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Topic: Which Steel Guitar Experience Pleased You Most? |
Bill Hankey
From:
Pittsfield, MA, USA
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Posted 18 Jul 2012 7:43 am |
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| I think mine was in building my own pedal steel guitar. There were many others, but overcoming the difficult challenges stands out in memory. |
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Ben Lawson
From:
Brooksville Florida
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Posted 18 Jul 2012 9:37 am
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I think I played something correctly once and that was very pleasing to me. Seriously I find that steel pickers in general are nice folks. The people that we meet bring the greatest pleasure to my steel playing experience. Even though we've never met face to face, Bill, I've had conversations about your posts that were very interesting, sometimes confusing but always stimulating and I feel like I know you. I don't think any other instrument has a closer knit fraternity.
Oh yeah, playing is fun. |
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Bud Angelotti
From:
Larryville, NJ, USA
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Posted 18 Jul 2012 9:53 am
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| That must be very satisfying Bill. Excellent! |
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Dave Mudgett
From:
Central Pennsylvania and Gallatin, Tennessee
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Posted 18 Jul 2012 9:59 am
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| The main joy for me is playing the guitar. I just love to play music, and that includes any of the instruments I play - steel guitar, standard guitar, or whatever. I'm even playing drums right now, and it's a blast. I enjoy working on instruments too, but for me, that's more a means than an end. I agree that there's great satisfaction in building/working on guitars, wheeling dealing guitars, talking about guitars - anything about guitars. But nothing trumps playing - again, to me. |
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Doug Paluch
From:
Michigan, USA
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Posted 19 Jul 2012 4:11 am
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| This may sound silly, but I'm a newcomer to the psg, and bought my guitar after hearing vic at steel guitar Nashville play a bunch. I picked it on sound. Well, 3 months in, and I just couldn't find the pleasing tone that I'd heard at the store. I have a Nashville 112, and I've been messing with it constantly. I just assumed tone was in the fingers, and I'd not earned the right to good tone yet. Well, about 4 am a few days ago, I had a moment of clarity. I removed the three long (15+ each- duh!) cables that attached my psg, volume pedal, tuner, and amp, and replaced them with short run George l's I had lying around. To say the least, the difference is astounding. It's as if a blanket with lifted off the amp. The clarity is there, and the flub that was killing my ears has disappeared. I've never experienced such a dramatic sound change with such little effort. |
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Jim Cohen
From:
Philadelphia, PA
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Lane Gray
From:
Topeka, KS
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Posted 19 Jul 2012 5:01 am
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My first eye-popping Jaw-dropping pleasing experience was back in the early 80s, when I figured out Bruce Bouton's ride on Hwy 40 Blues on my own.
Also memorable was the kind indulgence Johnny Cox showed me when he was with Ernest Tubb at the Montgomery County (MD) fair in 81. Allowing me to play that intimidating Zum, with its wrist lever and Crawford cluster.
I get my big moments now when group things gel, like:
figuring out how to end my eight bars with something that leads right into what the fiddler was going to play;
hearing the fiddler play some figure, and extemporaneously finding a harmony part for the last coupla bars;
trading fours in a manner that sounds like a couple of close friends finishing each others' sentences.
Stuff like that leaves me buzzing for days.
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2 pedal steels, a lapStrat, and an 8-string Dobro (and 3 ukes)
More amps than guitars, and not many effects |
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Christopher Woitach
From:
Portland, Oregon, USA
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Dan Beller-McKenna
From:
Durham, New Hampshire, USA
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Posted 19 Jul 2012 9:08 am
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| I honestly think that coming home with my Sho Bud Maverick in August 1976 and being able to actually sit down behind a pedal steel may still be the most gratifying experience I ever had to do with steel guitar. Way lower magnitude of joy and awe than saying my wedding vows or seeing my daughter born--but of the same type. |
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Daniel McKee
From:
Corinth Mississippi
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Posted 19 Jul 2012 1:49 pm
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| I gotta say the best experience for me was getting all the way through a song. |
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Rick Abbott
From:
Indiana, USA
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Posted 19 Jul 2012 3:11 pm
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I had a 2006 Carter Universal 12-string built for me. Great guitar! I had to sell it to get the TaxMan off my back 
Well, I was able to buy a 1998 Carter Uni-12 a few months ago. It is so good to be back where I belong. The '98 is a way better guitar than the '06 too!! This guitar has lifted my spirit, and is a joy to play.
Right before I got it I was invited to play with a really cool band in my area. They do all sorts of songs Old country and rock, Bob Marley to Stevie Ray, Doors and Hendrix. I'm in heaven with these guys. It is a true joy to play with these guys, and the Universal tuning is just perfect for all this.
Finding the TriboTone K Bar is on par, or even more important to me as the Carter. Gosh, what tone!! I have rehearsal with Voodoo Garden (the cool band) next week...I can't wait to get the TriboTone in there with a nice loud Bandmaster Reverb and the Carter 
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RICK ABBOTT
Sho~Bud D-10 Professional #7962
Remington T-8, Sehy #112
1975 Peavey Pacer 1963 Gibson Falcon |
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Larry Baker
From:
Columbia, Mo. U.S.A.
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Posted 19 Jul 2012 5:34 pm
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My most pleasing moment of playing was getting a compliment from the Joe Wright. thanks Joe. Larry
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Mullen G2 SD10 3 & 5 The Eagle
NV112 amp===Earnie Ball V.P. |
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David Zornes
From:
Ohio, USA
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Posted 19 Jul 2012 7:47 pm
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| When all the musicians "gel" together; you can play quite to your satisfaction-but if they're so "not gellin". |
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John De Maille
From:
On a Mountain in Upstate Halcottsville, N.Y.
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Posted 19 Jul 2012 8:18 pm
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| The most pleasing experience for me is when everything comes together, on stage. I love it, when, the band works as one complete entity and the music flows effortlessly. It's so much easier to play when it sounds right. |
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Fred Glave
From:
McHenry, Illinois, USA
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Posted 20 Jul 2012 6:20 am
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It was the night when our saxaphone player didn't show up. I was able to play intros and fills without him drowning me out by playing on top of my parts.
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Zum Encore, Zum Stage One, Fender 2000, Harlan Bros., Multi-Kord, |
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Ransom Beers
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Posted 20 Jul 2012 7:14 am
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| Selling mine!!(guitar that is) |
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Johan Jansen
From:
Europe
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Posted 20 Jul 2012 8:02 am
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meeting Paul Franklin in person.
JJ |
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Bill Hankey
From:
Pittsfield, MA, USA
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Posted 20 Jul 2012 2:04 pm
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| Reading about the memorable experiences allows others to imagine just how things were in situations that have created lifelong memories. Thanks to all who have shared their remembrances. B.H. |
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Ray McCarthy
From:
New Hampshire, USA
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Posted 21 Jul 2012 1:37 am
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To see folks in the audience looking straight at me, smiling and nodding in approval of a lick or solo I've just done. I suppose that's an ego trip of sorts, but it's all I ever hope for--to make people smile. To me, that's success   |
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Bent Romnes
From:
London,Ontario, Canada
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Posted 21 Jul 2012 4:29 am
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Mine was when I had built the blue BenRom and had David Hartley play it over the course of a weekend and he gave it a glowing report(read on web site)
And then to have Lloyd Green comment on how nice the guitar looked and how he loved the sound and tone and David's playing.
It can't get any better than that for me.
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BenRom Pedal Steel Guitars
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Jim Cohen
From:
Philadelphia, PA
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Posted 21 Jul 2012 5:06 am
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There have been many gratifying experiences but possibly the greatest was the first time I was invited to play the main stage at the International Steel Guitar Convention. That was especially sweet since Scotty had been my first steel teacher, back when I was 17. (And, as it turns out, he has no recollection of having given me lessons. Why would he? I was just another pimply teenager passing through his life, while he was huge in mine! LOL!)
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www.RonstadtRevue.com
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Wayne Franco
From:
silverdale, WA. USA
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Posted 21 Jul 2012 7:19 am Getting to the ability level
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| I can think my way through a song and consistently find places to play the melody as well as add color to the arrangment. Work my way through 4 two chord bars with places to go that are correct. Thats great stuff to me! |
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Clete Ritta
From:
San Antonio, Texas
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Posted 22 Jul 2012 2:10 am
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I think I just had my most memorable, pleasant experience playing pedal steel on Friday. We played at Texas' oldest dancehall, the legendary Gruene Hall, opening up for The Gourds. The place was packed and we got lots of compliments afterwards. The nicest kudos (that meant the most to me, anyways) were from the headliners, the sound crew and the staff that work there!
Clete |
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Bill Hankey
From:
Pittsfield, MA, USA
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Posted 22 Jul 2012 3:12 am
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| These accounts depicting happy moments of others, are excellent incentives to instill positive thoughts in the course of everyday activities. It becomes an inspiration to know that others have enjoyed many happy experiences. Thanks again... |
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Walter Stettner
From:
Vienna, Austria
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Posted 22 Jul 2012 6:08 am
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Meeting Lloyd Green in person for the first time. 
Kind Regards, Walter
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