hi steelies - from spencer

Spencer Cullum · Post by **Spencer Cullum** » 11 Apr 2007 7:26 am

hey -just joined up & thought id say hello

my names spencer cullum im 23 and am based in london, u.k although i like to think of detroit u.s as a second home.

i play pedal steel and slide guitar in a u.s group called the deadstring brothers
have been playing for a few years - you can listern to me at www.myspace.com/pedalsteelguitar

pleasure to be amoungst some great steelies and people now

spencer

Mike Perlowin · Post by **Mike Perlowin** » 11 Apr 2007 7:31 am

Welcome Spencer. You're gonna like it here.

Scott Swartz · Post by **Scott Swartz** » 11 Apr 2007 9:32 am

Welcome Spencer, love to see more alt country rock whatever type members.

Let me know if you're coming to St. Louis, MO for a Deadstring show.

Mark Eaton · Post by **Mark Eaton** » 11 Apr 2007 10:10 am

Hey, a young guy!

Welcome aboard, Spencer!

Dick Wood · Post by **Dick Wood** » 11 Apr 2007 10:37 am

Hey Spencer,I've been 23 a couple of times too!

Welcome and have fun on the new and improved Forum.

Bryan Daste · Post by **Bryan Daste** » 11 Apr 2007 10:37 am

Nice myspace! I've heard Deadstring Brothers too...good stuff.
bryan

Jonathan Shacklock · Post by **Jonathan Shacklock** » 11 Apr 2007 11:11 am

Hey Spencer, loving the myspace, great tunes, sounds like you might actually know what you're doing! Let me know when you're next playing in town, I would surely like to buy you a pint and pick your brains about that S12, BJ Cole and... Manassas!!

Good to see you on the forum,
Jon.

Charles Davidson · Post by **Charles Davidson** » 11 Apr 2007 11:13 am

Welcome Spencer from Alabama,Lot of us old geezers here,Good to have some young blood show up.

Stan Paxton · Post by **Stan Paxton** » 11 Apr 2007 12:21 pm

Welcome Spencer, glad to have you amongst us. I been 23 three times, so I know what it's like

Have a good time with us !

Charlie McDonald · Post by **Charlie McDonald** » 11 Apr 2007 1:08 pm

Great stuff, Spencer, and welcome.
London--that's just north of Nashville, right?
There are some other Limeys here....

(Where does 'limey' come from, anyway?)

Spencer Cullum · Post by **Spencer Cullum** » 11 Apr 2007 3:14 pm

thanks for the replies -

and charlie - i think us brits used to suck lime's in the navy years back, hence limeys..

glad this site has a sence of humour - thought us steelies just sit in the background and look moody!

Spencer Cullum · Post by **Spencer Cullum** » 11 Apr 2007 3:16 pm

and johnathan - ill drop you an email if i have some london gigs - and if you do - email me - there's a lack of london steelies...

Tucker Jackson · Post by **Tucker Jackson** » 11 Apr 2007 3:29 pm

Welcome, Spencer.

The Deadstring Brothers? Your reputaton preceeds you!

Jamie Lennon · Post by **Jamie Lennon** » 11 Apr 2007 4:11 pm

Hi Spencer welcome aboard !

Im sure I seen your band in the ceol castle in birmingham once.

Also a fellow brit

check out my site www.steelguitaruk.com
also

www.myspace.com\steelguitaruk

Chuck Thompson · Post by **Chuck Thompson** » 11 Apr 2007 5:19 pm

hi spencer and welcome - i am 23 years old too - i just have 24 years experience at being 23 - you will love this site - it's great - also your playing and the band sound great!

Spencer Cullum · Post by **Spencer Cullum** » 12 Apr 2007 5:22 am

great site jamie L - nice early pics! and nice LDG model!

Rocco Labriola · Post by **Rocco Labriola** » 12 Apr 2007 7:02 am

Hey Spencer,
We met at the Hideout in Chicago. My band Cracklin Moth opened for the Dead String Bros that night.

Rocco

Spencer Cullum · Post by **Spencer Cullum** » 12 Apr 2007 7:48 am

hey rocco - thought you'd be on this site - you had the black steel and the thinline tele - me and ross (the keyboard player) really loved your music, beach boys holland meets arther lee's love kinda music...

really enjoyed that venue aswell - hopefully will cross paths soon

spencer

Marc Jenkins · Post by **Marc Jenkins** » 12 Apr 2007 10:34 am

Great playing Spencer! Any trips to Canada in the works?

Marc

David Doggett · Post by **David Doggett** » 12 Apr 2007 3:21 pm

Welcome, Spencer. Nice cross-genre tracks. I think I hear some B.J. Cole influence here and there. Must be a trip to get lessons from him. His playing on Elton John's "Tiny Dancer" was one of the pieces that inspired me to take up pedal steel. I too started on a Maverick. But I quit for school, career and family for 25 years. Now I am back at it and also play an S12 universal. I dabble in alt country, blues, funk/fusion, and free jazz.

Cheers!

Spencer Cullum · Post by **Spencer Cullum** » 13 Apr 2007 2:35 am

David Doggett wrote:Welcome, Spencer. Nice cross-genre tracks. I think I hear some B.J. Cole influence here and there. Must be a trip to get lessons from him. His playing on Elton John's "Tiny Dancer" was one of the pieces that inspired me to take up pedal steel. I too started on a Maverick. But I quit for school, career and family for 25 years. Now I am back at it and also play an S12 universal. I dabble in alt country, blues, funk/fusion, and free jazz.

Cheers!

yeh its cool getting a lesson from b.j cole, he lives about 25 mins from me, which is cool - has a great tone from his universal kline guitar..and is really open to all kinds of music.

you got a website david? like to hear your S12 playing.
spencer

Jonathan Shacklock · Post by **Jonathan Shacklock** » 13 Apr 2007 8:15 am

Tiny Dancer + Maverick = me too!

BJ Cole was definitely the first pedal steel player I was ever aware of. I love what he did on "No Regrets" by the Walker Brothers, absolutely killer. Got a friend who knows him and I've been meaning to give him a ring about some lessons but I always felt a bit "not worthy". Maybe I will soon.

Still working on my chops and not playing out just yet Spencer, but as soon as I find that local Waylon covers band I will be rockin' around your neighbourhood in a rusty fiat uno. Which reminds me, going to need driving lessons as well...

David Doggett · Post by **David Doggett** » 13 Apr 2007 8:34 am

Yeah, B.J. Cole was an interesting influence on a lot of us in the '70s. Growing up in the Southeast (Mississippi) I had always heard steel in country music. But I was more into classical music, rock, blues and jazz. When I heard B.J.'s beautiful reverb-drenched pedal steel background part in Tiny Dancer, that opened up for me the dramatic possibilities for pedal steel in all kinds of music. I had to have one.

One of my bands, The Philadelphia Blues Messengers, has a web site in progress (thebluesmessengers.com). There are a couple of live samples there, but I don't have anything good in them. We are now in the studio working up some demos and eventually a whole CD. Also, I just got a little digital recorder (Zoom H4). I'm learning how to record myself and upload MP3 tracks, and eventually I'll post some samples of classical music, jazz and blues on my universal.