Do women like the sound of pedal steel?

erik · Post by **erik** » 12 Aug 2002 9:35 pm

This is the first time i even contemplated this question. I recently sent a mixed selection of tunes on cassette to a female friend of mine who likes Country music, and other styles of music similar to my tastes. She didn't have much of a reaction other than she liked one tune because she recognized it. So, i've been wondering if it's mostly males that like the sound of E9th pedal steel? What has been your observations?

chas smith R.I.P. · Post by **chas smith R.I.P.** » 12 Aug 2002 10:24 pm

The women I know love the sound of the steel guitar, of course if they didn't, I wouldn't want to know them. My cockatiel does also, he used to insist on sitting on my hand when I practiced. I thought it was pretty cool until he dropped one in the changer and that was the end of that.

Andy Greatrix · Post by **Andy Greatrix** » 13 Aug 2002 12:05 am

You should be asking this question to Joan Cox, Sarah Jory, Donna Hammit, And Wanda Vick, not to mention all the unknown but very talented female steel players around the world.

BobG · Post by **BobG** » 13 Aug 2002 2:35 am

My wife (of 16 years) to this day still turns into a "mound of jelly" everytime she hears Buddys' intro to "Nightlife"......
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Now if I can only learn how to play the damn thing.

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Mike Cass · Post by **Mike Cass** » 13 Aug 2002 4:54 am

other than the girls who ask if im the keyboard player, id have to say that most females seem rather ambivalent to individual instrumentalists as a whole,except for Kenny G.

I also remember my mothers reaction to my dad bringing home my first psg @ 2;00 one morning in 1960.....not real positive.
I once had a sweetie that loved steel guitar & Ray Price, but hated Grady Martin's gut string guitar fills !!!??!!??? .... go figure. I know they're fans when they dance in front of me & smile alot, other than that its anyones guess as to what women really like,.... but bass players & drummers do seem to get their attention

John Lacey · Post by **John Lacey** » 13 Aug 2002 5:39 am

Our bartender at the club I work at every weekend (who is drop-dead gorgeous) says that steel is the sexiest instrument in the world. Whatever she says.

Ray Jenkins · Post by **Ray Jenkins** » 13 Aug 2002 5:55 am

but bass players & drummers do seem to get their attention

Man your right about that Mike,I had to give up the Bass and switch to steel,they just about killed me.

Ray

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Al Marcus · Post by **Al Marcus** » 13 Aug 2002 8:07 am

I think that Women do like the sound of the steel.

But my wife wanted me to stick with the piano, she didn't like steel.

But we have been married 55 years, so we must be doing something right!...al

Bobby Lee · Post by **Bobby Lee** » 13 Aug 2002 9:56 am

All in all, I don't think that there's a gender preference. Some people like steel and some don't. Most people just don't know if they like it or not. I think that most coutry music fans do like steel, though.

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Johan Jansen · Post by **Johan Jansen** » 13 Aug 2002 10:00 am

I keep on having the idea that are are more men than women that like the sound of steelguitar. To me a steelsound and a steelguitar is feminin too. But I guess it has to do with my playing

www.steeljj.com

Anne Marie O Keeffe · Post by **Anne Marie O Keeffe** » 13 Aug 2002 10:26 am

This woman does.

Cal Sharp · Post by **Cal Sharp** » 13 Aug 2002 10:36 am

In 39 years of playing in bands I've encountered only one (1) steel guitar groupie, ie a girl who wanted to shag me because I was the steel player.

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Ray Montee · Post by **Ray Montee** » 13 Aug 2002 10:39 am

My wife (fortunately!) is crazy about the steel guitar sound.......
She loves the sound of the old Rick's as well as the sweet pedal sounds like Emmons and Hughey........but the frantic, speed pickin', shrillness that some fellas play irritates her almost instantly. It usually takes me a little longer to be perturbed by it.
She got so excited about steel guitar, she insisted we attend the Texas Jam last March and now has us booked into St.Louis. My first time since 1978.

erik · Post by **erik** » 13 Aug 2002 11:12 am

Johan, you addressed the aspect i was most worried about.

erik · Post by **erik** » 13 Aug 2002 11:18 am

Oh, wait a second... you mean because it sounds feminine most women don't care for it... ergo, bass and drums = deep voice, boisterous behavior, masculine?[This message was edited by erik on 13 August 2002 at 12:20 PM.]

Johan Jansen · Post by **Johan Jansen** » 13 Aug 2002 11:28 am

To me a steeltone makes me think about a womans'voice.
I don't like shouting and screaming women, neither screaming steel, however, a tone to the bone-slide (wild women

? ) www.steeljj.com

Greg Vincent · Post by **Greg Vincent** » 13 Aug 2002 11:36 am

There is a theory out there that men respond more to higher frequencies and women respond more to lower frequencies, which kinda makes sense, I guess.

That explains why I'm always talking gear with dudes after a gig.

GV

Cal Sharp · Post by **Cal Sharp** » 13 Aug 2002 1:19 pm

In 39 years of playing in bands I've encountered only one (1) steel guitar groupie, ie a girl who wanted to shag me because I was the steel player.

C#

Joerg Hennig · Post by **Joerg Hennig** » 13 Aug 2002 1:31 pm

They have a tendency to tell me they liked me better when I played regular guitar...

Frank Parish · Post by **Frank Parish** » 13 Aug 2002 1:50 pm

Of course the gals like steel guitar and everything that comes with it.
Steel players do it with their bars!

Now what woman wouldn't like that?

All you six string players, back of the line.

Tony Farr · Post by **Tony Farr** » 13 Aug 2002 2:04 pm

My wife hasn't missed but two gigs that I've played in 25 years. That was because she was so sick she couldn't hold her head up, but she didn't want me to stay home with her and miss a job. So yes I'd say that women do like steel music. Now days, if she doesn't go, I don't make it. She's the driver.

Bill Ford · Post by **Bill Ford** » 13 Aug 2002 2:10 pm

Steelguitarest do it without fretting.
ie...the ladies don't like fretting do'ers

B.F.

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Bill Ford · Post by **Bill Ford** » 13 Aug 2002 2:12 pm

Tony,
Would you call her a steel driving woman ??

B.F.

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HowardR · Post by **HowardR** » 13 Aug 2002 2:35 pm

Do women like the sound of steel guitars

with my playing, buying them jewelry seems to deepen their appreciation..

chas smith R.I.P. · Post by **chas smith R.I.P.** » 13 Aug 2002 3:20 pm

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