PSG in Cleveland, Ohio area

Stephen Karney · Post by **Stephen Karney** » 18 Sep 2009 5:52 am

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Mark Dershaw · Post by **Mark Dershaw** » 18 Sep 2009 11:05 am

Hey Stephen, I am also new to the forum but have been playing pedal steel for about 35 years. I live way east of Cleveland but work in Wickliffe right next to Willoughby. If you want to get together one evening, let me know when you're going to be in town. As far as musicians in your area, I can't help you much. everyone I know is in my neck of the woods near Pa. You can drop me a line at mdershaw@progressive.com

Mickey Adams · Post by **Mickey Adams** » 18 Sep 2009 1:02 pm

Stephen, Welcome to the forum...If you're ever down around Dallas, Id be happy to spend some time with you one-on-one...thanks for tuning into my videos...Mickey

Stephen Karney · Post by **Stephen Karney** » 18 Sep 2009 4:48 pm

Mark, I'll e-mail you soon, thanks a bunch for the reply.

Mickey, your videos are excellent, all of those exercises are key; I love it. I think I'm going to buy your book once some more funds are organized (buying a pedal steel sort of drains the account

) But I'll send you an e-mail when I can pull it off.

-Karney

Joseph Barcus · Post by **Joseph Barcus** » 18 Sep 2009 6:23 pm

mark
the town Willoughby? is that the town that was on a old twlight zone. and Steven I too also have you tube videos that might be of help to you as well look up Joe Barcus

Terry Kinnear · Post by **Terry Kinnear** » 19 Sep 2009 4:54 am

Stephen ,I will having a steel guitar jam, on november 15 th in sagertown,pa .noon till 6pm .would love to have you come on down. We have alot of great steel guitar players. These guys are great. One of our service man, should be back ,with us this time. He has been running our jams for a long time. none other than the world famous steve porter. If you can make it over on sunday nov 15th. we will help you out ,where ever we can. email me ,and i"ll give you specs. tk

Greg Cutshaw · Post by **Greg Cutshaw** » 19 Sep 2009 2:44 pm

Welcome Stephan! I live in Corry, PA, right on US Route 6 which leads straight to Warren, PA. You can peruse my website which has about 400 E9th/C6th tabs and around 135 songs plus some 6 and 12 string non-pedal tab.

http://www.gregcutshaw.com/

Greg

Stephen Karney · Post by **Stephen Karney** » 20 Sep 2009 6:59 pm

Thanks everyone for the responses, looks like I'll be pretty busy here on the steel.

-Karney

Mark Dershaw · Post by **Mark Dershaw** » 21 Sep 2009 5:14 am

Joseph... Willoughby? There is no Willoughby around here.

Mark Dershaw · Post by **Mark Dershaw** » 21 Sep 2009 5:19 am

Hey Greg, I played at a club in Edinboro last year on several occasions. Maci Mae's. Ever been there?

Terry Kinnear · Post by **Terry Kinnear** » 21 Sep 2009 10:46 am

Hey ,mark. maci maes, closed up .still has not opened up yet. nice inside. the guy who owned it ,was trying to sell ,to move south.

Mark Dershaw · Post by **Mark Dershaw** » 21 Sep 2009 11:36 am

That's a shame. That was a nice place with a huge dance floor. Have you ever been to Jewels Dancehall?
That's a hoppin joint!

Terry Kinnear · Post by **Terry Kinnear** » 21 Sep 2009 5:58 pm

where the heck is jewels dancehall? ever been at wild country dancehall,in sagertown,pa ?

Dan Galysh · Post by **Dan Galysh** » 21 Sep 2009 7:49 pm

Jewels is in Austinburg, Oh., right off of I-90 near Ashtabula. Lord, that place was my old stomping grounds.

Al Moss · Post by **Al Moss** » 22 Sep 2009 5:06 pm

Hi Stephen,
I'm from closer to your east side hagnout, but still a ways away down in Kent. The band that I play in will be up in Painesville in a few weeks, a dance hall, Painesville Township Park. Our band is called Hillbilly Idol and we do straight trad country honky tonk stuff.
-have some pals down in Athens, maybe you came across Johnny Borchard down there, what a tonemeister and tasty steel player on both straight and pedal steel.
Give me an email blast if you take the notion. Best wishes and welcome to the area.
Best,
Al

Stephen Karney · Post by **Stephen Karney** » 22 Sep 2009 8:28 pm

Al,
Yea, I'd like to check you guys out for sure. Let me know the date. I know Johnny. I only met him once when a band I was playing with played on the same bill as the band he was in, but we got to talk for a while. But I've seen him play in a few different bands playing guitar, straight steel and pedal, and yes, he's awesome.

Thanks for the welcome!

Karney

Al Moss · Post by **Al Moss** » 23 Sep 2009 8:00 am

Hi Stephen,
We'll be at Painesville Township Park on Friday, OCT, 9th , start time is 8:30. Here's a link to what's listed on the schedule page of our web site right now: http://www.hillbillyidol.com/schedule.cfm. We'll be in Kent this weekend.
Cheers,
Al
amoss@kent.edu

Mark Dershaw · Post by **Mark Dershaw** » 23 Sep 2009 8:54 am

Hey Al, I don't know if you remember me but you auditioned for a band I was in years ago. We were over in the Warren/Niles area. Are you still playin pedal steel in the band or are you doing all lap steel. I heard that H. I. went even more traditional and lost the drums.

john dunne · Post by **john dunne** » 23 Sep 2009 4:55 pm

Hi there Stephen. I'm just south of Youngstown which means a loooong way from any other PSG players. I'm a long time guitar player just starting out on PSG with Mickeys' book etc. Let me know if your playing out somewhere, like to meet and hear you.

john

john dunne · Post by **john dunne** » 23 Sep 2009 4:57 pm

Hi there Stephen. I'm just south of Youngstown which means a loooong way from any other PSG players. I'm a long time guitar player just starting out on PSG with Mickey' book etc. Let me know if your playing out somewhere, like to meet and hear you.

john

John Coffman · Post by **John Coffman** » 23 Sep 2009 6:57 pm

Best of luck with your Thomas steel. If you have question please ask, I happen to have one or two.

Al Moss · Post by **Al Moss** » 24 Sep 2009 6:20 am

Hi Mark,
-don't mean to detour the thread here, ..but, since Mark asked, I'll reply.

Yes, hello to you too Mark and of course I remember you and your fine psg playing, although I'm a bit cloudy on the details of that band project.

3 or 4 years ago Hillbilly Idol went drummerless for about six months and then returned with a new disc and a new drummer, ..lots of brush work and a nice swing feel. The new guy has a real responsive touch and added a bit of buoyancy and texture to the rhythm section and got us even further away from anything that sounded like alt-country or today's hot country. Plus, that's the sound that we wanted and enjoy hearing anyway. I continue to play pedal steel in the band and do some doubling on elec gtr when we do our banjo and mando tunes.

-nice to hear from you and I hope to hear you again sometime soon. We were over your way a few weeks ago for the George and Hank show in Canfield.

Daniel Morris · Post by **Daniel Morris** » 26 Sep 2009 1:04 pm

Hey, Stephen - PM sent to you from Clevo.
dan

James Jacoby · Post by **James Jacoby** » 28 Sep 2009 7:42 pm

Al Moss wrote:Hi Stephen,
I'm from closer to your east side hagnout, but still a ways away down in Kent. The band that I play in will be up in Painesville in a few weeks, a dance hall, Painesville Township Park. Our band is called Hillbilly Idol and we do straight trad country honky tonk stuff.
-have some pals down in Athens, maybe you came across Johnny Borchard down there, what a tonemeister and tasty steel player on both straight and pedal steel.
Give me an email blast if you take the notion. Best wishes and welcome to the area.
Best,
Al

Hi Al. Sorry I haven't done a very good job of keeping in touch, but it's been a very busy summer.(although not musically) I missed your show at The Kent Stage! Rats! Rick Troyer's jams will be starting pretty soon. Maybe I'll see you there, and maybe we can get Stephen and some of the other Ohio PSG players, to start going to them, also. For you other folks out there, Al's band "Hillbilly Idol", is one of my favorites. They play great, original stuff, that will have you tapping your toe, laughing, being sad, or going around all day singing their songs. I've got one of their CD's that I've had for a year, and I still play it a lot! --Jake Jacoby--