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I'm looking forward to this year's show!

Ray,

Thanks for the kind comments. I'll do my best to make it interesting. By the way, my listeners love your awesome CD which is also one of John Hughey's final sessions.

Ray, thanks for your message. Tell Tommy Lopez hello for me. He played our PSGA show many times when he lived in NY. BTW Margie Mays is planning to play our show next year, when we will be back to a 2 day event. It will be great to have a terrific steel guitarist from Arizona on our program.

Al, wish you could be with us sometime. Thanks for all the years that you have dedicated to support of steel playing!

Another bump to the top for the one and only PSGA

Let's give our PSGA Show another bump! Some great music to be heard in about a week and a half.
On another note, HA! HA! Seriously though, I smashed my right thumb and dropped a piece of 3/4" plywood on my left foot, today. Jeez, what a time for this to happen. I'll get over it, though. Can't wait for the show. Please don't miss this one !

I'm sorry Anna and I will not be making the Norwalk Steel Show this Year. WE will be in Florida visiting our two Daughters and 5 Grand kids.It is our youngest Grand Daughters 1ST Birthday and we want to be there with her.I think I will teach her to play Steel Guitar.
Sam White
President NESGA

Let's keep the PSGA on top!!!!!!

Here's a bump for the PSGA show.
I can't be there to help and enjoy the great music but I can at least promote the show.
Don

Let us bring this to the top where it deserves to be.

This gem is next Sunday. Let's bring it to the top.

to the top it goes..

Wow! Next Sunday November 9th, is the big day for the entire steel playing world on the East coast.

We at PSGA are all geared up and ready to go. A fine display of talented steel guitarists performing with the best back up band and other talented musicians.

C U at the Doubletree Hotel in Norwalk, CT on November 9th!!

BTW we have already contacted the Doubletree hotel for next year and are awaiting the contracts to sign. The dates will be November 7th & 8th 2009, for our 36th Anniversary Steel Show, which we have a good list of confirmed steel players. Good Lord willin' and the creeks don't rise!

Don't miss out on Sunday November 9th! Looking forward to meeting and greeting all who can make it!

I just wanted bump this up to the top. I'll have the added enjoyment of working with "Fooch" this Fri. & Sat at the Fallsview Hotel in Ellenville NY.
Then we go to the PSGA show on Sunday where I'll join Fooch and the band with my old buddy Les Severs singing a couple of his hit songs from the 60's & 70's. If I could sing like Les I never would have taken up the steel. I guess that makes it his fault.

Ben....Les Severs is an icon in the Philly area. I remember listening to his radio broadcasts while visiting my wife's aunt in Drexel Hill. I was a Radio DJ at WASA in Havre De Grace, Maryland at the time and I had the pleasure of seeing Les in a live performance in Marcus Hook, PA with the dynamic and very talented steel guitarist, George Edwards playing his Fender 1000 (Circa 1962 0r '63 ???)

Bob,

If I remember right they were the house band at the White Horse Boweling Alley academy in Trenton when Don Larkin used to have his big shows there in Trenton. We used to go there all of the time when I was in College and Susan and I were first married in the 60s.

Bob I started to work with Les shortly after George went to Nashville with Hank Jr. My friend and mentor, Gene Shible, was with Les right before me so it was somewhat intimidating to follow these two steel guitar giants. Les was and is a true gentleman.
I had only been playing steel for two or three years at the time and I learned more music theory in my time with Les than I ever dreamed of.
Les has had a few health issues lately and I'm honored that he would come out of retirement to do this show with me. He is even doing his songs in the same keys they were recorded in!!!

Ben,
I can't believe I seen Les Severs name on the forum Is this the Les who came out with the purest pearl?

And I hope that Gene is the same Gene (Lambertville, NJ) I played drums for, with Jack Turner, Tom Donahue /Country Music Gents? I've been trying to reach Jack Turner for a long time.
Thanks
Rick Anderson

Yes it is the same Les Severs and Gene Shible. Jack Turner passed away quite a while back. I saw Tom Donahue this past Sat. He still gets out and sings from time to time. Gene plays at the Landslide on rt 173 just west of Clinton NJ. They are usually there on the 3rd weekend of the month.
They are both still as good or better than ever.

Thanks Ben,
I have alot of memories with Gene and Tom and Jack, we did a tour in Canada and the Northeast with the last stop at WWVA jamboree. So sorry to hear about Jack.
Gene could make his two tone sho-bud permanent sound real pretty, one of the players who made me want to play steel.
Thanks so much for the info, means alot to me.
Best to you and yours,
Rick Anderson

Ben and Rick...Gene Schible has been a member of the PSGA for more than 20 years. We have never heard him play, but perhaps Ben can convince Gene to take part in our show next year? BTW, we are in the midst of negotiating with the hotel for next year's PSGA show which will be held on November 7th & 8th, 2009. I understand that we already have a number of confirmed players (including a couple of the Nashville guys). We will annouce the tentative line-up on Sunday at this year's show.

Bump to the top for PSGA!!!!!!

Hi Bob,
That would be great to have Gene invited to PSGA's show next year. Would be nice to see Gene after all these years. A very tasteful player. Looking forward to this year's show. PSGA the Icon of the pedal steel guitar and those who love to play them.
Rick Anderson

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to the top for a great little show.......

Gas prices are down $2.00 from what they were this summer, so let's help make this a good turnout for the best steel show in the East.
Don