aged steel guitarists should check every aspect of their cardiovascular wear and tear. Doctors have stepped up their examinations by looking into critical areas for possible trouble down the road. Hydrochlorothiazide combinations with beta blockers, for example, have been known to induce an effect that resembles sleep inducement. Caffeine reverses the sleepiness in most individuals. In doing this, it is apt to produce a slight rise in blood pressure.
IMO, boresome attempts to play beyond one's means, creates a stifling affect. This occurs after maintaining a rigorous session with less than satisfactory results. Moving from an anxious and keyed up attitude, to an acceptance of failed efforts to capture a specific difficult technique, will invariably motivate a more relaxed temperament.
An audience will successfully deter a lethargic state of mind. The audiences usually have no common interest in the workings of getting a hot lick on the steel. After all, their knowledge of the basics of playing steel are nil and pitiful. Their main interest would naturally be without fail, a recognizable melody. Beyond that, they are totally in the dark. Pardon the pun! |
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Alan Brookes
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Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 15 Nov 2008 11:40 am
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I can fall asleep at everything else, why not the steel ?
Actually, I never watch the television without a pedal steel in front of me, and I play along with the adverts, the theme songs, everything. Inasmuchas I fall asleep watching bad movies, logic says that I have a steel in front of me at the time, but it's not the steel that puts me to sleep, it's usually the bad movie. (It can't be the whisky...) |
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Larry Bressington
From:
Nebraska
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Posted 15 Nov 2008 1:16 pm
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I have never fell asleep at the steel, but i get dozy when i see some 'hankey pankey'
Did you know that man who wrote the' hokey koky' has just died? They could not get him in the casket, because when they put his left foot in, he put his right foot out!
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Bill Hankey
From:
Pittsfield, MA, USA
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Posted 16 Nov 2008 6:00 am
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Alan,
Those frequent quakes that beshivers property, horrid fires that claim some of the richest homes in America, mud slides, and collapsing bridges, could bring about a leery outlook while living in California. The big gold rush is over. Broken shovels are mute testimony of those who labored long hours 159 years ago, to get rich quick. According to written reports, men put gold before family. The little pick and shovel is not so insignificant, when history opens the pages to human nature. Who would think that the excitement of becoming rich, would tempt men to travel over parched deserts in temperatures well over 100 degrees. Slapping leather, driving mules, and delivering the assayable precious metal safely to the assayer's office was all in a day's work. California's hustle and bustle will never become a living experience for me. Steel guitarists are strung along the great fault that extends through the entire west coast. Good luck with that.. |
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Alan Brookes
From:
Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 16 Nov 2008 11:19 am
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| ....Steel guitarists are strung along the great fault that extends through the entire west coast. Good luck with that.. |
Yes, I well remember huddling under my desk in 1989 while all the plaster and electrical fittings fell out of the ceiling, all the filing cabinets fell over, the outside wall parted away so I could see outside, and every wall in the building cracked and crumbled. A couple of years later I was being evacuated from the East Bay Firestorm. They say the Hayward Fault, which passes right through the school where my wife teaches, and within a hundred yards of our house, is ready to fracture, and that doesn't even count the San Andreas Fault across the Bay, where I work, which also wreaks havoc in Oakland. I often ponder on that as I play in the sub-basement, and wonder if one day I shall be squashed like a bug.  Or maybe the Bay Bridge, which I cross twice a day, will collapse as part of it did in 1989.
Ironically, just after I moved from England in 1980, my home town of Birmingham, England, had its first earthquake in 400 years. Basil recently sent me some newsletters of another earthquake in that same area.
We look at all those people who have built houses on the side of Vesuvius, and wonder if they've ever read the history of Pompei, and all that development in Java, where Krakatoa is expected to erupt any time soon, and wonder on the logic of it all.
But if I moved to the Mid-West, where my in-laws live, I'd probably be hit by a tornado. And don't forget that, ignoring Alaska, the biggest earthquake to ever hit North America was in the Mid-West. 
I guess when it's time for you to go, nature always wins...  |
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Bill Hankey
From:
Pittsfield, MA, USA
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Posted 17 Nov 2008 8:37 am
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Alan,
The Forum was out of order on my computer last night and early this morning, making it difficult for me to acknowledge interesting postings. For now, I wanted to tell you how how much I enjoyed reading your replies. I'm backed up with a few jobs around home that need to be taken care of. Most of them are not easily done. I'm sure your aware of things that are out reach, making life a little more difficult. Thanks again for the informative notes on mother nature, and other great forces to contend with.
Best regards,
Bill |
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