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Anybody here read the Wall Street Journal?
Posted: 23 Feb 2020 11:29 am
by Jay Jessup
The weekend WSJ has an article in the Off Duty section written by a lady trying to deal with her husbands ever growing guitar collection. She walks into his garage and he is sitting down playing something and she asks if he got another guitar and learns its called a pedal steel guitar and he borrowed it from a friend. She goes through the article and comes up with a suitable resolution but ends it with "that pedal steel thing has to go"!!!
We just don't get any respect anywhere do we??
Re: Anybody here read the Wall Street Journal?
Posted: 23 Feb 2020 12:07 pm
by Dennis Montgomery
Jay Jessup wrote:
We just don't get any respect anywhere do we??
For sure. Of all the guitars crowding their home why did she pick the pedal steel as the one that "has to go"
Re: Anybody here read the Wall Street Journal?
Posted: 23 Feb 2020 12:27 pm
by Richard Sinkler
Dennis Montgomery wrote:Jay Jessup wrote:
We just don't get any respect anywhere do we??
For sure. Of all the guitars crowding their home why did she pick the pedal steel as the one that "has to go"
Her husband may start asking her to iron his clothes on it.
Re: Anybody here read the Wall Street Journal?
Posted: 23 Feb 2020 12:33 pm
by Earnest Bovine
Dennis Montgomery wrote: Of all the guitars crowding their home why did she pick the pedal steel as the one that "has to go"
Probably the sound
Re: Anybody here read the Wall Street Journal?
Posted: 23 Feb 2020 3:03 pm
by Bob Carlucci
Earnest Bovine wrote:Dennis Montgomery wrote: Of all the guitars crowding their home why did she pick the pedal steel as the one that "has to go"
Probably the sound
Yeah really.. Probably even worse than a violin in the hands of a hack artist.. At least the fiddle doesn't have 300 watts of clean power behind it, when its being tortured with ham like mitts....
Trumpet?, Sax?? ,worse maybe??.
Not sure really, but yeah a badly played pedal steel is a diabolical torture device... bob
Re: Anybody here read the Wall Street Journal?
Posted: 23 Feb 2020 3:49 pm
by Steven Paris
Bob Carlucci wrote:Not sure really, but yeah a badly played pedal steel is a diabolical torture device... bob
Damn! You been listening in on my practice sessions?
Re: Anybody here read the Wall Street Journal?
Posted: 23 Feb 2020 3:50 pm
by Dennis Montgomery
Bob Carlucci wrote:
Trumpet?, Sax?? ,worse maybe??.
Not sure really, but yeah a badly played pedal steel is a diabolical torture device... bob
She could have let him keep the pedal steel but sell all his amps
Posted: 23 Feb 2020 6:38 pm
by Dave Mudgett
She walks into his garage and he is sitting down playing something and she asks if he got another guitar and learns its called a pedal steel guitar and he borrowed it from a friend. She goes through the article and comes up with a suitable resolution but ends it with "that pedal steel thing has to go"!!!
Hopefully he didn't pay any attention. Otherwise, he needs some counseling on how to deal with this type of situation.
PS - the worst beginning pedal steel player is much easier to hack than the best beginning violin player. Oh, the pain - it's like fingernails on a chalkboard.
Re: Anybody here read the Wall Street Journal?
Posted: 23 Feb 2020 11:21 pm
by Per Berner
Bob Carlucci wrote:Not sure really, but yeah a badly played pedal steel is a diabolical torture device... bob
Nope. Nothing beats a badly played violin (not counting toy trumpets).
Posted: 24 Feb 2020 3:42 am
by Barry Coker
There is one sound worse than ANY!! Instrument an any beginners hands.
The sound of a wife's complaining over what you paid, the time you waist and ect,ect,ect.
Barry
Posted: 24 Feb 2020 3:43 am
by Barry Coker
There is one sound worse than ANY!! Instrument an any beginners hands.
The sound of a wife's complaining over what you paid, the time you waist and ect,ect,ect.
Barry
Posted: 24 Feb 2020 6:34 am
by Donny Hinson
It's great to be a collector (hoarder?). People come around and you can say "Let me show you this". Then it's blah blah blah, I got that one there, and that one here, etc. etc. and you know what? It's all "stuff". Just stuff. I'm not impressed by "stuff" anymore.
Play something! Do something! Show
me how to do something! If I wanna look at "stuff", I can go to a store.
Simple fix
Posted: 24 Feb 2020 8:46 am
by Jon Zimmerman
Headphones will save the marriage.. and earplugs for her?
Posted: 24 Feb 2020 8:53 am
by Erv Niehaus
Ole bought Lena a steel guitar.
A while later Sven asked Ole how Lena was coming along with the guitar.
Ole said: "I traded it for a saxophone".
Sven said: "Why did you do that?"
Ole replied: "She can't sing while she's playing the sax".
Erv
Posted: 24 Feb 2020 9:27 am
by Jay Jessup
I give the writer of the article credit for one thing, at least she called the instrument by it's correct name---that's something!
erv
Posted: 24 Feb 2020 5:28 pm
by Mark Perrodin
way to go Erv. haven't heard an Ole and Lena joke in forever.
My late father and late grandfather's favorite jokes. Thanks
for bringing back some good memories.
Posted: 25 Feb 2020 2:30 am
by Don R Brown
The guy should get a banjo, she'll beg him to go back to the PSG!
Posted: 25 Feb 2020 3:54 am
by Joachim Kettner
Don, a friend of mine is a banjo builder and he's still married to the same woman for at least 35 years.
Posted: 25 Feb 2020 8:11 am
by Erv Niehaus
Mark,
Being from Minnesota, you have to know a lot of Ole and Lena jokes.
When I go out and play at a senior citizen center, I usually play a number, tell a joke, play a number, tell a joke and so forth.
I don't know what they enjoy the most, the playing or the jokes!
Erv
Posted: 25 Feb 2020 8:19 am
by Rick Barnhart
Erv Niehaus wrote:I don't know what they enjoy the most, the playing or the jokes!
Erv
The jokes, of course...you can’t play while you’re telling a joke
Posted: 25 Feb 2020 9:12 am
by Erv Niehaus
Rick,
You're right there!
I can't chew gum and play at the same time!!
Erv
Posted: 25 Feb 2020 9:37 am
by Don R Brown
Joachim Kettner wrote:Don, a friend of mine is a banjo builder and he's still married to the same woman for at least 35 years.
Joachim, I have nothing against deaf people, I'm sure she's a very nice woman!
(And as evidence that this is said in humor, I just discovered this song today, blew me away!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CNB5OLUPM0 )
Posted: 25 Feb 2020 9:53 am
by Joachim Kettner
Yes, that's really good!
Posted: 25 Feb 2020 1:41 pm
by Brooks Montgomery
Joachim Kettner wrote:Don, a friend of mine is a banjo builder and he's still married to the same woman for at least 35 years.
Safe to assume she plays the bagpipes?
Posted: 26 Feb 2020 5:16 pm
by Mitch Ellis
Dave Mudgett wrote:
Hopefully he didn't pay any attention. Otherwise, he needs some counseling on how to deal with this type of situation.
PS - the worst beginning pedal steel player is much easier to hack than the best beginning violin player. Oh, the pain - it's like fingernails on a chalkboard.
I agree!
