Where Does Your Steel Sit ?

Mitch Ellis · Post by **Mitch Ellis** » 26 Jul 2006 8:33 pm

My steel use to sit at the kitchen table.The amp was in the corner. "My" end of the table was always cluttered with a casette player and many tapes. But my wife never complained. 3 or 4 years ago, I closed in my carport (12'x16') and now my 3 steels and equ. stay in there. My wife likes to hear me play and hated the idea. She said "Now I Won't get to hear you play and will NEVER see you!" ha/ha

Mitch

John Billings · Post by **John Billings** » 27 Jul 2006 11:44 am

There are three in my living room. Can you tell I'm single?

Delvin Morgan · Post by **Delvin Morgan** » 27 Jul 2006 7:41 pm

Mine is in my "music/computer/photography room" which I affectionately call my "playroom". It is filled with guitars amps cameras and the 'puter.

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Jim Sliff · Post by **Jim Sliff** » 27 Jul 2006 8:51 pm

Here's the setup:

And the case/seat holds cables, effects, tubes, repair equipment, extension cords, etc.

Michael Barone · Post by **Michael Barone** » 28 Jul 2006 7:40 am

Calvin Walley · Post by **Calvin Walley** » 28 Jul 2006 5:06 pm

we have a 3 bedroom house and since the kids got grown and moved away , my wife has a sewing room and i have my steel room...don't know what we will do if the kids want to come home and spend the night
motel 6 i guess haha

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Colby Tipton · Post by **Colby Tipton** » 28 Jul 2006 7:28 pm

Not in the Mid East.

A. Roncetti · Post by **A. Roncetti** » 2 Aug 2006 11:37 am

In my living room right in front of the fire place. So if I'm not playing it I can stare at it.

Wade Branch · Post by **Wade Branch** » 2 Aug 2006 12:10 pm

Well it use to sit here in the trailer.The cold air that leaked around the window pane's really caused my cables on my multichord to expand and retract.

Then I won the the lottery (married a rich but ugly woman)now the multichord resides on the 2nd floor.I have the butler oil the cables daily and I monitor the tempetature for a perfect 72 degree's.

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 12 Aug 2006 3:10 pm

..and you made all that money playing steel ?

There's a story about the steel guitarist who won $20,000,000 on the national lottery, and was asked if it would change his lifestyle.

"No," he replied, "I'll just keep playing the steel guitar until it's all gone..."

Wade Branch · Post by **Wade Branch** » 18 Aug 2006 10:12 am

Alan I cant lie it has changed me,people use to tell me I was a horrible steel player,but now I hire people to sit in front of me while I play my steel and cheer and clap and tell me how great of a steel player Iam,I even pay one of them a little extra to compare my playing to that of Buddy Emmons.So I would say the money has increased my confidence.
(Disclaimer:I did'nt really win the lottery and Iam not really rich,but I did stay at a Holiday Inn express last night)

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 18 Aug 2006 3:12 pm

Wade: If you have money to spare you can pay me to come and watch you play anytime. I guarantee an enthusiastic response. In fact I'll even bring along a tape recorder and an applause loop track.

...beats accounting any day.

...and if you get down in the dumps I'll play you some of the worst steel you've ever heard, compared with which you will never be dissatisfied with your own work ![This message was edited by Alan F. Brookes on 18 August 2006 at 04:12 PM.]

James Cann · Post by **James Cann** » 18 Aug 2006 6:46 pm

Well, I've made progress. I began with about 1/6th of the grandkids' playroom (with crib) and am now up to almost 1/3rd. Quite a bit more comfortable, but somehow I know there's no more progress to be made.[This message was edited by James Cann on 19 August 2006 at 10:26 AM.]

Clyde Mattocks · Post by **Clyde Mattocks** » 27 Aug 2006 9:30 pm

I am divorced, so I set it anywhere I please.

Patrick Thirsk · Post by **Patrick Thirsk** » 29 Aug 2006 4:14 am

In the small spare bedroom with the lovely Miss Cashdollar only a mouse click away on my left if I need helping out!!!

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 29 Aug 2006 5:10 pm

Clyde... you've hit the nail on the head !

Gene Jones · Post by **Gene Jones** » 6 Sep 2006 2:00 pm

My wife says that my steel-guitar equipment has bought so many groceries and made so many car payments etc during our lifetime that it can sit in the middle of the living room or anywhere else "it wants to".

My steel will never be "dissed" at my house.

Fortunately, however, I do share an area in my wife's sewing/computer room where I keep all of my gear set up and ready to play!

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George McLellan · Post by **George McLellan** » 6 Sep 2006 2:14 pm

When we moved to Duluth, the house we chose had a perfect room (about 16'x35') for my steel, I told (begged) my wife if she wanted this house, I get the "music room". Done deal. I think so far from the pictures posted, I've got the most cluttered.

Geo

Terry Wood · Post by **Terry Wood** » 8 Sep 2006 5:19 am

Well, I would like a gig like Wade's, I lived the first part, I 'm ready for the second move, to THE BIG HOUSE! Notice I didn't say to THE WHITE HOUSE.

John you got three children in your living room, I do too, they keep me pretty busy.

Serously, I keep my steel close at hand but seldom get to touch it. It takes alot of naps/rest time in the backroom. My little two year old, he really likes to fool around with it, maybe he will teach me a few licks in a few years. He figured out you had to wear the thumb and finger picks and hold the bar by the time he was one and half years old. Go Figure that!

Woody

Russ Little · Post by **Russ Little** » 8 Sep 2006 7:02 am

Mine won't sit! it stands tall on all four
legs and mocks me.
Says after all that practice you still can't
play like buddy,tom, or Lloyd . LOL

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Les Anderson · Post by **Les Anderson** » 8 Sep 2006 8:03 am

It was in the basement rec-room for a long spell but now it is moved between my bedroom to the living room. On occasion, it sits on the sundeck and the neighbours along the block come over to listen to or join in on our rag tag jam sessions. (I had to lay the law down to a jammer friend who would setup his Peavey JSX amp when jamming outdoors.)

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Bo Borland · Post by **Bo Borland** » 8 Sep 2006 1:43 pm

Usually right in front of me, as often as possible.

Jim Sentlinger · Post by **Jim Sentlinger** » 17 Sep 2006 2:26 am

Built a little building out back, which is my space. Got everything I need and even keep my harley in there.
Jim

Mark Edwards · Post by **Mark Edwards** » 17 Sep 2006 1:39 pm

Jim - Got any pictures, would like to see the Harley and the steel together