The Steel Guitar Forum

Charles,

Just because MR. BUDDY EMMONS is proclaimed to be the GOLIATH of steel players, doesn't mean that he no longer can adapt to an assortment of new ideas. He is like everyone else on this planet; prone to learn something new. I, personally, keep my distance from cigarettes and concentrated booze. Not counting other traits proven to be deleterious to individuals who are super-duper in other endeavors, many have overlooked important everyday practices, until they are pointed out by someone looking in with varying degrees of perceptiveness. My take concerning EFFECTS is to wait until they are perfected. Nothing annoys me more than statical disruptions in quality transmissions of sound as heard through speaker systems.

Makes sense to me Stuart !

Stuart Legg wrote:
just go to the local music store pull a guitar of your choice off the shelf, plug it into the biggest amp they have, crank it up to ten and practice the tab to Stairway to Heaven and Voila! Instant rock band without steel. Problem solved.

Wrong! Even rock 'n' rollers are sick and tired of Stairway To Heaven.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOt3r_aN ... re=related

Rick

Rick,

Once we enter beyond the peripheral or external boundaries of familiar places and faces, we normally tend to be overwhelmed by the sudden changes in scenic views. Quite the opposite can be found while trying to read a boring book that portrays some individual who can do it all. You name it! According to the book, he can do it. Those far-fetched claims that are becoming more like prolixities, so common in modern writings. Levels of proficiency are gradable, in music, most certainly the pedal steel guitar. Very few music teachers are qualified to differentiate the maximum proficiency levels among advanced steel guitarists.

In the interest of understanding that last paragraph, I had to look up the word PROLIXITY, and its definition seems appropriate enough to post:

prolixity - boring verbosity
long-windedness, prolixness, wordiness, windiness
verboseness, verbosity - an expressive style that uses excessive or empty words
turgidity, turgidness, flatulence - pompously embellished language

Nothing ANNOYS [as mr. Bill puts it]me more than someone that takes a BULL-S@@@ snipe at Mr.Emmons.And just so you know Bill there are many great effects that are perfect,they do exactly what they were designed to do.I guess you would put down Les Paul for the MANY,MANY, patents for innovations he created to change the DULL to EXCITING.For the millions [including myself] that uses effects I don't think yours [or anyones] primeval attitude about effects devices does not mean one iota. [THEY ARE JUST TOOLS]The same as your favorite set of picks,tone bar,cables,or strings.Maybe some of you never learned to use them.YOU BETCHA, DYK?BC.

Charles,

It has been said that BOBBY BARE made his first guitar by using a coffee can and rubber bands. If you can buy that, I've got lots of oceanfront property in Arizona, if you're interested. All these ridiculous claims of poverty before stepping on the stage of THE GRAND OLE OPRY makes me wonder. Another wore holes in the soles of his shoes walking to NASHVILLE. And that's the tip of the iceberg as far as stories go. I suggest hearing more from the hundreds who go there, only to learn that they don't have what they are looking for in that part of the country. Charles, have you ever tried to "fill the shoes" of some of the departed folks in country music? If not, you could have fooled me. WEBB PIERCE was on to those who make wild claims. He once said about another performer, "If I bought him for what he's worth, and sold him what he says he's worth, I'd make a big profit."

Bill,The subject was new players,also you started in on effect unit,Now you have wandered off somewhere in lala land with meaningless,prattle,and babbling some off the wall BS about Bobby Bare and Webb,I know you won't but could you PLEASE explain what you are trying to say.YOU BETCHA,DYK?BC.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE once wrote, "The truth will out", many years ago. I reasoned that it would certainly depend on information gathered and retained indefinitely through generations of truth seekers. Eventually the last missing pieces of hard to solve problems are often discovered by chance. Several of the late players of the steel guitars have passed at this point in time. When SHAKESPEARE wrote those words, there was nothing that resembled a recording industry. For that reason many truths will be retained for indefinite periods of time. Ledgers and diaries cannot replace the subtle discriminating methodologies of sound tracks. Youthful students can easily find an abundance of recordings, as well as voluminous supplies of tablature to bring them into the profession as future steel guitarists.

Get a room, you two!

b0b,

I would shudder at the thought! Thanks for your good auspices earlier in this thread. Please CLOSE THIS THREAD.. and good luck with the likes of CHARLES in the future. I should have asked you to close it, once the baloney began.

Please CLOSE THIS THREAD

OK

I would shudder at the thought!

I'll shut-her down.