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Topic: What is the longest break you have taken from t |
Stu Schulman
From:
Ulster Park New Yawk (deceased)
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Posted 6 Mar 2003 12:18 pm |
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| I put my steel in it's case for about 5 months,and took a break from it.Yesterday I got a call to play on a couple of jingles.I was worried about what would come out of my hands when I got there,Everything went well,and my playing was some of the best that I have done in a while,I seemed to have a better picture of where the steel guitar should sit in the mix,and what I should not play.I think that the time off made me think a lot more about my approach to the instrument. |
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Stu Schulman
From:
Ulster Park New Yawk (deceased)
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Posted 6 Mar 2003 12:28 pm
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| OOps!Bad typing,It should read.What is the longest break you have taken from playing the steel guitar,Stu |
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Jim Smith
From:
Midlothian, TX, USA
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Posted 6 Mar 2003 12:35 pm
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I don't think it's your typing, I think there's a limit of how many characters can be in the title. 
I think the longest break I've taken was about two months due to surgery.  |
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Gene Jones
From:
Oklahoma City, OK USA, (deceased)
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Jody Carver
From:
KNIGHT OF FENDER TWEED
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Posted 6 Mar 2003 1:14 pm
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Gene
Well I finally beat you at something,my hiatus was from 1960 till 1987 and it sounds it.
I started in 48 and went to 1960 so as you can see,I was off more than I was on . |
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Roy Ayres
From:
Riverview, Florida, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 6 Mar 2003 1:48 pm
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Jody:
You boasted too soon. Mine was from 1961 until I got a new steel a couple of months ago. If I counted right, that's 2 years longer than you and Gene combined. That should be some kind of record, since your and Gene's combined ages are at least 100 years greater than mine. (I still remember all of my hot licks; I just can't get there in time.) |
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Gary Lee Gimble
From:
Fredericksburg, VA.
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Posted 6 Mar 2003 2:04 pm
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6 1/2 years while I owned a spirit shop and raised 3 kids.
Gary Lee |
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Jim Smith
From:
Midlothian, TX, USA
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Posted 6 Mar 2003 2:12 pm
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Well then, never mind my two months off.  |
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Jeff Lampert
From:
queens, new york city
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Posted 6 Mar 2003 2:15 pm
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| Approx 1984-1994. Got married 1984. Started a business in 1986. 10 years away. I never thought I'd get back into it. How wrong I was! |
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Tony Prior
From:
Charlotte NC
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Posted 6 Mar 2003 4:00 pm
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took off from about 89 to 2001
didn't stop playing music, just steel..what a dufass...
tp |
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John Macy
From:
Rockport TX/Denver CO
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Posted 6 Mar 2003 4:16 pm
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Hey Stu,
Good to cya around again.
I took a year off once in the 80's and just engineered. When I cam back, I thought I played way better, too. Little loss of speed, but cooler ideas... |
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Jody Carver
From:
KNIGHT OF FENDER TWEED
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Posted 6 Mar 2003 5:07 pm
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Hey Roy
The world was at peace since you quit playing
You come back and look what has happened to the world.
Quit and maybe we can all get some peace. |
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BDBassett
From:
Rimrock AZ
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Posted 6 Mar 2003 8:43 pm
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After 30 years of owning a pedal steel guitar, there are those who still wonder when I'll actually begin playing it, let alone get back to playing it.
BD |
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David Coplin
From:
Eugene, Oregon, USA
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Posted 6 Mar 2003 9:03 pm
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Quit playing steel from 1970-2003. Like Tony,
I didn't quit music but just stopped playing
steel. Boy was that dumb or what ? Started playing again first of the year. Its slowly coming back but it seems like the circuit between my brain and my fingers have slowed down. Couldn't be old age could it ?
Dave |
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Bobby Lee
From:
Cloverdale, California, USA
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Posted 7 Mar 2003 5:22 pm
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I didn't stop playing, but I "lost the passion" from about 1985 to 1995. The steel came out of its case for weekend gigs only. No practice. No contact with other steelers. Playing in bars was just a job, and a chance to get drunk for free.
Then I went to Tom Bradshaw's West Coast Steel Guitar Show and it all came back to me. Now I pretty much live and breathe steel guitar. I wouldn't have it any other way.
Oh, I've quit drinking, too. 
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George Rozak
From:
Braidwood, Illinois USA
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Posted 9 Mar 2003 1:59 pm
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approx. 1975 to 2000...
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Eric West
From:
Portland, Oregon, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 9 Mar 2003 2:33 pm
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From Last night at midnight until Doomsday.
(Or Friday. Whichever comes first.)
Actually, since 79, I think it was a month back in the 80s for the purpose of surfing, and another month when I got my Harley and tore it down in 99.
You know. The times when I got involved in a "hobby".
[This message was edited by Eric West on 09 March 2003 at 10:30 PM.] |
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Larry Lenhart
From:
Ponca City, Oklahoma
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Posted 9 Mar 2003 3:05 pm
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I figure I have "played" steel for about 8 of the last 33 years or so:
played 1969:
quit 1st time-from 1970-1981
played 1981-83
quit 2nd time-fromm 1983-1989
played 1990
quit 3rd time-from 1990-1998
played 1998-2002
quit 4th time-from 2002-present
All dates listed are the times I was NOT playing.
I must say tho, I never have quit playing the guitar since 1963-present. |
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Jim Phelps
From:
Mexico City, Mexico
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Posted 10 Mar 2003 11:41 am
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I took a regular job in '84, sold my steel in about '86 and just played regular guitar on casuals. I didn't touch another steel until I bought a mid-70's Sho-Bud 6139 D-10 in around '97 but only tried playing it a couple times in church, since I was so out of practice and besides it only had one knee lever.
In 2000 I quit my regular job, after 16 years, to go back to music full-time. I can hear your guffaws now! Yep, lot's changed in 16 years.... I was a better guitar player but hadn't played steel or even practiced at all, not cuz I didn't love it, just thought I'd be a better guitar player than steel player and wanted to do whatever I could do best. I always felt kindof awkward switchnig back and forth guitar and steel too, I'm not like Buzz Evans who never seems to be un-used to either guitar or steel (how does he do it?) I felt like I wasn't getting "used" to either of them...After struggling to find work for over a year, guess what I finally got a decent job playing? Yep, STEEL. Lorena Prater (http://lorenaprater.com) found my website on the internet and emailed me. I told her I hadn't played steel in "a few years", (ha ha ha!) but was sure I could get it back soon (I hoped). You know steel players are hard to find so I got the gig, and bought an old '73 MSA from Bobby Seymour (hey Bobby!). At first I only played steel but now doubling with regular guitar too and getting along with the two of them better than ever. I'm happy to find you can "get it back" and more, if you TRY, and I'm really happy to be playing steel again too, despite my earlier "stupidity"... [This message was edited by Jim Phelps on 10 March 2003 at 12:22 PM.] |
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Smiley Roberts
From:
Hendersonville,Tn. 37075
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Posted 12 Mar 2003 10:56 pm
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I've never taken a break from playin'. It just sounds that way. 
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David L. Donald
From:
Koh Samui Island, Thailand
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Posted 13 Mar 2003 7:14 am
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PSG I think spring 1966 until next week... if you don't count lapsteel '93-'95 with a break until this Jan. And maybe PSG for 10 minutes around 1986. Dobro from time to time in the middle and that spent to much time in the case too. DRAT!
My how things have changed[This message was edited by David L. Donald on 13 March 2003 at 07:18 AM.] |
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David Doggett
From:
Bawl'mer, MD (formerly of MS, Nawluns, Gnashville, Knocksville, Lost Angeles, Bahsten. and Philly)
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Posted 13 Mar 2003 11:56 am
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Let's see, started on piano around '54, sax around '58, guitar around '62, slide guitar around '66, Dobro around '68, and then PSG off and on from '75-'77. Then I quit everything and went to grad school, got married, started a career, had four kids, got divorced, and started playing everything again about two years ago (all strictly amateur). So I was off PSG about 25 years.
Wish I had never quit. I'm slower now, both in technique and learning, and I'll never be a flashy pro. But at least I have a roof over my head (that only leaks a little), and I can afford half-decent instruments. I can remember in the '70s I had a crappy light-beam volume pedal with a really steep taper. I longed for a $60 used Sho-Bud volume pedal in a nearby pawn shop, but couldn't afford it. I played an early Sho-Bud Maverick with the old key head with no rollers, and those gorgeous new Pro IIs were further from my means than even an MSA Millenium is today. Someday I'll get one of those old Pro IIs and fix it up just for nostalgia's sake.
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Student of the Steel, and cheap instrument connoisseur: customized 1970 Sho-Bud Maverick, Fessy S12U, Emmons S12 E9 P/P, Nashville 400, Fender Squire, Peavey Transtube Supreme into JBL 15", 1968 Gibson J50, '60s Kay arch-top, 7-string Raybro, customized Korean Regal square-neck, roundneck Dobro 90C, 1938 Conn Chu Berry tenor sax, '50s Berg mouthpiece, Hamilton upright piano. You make it, I'll play it (more or less)
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