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Topic: Look what they did to my boy! |
Cartwright Thompson
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Charlie McDonald
From:
out of the blue
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Posted 15 Oct 2005 4:31 am |
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A sin and a degradation!
I just placed the first bid. |
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Andy Volk
From:
Boston, MA
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Posted 15 Oct 2005 6:25 am
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| That's one thing I love about steel guitar ... how it brings out this zany, Rube Goldberg-like, all-American, backwoods/big city craziness in people. Whether it's convoluted tunings, or adding coat hanger pedals, or wild decoration, what IS it about guitars, in general, that brings this fervent inventiveness and tinkering out in otherwise mild mannered folks? Can you imagine a flute player with some weirdo, aftermarket homemade rig? Wonderful! |
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George Manno
From:
chicago
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Posted 15 Oct 2005 6:31 am
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Someone has to answer for Santino
GM |
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Todd Weger
From:
Safety Harbor, FLAUSA
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Chris Brooks
From:
Providence, Rhode Island
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Posted 15 Oct 2005 7:31 am
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This must be on consignment at Noles Music.
"You also get two pedal sets (they look homemade--see photos)"
Yes . . . they do.
But the plus is that it comes with "Vintage extra strings in the original bags"!!
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Rick Collins
From:
Claremont , CA USA
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Posted 15 Oct 2005 9:32 am
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Hey! That flute would not be so bad if it were constructed from PVC. 
Of course if Mr. Clean played it, it must be made from white PVC.
Mr. Clean
If you want to play it clean, it must be played on a Fender. |
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Andy Sandoval
From:
Bakersfield, California, USA
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Posted 15 Oct 2005 11:10 am
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| Geeeeez, talk about Frankensteins monster! this guy musta had too many meatball samiches before he went to bed and had that nightmare. |
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Russ Tkac
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Posted 15 Oct 2005 11:30 am
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| Looks kind of cool to me. |
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Jon Light (deceased)
From:
Saugerties, NY
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Posted 15 Oct 2005 11:47 am
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| Bonasera'll make it look nice. |
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Andy Volk
From:
Boston, MA
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Posted 15 Oct 2005 11:54 am
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| Hope that guy's wearing wax lips! |
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Charlie McDonald
From:
out of the blue
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Posted 15 Oct 2005 1:30 pm
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| Think I'll take something nice and simple and see if I can make it complex.... |
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Bill Creller
From:
Saginaw, Michigan, USA (deceased)
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Posted 16 Oct 2005 2:49 am
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| By the looks of the pedal set-up, the guy must have been a pipe organ player. |
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John Bechtel
From:
Nashville, Tennessee, R.I.P.
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Posted 16 Oct 2005 6:19 pm
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Velly, velly intellestink¡  I take two!
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“Big John” Bechtel
’04 SD–10 Black Derby w/3 & 5 & Pad
’65 Re-Issue Fender Twin–Reverb Custom™ 15” Eminence
web site
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David L. Donald
From:
Koh Samui Island, Thailand
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Posted 16 Oct 2005 8:09 pm
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There's one born ever minute.
But some should be shot,
before they have to much time on their hands,
to do something like this... |
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Randy Reeves
From:
LaCrosse, Wisconsin, USA
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Posted 17 Oct 2005 5:05 am
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how strange.
I own a 1940 Epi Zephyr lap steel. it's my go to slide guitar. it has great tone and vibe. the pickup was weak when I got it off ebay. I sent it to Lindy fralin. now this lap roars and purrs and has a really nice sweet spot.
bvery under rated instruments.
but this one. ! how strange. |
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Joseph Rush Wills
From:
New Jersey, USA
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Posted 17 Oct 2005 12:29 pm
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Steel guitars do seem to bring out a zaniness and light-heartedness that's absent from bluegrass musicians.
One of the zaniest things I can recall from a lifetime in music happened at a jam session at a music professor's home in Jacksonville, Alabama back in 1965.
The college (Jacksonville State) had hired a husband and wife to teach bassoon and flute respectively. The couple had a working floor lamp made out of an old bassoon, and I remarked that it was too bad the instrument couldn't be played any longer.
The professor stuck his crook into it, picked it and played it, glowing lightbulb, shade and all.
Don't remember their names, but they were nice folk. |
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Ben Elder
From:
La Crescenta, California, USA
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Posted 17 Oct 2005 5:33 pm
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| ...zaniness and light-heartedness that's absent from bluegrass musicians. |
Not so fast--let's not forget Jimmy Martin's D-28. |
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Charlie McDonald
From:
out of the blue
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Posted 18 Oct 2005 3:37 am
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Double raise, no lower.
A lazy man's lap, a poor man's pedal steel. |
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Duane Reese
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Posted 18 Oct 2005 12:35 pm
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Not to knock the experimentalist's work in this, but if you want a pedal steel it seems easier and better to just get a pedal steel and leave the lap steels alone. For crying out loud, this isn't 1955! Get a student model...
I don't know - that's just me. |
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