Jr Browns Guit-Steel Day 1
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Great job Julian.
What part of Kansas are you in ?
I bet there is a good straight steel teacher you could find on the forum. I may know someone close to you as well.
If you have another car you can sell, or a few bucks in the bank, I would suggest getting a lap steel to practice on. Once you develop proper technique on the lap steel it will transfer over to the Guit- steel. The steel learning curve will increase big time by learning on your lap or on a stand with the steel horizontal.I know Junior learned it that way.
Keep it up.
Todd
What part of Kansas are you in ?
I bet there is a good straight steel teacher you could find on the forum. I may know someone close to you as well.
If you have another car you can sell, or a few bucks in the bank, I would suggest getting a lap steel to practice on. Once you develop proper technique on the lap steel it will transfer over to the Guit- steel. The steel learning curve will increase big time by learning on your lap or on a stand with the steel horizontal.I know Junior learned it that way.
Keep it up.
Todd
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alright guys, 18-19th I'll be in Nashville TN. hanging out at third man records for Record store day, Jack white is a good friend of mine.. but when I go to leave nashville. on the way home, I'm going to make a stop in a town called waverly TN, TO SEE JUNIOR BROWN!
I have the right to bare a Guit steel.
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Re: Guit steel
Hi Julian. Glad to see your getting good use from your guit-steel. Looks good on the stand. Wish I had one when I was 14. I probably put $1500.00 into mine too. I'll have to dig throughout the receipts some time and add it all up. I'm making all the hardware for my next ones but I'm still working on a new headstock design for the steel. If you ever get anymore tuning pans and you want to sell, let me know.Julian Davis wrote:my Guit steel. custom buit for me, and Hi dave! I see your on this too! just got this 3 weeks ago. it's already road dirty. I've worn the top paint off from arm sweat. awesome player. it's violent, have it loaded in the car ready to go!
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or an old supro style. It would be worth my cash to buy old supro pickups with the sweet old covers, the wing pickguards, glossy red with white outer binding. piezo on the bridge with a bigsby. gumby headstock. have you named your Guit steel yet? Mine is "the skirtshaker"
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It's really "neat-o" but; though I can understand the idea of being more mobile than a normal steel guy, but is there any other kind of musical advantage over a guitar on a strap and a standing-height steel guitar? I could see this being harder, not easier. Of course I'm speculating, but maybe the owners can tell me the advantages? It appears my automobile & teeth have entered into a wallet-draining conspiracy, but I could eventually stick together a fakie. I have often looked at Warmoth's doubleneck bodies & thought... You can get a 30" scale bass neck with no tuner holes drilled, but I'd be more inclined to go with an aluminum C-channel beam. Due to my spine, shoulder, arm, neck - AARGH etc. it would be a mounted-stand-ONLY instrument, so one advantage is already toast.
As far as "over-emulating" a certain artist, a good chunk of obsessive-compulsive aping disorder is a fine way to explore instruments - you get a pre-made set of real, solid, tangible goals, which works great when you're young. I'm not sure I could play guitar if I hadn't latched onto Steve Morse for a few years there. You'll know when to let go.
Like the music or not, one of the most intelligent guys out there now is John Mayer, and he has quite willfully moved through Stevie Ray Vaughan, Dave Matthews, and he's current remora'd to Jerry Garcia, which is a "good fit" IMO. While in his SRV phase, a record company made a fair bid for his apple cheeks, lush lips, wavy hair... so he did the one-man boy band* thing for a few years to score some credibility & long-range potential. Only then, when he could afford to pay Steve Jordan and Pino Palladino, he became a bluesman, 21st-century style. A few tense moments at Columbia, no doubt?
*("Your Body is a Wonderland" has GOT to win some sort of prize as the most blatant Nookie Magnet of the 21st century, for sure.)
As far as "over-emulating" a certain artist, a good chunk of obsessive-compulsive aping disorder is a fine way to explore instruments - you get a pre-made set of real, solid, tangible goals, which works great when you're young. I'm not sure I could play guitar if I hadn't latched onto Steve Morse for a few years there. You'll know when to let go.
Like the music or not, one of the most intelligent guys out there now is John Mayer, and he has quite willfully moved through Stevie Ray Vaughan, Dave Matthews, and he's current remora'd to Jerry Garcia, which is a "good fit" IMO. While in his SRV phase, a record company made a fair bid for his apple cheeks, lush lips, wavy hair... so he did the one-man boy band* thing for a few years to score some credibility & long-range potential. Only then, when he could afford to pay Steve Jordan and Pino Palladino, he became a bluesman, 21st-century style. A few tense moments at Columbia, no doubt?
*("Your Body is a Wonderland" has GOT to win some sort of prize as the most blatant Nookie Magnet of the 21st century, for sure.)
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... the Cowboy Poet Luthier!
http://youtu.be/2LiLV-9cWHQ
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Here's some photos I took a few years ago (2006) at the Dallas Guitar Show. Mr. Brown and Mr. Stevens gave a talk about the Guit-Steel. I also talked to Junior about possibly playing Deke's Guitar Geek Festival, which he did a few years later (he tore the roof off the joint!)
Note how faded the finish was already on "Big Red".
Note how faded the finish was already on "Big Red".
A big THANKS to all my friends, here and everywhere !
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No name yet, I'm not great at naming things. I had a cat named monkey and two bird that were both named bird. If I had to think up names for all my guitars my head would explode.Julian Davis wrote:or an old supro style. It would be worth my cash to buy old supro pickups with the sweet old covers, the wing pickguards, glossy red with white outer binding. piezo on the bridge with a bigsby. gumby headstock. have you named your Guit steel yet? Mine is "the skirtshaker"
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did we drop this thread. hello operator? it's been a while since I've logged in, I switched the Lap to e9 and can no play just about anything I want. do the old western sounds. I even sat in at the hootenanny one night and played with all the Pedals. I just installed a runbarr on my GS about maybe 30 minutes ago. I love it.. you guy's need one for all your steels. metal steel guitar players .(I don't play metal. it just speeds me up is all, I practice Django Reinhardt and arpeggios from hell)
I have the right to bare a Guit steel.