Hello from Sweden - new member

Per Berner · Post by **Per Berner** » 10 Aug 2004 11:27 pm

Hi guys, a new member calling.

I’m your typical amateur ”bedroom steeler”, though my guitar is standing proudly in my living room. I play just for fun and mostly by myself. In these parts of the world it’s hard to find fellow musicians who share a love for straight country music, and even harder to find someone who can make time for rehearsals when you can. Sometimes I make my own multi-track recordings, and I did a few local sessions in the eighties, when I also was a member of a not very good country band for a short time.

I began playing steel as a teenager in the late seventies, but my interests veered off into building guitars (regular electrics, mostly) instead of playing them, so I hardly played steel at all for many years.

My love for the instrument never changed, though, and nowadays I try to find a little more time to play. I recently replaced my old AVM S10 with a beautiful Emmons Legrande II D10, so there’s no lack of inspiration - and certainly noone but myself to blame when it doesn’t sound the way it should!

Some players who have inspired me over the years are mainly Lloyd Green, Weldon Myrick, Sonny Garrish, John Hughey, Lucky Oceans, of course Buddy Emmons and lately also Ricky Davis.

All in all, it feels good to become a forum member after ”looking in over the fence” for a couple of weeks. The forum seems to be an endless source of wisdom, and for a someone who’s 45 (how did THAT happen...) it feels good to be one of the younger guys for a change!

Best regards,

Per Berner, Skövde, Sweden.

Mark Metdker · Post by **Mark Metdker** » 11 Aug 2004 7:22 am

Welcome to the Board Per. As you have already discovered, there is a lot of wisdom here. I have learned a lot in my short time here. Good to have another Swede onboard!

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BMI S-10
Peavey Session 500

"Do Right, and Fear No Man"
Ronald Reagan

Walter Stettner · Post by **Walter Stettner** » 11 Aug 2004 7:28 am

Greetings, Per and welcome to the Forum! Be sure, it will become some sort of additiction! If you need anything from me, feel free to let me know!

Kind Regards, Walter

www.lloydgreentribute.com
www.austriansteelguitar.at.tf

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Jim Hankins · Post by **Jim Hankins** » 11 Aug 2004 9:43 am

Hi Per, as a 47 yr old amateur bedroom player I totally identify with you. Have fun! jim, Carter U12,NV400

Robert Porri · Post by **Robert Porri** » 11 Aug 2004 9:58 am

Welcome Per. I have not been playing PSG a year yet, but have been "bitten" pretty good. I'm 49 and have played guitar a since I was a kid. Hope you enjoy yourself here.

Bob P.

Ron ! · Post by **Ron !** » 11 Aug 2004 1:23 pm

Hello Per.

Like you i also am a new member.
Again.I was a member of the forum in 1997 or 1998.Sold all my steels and amps and started a family.What a shame of that Emmons LeGrandeII and that Sho-Bud Professional.Anyway i am building me a brand new steel from scratch and it seems to roll all in to place again for me.So i hope that i can be of some help to other steelplayers in the world.

Ron

Niklas Widen · Post by **Niklas Widen** » 11 Aug 2004 1:31 pm

Tjenare! Kikat in på www.steelforum.tk också?

/Nicke Widén

Ken Lang · Post by **Ken Lang** » 11 Aug 2004 6:08 pm

Welcome Per. As a second generation American Swede I can't speak the language of my grandparents home country. It is sad to some degree but here in Southern California the second language needs to be Mexican, and I don't know that either.

Anyway, for my part, welcome the the Forum.

Roger Edgington · Post by **Roger Edgington** » 11 Aug 2004 6:27 pm

Hey Per,

I welcome y'all to the forum. Hope you have as much fun here as I have.

Roger

CrowBear Schmitt · Post by **CrowBear Schmitt** » 11 Aug 2004 11:44 pm

Hi Per

Welcome to this Great Forum that never sleeps
it'll quckly become a second home to ya and
before you know it, you'll be out of your bedroom and playin' w; others
it don't get better than that...
all the best from souhern france

Winnie Winston · Post by **Winnie Winston** » 12 Aug 2004 1:33 am

Per:
45 happens right after 44.
It just sneaks up at night.
Welcome to the forum!

Winnie
(far away, in sunny New Zealand)

Per Berner · Post by **Per Berner** » 12 Aug 2004 10:12 pm

Thanks for the warm welcome, guys!

Per Berner

HowardR · Post by **HowardR** » 12 Aug 2004 10:37 pm

<SMALL> I have learned a lot in my short time here.</SMALL>

Well, I've learned a lot in my shorts here.

Ulf Edlund · Post by **Ulf Edlund** » 15 Aug 2004 2:06 pm

Hej Per!
Wellcommen to the wonderful värld of steel gitarr forum.

Uffe

Jan Jonsson · Post by **Jan Jonsson** » 15 Aug 2004 3:00 pm

Hej Per,

I'm a newbie at the forum as well. Have been using it as a source of information for a long time, but now I've finally gotten my act together and registred.

-- Jan

HowardR · Post by **HowardR** » 15 Aug 2004 9:03 pm

Hej guys,

Waelcome to the Steel Guitarr Foorum...

Dale Granstrom · Post by **Dale Granstrom** » 16 Aug 2004 6:45 pm

Hej, Hej Ulf,
I'm 73 year old and have been playing steel guitar for 58 years. I guess I don't know when to quit.

My dad and his family came from the area of the hydro dam west of Umea, and I still have relatives that live there. I fact I have a couple of cousins that live at Norfors.

Nice to see there are other people from there that are crazy enough to play steel guitar.

Dale Granstrom

Ulf Edlund · Post by **Ulf Edlund** » 17 Aug 2004 10:29 am

Hello Dale!
A ten minute drive upstreams from Norrfors there's another steeler, Peter Ivansson.
If you come visit your cousins we could arrange a steel guitar jamboree!

Uffe