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Posted: 17 Feb 2014 7:43 pm
by chris ivey
good job. i could barely tie my shoes at 14.

Posted: 17 Feb 2014 8:16 pm
by Julian Davis
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thought you guys might like to see this.. I'm taller than him now, we still talk all the time. [/img]

Posted: 17 Feb 2014 8:41 pm
by Kevin Hatton
Julian, good luck with your guit-steel. Keep at it through the challenging plateaus. You'll get it. It's all the amount of time that you put into it and the inspiration that you have.

Posted: 17 Feb 2014 8:55 pm
by Todd Clinesmith
Great job Julian.
What part of Kansas are you in ?
I bet there is a good straight steel teacher you could find on the forum. I may know someone close to you as well.
If you have another car you can sell, or a few bucks in the bank, I would suggest getting a lap steel to practice on. Once you develop proper technique on the lap steel it will transfer over to the Guit- steel. The steel learning curve will increase big time by learning on your lap or on a stand with the steel horizontal.I know Junior learned it that way.
Keep it up.
Todd

Posted: 18 Feb 2014 8:21 am
by Julian Davis
i live in pittsburg kansas, but I am willing to travel a little if I can get anything from it.

Posted: 18 Feb 2014 12:07 pm
by Julian Davis
alright guys, 18-19th I'll be in Nashville TN. hanging out at third man records for Record store day, Jack white is a good friend of mine.. but when I go to leave nashville. on the way home, I'm going to make a stop in a town called waverly TN, TO SEE JUNIOR BROWN!

Re: Guit steel

Posted: 21 Feb 2014 7:47 pm
by Dave Bader
Julian Davis wrote:my Guit steel. custom buit for me, and Hi dave! I see your on this too! just got this 3 weeks ago. it's already road dirty. I've worn the top paint off from arm sweat. awesome player. it's violent, have it loaded in the car ready to go!
Hi Julian. Glad to see your getting good use from your guit-steel. Looks good on the stand. Wish I had one when I was 14. I probably put $1500.00 into mine too. I'll have to dig throughout the receipts some time and add it all up. I'm making all the hardware for my next ones but I'm still working on a new headstock design for the steel. If you ever get anymore tuning pans and you want to sell, let me know.

Posted: 22 Feb 2014 8:37 am
by Julian Davis
If I find any tuner pans I cant get rid of them! too hard to find :D haha. GS-2 is coming up in 7 months. gretsch style, bigsby, pinstriping, nice glossy paint tv jones. you know a sweet gretsch. what will your new model be like?

Posted: 23 Feb 2014 8:43 am
by Dave Bader
Now you got me thinking. I had enough alder to build two so I have a body started but without any pickup routing. I think a bigsby style would be cool. Curly maple tops and bigsby style pickups would be sweet. Can't wait to see your GS-2. Keep me updated.

Posted: 23 Feb 2014 10:11 am
by Julian Davis
or an old supro style. It would be worth my cash to buy old supro pickups with the sweet old covers, the wing pickguards, glossy red with white outer binding. piezo on the bridge with a bigsby. gumby headstock. have you named your Guit steel yet? Mine is "the skirtshaker"

Posted: 23 Feb 2014 5:02 pm
by David Mason
It's really "neat-o" but; though I can understand the idea of being more mobile than a normal steel guy, but is there any other kind of musical advantage over a guitar on a strap and a standing-height steel guitar? I could see this being harder, not easier. Of course I'm speculating, but maybe the owners can tell me the advantages? It appears my automobile & teeth have entered into a wallet-draining conspiracy, but I could eventually stick together a fakie. I have often looked at Warmoth's doubleneck bodies & thought... You can get a 30" scale bass neck with no tuner holes drilled, but I'd be more inclined to go with an aluminum C-channel beam. Due to my spine, shoulder, arm, neck - AARGH etc. it would be a mounted-stand-ONLY instrument, so one advantage is already toast.

As far as "over-emulating" a certain artist, a good chunk of obsessive-compulsive aping disorder is a fine way to explore instruments - you get a pre-made set of real, solid, tangible goals, which works great when you're young. I'm not sure I could play guitar if I hadn't latched onto Steve Morse for a few years there. You'll know when to let go.

Like the music or not, one of the most intelligent guys out there now is John Mayer, and he has quite willfully moved through Stevie Ray Vaughan, Dave Matthews, and he's current remora'd to Jerry Garcia, which is a "good fit" IMO. While in his SRV phase, a record company made a fair bid for his apple cheeks, lush lips, wavy hair... so he did the one-man boy band* thing for a few years to score some credibility & long-range potential. Only then, when he could afford to pay Steve Jordan and Pino Palladino, he became a bluesman, 21st-century style. A few tense moments at Columbia, no doubt? :lol:

*("Your Body is a Wonderland" has GOT to win some sort of prize as the most blatant Nookie Magnet of the 21st century, for sure.) :lol:

Posted: 24 Feb 2014 6:48 am
by Stephen Cowell
Here's a different side of Michael Stevens...

http://youtu.be/2LiLV-9cWHQ

... the Cowboy Poet Luthier!

Posted: 24 Feb 2014 7:38 am
by Julian Davis
I talked to him about 3 days ago, he siad he was finishing up work to go perform somewhere saturday. love that roy smeck

Posted: 24 Feb 2014 1:10 pm
by Peter Huggins
Here's some photos I took a few years ago (2006) at the Dallas Guitar Show. Mr. Brown and Mr. Stevens gave a talk about the Guit-Steel. I also talked to Junior about possibly playing Deke's Guitar Geek Festival, which he did a few years later (he tore the roof off the joint!)


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Note how faded the finish was already on "Big Red".

Posted: 24 Feb 2014 7:46 pm
by Julian Davis
someday. I will get a pic of me playing big red. and JR playing the Skirt shaker. TIL
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Posted: 25 Feb 2014 7:38 pm
by Dave Bader
Julian Davis wrote:or an old supro style. It would be worth my cash to buy old supro pickups with the sweet old covers, the wing pickguards, glossy red with white outer binding. piezo on the bridge with a bigsby. gumby headstock. have you named your Guit steel yet? Mine is "the skirtshaker"
No name yet, I'm not great at naming things. I had a cat named monkey and two bird that were both named bird. If I had to think up names for all my guitars my head would explode.

Posted: 26 Feb 2014 7:52 pm
by Julian Davis
understood.. hey a question for all ya'll out there. what should I be pluckin' my skirt shaker through? i really have no amp at all.. well a mesa studio 22 that sucks. give me something. no more than 1000 bucks.

Posted: 26 Feb 2014 8:18 pm
by Rick Barnhart
Fender Twin Reverb

Posted: 26 Feb 2014 8:40 pm
by Russ Wever

Posted: 27 Feb 2014 11:55 am
by Rick Barnhart
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Posted: 28 Feb 2014 11:04 am
by Dave Bader
Silverface deluxe reverb or twin reverb.

Posted: 28 Feb 2014 11:50 am
by Mike Nihen
Peavey Delta Blues. Used...$300.00. The 15'' will move some air and has reverb, dirt and grit. You'll have more fun with one of these than anything else. When you turn 18 you can sign up for the Fender back breakers....

Posted: 7 Mar 2014 5:00 pm
by Julian Davis
I had a silverface twin. that was horrible. half the time I thought I was going to break it cause I had to set it down every 30 seconds. I'd consider a deluxe reverb. but too be honest. I got 3 friends saying to go quilter. so I'm going to go quilter.

Posted: 24 Mar 2014 1:38 pm
by Julian Davis
did we drop this thread. hello operator? it's been a while since I've logged in, I switched the Lap to e9 and can no play just about anything I want. do the old western sounds. I even sat in at the hootenanny one night and played with all the Pedals. I just installed a runbarr on my GS about maybe 30 minutes ago. I love it.. you guy's need one for all your steels. metal steel guitar players ;).(I don't play metal. it just speeds me up is all, I practice Django Reinhardt and arpeggios from hell)