World's Best Excuses

Andy DePaule · Post by **Andy DePaule** » 14 Feb 2007 9:52 am

I may not be a good steel player, but I am the best this lousy band can afford!....
When you pay me more I will play better!....

Bob Cox · Post by **Bob Cox** » 14 Feb 2007 10:51 am

I wouldn't play that song when I used to know it.
Even Buddy hates that one.
This guitar has been outside to long,the molecular composition
is straining the hyphendaley of the sebicore phanally.

Frederic Mabrut · Post by **Frederic Mabrut** » 14 Feb 2007 10:55 am

it's the only free seat I've found to listen comfortably to this band, and I just slammed the table to order a (name of your favorite beer). WHAT? It's not a table?

David Fields · Post by **David Fields** » 14 Feb 2007 3:27 pm

Before that last six pack I had 3 pedals....now there are six, and sometimes 9.

Who's been messing with my steel?

Larry Strawn · Post by **Larry Strawn** » 14 Feb 2007 3:50 pm

I was playing in G, you should change that song to G,, it would sound better when we do it!

Larry

Andy DePaule · Post by **Andy DePaule** » 14 Feb 2007 3:52 pm

The stage is not level and it's putting my bar out of tune!
I can tell about the stage because when it's level the drummer drools out of both sides of his mouth.
When I saw all that drool coming out the left side, I missed my solo.

Eddie D.Bollinger · Post by **Eddie D.Bollinger** » 15 Feb 2007 12:06 pm

I have on the wrong shoes.

The battery in my tuner is down.

It is the Leslie cabinet on that Hammond B-3 that is causing
me to be so out of tune.

I ain't feelin' good tonight.

I didn't know that arrangement of "Mansion On the Hill".

Y'all hear that buzz?

One of my cables has gone bad.

Mat Rhodes · Post by **Mat Rhodes** » 15 Feb 2007 12:50 pm

That chick flashed me!

Ray Minich · Post by **Ray Minich** » 15 Feb 2007 1:38 pm

My socks are too tight...

I forgot to wear my lucky ShoBud shirt...

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 15 Feb 2007 5:15 pm

Ray Minich wrote:I forgot to wear my lucky ShoBud shirt...

You mean I have to give it back ?

Chip McConnell · Post by **Chip McConnell** » 15 Feb 2007 10:42 pm

My tone is poor only because my amp is covered in red shag carpeting.

Uffe Edefuhr · Post by **Uffe Edefuhr** » 16 Feb 2007 1:18 am

On a steel seminar in Sweden one guy refused to play for the rest of us. He said "I do not play through a Peavey, I would if you had a Webb amp"

Uffe

Terry Wood · Post by **Terry Wood** » 16 Feb 2007 9:31 am

The Dog ate my homework!

Terry

Robert Harper · Post by **Robert Harper** » 16 Feb 2007 8:44 pm

I have made some excuses for not playing and heres why. I tried to play wit a couple of older groups when I first started out and they were not happy when i didn't know song that was playing when I was born or before One group actually disinvited me after the second week and I wasn't even playing. I was trying to find where I could fit in and not embarass myself. Then there was the lead singer that decided we were going to nashville and he was the reason kinda reminded me of being scolded by the coach. I made it three sessions here, and the guy that told me just strum it. So for a while I did not try. Now my excuse is and this is for real. I am embarassed by the fact that guys like you play everything you hear and I can't I di nor start playing guitar until I was 33. I picke up steel at about 34 I work and as much as I like the instrument. I can't practice for hours. Fortunately, I have started to a church that is just glad for me to bring my guitar. no pressure. Ther are 2 pianos 2n electric oiano, a guitarist a bass a drum a harmonica. A place to learn th out recrimination. Oh yeah, I didn't mention the drunks who the drunker they got the more they thought they were the rr incarnation of maybe well you put a name there. So I stayed home with my wife and kids and damn I still wound up divorced who woulda thought.

Robert Harper · Post by **Robert Harper** » 16 Feb 2007 8:46 pm

Now if I could learn to type or proof read. Huh

Billy Murdoch · Post by **Billy Murdoch** » 17 Feb 2007 7:45 am

I have just washed my feet and can't do a thing with them.
Or,My other guitar is being fixed just now,this one seems to go out of tune too.

Ron Kirby · Post by **Ron Kirby** » 17 Feb 2007 8:24 am

Sorry Im late ! This gig is almost 20 miles away.

Jim Sliff · Post by **Jim Sliff** » 17 Feb 2007 8:29 am

I have a cold, and it messes up my ears - sorry, I can't hear whether I'm playing in tune or not, I have to trust my eyes.

Sorry we're late - we locked the keys in the car. Couldn't find a locksmith, so we ended up having to break a window to let the drummer out.

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 17 Feb 2007 7:01 pm

It's no use giving me the music, I left my glasses at home.

Bill Bradford · Post by **Bill Bradford** » 17 Feb 2007 7:26 pm

That's how the guy on the Grateful Dead record played it...

Mike Scaggs · Post by **Mike Scaggs** » 18 Feb 2007 10:54 am

The battery in my tuner is weak.
Just playing it like the record
I have an ear infection
I ate the food at the club before we played

I'm sure I've used way more than this!

Scaggs

Joe Miraglia · Post by **Joe Miraglia** » 18 Feb 2007 1:18 pm

I read the Steel Guitar Forum Before I played and that intimadates me. Joe

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 18 Feb 2007 7:52 pm

My pedals have to be facing North, otherwise I will get magnetic feedback.

The rubber fell off one of my legs and I don't want to mark the floor.

I've just fitted a new set of strings, and they'll be stretching out for the first three months.

Ron Dodd · Post by **Ron Dodd** » 21 Feb 2007 5:59 pm

My guitar is the wrong color for this song

Tony Smart · Post by **Tony Smart** » 22 Feb 2007 1:46 pm

Do a turnaround? -- I can't even start the engine.

I'm fed up !!! Now, which one was the break pedal.

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