How long have you been playing steel guitar?

Ben Lawson · Post by **Ben Lawson** » 4 Oct 2009 4:00 am

Forty years but the newbies can show me a lot.

Paul King · Post by **Paul King** » 4 Oct 2009 5:38 am

It was April 1979 when I got my first steel guitar. I was 19 years of age and now pushing 50. Been a good 30 years of enjoyment foe me.

Kenneth Caine · Post by **Kenneth Caine** » 4 Oct 2009 5:56 am

I've been playing the lap steel for a little over a year. I'm 49 and have a long way to go. I hope to get a pedal steel in about two years after I've graduated from Lap Steel Kindergarten.

James Marlowe · Post by **James Marlowe** » 4 Oct 2009 6:51 am

Long enough to be really good. Too bad I ain't!!

Mike Ester · Post by **Mike Ester** » 4 Oct 2009 8:47 am

Started the quest in 1980.

Dick Wood · Post by **Dick Wood** » 4 Oct 2009 8:58 am

Started learning to play in 1981 took a two year break from 1993-1995 so that makes 26 and counting.

Peter Nylund · Post by **Peter Nylund** » 4 Oct 2009 9:45 am

Too long, according to my friends

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 4 Oct 2009 10:26 am

Started in 1963. I should be much better than I am by now.

Bob Bowden · Post by **Bob Bowden** » 4 Oct 2009 12:16 pm

A lot longer than my playing sounds like. Guess I should have spent the lessons money on lessons.

Brett Day · Post by **Brett Day** » 4 Oct 2009 12:52 pm

I started playin' steel when I was eighteen, and it was on Christmas Day in 1999. Been playin' for nine years, so on December 25th, 2009, it'll be ten years! I'm twenty-eight now and I still love to play pedal steel!

Brett

Paul E. Brennan · Post by **Paul E. Brennan** » 5 Oct 2009 6:26 am

Since 1990. So I'm still a relative beginner.

Hello Peter Nylund. Looking forward to meeting and hearing you at the Irish Pedal Steel Festival.

Paul.

Richard Sinkler · Post by **Richard Sinkler** » 5 Oct 2009 7:11 am

Jim Lindsey (Louisiana) · Post by **Jim Lindsey (Louisiana)** » 5 Oct 2009 12:14 pm

I started pedal steel guitar on the 18th of March, 1976 and didn't quit until 2000 ... took a nine year layoff from steel and have been back at it for about four weeks now.

So, 1976 through 2009 is 33 years minus 9 years nothing = 24 years of playing.

Feels like I've been playing longer than that ... or, is it just being over the 50 mark that makes it seem that way?

basilh · Post by **basilh** » 5 Oct 2009 2:14 pm

55 years and only just starting to play the thing "In Tune" (I think?)

Paddy Long · Post by **Paddy Long** » 5 Oct 2009 2:30 pm

Pedal Steel 32 years, 6 string guitar 46 years ! Dobro about 25 years !

Bo Borland · Post by **Bo Borland** » 5 Oct 2009 4:34 pm

What time is it?
rimshot please

basilh · Post by **basilh** » 5 Oct 2009 4:45 pm

Well, is that a rimshot on the rim and snare head with a stick or just a stick on the rim alone ?

Ben Jones · Post by **Ben Jones** » 5 Oct 2009 4:46 pm

On Nov 26 2009 it will be four years.

Bo Borland · Post by **Bo Borland** » 5 Oct 2009 4:54 pm

Basil, whatever makes the loudest noise! ba rump ump

basilh · Post by **basilh** » 5 Oct 2009 4:59 pm

Bo, 'snot funny here:- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft8gGaZQfnk Ping Shot or Gock shot and "pock or ging" BELIEVE ME that's the terminology FWIW which isn't much.

Bo Borland · Post by **Bo Borland** » 5 Oct 2009 5:07 pm

Basil, now that is funny ! ba rump bump

Joe Smith · Post by **Joe Smith** » 5 Oct 2009 5:17 pm

I wonder, maybe I need to start using a drum stick to hit the strings instead of using picks.

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 5 Oct 2009 5:31 pm

basilh wrote:Bo, 'snot funny here:- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft8gGaZQfnk Ping Shot or Gock shot and "pock or ging" BELIEVE ME that's the terminology FWIW which isn't much.

..and I thought it was just whacking a drum with a stick.

You mean a drum is a real instrument ?

Joe Smith · Post by **Joe Smith** » 5 Oct 2009 5:41 pm

I thought them drums were like banjos.

John Floyd · Post by **John Floyd** » 6 Oct 2009 4:45 am

All Day and Boy am I tired