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Larry Bressington
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Post by Larry Bressington »

Emmons is very popular in Australia, eh blokes.
I think i read an artical on MSA once selling more steels in Europe than anywhere else including the USA.
I'll bet the Emmons company kept very busy on worldwide sales.
I know in England about 30 years ago, it was bassically an Emmons, or Sho-bud, i think The sho having more sales, a bit like a ford escort, it was availible and nobody really cared so much, it was a steel guitar.
Good show lads, enjoyed the thread, I plan to see your beautiful country in the near future.
Take care now! :)
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Jeremy Threlfall
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Post by Jeremy Threlfall »

Hi y'all again

I'm back (home) in WA now - living in Fremantle (the port city next to Perth)

still got the Shobud
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Dean Gray
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Post by Dean Gray »

G'day fellas, just discovered this thread, thought I'd say hello. I haven't been around for a while, and normally hang out with the Steel Without Pedals gang....
I play a DeGruchy squareneck reso and an old Fender Deluxe 8 non pedal steel. I love my non-pedal, though I am in awe of what the rest of you can do with your pedals and levers. I have been getting right into slants and behind the bar pulls to achieve a little of that early pedal steel flavour, a la Billy Robinson, though the full chord voicings of the E9 still elude me...Still, I am hooked.

All the best, and hope to see some of you at Tamworth next year.
Dean
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Larry Bressington
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Post by Larry Bressington »

Good lad deeno, great so see some, non pedals and dobro out there, keep it up, ahhh hate those slants dont you?? :lol: :lol:
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Dean Gray
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Post by Dean Gray »

No mate! I LOVE the slants! Even the forward to reverse combinations! Arrgghh!!! They are well worth the practise, and i've seen them used by great pedal steel players too.

Happy picking.
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Post by Tomi Graso »

Hello Team,
Nice to see so many players here in Aussie land...
I know most of the boys, all good friends of mine !
I am an Emmons player, as you all probable know.
Although mine is specially custom made because i play a bit different than the rest of the world does out there...You can check it out here:
www.myspace.com/tomisteel
Never the less i am having so much fun playing it and I am absolutely hooked on the steel guitar.
See you all soon !
I am off to Tamworth this coming festival. I will be working with Alby Pool ! Can't wait !Love his country music , great guy to work with.
Kind Regards to you all !
Tomi.....steel
Leigh Ivin
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Post by Leigh Ivin »

Well Ben you know me... JEM S-10, Emmons P/P, Maton silvertone twin neck, Fender studio deluxe, Wayne Amplyphone, Peaveys Artist and Special 130 and soon to be playing an old Fender S-10 - 4 of these guitars were formerly played by the late great Stormin Normin Bodkin.
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Hey Mates, How many of you have been around long enough to remember Pete Linden?
I spoke with Warren in St. Louis and he told me that Pete had been killed in a plane crash.
I knew him in San Diego, when he was in the US Navy and Playing steel. Just getting a good start. Would love to hear some stories of my old friend if you knew him.
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Murray McDowall
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Post by Murray McDowall »

G'Day Ben,Brendan, Paddy and all,

I've been playing a few years also on my old Sho-Bud D10, previously owned by the late George Xanthos, and now thanks to Paddy Long and Warren Nielsen, on my ZUMSTEEL D10.
Regards to all,
Muzza.
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Post by Anthony Vandewalle »

Goodday Ben
Variously playing D10 MSA Classic 8+5, D10 Carter 8+5 and S10 Anapeg 8+5 keyless through Peavey Nashville 115 and 400 via Lexicon MPX200 processor. Also own and play a number of classical guitars.
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Post by Paddy Long »

Good onya Murray --- Phil Baker is now playing a Zum as well ! My 1997 old faithful has found a new home.
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Post by Ben Hoare »

Good to see this thread still alive.Hi to all see you in tamworth
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I didn't know Pete Linden that well but he did replace me in a band "Billy Jack" in the 80's . He later played for Tom Fossel in the Moonee Valley Drifters .I think he played an LDG but also had a p/p D10 . His great love musically was the "west coast sound" on pedal steel . I believe he left a wife , don't know about children .
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Ray, Pete used to come by the Kentucky Stud just before being discharged from the Navy. He had a MSA D-10 and had me switch the necks ala Curley Chauker. He had married a lady from Australia and was moving down under. I expected great things from him because he had a burning desire and a love of Pedal Steel Guitar. I was sorry to hear about the tragic end to his life.

P S I love your CD. I listen to it often.

Leon
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Post by Tomi Graso »

What about great Lucky Oceans from Perth in WA...
First time I saw him play in Sydney in the 90's I couldn't believe that steel could be played like that...It was unbelievable to listen and to watch him in action! Great singer and accordian player too! He is working for ABC now I think...
Never the less, Lucky if you read this, we need more of you, please !!!!!!
Cheers
Tomi....steel
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Wayne Appleby
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Post by Wayne Appleby »

I have been a member of the Steel Guitar fraternity since the early 80's as a touring and session player.

I have been very lucky to have worked out of Nashville also since the early 90's
For details: http://www.nashvillemusicpros.com/profile/WayneAppleby

Two of my late buddies Jimmie Crawford and John Hughey got me into the forum and at last I have become part of the Forum brotherhood.
We have some very fine players in Australia and at present we are putting together a CD of the Histroy of Australian Steel Guitarist vol 1 (with some of our Australian legend) due out early next 2009, we hope to release vol. 2 & 3 as we move forward.
Thank you all for the opportunity to find the pedal steel guitar and changing my life.

Wayne
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Howdy, gang,

I play a Sho-Bud Pro II Custom through a Peavey Nashville 112. Wayne, you are my Aussie Mentor!!! I just hope that I'm half the player you are when I'm twice your age! Now, all you Zum players need to get your stuff together and get yourselves a Sho-Bud!!! Seriously, though, my newly adopted country here has some fantastic players, and every single one of them that I've met (and that includes heaps of them) are not only fantastic players, but all around wonderful people as well. I had the honour (see? I'm even learning to spell in Australian!!!) this past June to be invited up to Brisbane to play in the Brisbane Steel Guitar Club's Annual Festival, and lemme tell ya, folks, I had a blast!!! I met some absolutely terrific folks. The Kiwi Krew, made up of Paddy Long and Ivan Posa, were a highlight of that show, and their wonderful playing got everyone's attention. The Aussies that were there are also great players...Mike Tyne, Warren Neilsen, Ian Kerr, the great Ken Kitching, dobro virtuoso Gary Brown, and Ray Hasler...it was an absolute thrill for me to get to share a stage with these talented, wonderful gentlemen. I even was able to get Wayne up onstage and helped me do a couple of songs...MANY THANKS, Wayne!! So, all in all, the steel guitar is very much alive and well in the Land Down Under!!! There are many world class steelers down here, folks, and that list is long and distinguished. I'm proud to be associated with every one of these people! Mike Kirkley, Sydney
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Hi guys
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Squarenwck Dobro
Benn playing steel since 1972
I'm in Brisbane.......Queensland
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Mal Wood
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Hi all,... Malcolm Wood, another Aussie, from the New South Wales Central Coast. I've been teaching myself steel, for the past two years, on a beautiful old, maple bodied, 1976 MSA S-10, and it's sure not as easy to learn as I thought it would be. Two years of pleasure and pain, and sometimes, I still feel like an absolute beginner. Playing guitar for thirty years has helped make some of it a little easier for me, but I've almost accepted now, that I'll be working at it for a long long time yet, before I start thinking of myself as a steel player.

I met a real steel player, Michel Rose, after one of his gigs a little while ago, and, nice guy that he is, he let me try out his Zum. It was like getting behind the wheel of a Rolls Royce! Tone Tone Tone ... all the way up the neck! Disaster struck quickly though, when the bar slipped out of my fingers and shot off, in slow motion, over the front of the guitar. It then tumbled end over end through the air, and crashed to the floor,.... all while Michel was watching!
Though I was a touch embarrassed about dropping the bar, I quickly regained my composure, scrambled around to the front of the guitar and dug the bar out of its resting place under a monitor. Quick as a flash, I jumped back onto his seat, and started to slip on his finger picks. That's when Michel gave me my first ever steel lesson ...
Don't ever use someone elses picks!!! ... Thanks for that brief bit of instruction Michel, I'll never forget it, and I hope the bar is OK. If it's not, I owe you a new one!
Hi to Mike Kirkley. I haven't heard from you in a while mate. I though they might have sent you back to the states.
Hi too, to Chuck Becker, from Riverside CA. He sold me his MSA, and has become a great friend, and my mentor, in all things steel.

A very Merry Christmas to all. Malcolm Wood, NSW.
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Post by Sandy Inglis »

Hi There Aussies!
I'm venturing over there in late Feb 'til the middle of March 2009. I'll be travelling to Perth via Melbourne for a Family Wedding, then to Brisbane for a holiday.
Where can I get to hear some Pedal Steel????
Sandy
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Sandy, there are bound to be some gigs going on around then - maybe post something on the forum shortly before you head over here asking 'what's doing'.
go well,
Damien
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Jerry Eilander
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Post by Jerry Eilander »

Hi ,Ben
a bit late but still like to be seen
I play a d-10 "Linkon"
and 80 watt peavey amp.
cheers from Tassie
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Post by Al Salmon »

Only just found this thread. I'm Alan and I also am a non-peddler. I am the proud owner of an SX 6 string lappy and learning fast!! Greetings from Lawnton Queensland!!
Reverend Al Salmon.
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