What do you tell your wife?

Harry Williams · Post by **Harry Williams** » 7 Nov 2003 10:03 am

A good strategy is to have a family friend arrrive with you when you bring the steel home. With company present she's less likely to ask you difficult questions!!!

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Mark van Allen · Post by **Mark van Allen** » 7 Nov 2003 11:03 am

Like Ken and Carl, I'm thoughroughly blessed to have a really sweet one. She even pays attention to the differences in mechanics, construction, tone, and seems to get why "one is never enough". Goes out of her way to get me custom bars, gadgets for my studio, etc. I think I'm pretty fortunate!

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Karen Llewellyn · Post by **Karen Llewellyn** » 7 Nov 2003 11:16 am

I always tell Bill to go ahead and get what he wants. He's a great provider, so I never worry that he'll spend so much on equipment and instruments that we can't make the mortgage. And Jamie and I like to listen to what he plays. He's stressed at work all day, he should get to unwind (if steel is unwinding) when he can.

Dave Van Allen · Post by **Dave Van Allen** » 7 Nov 2003 11:34 am

i really like the "two sets of strings" line...

it was totally a coincidence that my wife was out of town when the opportunity for me to get my long time dream ZB Custom came up... really!

When I bought my Zum U12, back in '98 it was my first new pedal guitar in 25 years, and she agreed that it was about time...sent me off on a field trip to Billy Cooper's to try out every brand he had on the floor, went with me to folks houses who had brands I couldn't try elsewhere...and put up with my dithering about color, tunings etc.. as well as my nail biting during the Zum's gestation period

many years ago we were on a day trip when we stopped in at a roadside music store on a whim... there was a T8 Stringmaster settin' in the corner... we actually left, and she talked me into turning around several miles later to go back and get it...

once she came back from a visit to her sister's in TX with a Melobar 6string lap steel for me...

and someday I'll tell y'all the story about finding the old Silvertone lap guitar we call the "California Kid"... it's a Jody Carver length tale I just don't feel up to relating right now...

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Daniel J. Cormier · Post by **Daniel J. Cormier** » 7 Nov 2003 11:44 am

When your darling bride/ apple of your eye ask that most impotant question " Just how d!@$!! steel guitars does one man need", or "You can only play one guitar at a time", Gently take that "piece of heaven" that the good Lord saw fit to send down to you buy the hand, walk her into the bedroom past the bed ,to "Her Closet" door and ask that sweetheart of a woman,the mother of your childern " Just how many pairs of shoes does a woman need" Or "you can only where one pair at a time.

That ought to start a fire that will keep you "cold" all winter.HE HE HE

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Larry Robbins · Post by **Larry Robbins** » 7 Nov 2003 1:21 pm

Right on Dan! Whats good for the goose is good for the gooser!

Gaylon Mathews · Post by **Gaylon Mathews** » 7 Nov 2003 2:35 pm

Donna that sounds JUST LIKE something Tommy has probably used on you in the past! Ha!

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Erv Niehaus · Post by **Erv Niehaus** » 7 Nov 2003 2:37 pm

I was having the sme problem with my wife up until a few years ago. It was then that I added a loft over my garage. I can sneak guitars in and out of there without her knowing it. I now have so many guitars that she has lost count and doesn't bug my anymore. Last Spring I bought a new motorcyle and my son-in-law said: "Erv, how are you going to sneak that home without Janet seeing it?"
Uff'Da!!

Wayne Baker · Post by **Wayne Baker** » 7 Nov 2003 6:21 pm

I just show up with a bottle of wine wearin' a thong and a tube top. She immediately forgets about the new steel.

Wayne "Cat Daddy Shake and Bake" Baker
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Donna Dodd · Post by **Donna Dodd** » 7 Nov 2003 6:32 pm

hummmmmm . . . not sure I really believe that one Wayne. Well . . . I don't know - what kind of wine was it?

Roger Edgington · Post by **Roger Edgington** » 7 Nov 2003 7:25 pm

I always promise to sell the old one -but I never do. She can't say much. I played the MSA 23 years.

David L. Donald · Post by **David L. Donald** » 8 Nov 2003 1:10 am

I don't have to say anything,
she jes' don' car'.

So Ricky ; lose a wife, gain a Fulawka.
Seems to have worked for you.

If only we can be as blessed as Carl D. I met Mrs. Dixon at Scotty's and she was just sitting there with an angelic smile enjoying Carl demoing his steel inventions.
She seemed quite happy to watch him in his element enjoying himself so much.
A real sweetheart of a lassie. Carl, as the welsh say ; "Good on you."

C Dixon · Post by **C Dixon** » 8 Nov 2003 5:37 am

David,

She has never been any other way. I am a wretched sinner and that "Last Footpint's Mine" has NEVER been truer I am sad to admit.

When Jesus said, "In my Father's house there are many mansions", I KNOW in my heart one of the greatest and most beautiful of all is reserved for her.

For she is without precedent (not because she is my wife), her entire life since I met her at age 14 (now 70) has been devoted to her husband. Unselfish to the last gene in her body; she caters to me as thought I was a king.

And I do not deserve one single ounce of it.

May Jesus bless her for eternity for what she has given to me; and sooo many others. She truly does epitomize the ole saying, "to know her is to love her",

carl

Donna Dodd · Post by **Donna Dodd** » 8 Nov 2003 8:51 am

Carl,

And I do not deserve one single ounce of it.

I really don't believe that, Carl. You speak so highly of Mrs. Dixon straight from the heart. You can't possibly feel THAT without fully demonstrating it as well. Your beautiful character is reflected in all you do and say. And, I'd venture to say that she'd say the same about you as you said about her! You are both blessed.
Aretha Franklin (or was that Dr. Phil?) had it just right - RESPECT!

CrowBear Schmitt · Post by **CrowBear Schmitt** » 8 Nov 2003 10:08 am

Dr Feelgood sure was a good one too

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Donna Dodd · Post by **Donna Dodd** » 8 Nov 2003 2:42 pm

Anne Marie,

John wants a Zum.........I'm blue in the face from saying "get one", so I think he's finally convinced himself that he should have one. I'm very pleased for him and for me too, 'cos I'll be going with him to pick it up..........in St Louis!

I predict we'll have some chocolates together in St. Louis!

Lloyd Karenke · Post by **Lloyd Karenke** » 8 Nov 2003 8:13 pm

John...when you bring that new steel home...you best throw your hat in the door first.........
Lloyd

Anne Marie O Keeffe · Post by **Anne Marie O Keeffe** » 9 Nov 2003 3:55 am

Fantastic Donna, I'll bring some handmade Irish chocs and you can bring that one you mentioned before that goes well with beer!!!!

Donna Dodd · Post by **Donna Dodd** » 9 Nov 2003 5:05 am

Anne Marie - Oh, didn't I tell you - handmade Irish chocolates go great with American Beer! Honest

Roger Rettig · Post by **Roger Rettig** » 9 Nov 2003 9:11 am

There's no chance of sneaking one in here unobserved - Susie might not be able to distinguish a LeGrande from a p/p, but she can 'ID' all those different logos at a glance.

Only five minutes ago she called from the other room - 'Toby Keith video's on - his guy's got a black JCH!'

Thankfully, she's still a mite confused with the Martin guitars and their different model numbers....

RR[This message was edited by Roger Rettig on 09 November 2003 at 09:26 AM.]

Anne Marie O Keeffe · Post by **Anne Marie O Keeffe** » 10 Nov 2003 3:15 pm

OK Donna, it's Budweiser and Lily O'Briens chocs for the ladies then!

David Langdon · Post by **David Langdon** » 11 Nov 2003 7:37 am

What an interesting thread, however, beware guys, this is exactly the type of thread that your own wives may be reading and you will give yourselves away. Here in the UK steel guitars are not so common, or cheap! So there is not so much opportunity or temptation. I found a similar topic on a Hammond organ forum (I am also a Hammond player) and I was sore from laughing at the tricks they got up to with those huge beasts. One of the cleverist ideas was that a few players had a regular rotation of instruments, whether a new one had been bought or not. Some players may own 3 organs but only have 2 in the house at any one time, and another player (having just sold one) replaces it with a (lent) one, with a view to buying another one. If there are enough in the circle it can work very well. Ahh, I hear you say, but one Hammond B3 looks pretty much the same as the next, and there are no decals with different names. Well there are cherrywood ones, black ones, walnut ones, and even painted white ones.
There was unfortunately a flaw in the system. It all became so complex and conveluted that nobody could quite remember whose was whose (although they'd all owned all of the organs at one time or another) and then one guy got divorced and had to sell the lot! Food for thought, just ask her.