Free at last free at last!

Bo Legg · Post by **Bo Legg** » 9 May 2013 10:48 pm

I’m going back to my Strat and Tele and let someone else screw the legs on and off that heavy load of addiction.

Craig Schwartz · Post by **Craig Schwartz** » 10 May 2013 4:40 am

Wow Bo I didnt know you could do that and get away with it.

Roual Ranes · Post by **Roual Ranes** » 10 May 2013 4:41 am

Don't sell your gear..................you'll be sorry later on. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bob Hickish · Post by **Bob Hickish** » 10 May 2013 5:45 am

Ya ! -- leave all the heavy lifting to us young guys !!!! -

Stuart Legg · Post by **Stuart Legg** » 10 May 2013 11:08 am

Bo got tired of being overlooked every year for the Steel Guitar Hall of Fame.

Bo’s most notable contribution to PSG was his amazing revelation of the scientific approach to the technique of pick blocking as referred to in a previous topic,

In view of Bo’s statement here I really think it imperative that we take a second look since it may be lost forever.

click here

Bob Russell · Post by **Bob Russell** » 10 May 2013 2:12 pm

Stuart Legg wrote:Bo got tired of being overlooked every year for the Steel Guitar Hall of Fame.

Bo’s most notable contribution to PSG was his amazing revelation of the scientific approach to the technique of pick blocking as referred to in a previous topic,

In view of Bo’s statement here I really think it imperative that we take a second look since it may be lost forever.

click here

I had overlooked this before. Finally, a detailed scientific explanation! Hall of Fame material, no doubt!

Chris Templeton · Post by **Chris Templeton** » 10 May 2013 3:51 pm

Bo-I thought you had cartage.

Bo Legg · Post by **Bo Legg** » 10 May 2013 7:41 pm

Chris I’m telling my new girl friend how to do the cartage, but I made the mistake of giving her a 5min. break and now I have to retrain her!

Stuart Legg · Post by **Stuart Legg** » 10 May 2013 7:48 pm

Bo maybe you should have waited till she got out of High School.
Bo’s idea of a date is taking his girl friend to McDonalds and let her play on the slide.

Bo Legg · Post by **Bo Legg** » 10 May 2013 8:42 pm

Reason number 1
I got tired of folks picking out 25 songs with a lot of steel guitar in them and at the gig tell me I didn’t play the steel parts like they were on the CD. All the while the drummer plays every country song “boom chicka” all night, the guitar player does his Chuck Berry imitation and the bass player is playing a solo. Not a down beat in 6,000 bars of music.

Geez if your going to screw up a country song at least get the words right.

Joe Casey · Post by **Joe Casey** » 11 May 2013 5:58 am

Sounds like a band change would have been a better call.

Bo Legg · Post by **Bo Legg** » 11 May 2013 11:09 am

No. 2
I’m feeling if I had devoted the time I've spent on the PSG to my guitar "I coulda been a contender"
He has always been my favorite musician.

Stuart Legg · Post by **Stuart Legg** » 11 May 2013 11:30 am

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 11 May 2013 1:49 pm

Giving up steel guitar is like giving up alcohol. You'll be back.

Dave Bertoncini · Post by **Dave Bertoncini** » 11 May 2013 2:15 pm

Gave up both...still no alcohol, but am back to the steel addiction after about 20 years away from it

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 11 May 2013 5:48 pm

There you go. He'll be back in no time.

I give up alcohol at least once a week.
I haven't given up steel yet.

Stuart Legg · Post by **Stuart Legg** » 11 May 2013 10:57 pm

Bo sounds determined and says he’s going to sell all his Steel Guitar stuff!

Except for 3 PSGs, 1 non-pedal steel, 1 dobro and 8 steel guitar amps.

Storm Rosson · Post by **Storm Rosson** » 12 May 2013 11:43 am

I gave up alchohol 10 yrs ago and never looked at another beer since....I left the psg cause at the time I had to make a livin and there were more bass jobs at the time. But I never lost my craving for playin psg so I got me one and voila I'm still as mediocre as I was then but now I don't have any pressure to make the almighty $$$....WEEEEEEEEE...

....yeah Bo'll be back hehehe..

Joseph Meditz · Post by **Joseph Meditz** » 12 May 2013 4:08 pm

If Bo had only said he was going to his Tele, then that might've meant a steel guitar divorce. But since he said Strat first that means the trem will be getting a lot of use. Sooner or later the question arises as to why one uses a trem when you have a steel. So, IMO, it's just a matter of time until he takes that contraption out of its case again and plugs it in

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 13 May 2013 9:07 am

I understand him to a certain extent. I've noticed that, recently, having spent so much time and effort using a tone bar, when I come to play such things as the twelve-string guitar, I seem to have lost some of the strength I used to have in my left hand, and find myself rattling where I never used to rattle before. I used to be proficient on about 30 instruments, but you cannot retain proficiency without continual practice, and the steel guitar tends to take away the time spent on other instruments.
In reality, the instruments I am most proficient in are the cittern and the lute, and maybe the guitar. I'm planning on getting back to those instruments and coming up with a new mediaeval album, the last being over twenty years ago.
So I see where Bo is coming from.
But he won't ever give up the steel guitar, as neither will I, because it's part of an array of instruments at our disposal.

Craig Schwartz · Post by **Craig Schwartz** » 13 May 2013 11:52 am

Alan , You would be good in a reniasance fair or a mid evil times show , where you can play those interesting guitars, We have such places here in Chicagoland area, Dont know if you have places like that where you live.

Bo Legg · Post by **Bo Legg** » 13 May 2013 3:41 pm

Every time I hear Adrian, I get the bug to take my Tennesse Rose out of the case a see if I can make some steel guitar licks.
Kiss Curl

Gene Jones · Post by **Gene Jones** » 14 May 2013 8:39 am

To quote a famous person from the past: I am "free at last, free at last".

As a teen-ager, and for many years after, I was afflicted with steel guitar virus. The steel-guitar was the most important thing in my life, which excluded school, work, family, and income, for many years of my life.

Finally, I saw the the light on my 70th birthday while playing a country music show with a cast of musicians and dancers who collectively may have equaled my age of 70 years.

I then and there decided to end all of those years of being gone from my wife and my children and try to make up for lost time. I'll never be able to make up for my absent years, but I am still trying.

Keith Davidson · Post by **Keith Davidson** » 14 May 2013 4:10 pm

Kiss Curl

Nice guitar playing there and a cool vid to boot.

Daniel Policarpo · Post by **Daniel Policarpo** » 15 May 2013 5:59 pm

What have I gotten myself into?

How many Leggs are there, and are they prone to sneaking up on you and giving you a kick in the derrier?

Is there really a haunted hallway in Bo and Stuart's home?