The Steel Guitar Forum

All of us here love the pedal steel guitar. (Yes, I'm good at stating the obvious.) But there are also some here who have contrary passions towards other instruments, such as the b@njo. This leads me to what seems a logical question:

<SMALL>Are there folks on the planet who actually <u>dislike</u> (or worse) the PSG? </SMALL>

If so, what's wrong with them? How do we get them fixed? Maybe enact legislation to marginalize their disturbed notions?

<font size=-2>[I'm still treating this part of the Forum as if it were Bar Chatter. This thread may end up getting moved to Pedal Steel or Music. Or maybe b0b should start a B@njo area?]</font>

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<font size=-1>Bill (steel player impersonator) | MSA Classic U12 | Email | My music | Steeler birthdays | Over 50?</font><FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Bill Llewellyn on 02 July 2001 at 08:04 AM.]</p></FONT>

There may indeed be a few wayward souls out there that don't like the sound of a steel guitar. I am not a physician, but I am guessing that electro-shock therapy might be the answer to bring them around.

Tony that may be a good idea
I played at a coffie house once and the lady who owned the place hated the steel. She said it was too whiney. I think she needed a little electro-shock

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Playing PSG keeps you on your toes.

Never could understand that...

When straight guitar players bend strings, they'ye "cool". And, when steelers do the same thing, it's called that dumb "whiney" sound.

Keep in mind...all that "outrageous, totally new" stuff that Jimi Hendrix did was done decades earlier by beginning steelers with bad speakers.

There are a lot of people who don't like steel because they associate it with country music, which they don't like. These same people have no problem when they hear players like Greg Leisz or Bruce Kaphan, though. They don't realize that it's the same instrument.

<font size="1">Don't hold your breath waiting for a b@nJø forum here, Bill</font>

I`ve a friend who`s a good guitar picker that firmly believes that Buddy Emmons`s "Flint Hill Special" is a regular guitar - or an electric Banjo.......... go figure.

Bob Mainwaring. Z.Bs. and other weird things.

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What these folks obviously need is a HIGH-VOLTAGE charge of Electrob@njo Therapy!

Bobby Lee is right. None of my sons really like country music (of any generation) but one of them bought a copy of Bob Taillefer's Nouveau Steel

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Don Walters
Carter D-10, 8p/6k
Session 500 with Lemay Mod

Buck Trent sure could make his Electric Banjo, with Scruggs Tuners, sound like a Pedal Steel Guitar.... BIG TIME!

I once knew a very good guitar player in New Orleans who hated PSG and let everyone know it.

After doing a couple of gigs with that simpleton I finally realized it was plain old envy.

He tried all night to get the voiceing that I could do but could not due to a lack of strings.

I really enjoyed beating him down in the dirt with some fat c6th that he had no hope of doing.

Hey - Larry, Buck Trent - one of my old heros. He had me fooled years ago as I was trying for quite some time to figure out what "that" sound was, sure was/is a picker!
Buck Trent and Roy Clarke made that L.P. picking classic way back when.

Bob Mainwaring Z.Bs. and other weird things.

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b0b, I think you're right about the defacto association of the PSG with country music. If one doesn't like country then one probably also doesn't much like fiddle, twangy Telecasters, pedal steel, dobro, mandolin, and so on. So it's nice to see PSG in other forms of music as well as country. For b@njo, might it really be that it's non-fans just don't like bluegrass?

I don't dislike b@njo, personally (I even had an uncle who played it very well), but I'm going to risk repeating a joke I heard recently, all in good fun, of course:

<SMALL>What do a banjo and an artillary shell have in common? By the time you hear either of them, it's too late.</SMALL>

Like I said, I have no problems with banjo, but I thought that one was funny. (The same could be said about my steel playing, BTW.) <FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Bill Llewellyn on 03 July 2001 at 04:42 PM.]</p></FONT>

You oughta hear "firebird Suite" by Mike Perlowin!

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Regards,

John

Steelin' is a way of life!

My PSG website-Carter SD-12-U, 8p/5k, Nashville 1000

Who don't like PSG? Get a rope!

I dare anyone to pick up a PSG and play it like a b@nj0.

Last Saturday was the first time I heard one in a sober condition. I don't think I like it either! (Just kidding)

Well, I don't know if this is good or bad, but I was never called a "Whiney" steel player.........al....

OK. So I go to Yahoo auctions and do a search for "steel guitar". Here is what I got.
http://search.auctions.yahoo.com/search/auc?p=steel+guitar&alocale=0us&acc=us

I think it's a conspiracy.

Lee, from South Texas