The Steel Guitar Forum

Well its my turn huh!!!!!!!!!!

I was born in april 1941 so really i didn't know steels even exsisted then.

I strumed on my dads flat top,using a hairpen, letting the sparks fly with those black diamonds!!!!!!!!!!!

we didn't even have tv till i was 12!!!!

i was introduced to lap steel at 19

then got into multichord at 21

Its been a rough road, never could afford a good steel and really didn't know about them until 24yrs. of age.

got my first sho-bud at age 28 WOW

farris

a dirty thought in my grandpappys head?

9 years pre zygot

60 years ago i was 5 years old in s.east Mo dont remember much at that time got my first Sears guitar in in 1952 listened to wsm nashvill on an old car radio i had hooked to the filiment winding of a tv transformer. i know i cried when i heard Hank Williams had died. a lot of bad music and good music since then.
jerry

About a year before this dad bought me a 6 string Harmony and put a nut under the strings so I could take Steel lessons, and that is where I met Nan, the love of my life,we are together 57 years later. Alsop I was painting and hanging wallper in those big old high ceilings in Montgomery Al.

ernie

In Halifax NS CAN...gettin' into more trouble than necessary. 2 or 3 weeks of one hour group lessons = 2 or 3 hours, at the Halifax Hawaiian conservatory. Hank Snow country!

60 years ago I was 10 months old,crawling around on the floor,listening to my mom and dad both playing non pedal steel. When mom was still carrying me,dad was playing steel with Gene and Garland Crawford, Jimmies dad and uncle.

6 yrs old In a farm house outside Sand Creek Michigan, pop 300..
I didnt have to worry about an electric guitar, we didnt have electricity out there yet ! Our country music came from dads 39 olds car radio which we kick started.

I was 8 living in the north woods of michigan's U.P. no elec no running water, untill our move to Ariz. in 1955. we had a family band that seemed to smooth out the bumps along lifes road and things have gotten alot better. BOB

Elementry school system in Sacramento Calif.

I was messing my Diapers (Called Nappies in England) 60 years ago, I was 16 days old

Micky Byrne United Kingdom www.mickybyrne.com

I was probably making life miserable for my sister who was 3 years older. (She hasn't gotten any younger that I know of)

I was taking my first Hawiian guitar lesson..."Nearer My God To Thee" ! Wooden guitar and old flat bar...how many of you guys have "rode that old horsey?" ....and I'm glad I did. Ron

I was not even a possibility yet, since my dad was only 8 years old!

I was nearly three years old and living in a small village up on the moors in Rochdale, Lancashire, England where my folks kept a small mixed grocery shop.
The war hadn't been over too long and people had just started to come out of their hidey-holes.
Dad was a very keen Fiddler & Violin player and later on, a Bass player plus brother was a keen musician playing Trumpet along with sister playing Piano.
I was inovuntarily brought up listening to all this music which laid the path for me when I got a little older when Skiffle Music and R & R came into being.

Z.B. Bob.

I was teaching lap steel guitar at the Santa Ana House of Music
in Santa Ana, Calif. Leo Fender, a radio repairman in Fullerton, Calif. would drop by now and then to see what we thought of his steel guitars he was making.

60 years ago i was 12 and listening to BOB Wills music and dreaming of playing with his group someday

I could tell you more about the Code of Hammurabi than where or what I was 60 years ago. Sorry.

. . . however, my dad (R.I.P.) once told me we had a dog named Janey back then.