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Topic: PLAYING a SOLO and losing your STEELBAR,,,,,AND? |
Henry
From:
Europe
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Posted 22 Jan 2004 12:50 pm |
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Did you ever a experience like that,,,,,
or something like that??
,,,,,,how did it worked out. |
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Chris Scruggs
From:
Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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Posted 22 Jan 2004 1:06 pm
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Sometimes my picks catch on the strings, and go flying off like an arrow on a crossbow.
Rarely, though. |
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Eric West
From:
Portland, Oregon, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 22 Jan 2004 1:09 pm
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I always had another one inbetween the necks. Biggest problem is picks and watching them get stomped b4 I can get to them..
EJL |
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Walter Stettner
From:
Vienna, Austria
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Posted 22 Jan 2004 1:20 pm
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Here is a famous story from Herb Remington:
He just had been hired by Bob Wills, the first gig was one of those famous "Battle Dances", together with Spade Cooley. The Texas Playboys did San Antonio Rose, and Herb dropped his bar and it rolled from stage and disappeared on the dancefloor. Spade Cooley's Steel Player took over and played the solo for Herb, without Bob noticing!
The name of the "other" player: Noel Boggs!
Regards, Walter
www.austriansteelguitar.at.tf
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[This message was edited by Walter Stettner on 22 January 2004 at 01:20 PM.] |
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Tony Prior
From:
Charlotte NC
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Posted 22 Jan 2004 2:05 pm
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Well I have dropped mine..I have a very week left arm/hand from a previous nerve route dealie and continued use with the pressure of using my hand to hold something sometimes causes the hand muscle to stiffen up..and then..
there it goes..
not often, and I can usually tell a minute or two before it happens. When I am not actually playing a ride or chords, I put the bar down..and the 30 or 40 seconds of rest gives me a good rebound.
Now I also have dropped picks like Eric..and then stepped on 'em too..that pretty much stinks...
t |
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Billy Wilson
From:
El Cerrito, California, USA
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Posted 22 Jan 2004 2:48 pm
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| Happened to me on my first solo of my first time playing steel in public. The song was Cryin Time. The bar rolled across the dance floor. I got up and got the bar and when I got back on stage the guys said "Try it again!" Ended up having a ton of fun. Still hooked. Tomorrow I've got my first E9th pedal gig. The rehearsal last night went OK. Some of the players are damn good. The leader is a bit green. It's a two hour casual at a company picnic. We're doin Marty Stuart, George Straight, Derailers etc. Wish me luck, Billy |
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Bob Carlucci
From:
Candor, New York, USA
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Posted 22 Jan 2004 3:02 pm
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| Yeah ,... me too,, bar has gone flying,picks fly of or get caught between the strings and ripped off, had girls knock thier big fat butt into my mike stand knocking me in the teeth.. HARD. Had a drunk puke on the stage six inches from my steel[I refused to play until someone came and cleaned it up!]Had several people smash into my steel.. one time a guy bent several pedal pull rods.. I was FURIOUS!!! and had to leave the stage. Just a few years ago I looked up from my steel just in time to see a beer bottle rocketing towards the center of my nose. Some girl at the bar threw it at a guy and missed... I ducked just in the nick of time!... Isn't it GREAT to be a steel guitarist??? bob |
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Ron Sodos
From:
San Antonio, Texas USA
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Posted 22 Jan 2004 3:20 pm
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I was playin a gig last week and in the middle of a a song I dropped one pick and couldn't find it. In between songs I was on my knees looking for it. The other guys in the band thought I was nuts. I finally found it. And got back on the steel. I told the guys "It's nice to be needed".
Ha Ha .....  |
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Robert Porri
From:
Windsor, Connecticut, USA
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Posted 22 Jan 2004 3:35 pm
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And I thought that my picks catching on strings was just something I was going through as a new player (or trying to player).
It's good to suspect now that this problem will continue forever!
Bob P.[This message was edited by Robert Porri on 22 January 2004 at 03:35 PM.] |
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Tom Kaufman
From:
Denton, Maryland, USA
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Posted 22 Jan 2004 3:52 pm
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| I did have a pick fly off on me once; we were playing a job..and were right in the middle of the song,Together Again"..when it happened; there was a fellow who had requested that song; he had told me that he had either bbought a steel guitar from Tom Brumley..or sold one..or maybe it was that he had a steel guitar that was once owned by Mr. Brumley..in any case, he had asked if we could play the great Buck Owens standard..and the pick came flying off..just before it was atime for me to try and do that wonderful break! Oh..by the way..I, by no means claim to be able to play it like Tom Brumley..although I try..and here I was..about to give it my gbest shot..and lost the pick! Oh..as for the guy who had requested the song; the one that claimed to had either bought..or sold the steel..don't know as I believed him completly..you folks know how these things happen..but I was lucky enough to have someone nearby the stage retrieve my pick. Now I did hear a story about something that happened concerning someone having their bar get away from them. Don't know for certain that it's the gospel truth. But this guy who used to have a band in this area went to Nashville to record some songs. During one of the songs that recorded, the steel player had the bar get away from him..and so the story goes, he just kept right on a'pickin'; he was actually able to make a pretty good rif out of the mishap! |
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Bob Wood
From:
Madera, California, USA
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Posted 22 Jan 2004 4:45 pm
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I was playing a gig in Livermore, California at a little cowboy bar a few years back. The drummer was always throwing and twirling his sticks, and he was real good at it. Just for kicks when I saw him doing that, I would take my bar in my left hand (I'm right-handed, by the way) and kinda throw my bar up while twirling it. Well..., one night while I was doing that..., I accidently dropped the bar. Our guitar player who stood only inches to my left (Very small bandstand) caught the bar square on his little toe! We were right in the middle of a song, but everybody was laughing so hard (except him) that we had to stop playing so that everybody could contain they're laughter. Needless to say, we could barely play for the rest of the evening.
You almost had to be there!
I forgot to mention that everybody else in the bar started laughing so hard that they sobered up, and the band had to buy the house a round just to get them back to their "pre-happy-state"!
Bob[This message was edited by Bob Wood on 23 January 2004 at 08:36 AM.] [This message was edited by Bob Wood on 28 January 2004 at 03:58 PM.] |
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Ray Montee
From:
Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 22 Jan 2004 7:33 pm
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I was but a teenage ladd, playing a stage show at the then-popular,upper-crust Oriental
Theater. I was standing proudly behind my triple-8 Fender when my bar shot out of my hand like a weenie out of the bun at the baseball park. As I started around the guitar I could hear the rolling bar as it began picking up speed and it was obvious I wasn't about to catch it. Then "silence". It dropped over the edge of the stage and after what seemed like hours, it hit the floor, about three floors below the stage as the orchestra pit had been lowered to the basement level. It was like hearing long, howling tires skidding then silence and that anticipated wait for the horrible crash. |
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Jim Cohen
From:
Philadelphia, PA
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Posted 22 Jan 2004 7:46 pm
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| My picks used to catch on strings before I realized I had been wearing them backwards! Like claws! |
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Mike Perlowin
From:
Los Angeles CA
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Posted 22 Jan 2004 9:30 pm
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| I ALWAYS keep 3 spare bars and a ton of extra picks in my paca seat. One can never be too prepared. |
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Tim Whitlock
From:
Colorado, USA
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Posted 23 Jan 2004 6:13 am
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| So far I've only lost my bar in practice, not on a job yet. I did lose a fingerpick once. The zinging sound the pick makes as it flies off the string, combined with the look on my face (picture David St. Hubbins, of Spinal Tap, watching the Stonehenge prop descend), was very comical. Since then I always keep spare thumb and finger picks in the space between the necks, in case of emergency. |
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John Lacey
From:
Black Diamond, Alberta, Canada
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Posted 23 Jan 2004 6:20 am
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| Shook my "steel guitar rag" with my left hand with the bar in it being a clown and lost the bar on the stage. Fell between the risers and was lost til the break when I could seperate the risers. Have carried a spare bar ever since. |
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Roy Ayres
From:
Riverview, Florida, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 23 Jan 2004 7:21 am
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I have told this true story before, but it seems appropriate the this thread, so I will repeat it.
In the 40's I was playing with Pee Wee King on WAVE in Louisville. We were in Studio "A" in the middle of a live broadcast and I was playing a chorus on one of our songs, sitting at my Fender triple eight. While I was playing I saw a pair of man's legs walk up to the left end of my steel snd stand there -- obviously watching my every move. That kind of thing always made me nervous, but I finally got through the solo. At the end of my chorus I made a long, octave slide and looked up during the slide to see, none other than Alvino Rey staring down at my steel. I lost control of the bar and it rolled all the way up the steel, hit the trapazoidal pickup, and bounced to the floor. Everyone in the studio broke up laughing, including Alvino. I did the only thing that came to mind -- I dropped to my knees in fromt of my "hero" and bowed to the floor. I suppose it sat OK with him, because he invited me to be his guest that night at the Colonial Gardens where he was playing, and got me a table right next to the bandstand where his steel was set up. |
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Henry
From:
Europe
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