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Topic: Ever Dreamed About Steel Guitar? |
Bob Farlow
From:
Marietta,GA,
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Posted 23 Oct 2006 4:29 am |
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| Last night I dreamed I was about to play a gig, but I could not find my picks or bar. Does anyone else have crazy dreams like this? |
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John Daugherty
From:
Rolla, Missouri, USA
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Posted 23 Oct 2006 4:33 am
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Only a nightmare.... where I was booked to follow Buddy Emmons at a Jazz festival.
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Jerry Hayes
From:
Virginia Beach, Va.
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Posted 23 Oct 2006 5:41 am
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I dreamed I was at a steel show playing Doug Jernigan's "8 Days a Week" at breakneck tempo.......That's really a dream....JH in Va.
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Don't matter who's in Austin (or anywhere else) Ralph Mooney is still the king!!!
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Roger Edgington
From:
San Antonio, Texas USA
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Posted 23 Oct 2006 6:33 am
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| I dream about steels once in a while. They are seldom normal. Usually they are large contraptions with all kinds of levers and strings maybe in a music store or on the bandstand. |
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Jim Walker
From:
Headland, AL
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Posted 23 Oct 2006 6:34 am
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I have crazy dreams nearly every night. Last night I dreamt I was asked to audition for Sara Evans but when I showed up she said I was too old. Somehow I actuly think this dream had more to do with the fact my 38th birthday is in two weeks. Maybe it was a nightmare!
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Fender Steel King
B-bender Telecaster
Line 6 Flextone II Plus
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Billy Murdoch
From:
Glasgow, Scotland, U.K.
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Posted 23 Oct 2006 9:29 am
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I had a recurring dream many years ago.
I sat at my steel and when I played the first note,all of the strings broke at the same time.
Since changing to Jagwires there have been no more string break dreams.
Best regards
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Ben Lawson
From:
Brooksville Florida
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Posted 23 Oct 2006 9:36 am
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| I don't dream about steels much anymore, but when I was playing 7 nights a week I did. I got tired of hearing myself play in my dream/nightmare but it wouldn't stop. I had to quit for a while after that and now I can't stand to hear myself when I'm awake. |
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David Mason
From:
Cambridge, MD, USA
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Posted 23 Oct 2006 10:07 am
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| I can usually play really, really well for a little while, but then bad things start to happen - it starts growing extra strings that I can't identify, the neck keeps getting longer and longer, etc. I wake up a lot. |
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Gary Shepherd
From:
Fox, Oklahoma, USA
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Posted 23 Oct 2006 10:21 am
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I go to sleep at night thinking up licks on all the instruments I play, including pedal steel. Sometimes I have to get up and go try them out. Not sure if I ever actually get to the dreaming part.
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Gary Shepherd
Carter D-10
www.16tracks.com
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Chris LeDrew
From:
Canada
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Posted 23 Oct 2006 10:32 am
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I dreamt last night that someone on the forum was selling 5 or 6 Sho~Bud bodies and parts, all for $135. I still couldn't get clearance from the tower to buy them. (I'm cut off from steel purchases for a while.  ) |
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Mike Spaeth
From:
Springdale, Arkansas
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Posted 23 Oct 2006 10:43 am
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| Yes, a couple of nights ago I dreamt I was at a show and the guy on stage had a beautiful Fender Dual 8.He later brought it down for me to see and he had added 2 strings per neck and added 3 pedals.!?!? |
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A. Roncetti
From:
Toronto,Ontario, Canada
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Posted 23 Oct 2006 11:26 am
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I had a dream that my steel was lost in the mail and I was never going to recieve it. What a night mare actually.
I also had a dream I met Jerry Douglas in a convenient store......ok that's not a steel but close
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Purple Fessenden SD-10 4X5
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Ernie Pollock
From:
Mt Savage, Md USA
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Posted 23 Oct 2006 1:50 pm
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not really, but I have had a few nightmares about the damned thing
Ernie
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Mike Jones
From:
Goodlettsville,TN,USA
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Posted 23 Oct 2006 1:58 pm
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I have dreams where I can't find the stage but it's time to go on. Other dreams, I can't find my charts or I don't know the material or my guitar is missing. My wife says I play in my sleep 'cause she has caught me moving my hands and feet like I'm playing when i'm totally alseep. Like alseep at the steel?
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Mike Jones
From:
Goodlettsville,TN,USA
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Posted 23 Oct 2006 2:02 pm
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I have dreams where I can't find the stage but it's time to go on. Other dreams, I can't find my charts or I don't know the material or my guitar is missing. My wife says I play in my sleep 'cause she has caught me moving my hands and feet like I'm playing when i'm totally alseep. Like alseep at the steel?
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Jim Phelps
From:
Mexico City, Mexico
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Posted 23 Oct 2006 2:30 pm
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Alan Brookes
From:
Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 23 Oct 2006 4:36 pm
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| Not so much dream of steels, but I find myself playing A Sleepy Lagoon in C6 just before I go to bed, and when I wake up I'm still humming the same song. |
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Jerry Overstreet
From:
Louisville Ky
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Posted 23 Oct 2006 6:13 pm
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Yes, I do have steel dreams. In particular, a recurring dream where I am playing my butt off, but the volume is barely audible even though I've got the volume pedal to the floor. It's an excruciating ordeal because I can't fix the problem no matter what I do. It always leaves me feeling empty.
Another one I have sometimes is that Buddy Emmons and/or Herby Wallace is going to sit in on my guitar after I play my set. In this one however, I do manage to do a nice job of playing in spite of the obvious pressure. |
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Tommy Allison
From:
Transfer, Pennsylvania, USA
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Posted 24 Oct 2006 3:50 am
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| I once dreamed I actually knew how to play one. Imagine my disapointment the next morning. |
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Brett Day
From:
Pickens, SC
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Posted 24 Oct 2006 8:14 pm
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| I always dreamed about playing steel on the Opry with a country artist, not as the staff steel guitarist, mainly as an artist's steel guitarist. Brett, Emmons S-10, Morrell lapsteel, GFI Ultra D-10-aka "Redgold Beauty" |
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Bruce Etter
From:
Columbus, Georgia
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Posted 25 Oct 2006 5:27 am
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I once played "Sleepwalk" in my dreams and woke up in the front yard.  |
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Micky Byrne
From:
United Kingdom (deceased)
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Posted 25 Oct 2006 7:49 am
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Hi, Had a dream recently that I was doing a big show and the sound crew put my amp about 50 feet away from me and I was really complaining I couldn't hear a thing, and they said "Don't worry it'll be fine out front"
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Brad Sarno
From:
St. Louis, MO USA
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Posted 25 Oct 2006 3:37 pm
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I had a dream once that I was at some VFW hall or a wedding reception or something. I looked over at the bandstand and saw and heard the greatest steel player I'd ever heard. He was a big fat guy wearing all black and had all these silver rings and stuff on. Kind of looked like a giant Elvis. He was playing some amazing, big, swingin, slamming C6 stuff. Sounded like a blend of Buddy and Curly and some really good drugs. It was weird. I asked someone in the dream who that was and they said is was "The Mother". I guess he was supposed to be the "mother" of all steel players or something like that. I wish had my recorder with me. This guy was great.
Brad
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Bob Watson
From:
Champaign, Illinois, U.S.
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Posted 25 Oct 2006 4:07 pm
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| About three months after I bought my Sho-Bud Professional back in 1975, I had a dream that I was playing a swing tune on the C6 neck and I sounded like Curly Chalker. A few months later I had a nightmare that I took my Sho-Bud out of the case and there was a pad where the C6 neck was supposed to be. I've had other steel dreams but those two are the ones that stick out the most. |
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Alan Harrison
From:
Murfreesboro Tennessee, USA
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Posted 26 Oct 2006 8:02 am
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| I often have nightmares about playing the wrong thing at the right time or the right thing at the wrong time. My wife says I play all night "if I can sleep after a job", both hands, feet and knees moving. Right now I am dreaming about a new GFI Ultra D-10 Keyless 8x8 all black..Someone on the forum said: "Black just sounds better". |
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