The Steel Guitar Forum

Carvin 10 string

I saw David Lindley with Jackson Browne on the Running On Empty tour days, 1979/1980,s, & fell in love with the sound of lap steel & bought a Magnatone black MOTS. I sold it within a year feeling that I would never be able to learn to play in(Too Hard).
Went another 20 years before I tried in again...this time there is no stopping me now...I'm HOOKED!!!

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'49 & '51 National Dynamics, Harmos Model One, Lazy River Weissenborn, Mesa Boogie DC-3, SRV Strat.
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First 'lap steel' was a cheapo old Silvertone (blonde) archtop I had that was converted by the Oahu 'teachers' for me in the early 50's. After couple years 'Oahu lessons' I saved up enough for a Sears catalog buy of a 'Silvertone sun-burst beauty & matching amp'. (Wish I still had it!) Here's a link to my current (evolving) 'steel stash' dan.
http://hometown.aol.com/oceansmirage/Guitarsindex.html

<SMALL>I worked for a farmer two summers to pay for it.</SMALL>

Bill, I guess you worked for beans, 'cause you sure weren't raking in the cabbage....

Bought my first one in an antique/junk store in Williamsport, PA in 1991. It's a Dickerson MOTS with matching amp. This thing sound pretty amazing, considering how cheap it must have been when new. I think I payed $75 for the set. http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/r_shatz/detail?.dir=/7fb8&.dnm=5e44.jpg&.src=ph
These things are like dope. The first one is free (or nearly). Then you're hooked. The addiction has forced me to buy about 80 more since. Is there a 12 step program for this problem?

Response to this quote: "These things are like dope. The first one is free (or nearly). Then you're hooked. The addiction has forced me to buy about 80 more since. Is there a 12 step program for this problem?"

Breaking news!! Yes, there is a '12 step' program for 'steel addiction' ...Every time you see one you like, take 12 (giant) steps backwards and chant: 'I don't need another steel' I don't need .. <font size="1" color="#8e236b"><p align="center">[This message was edited by Dan Peterson on 11 December 2005 at 11:21 AM.]</p></FONT>

doesn't work.....

Howard's right. I tried that.

maybe you're 'chantin' to a slow drumbeat?

There is probably a 12 step program for this but no one has ever made it through to finish the list!

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JCFSGC,RMSGC,HSGA member
Do it with "Glass"
Boyett's Glass Bars

More of a two-step:
1. Grief
2. The heck with grief!

<SMALL>The first one is free (or nearly). </SMALL>

1. A Fender Kingman rescued from the dumpster at Shields Music in Tulsa, with a riser nut and a baby humbucker.
2. A Dynalap 6. Sweet.

Mine was a 6-string Silvertone that I bought for $75 at a cherity garage sale It looked great but it sounded pretty awful. But, it was good enough for me to start lessons. I still wonder how much pain medication my instructor went thru?

My first was about 2 years ago when I bought one of the new Gretch's. Played it for about 10 minutes. Sat in the corner for a year before I pulled it out again. Had no idea what to do with it and everything I tried (all my dobro licks) sounded like crap.

Then got interested again. Bought a George Boards, Fender Custom Triple 8, Harmos, Rick Bakelite, Industrial Steel, before settling on the wonderful MSA Superslides.

This one is identical to my first, bought it in '99 and played it a little more than a year, went back to guitar full time, picked up lap steel again in early '03, been faithful ever since......



Steinar

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www.gregertsen.com

I have found that the best way of keeping control of the guitar inventory is just giving some away. If I don't play it any more, lose it. Besides,you need a warehouse if you are a collector.
ALOHA ALL YOU GUYS

When I was 12 my mother decided it was time to learn how to play the piano we had. She wanted me to take lessons like my sister was doing. I negotiated some guitar lessons instead of piano lessons.

I went downtown on the bus to Thearle’s music and came home with a Kay guitar and a steel. My mother had inadvertently signed me up for steel guitar lessons. I of course objected because I wanted to sing and play like Roy Rodgers.

Had I kept up with the lessons, I now would have been playing the steel for over 45 years. Hell, maybe I could have figured it out by now.

So, 45 years later, my sandbox buddy, Steve Neal, who is a luthier (we have been friends for over 55 years), , sold his business to retire to Idaho. In the process of cleaning out the attic in the shop, he came across several steels. He gave me a Kay lap steel with a lovely shade of sea foam green Zolotone paint, couple of missing knobs, your know the type. He has yet to give me the Triple neck Fender, although I try to get it away from him regularly. The Kay sparked my interest to buy the Artisan (black of course), the Goldtone, the T logo Ricky and the GeorgeBoards CS1.

If I had only listened to my mother, and stuck with the steel lessons. God bless her.

Jack