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Topic: What's the first song you learned on lap or non-pedal steel? |
Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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Miles Lang
From:
Venturaloha
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Posted 5 Jun 2017 7:35 pm |
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| Beyond the Reef |
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Bill Groner
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QUAKERTOWN, PA
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Posted 6 Jun 2017 2:03 am
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Thanks for the link. I have played along to it 6x this morning. No amp, I get up at 4 to get ready for work and no need to wake the wife. I find a little practice time starts my day off in a relaxed, positive direction. Funny, when I was a kid my parents had to tell me to practice my clarinet lessons. Now, it's my wife telling to put the Lap Steel down! Guess clarinet wasn't my thing! 
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Bill Terry
From:
Bastrop, TX
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Posted 6 Jun 2017 4:09 am
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| Mr. Sandman... for some reason I still haven't quite figured out. I just liked it on non-pedal. |
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Stefan Robertson
From:
Hertfordshire, UK
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Posted 6 Jun 2017 4:50 am
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Ground on down - Ben Harper
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Bill Hatcher custom 12 string Lap Steel Guitar
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Bill Sinclair
From:
Waynesboro, PA, USA
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Posted 6 Jun 2017 4:53 am
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Another Elmore James slide tune - Rollin' and Tumblin'
Followed quickly by Sleepwalk - both in open E |
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Mike Neer
From:
NJ
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Posted 6 Jun 2017 5:16 am
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Something Sol Hoopii played, most likely.
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Former Member
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Posted 6 Jun 2017 5:33 am
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Sand
Arr. by Mr. A. Akaka |
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Steffen Gunter
From:
Munich, Germany
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Keith Glendinning
From:
United Kingdom
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Posted 6 Jun 2017 7:53 am
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| Over the Rainbow on my home-made 8 String. |
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Blake Hawkins
From:
Florida
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Posted 6 Jun 2017 5:09 pm
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| Steel Guitar Rag. |
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Jim Newberry
From:
Seattle, Upper Left America
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Posted 6 Jun 2017 5:37 pm
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Probably either The Eunice Waltz or The Back Door in Cajun G tuning...
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James Phillips
From:
Michigan, USA
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Posted 7 Jun 2017 2:47 pm
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"Sleepwalk" for me as well.in C6.
I never tire of that song. 
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George Rout
From:
St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
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Posted 7 Jun 2017 6:24 pm
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Hello Joe Burke, I also had "You Are My Sunshine". Wonder if you had the Oahu TAB back in the 40's. I had only a thumb pick for that first tune also.
Geo
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Jack Gentle Jr
From:
Tennessee, USA
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Posted 8 Jun 2017 10:56 am
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| Steel Guitar Rag in E tuning |
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Charlie McDonald
From:
out of the blue
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Posted 9 Jun 2017 4:23 am
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| Sneaking Into the Pyramids by the Honky Dreads. |
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Jerry Berger
From:
Nampa, Idaho USA
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Posted 9 Jun 2017 7:49 am My First Steel Song
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My first song was "I Wish I Was Single Again." Here is a pic of me, on the right, and my brother with our first lap steel guitars. (1955) 
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Erv Niehaus
From:
Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 9 Jun 2017 8:25 am
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Looks like a couple of happy little boogers!  |
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Jerry Berger
From:
Nampa, Idaho USA
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Posted 9 Jun 2017 9:06 am
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Actually Erv, We're a couple of happy little "Bergers." Our last name. 
Last edited by Jerry Berger on 11 Jun 2017 3:33 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Erv Niehaus
From:
Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 9 Jun 2017 9:31 am
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Jerry,
You got me there!
BTW: Were those Oahu guitars? |
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Jon Irsik
From:
Wichita, KS USA
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Posted 10 Jun 2017 3:54 am
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Around 1974 or so my brother bought an old Supro lap steel, and when he would go to work I'd drag it out and try my hardest to learn Steel Guitar Rag. I thought that little steel was the coolest thing I'd ever seen.
He still has it after all these years and he let me borrow it - again. Spent the last few weeks trying to learn some Don Helms licks on it, it's still pretty cool.
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John Billings
From:
Ohio, USA
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Posted 11 Jun 2017 1:16 am
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Don't Bogart That Joint. The next day I played it at a Be In in Milwaukee and the crowd went nutz!
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Bob Moore
From:
N. Rose, New York
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Posted 11 Jun 2017 4:54 am
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| My first song was Santonio Rose on a home made steel I had that steel for a year before I had to return it. Got me started. |
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Pete Hunt
From:
Massachusetts, USA
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Posted 17 Jun 2017 12:02 pm First song
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| Hawaiian Wedding Song - 1959, on my Roy Smeck Special that I bought with my paperboy money. |
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Pete Hunt
From:
Massachusetts, USA
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Posted 17 Jun 2017 12:51 pm First song
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| Hawaiian Wedding Song - 1959, on my Roy Smeck Special that I bought with my paperboy money. |
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