audience compliments on the Steel...

Ken Byng · Post by **Ken Byng** » 27 Aug 2006 2:44 am

A friend of mine tells those drunk people who ask what his instrument is that it's either;

1. A boiled egg slicer, or
2. An Irish mouth organ.

Colin Goss · Post by **Colin Goss** » 27 Aug 2006 2:57 am

On one occasion during a break, a gentleman came up to the band and said to me "You're a great keyboard player". I replied "thanks but since the other members of the band have pinched all the keys, I can only play it by plucking the strings". We were standing by the steel guitar at the time. He looked down at the guitar, then back up at me, said "very funny!" and went back to his seat none the wiser.

Terry VunCannon · Post by **Terry VunCannon** » 27 Aug 2006 7:26 am

When people ask me what that instrument is, I like to tell them that it is a "Manual Pitch Approximater".

Drew Howard · Post by **Drew Howard** » 27 Aug 2006 7:53 am

"Love that slide guitar!"

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Drew Howard - website - Fessenden, Derby and Fender guitars, 70's Fender Twin, etc.

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Donny Hinson · Post by **Donny Hinson** » 30 Aug 2006 12:22 pm

I had a real purty young woman come up to me once and say...

"You really have a nice vibrato!"

To which I answered...

"It's so dark in here, I didn't think anyone would notice!"

James Marlowe · Post by **James Marlowe** » 30 Aug 2006 1:03 pm

I just started playing at the church I'm attending. About a week after the last time I played a lady came up to me in the foyer and said, "You're the one that plays that thing. Oooh, I love it. That's my kind of music". I just said thank you ma'am.

Mark Treepaz · Post by **Mark Treepaz** » 29 Sep 2006 11:26 am

HA! I just now had ran across this thread! Hilarious!

The bandleader of a local group that I play with frequently, refers to my Lap Steel as "the sit down guitar". After two years of that, I've given up trying to tell him that it's called a Lap Steel. (No. He's not the brightest bulb in the drawer!)

On one gig, a person came up to me during a break and asked if I had forgotten to bring or had broken my guitar strap - as to the reason I was playing it sitting down and laid across my legs!

I'm planning on taking the PSG out on a gig for the first time in November. This ought to be good!

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Sho-Bud LDG, Gretsch Syncromatic Lap Steel, Bach Stradivarious 37 Trumpet, Getzen Fluglehorn, Fender Precision Bass (pre-CBS)
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chris ivey · Post by **chris ivey** » 30 Sep 2006 10:58 am

when asked if it's hard to play, i usually say, 'oh yes, it takes a genious', then i smile...and now reading this i'm not even sure how to spell 'genius'.

Jay Dee Maness · Post by **Jay Dee Maness** » 30 Sep 2006 8:11 pm

Someone once screamed from the back of the club, " YURN UP THE ELECTRIC TABLE.

Colin Goss · Post by **Colin Goss** » 1 Oct 2006 3:47 am

Thursday night - I was unpacking the steel and a voice close to the bandstand said "That's a strange looking instrument" - says it all.

Charlie McDonald · Post by **Charlie McDonald** » 1 Oct 2006 3:52 am

Tony, I like your criteria for how you know when you're good.

Patrick Thirsk · Post by **Patrick Thirsk** » 1 Oct 2006 3:53 am

One that blew me away many years ago "So how long did it take you to learn how to play that zither then?"

Roual Ranes · Post by **Roual Ranes** » 2 Oct 2006 2:54 am

The best one is:
Man you play a fine steel! It is a (insert brand name)!

Ben Rubright · Post by **Ben Rubright** » 2 Oct 2006 4:47 am

Tony:

Forget the last one......Bobbe fills my order ANYWAY.

Ben Rubright
Port Charlotte, FL
(formerly Charlotte, NC)

Archie Nicol · Post by **Archie Nicol** » 2 Oct 2006 5:44 am

Last night a young guy about 20 came in all excited. "Wow! A steel pedal. Dave Gilmour, Dave Gilmour. Gives us some Floyd."
We didn't give him some Floyd but he came up after a few numbers and said; "For a bunch of old guys, you play some real modern music." I think it was a compliment.