The Steel Guitar Forum

This gentleman really knocks my socks off...I love how he switches from Country style steel to the big fat jazzy chords with lots of volume pedal "Gutting" ....I am a HUGE fan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO4NwjIutmA


Micky "scars" Byrne U.K.

He's a good'un. I wish I had learned the Universal tuning when I started.

I have known David for a few years now. He plays extremely well and is quiet a character to be around. I believe he uses the Bb6 tuning as well.

Paul....yes he does use a Bb6 tuning. Mine is the usual E9th/B6th universal. I can imagine he'd be good to be around. I have him as a friend on a social media sight. I've always told him I love his way of playing, but he seems very modest saying to me "I'm just a little fish in a big pond"

Micky "scars" Byrne U.K.

Good job Skin, keep the hat.... gotcha.

Micky, Dave is a great guy, he's been a bit of a wild man in his day I would say so you would both get on great hehe ....you can tell from his new axe that he is a Harley man too :-} Great player and great character ...always enjoy catching up with him at Dallas and hearing him play.

I believe David uses the Maurice Anderson Bb6 with the "corn changes," as does Jr. Knight. Yes, they both play the fire out of it.

When I first met Jr., he was the bandleader at the Longhorn Ballroom (1976?) and you couldn't tell he wasn't playing the E9 tuning, he so had the touch. Totally corn-country like downtown Nashville.

I remember one night at the Longhorn like it was yesterday. I was there with Alvin Crow, and chatting with Paycheck at the back bar, who was in his usual state of deep inebriation . Suddenly Paycheck announced "I believe I'm gonna sit in on that boy's guitar.." Knowing that Jr's guitar was in Bb and Paycheck only played E9, I mischievously said "sure, let's go on up there." We walked up to the bandstand and I said "Junior, Johnny wants to sit in for awhile." Surprised, he said sure, and was chuckling as he got offstage.

Bless his heart, Johnny didn't even last one song! Talk about not knowing what tuning he was playing, drunk, thinking it was E9, pushing god-knows-what pedals... and Jr. and I were dying laughing off to stage right. Paycheck got offstage and said "that guitar ain't tuned right."

Thought I was gonna die!!!!

Sorry for the thread hi-jack, just got to thinking about Reece's tuning and them that play it. Back to your regular programming.

Herb..that was no thread hi-jack....that story was sooooo funny. I can almost feel it like I was there. Firstly there are not too many people that knew Paycheck played steel. As I said my uni is the usual E9th/B6th...when my Sho-Bud S-12 was converted to a universal, it was ready just in time for me to drive off to do a gig.Man that was a task and a half but eventually I had kinda settled in by the end of the gig....the only problem was when I had to do an instrumental. the audience who we had played to many times asked for "Till there was you" ..God I wish the floor would have opened up and swallowed me ...as they say you learn more on one gig than you do on a week's indoor practice

Thanks for chiming in

Micky "scars" Byrne U.K.
Sho-Bud and Carter universals
www.micky-byrne.co.uk

Now that is something Micky; that you never told me at the time, you 'cool old devil'you! Just said, "it went alright you know" !
But you managed it without ANY practice session at all!
That's not easy !
You lived with us for a week whilst I made parts, cast an extra pedal and built it again, from the ground up.
Tuned; you loaded it into the van and was gone; strait to the gig, direct.
Julie telephoned, where is Micky?
Just left !
Key nervous break down!poor girl.
She understood what had happened to your steel and the major changes to the animal; but no practice ????
Well done all you guys and galls that manage that change. But I do feel a tinge of sympathy for anybody caught out; trying to play uni when he thinks it's 9th! Very best to all in PSG land. David Wiggins.