The Steel Guitar Forum

Don't recall if i posted this on
the forum,but did post it to a friend some time back.
I was in the Black Poodle i believe it was in Nashville back in 1964 or there about.Any hoo Thumbs Carlile and i went there together and was watching Curley Chalker play.Curley went down the C6th neck so fast with both feet dancing across the pedals playing God awful chords and got lost.He stopped and Thumbs yelled,way to go Chalker.
Curley put his hand under the steel,grinned and gave thumbs the finger.
I have seen them all make mistakes.They didn't have computers and pitch correctors back in those days.And i hated to see those wondreful days come to an end.

When I'm relaxed, mistakes are funny and I usually give a big ol' grin. When I'm tense, that's when I start scowling. I always try to be relaxed

Oddly enough, I enjoy hearing musicians making mistakes live, go figger...

Ray,just when it comes to spelling. Joe

On one of Buddy Emmons’ earlier instrumentals titled “Silver Bell”, there is one spot in the second chorus which Buddy actually calls a flubb. However; when I was trying to learn his arrangement years ago, I copied the so called ‘flubb’, because; it sounded great to me! But, come to think of it; I don't recall ever hearing anything that he played that didn't sound great to me!

John Bechtel wrote:On one of Buddy Emmons’ earlier instrumentals titled “Silver Bell”, there is one spot in the second chorus which Buddy actually calls a flubb. However; when I was trying to learn his arrangement years ago, I copied the so called ‘flubb’, because; it sounded great to me! But, come to think of it; I don't recall ever hearing anything that he played that didn't sound great to me!

Back in 1967 or 68 as i recall i was playing in Fla.Buddy Emmons played some place which i forget if it was a one nighter or what.
Any how,he started playing an intrustmentl and blew it.He then got up from the steel and said he had not played that for some time and needed to practice it.
Yes,they,/we all made mistakes unless our steels were left in the case.

The great Speedy West told me this story several years ago. He and Jimmy were working a show somewhere and it came to his ride in the song. He made a huge blunder and stopped, got up and kicked that famous Bigsby!!! It was his turn again in the song to play the ride and he made the mistake at the same place, ON PURPOSE!!! Got up, kicked the guitar again and went on with the show. The people in the audience thought thats the way it was supposed to be. Turned a mistake into entertainment!!! Speedy was one of a kind.

Greg

Oh My goodness, i have made mistakes, evn forgot a lyric line while singing. My uncle that lived in Ohio told me one time, it's happened to the stars form time to time. Just goes to prove that we're all not perfect. And he had his own big band that played in Southeast Ohio, Northeast Kentucky,and Southwest West Virginia. The same band that moma was a drummer in back in 40's. Tommy

I once heard Roger Miller, forget the lyrics in the middle of a song HE WROTE, on live TV! I guess, we all make mistakes, when we play. It's just that the mistakes the upper echelon players make, the things they call mistakes, never seem as glaring as the ones a lesser player, like me, makes! Yet, there are people out there, that come up to me, and upon me, whining about how many clunkers I made during a particular song, say they didn't notice mine!! Go figure!!!!! -Jake Jacoby-

Here's a scenario, I'm sure, we have all encountered; The band plays this new song, and when my time came around for my well rehearsed solo, my mind blanked out totally!......could not remember anything of what I was suppose to be playing; instead, I let rip with a impromptu solo that came out of nowhere, and afterward disappeared to where it came from. After the song the bandleader turned around and said "Great solo....keep it in"... Well, needless to say, I could never remember what I played, no matter how many times I tried to figure it out. Damn!

Hi, New to the forum and the Pedal Steel too. Once when I made a monsterous mistake of mashing the wrong pedals, I stood up and moved my guitar a couple inches down to the left and then sat back down and continued. I stole that from Victor Borge. Everyone laughed and all was OK.

BB King once said "It ain't been a good night unless I've made a couple of mistakes".

If that's the case then I'm BLAZING good.

NEVER.RS

It's an old maxim that, if you make a mistake, repeat it, and everyone will think you did it on purpose.

John, pointing at the bass player and laughing when you make a mistake is great! I'm gonna start doing that!