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Bill, a Sleep Walk video is definitely on my "to do" list. It will be a while though. I do have an audio recording of the song ---> http://playsteelguitar.com/wp-content/u ... epwalk.mp3
And I have tab for it in my 25 Songs book.

Beyond the Reef

Doug Beaumier wrote:Bill, a Sleep Walk video is definitely on my "to do" list. It will be a while though. I do have an audio recording of the song ---> http://playsteelguitar.com/wp-content/u ... epwalk.mp3
And I have tab for it in my 25 Songs book.

Thanks for the link. I have played along to it 6x this morning. No amp, I get up at 4 to get ready for work and no need to wake the wife. I find a little practice time starts my day off in a relaxed, positive direction. Funny, when I was a kid my parents had to tell me to practice my clarinet lessons. Now, it's my wife telling to put the Lap Steel down! Guess clarinet wasn't my thing!

Mr. Sandman... for some reason I still haven't quite figured out. I just liked it on non-pedal.

Ground on down - Ben Harper

Another Elmore James slide tune - Rollin' and Tumblin'

Followed quickly by Sleepwalk - both in open E

Something Sol Hoopii played, most likely.

Sand
Arr. by Mr. A. Akaka

Stormy Weather – pretty bad performance (OMG it's still on YT)

Over the Rainbow on my home-made 8 String.

Steel Guitar Rag.

Probably either The Eunice Waltz or The Back Door in Cajun G tuning...

"Sleepwalk" for me as well.in C6.
I never tire of that song.

Hello Joe Burke, I also had "You Are My Sunshine". Wonder if you had the Oahu TAB back in the 40's. I had only a thumb pick for that first tune also.
Geo

Steel Guitar Rag in E tuning

Sneaking Into the Pyramids by the Honky Dreads.

My first song was "I Wish I Was Single Again." Here is a pic of me, on the right, and my brother with our first lap steel guitars. (1955)

Looks like a couple of happy little boogers!

Actually Erv, We're a couple of happy little "Bergers." Our last name.

Jerry,
You got me there!

BTW: Were those Oahu guitars?

Around 1974 or so my brother bought an old Supro lap steel, and when he would go to work I'd drag it out and try my hardest to learn Steel Guitar Rag. I thought that little steel was the coolest thing I'd ever seen.

He still has it after all these years and he let me borrow it - again. Spent the last few weeks trying to learn some Don Helms licks on it, it's still pretty cool.

Don't Bogart That Joint. The next day I played it at a Be In in Milwaukee and the crowd went nutz!

My first song was Santonio Rose on a home made steel I had that steel for a year before I had to return it. Got me started.

Hawaiian Wedding Song - 1959, on my Roy Smeck Special that I bought with my paperboy money.

Hawaiian Wedding Song - 1959, on my Roy Smeck Special that I bought with my paperboy money.