First time

Earnest Bovine · Post by **Earnest Bovine** » 2 Apr 2022 5:22 pm

Setting up in a bar in Simi tonight, and the club owner looks at my axe and says "We've had about a hundred and fifty country bands in here, and that's the first time I've seen one of those." First Emmons push-pull?, I was thinking. Wrong .. first steel guitar.

Larry Dering · Post by **Larry Dering** » 2 Apr 2022 7:28 pm

That's really sad. Hopefully it will start a trend.

Don R Brown · Post by **Don R Brown** » 3 Apr 2022 4:52 am

The "first steel guitar" part would seem to contradict the "We've had a hundred and fifty country bands" part IMHO.

J R Rose · Post by **J R Rose** » 3 Apr 2022 6:55 am

I have worked in that part of California several times and had a cousin that lived in Simi Valley and spent a lot of weekends with him. Never found a Country Band or a Country Bar or Club in Simi Valley. But over the mountain South was Chatsworth and at Devonshire St. there was a very nice Country Club. Live Band every night I think but I cannot remember the name of it. Also West of there at Ventura was a nice country club but cannot remember the name of it. Getting OLD just SUCKS, ha. Had a lot of fun at both places. Lot of country girls that new how to two-step. I felt right at home. J.R. Rose

Fish · Post by **Fish** » 3 Apr 2022 5:35 pm

Earnest: wish I lived closer so I could come out to Simi Valley and hear you play.

JR: let me take a shot. Was it Ryan’s Roundup in Chatsworth, and the Ban Dar in Ventura?

J R Rose · Post by **J R Rose** » 4 Apr 2022 6:59 am

It was the Ban-Dar in Ventura all right, packed house Friday and Saturday nights but had live music most every night. Ryan's does not sound right. But I am talking 25 plus years ago so it could have changed names. It was located on Devonshire & DeSoto Ave just East of Topanga Canyon Blvd. (State 27 Hi-way) You would think that if I can remember that I could remember the name?? J.R.

J R Rose · Post by **J R Rose** » 4 Apr 2022 7:01 am

Fish, it might have just been called the Roundup at that time. J.R.

Skip Edwards · Post by **Skip Edwards** » 4 Apr 2022 8:27 am

On the corner of Devonshire & Owensmouth...Ryan's Roundup became JR's Cowboy Palace in the 80's, and is now called the Cowboy Palace Saloon. I still do gigs there... I'll be there this Wednesday.

J R Rose · Post by **J R Rose** » 4 Apr 2022 10:10 am

Well Thank You so much Skip for clearing that up. It has been such a long time since I was their. It is good to hear that it is still going and having live bands. Good Luck and keep on picking. J.R. Rose

Tim Harr · Post by **Tim Harr** » 22 Apr 2022 4:34 pm

Hi Doug - have you ever played steel on an Oscars broadcast?

Ian Rae · Post by **Ian Rae** » 23 Apr 2022 12:10 am

Ask not what country can do for you but what you can do for country

J R Rose · Post by **J R Rose** » 23 Apr 2022 6:40 am

Hey Tim, I think you got lost along the way here. You might want to move this to the right subject. J.R.

Tim Harr · Post by **Tim Harr** » 23 Apr 2022 7:28 am

Doug created this post …was just asking a quick question that he may see easier. Thx.