The Steel Guitar Forum

Not exactly steel, but I got a bench made from the original benches that were at Red Rocks Amphitheater for the last 60 years...awesome conversation piece for my studio lobby. This bench has seen everyone from The Beatles down...plus I got one with the seat number 77 on it, which was the second year I played the Rocks... If you're not familiar with RR, do a google--it is possibly the finest concert venue in the country--a definite musician and fan favorite...

Interesting read--What did each of you GIVE??
ken in Alaska

I received some cash contributions so that I can get a new volume pedal. Still trying to decide between a Hilton or a Goodrich from Tom Bradshaw with the higher quality "aftermarket" pot.

Last year was a resonator Christmas for me--Goldtone PBSM and a Republic tricone roundneck. This year was a Passernig Deluxe A mandolin, and it's a beaut.
I'm appreciating it a little more every day.

God bless us, every one.

I got this beauty back after selling it several years ago.

I ordered a new G2 six months ago but it is not here yet...

The real gift I got for Christmas is the gift of forgiveness, grace, and eternal life from our Savior, Jesus Christ.

Larry, Im having a hard time not thinking all of these Mullen Pre RP's are my "personal guitars"..

For Christmas, I got a kiss from my 19 year old daughter...I got hundreds of emails from my fellow forum members....And im buying MYSELF a lacquer Pre RP 4 pickup, Mullen D12 with 9+9 Tuesday. Im going to take several weeks making it COMPLETELY new...And will post pics as soon as I get it finished!!!>.
Happy New Year to ALL!...Mick in Georgia

Not exactly steel oriented but musicial nonetheless.
And since others have posted non-steel stuff.....






Seven months in the making,this arrived just before Christmas after being born thru the talented mind and hands of Nashville luthier extraodinaire Jon Mann.
19" scale hollowbody electric baritone mandolin.Laminated maple neck,mahogany body,cedar top,tortoise pickguard and binding,splittable rail pickup + active piezo bridge PU w/blender.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmpzDTREl2U

It's been a very merry Christmas around here.

I had Mickey Adams refurbish and add a franklin pedal to my Lacquar S-12, and purchased a pre-rp S-12 red Mica from him. Mickey, could only dream this was his personal guitar-Ha. I also bought a K-Laser for all of us that get carpal problem, and bad back from playing too much, Ha. I feel very blessed.

Actually, I got my present very early...in September! It was a wood-grained mica, Emmons U12. They don't show up very often and when I saw it, I just knew that was the one I should have. After approval from my "finance manager", I bought it immediately.

For Christmas, my lovely wife bought me BE's "Christmas Sounds" tab and CD course. She said she really bought it for the new Emmons steel....so I wouldn't torture it trying to learn some Christmas songs.

She thinks she's a comedienne!!

Kenneth Farrow wrote:Interesting read--What did each of you GIVE??
ken in Alaska

What did we give?

We responded to KSBJ (Christian Radio) and provided a local family of 6 with presents and two full size beds and bedding. We took it all over on Christmas eve and had our little grandkids carry in the presents. We also were able to provide a family in Kenya 60 chickens. Our little grandkids really enjoyed all of this. It made it personal for the kids when they saw the difference of a family less fortunate.

Guess I was a bad boy. I woke up to actually find charcoal in my stocking (which I found out today was a joke because of my little disaster Christmas Eve at the family get-together).

I was to play my steel for them and, while doing so, my 4th and 5th strings broke simultaneously and, with unerring aim and a sound like whip cracking, struck the rather large backside (we're talking the San Joaquin Valley here) of a woman who was right beside the end plate of my steel. Her screams frightened the children (and us, too), and in her attempt to move quickly away from my guitar she knocked over a small table full of lit candles that fell onto a bunch of wadded up wrapping paper in the floor which immediately ignited and burst into flames.

The whole place was in chaos. Somehow, I don't think my steel playing is going to be requested at next year's Christmas get-together!

I guess I could call the Shobud a christmas present.
but Linda gave a big bag of Butterfingers, still working on eating them.
have a safe and happ new year everyone.

ernie

Everyone GOT something, except those who didn't. Underneath metropolitan bridges, in soup kitchens and homeless shelters and missions, on hot-air sidewalk grates, on some hospital wards and in some nursing homes--at any meeting of two or more adolescents we can hear the question "waddja get?" but only one response in the forum to this thread stating what was GIVEN--guess there is no economic hardship among this group--we are indeed blessed--
ken in Alaska

I get to keep everything I own.
Played the day after Christmas.
Got to be around family and friends.
Get to think about what I'm going to do for next year while I'm playing New Years Eve.
Almost forgot....got a new video camera. Now I can see how really bad I look when I play

Happy New Year All!!

JD

Jack Dougherty wrote:Almost forgot....got a new video camera. Now I can see how really bad I look when I play

JD

Okay the cat's out of the bag. Let's see some youtubes of some tunes.

Glad you had a good Christmas.

Rick Campbell wrote:Okay the cat's out of the bag. Let's see some youtubes of some tunes. Glad you had a good Christmas.

I second that ... I love watching the many players on YouTube and enjoying the different styles and playing.

I was to play my steel for them and, while doing so, my 4th and 5th strings broke simultaneously and, with unerring aim and a sound like whip cracking, struck the rather large backside (we're talking the San Joaquin Valley here) of a woman who was right beside the end plate of my steel. Her screams frightened the children (and us, too), and in her attempt to move quickly away from my guitar she knocked over a small table full of lit candles that fell onto a bunch of wadded up wrapping paper in the floor which immediately ignited and burst into flames.

Jim--

Sounds like it coulda been a Ray Stevens song. How about a Jim Lindsey song?

"Steel Guitar Christmas"? "Broken String Blues"? "Grandma Got a G String Up Her Butt"?

Well, I didn't get what I didn't want.
Santa said I'd been bad so he threatened me with one of these things. I begged him not to and told him I would be good the rest of my life if he wouldn't leave me one of those. Santa said OK he wouldn't which really proves there is a Santa and he is good.

As is customary in our household for the past 10 years, we do not exchange gifts (cept giving the littlest ones something fun to play with) among the adults.

What we did do this year was pool our families resources and purchased over $2000 worth of winter coats (wound up being about 40 coats) through Burlington Coat Factory that were then donated to needy families throughout the country.

I did receive the gift of compliments on both Xmas eve and Xmas day dinners. And the gratitude of my lovely wife and my daughter.

Life is good!

SS

I knew that camera would get me in trouble
I'll work on something in the new year. But be careful what you wish for.

jd

Didn't get any presents - didn't want any. But it was a good day, nonetheless.

About a week before Christmas a new Goodrich L120 volume-pedal I ordered 4 days earlier from Tom Bradshaw (with one of his "Hot-Potz" already installed) arrived...I blame the rapid delivery time on the postal strike we're supposed to have had just before Christmas in Australia! Overseas mail's not normally that fast.

On the day itself I visited my Mum and my sister, and we had Christmas dinner at her house with her family, my nephews and niece, their respective fiances, and the parents of one of the engaged.

We drank toasts to two much-loved and now-departed grandfathers of these newphews and my niece, and we were very sure the spirits of those two great men were looking at proceedings with approval.

My Christmas was peaceful, relaxed and stress-free. The same cannot be said for much of the world's population, in areas where poverty, ignorance, religious intolerance, fanatacism and repressive politics seem to be destined forever to grind man's spirit down.

I gave thanks that the country I live in is not at war with itself, is a mature nation where it isn't a crime to express a contrary opinion, and where the enjoyment of a day with religious significance to the great majority of the population is a foregone conclusion.

George, my dog Scruffy would come in the room and sit by me while I played. I lost him a week before Christmas.I think he liked to hear me play. Roxanne,my wife said he was trying to get away from the other dogs in the house. It was our way to relax.
Tommy Shown
SMFTBL

My baby gave me some great steel presents:

* two adjustable, comfortable, inexpensive keyboard benches.
* a few of Scotty's close-out tapes and CDs, including some great Bobbe Seymour and Buddy Emmons.

And my half-step-brother-in-law twice removed who I've never met and don't know how to get in touch with gave me a mason jar of shine.

First I've had since Shot Jackson gave me some in 1979 or so.

God bless us, everyone.

A whole batch of stuff--- let me see---- 12 packs of Bud, 11 wrestling tickets, 10 copenhagen, 9 years probation, 8 table dancers, 7 packs of Red Man, 6 cans of Spam, 5 flannel shirts, 4 mud grip tires, 3 shot gun shells, 2 huntin dogs and some parts to a Mustang GT.
Yea---Pea Ridge is Red Neck Country -

The perfect gift from my wife