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  Topic: Tommy Detamore - color me impressed!
Bart Bull

Replies: 29
Views: 7627

PostForum Section: Steel Players   Posted: 19 Apr 2023 7:39 pm   Subject: Tommy Detamore - color me impressed!
Impeccable playing throughout, with a pair of righteously inventive breaks, in a heckuva song by Robbie Fulks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqB5T91JJ1U&list=RDMqB5T91JJ1U&index=1
  Topic: A little David Lindley remembrance
Bart Bull

Replies: 2
Views: 952

PostForum Section: Steel Without Pedals   Posted: 22 Mar 2023 10:45 am   Subject: A little David Lindley remembrance
A little David Lindley remembrance:
https://www.spin.com/2023/03/david-lindley-tribute/
  Topic: Robert Paul Lee (Bobby Lee) Aug 1949 - Mar 2023
Bart Bull

Replies: 372
Views: 2958880

PostForum Section: Rest in Peace b0b (Bobby Lee)   Posted: 10 Mar 2023 9:11 pm   Subject: Robert Paul Lee (Bobby Lee) Aug 1949 - Mar 2023
The sensible,, informed, and thoughtful conversation of the Steel Guitar Forum is the direct result of the man who created it. Continuing in that spirit may be our best tribute. This forum is the leg ...
  Topic: Rus-ler
Bart Bull

Replies: 5
Views: 1562

PostForum Section: Pedal Steel   Posted: 2 Feb 2023 9:04 pm   Subject: Rus-ler
Not the case my RusLer, so I'm guessing it's a set-up thing.
John DeMaille on the SGForum has been very helpful to me regarding RusLers. Maybe he can offer experienced thoughts.
  Topic: Time for me to retire.
Bart Bull

Replies: 220
Views: 38459

PostForum Section: Steel Players   Posted: 1 Jan 2023 9:23 pm   Subject: Time for me to retire.
I've often wondered what might happen when this day came...
Should have known you'd have it handled gracefully.
Nothing but thanks and gratitude.
  Topic: Earworms
Bart Bull

Replies: 26
Views: 4265

PostForum Section: Steel Players   Posted: 2 Dec 2022 5:46 pm   Subject: Earworms
May I offer a solution?

It's worked unfailingly for me since I came up with it a while back, sparing me untold hours of "Dancing Queen" and "Honky Tonk Badonkadonk," allowing m ...
  Topic: Noel Boggs Fender PSG?
Bart Bull

Replies: 9
Views: 2492

PostForum Section: Pedal Steel   Posted: 18 Nov 2022 7:44 pm   Subject: Noel Boggs Fender PSG?
https://steelguitarforum.com/Archives/Archive-000003/HTML/20011227-1-011582.html
Interesting discussion, circa 2000, from them that knowed 'cause they seen...
  Topic: Rags, drags, marches and cakewalks
Bart Bull

Replies: 21
Views: 5792

PostForum Section: Steel Without Pedals   Posted: 11 Nov 2022 10:15 am   Subject: Rags, drags, marches and cakewalks
Drummer's a keeper — he's listening!
  Topic: Rags, drags, marches and cakewalks
Bart Bull

Replies: 21
Views: 5792

PostForum Section: Steel Without Pedals   Posted: 9 Nov 2022 10:00 pm   Subject: Rags, drags, marches and cakewalks
Hey, Mike:
In the spirit of inspiration, I thought I'd throw some tunes your way.
The central, common thing about this era of music is ... dance. Everybody danced. Music was for dancing, musician ...
  Topic: Rags, drags, marches and cakewalks
Bart Bull

Replies: 21
Views: 5792

PostForum Section: Steel Without Pedals   Posted: 8 Nov 2022 11:17 pm   Subject: Rags, drags, marches and cakewalks
You couldn't be more right about Monk in this context, in his oblique sense of stride emerging from rags and cakewalks.
This is a Pandora's box you're messin' with, a magic mirror, a rabbit hole th ...
  Topic: Story about Tom Brumley and Together Again
Bart Bull

Replies: 21
Views: 7272

PostForum Section: Steel Players   Posted: 5 Aug 2022 8:42 am   Subject: Story about Tom Brumley and Together Again
Not enough footnotes and tendentious tautologies to achieve proper peer-review pomposity.

Might I suggest a bit of academic auto-tuning with this handy verbiage-o-matic?
https://pdos.csail.mit.edu ...
  Topic: New York Times article on PSG today.
Bart Bull

Replies: 2
Views: 945

PostForum Section: Steel Players   Posted: 5 Aug 2022 8:29 am   Subject: New York Times article on PSG today.
The most difficult instrument in both kinds of music — Western & Country.

Maybe the most difficult to get paid on...
  Topic: ZB Pedal Steel Guitars - Please help!
Bart Bull

Replies: 3087
Views: 960519

PostForum Section: Pedal Steel   Posted: 13 Jul 2022 5:06 pm   Subject: ZB Pedal Steel Guitars - Please help!
Here's a link to Zane Beck playing the student model:
https://bb.steelguitarforum.com//viewtopic.php?p=2847286&highlight=#2847286
  Topic: Mickey Adams
Bart Bull

Replies: 37
Views: 13224

PostForum Section: Steel Players   Posted: 27 May 2022 5:53 pm   Subject: Mickey Adams
Mickey and Ricky have both been among the most helpful, well-informed, and open members of this forum.

Without making light of the challenges they face, both are gifted, and generous with sharing t ...
  Topic: Early American lap steel
Bart Bull

Replies: 27
Views: 6546

PostForum Section: Steel Without Pedals   Posted: 20 May 2022 9:12 pm   Subject: Early American lap steel
Floyd Smith: "Floyd's Guitar Blues"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXYZ4AicW4s
Hurley Ramey— Earl Hines Orchestran with Billy Eckstine "Jelly, Jelly"
https://www.youtube.com ...
  Topic: ed black any info??
Bart Bull

Replies: 27
Views: 6674

PostForum Section: Steel Players   Posted: 1 May 2022 2:37 pm   Subject: ed black any info??
Another moment of Ed on steel, hand-tooling a beautifully nuanced filigree in another fine song: Hoyt Axton's "Evangelina."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t43JCQbqOVI
  Topic: ed black any info??
Bart Bull

Replies: 27
Views: 6674

PostForum Section: Steel Players   Posted: 23 Apr 2022 9:14 pm   Subject: ed black any info??
Ed was in Goose Creek Symphony (along with Mickey McGee, Doug Haywood, and Bob Willard Henke) back in Phoenix days.

Here's the lead track on Michael Dinner's "The Great Pretender" album; ...
  Topic: Willie Cantu...and Tony Williams...and Miles and Ornette and
Bart Bull

Replies: 8
Views: 7299

PostForum Section: Music   Posted: 5 Jan 2022 6:32 pm   Subject: Willie Cantu...and Tony Williams...and Miles and Ornette and
I like to think that maybe Tony Williams so kindly took him to see Mingus and looked after Willie so carefully because Willie had gone out on the town wearing one of his Buckaroos stage suits.....pref ...
  Topic: Willie Cantu...and Tony Williams...and Miles and Ornette and
Bart Bull

Replies: 8
Views: 7299

PostForum Section: Music   Posted: 31 Dec 2021 11:00 am   Subject: Willie Cantu...and Tony Williams...and Miles and Ornette and
Here's a Part 2 of an interview with Willie Cantu talking about how weeks after joining Buck and the Buckaroos at age 17, he was in NYC to play the Jimmy Dean Show, and went to the Village Vanguard to ...
  Topic: Extended fretboard out front on guitar top.
Bart Bull

Replies: 7
Views: 3207

PostForum Section: Pedal Steel   Posted: 15 Nov 2021 10:43 pm   Subject: Extended fretboard out front on guitar top.
As to the Hankey Upright Fretboard, and possibly a few other upright factors:

"There is simply no reason to compare the Hankey Upright Fretboard to horizontal boards. It is entirely new in con ...
  Topic: I like big bars and I cannot lie...
Bart Bull

Replies: 15
Views: 4201

PostForum Section: Pedal Steel   Posted: 10 Nov 2021 10:11 am   Subject: I like big bars and I cannot lie...
First: Brilliant thread title. Eleven extra points for hiphop allusion on SGF.
Second: Sneaky Pete.
(Heavier bar especially handy for opening-act gigs with sketchy security such as Altamont Speedway ...
  Topic: sho bud Maverick
Bart Bull

Replies: 42
Views: 40833

PostForum Section: Pedal Steel   Posted: 9 Nov 2021 2:12 pm   Subject: sho bud Maverick
There was a gentleman on the SGForum (now deceased) named Ed Naylor who would soup-up your Maverick for you, adding levers, etc.
It would be worth taking a look at his posts/discussions, but here's a ...
  Topic: PSG fret marker guide (decoder ring)
Bart Bull

Replies: 71
Views: 27786

PostForum Section: Pedal Steel   Posted: 19 Nov 2020 8:06 pm   Subject: PSG fret marker guide (decoder ring)
A pair of pics of the earlier Rus-Ler fretboard in white:

https://bb.steelguitarforum.com/userpix2020-03/18199_17389_DD32E8099CEF481BA467369840C169F5_1_1.jpg
https://bb.steelguitarforum.com/userp ...
  Topic: John Hughey at his finest with Conway circa 1970
Bart Bull

Replies: 25
Views: 8281

PostForum Section: Steel Players   Posted: 17 Nov 2020 8:30 pm   Subject: John Hughey at his finest with Conway circa 1970
Hope this doesn't hijack this thread, but thinking about the notorious early Conway Twitty bands, I bumped across this:
Harold Jenkins, with the SGForum's late, lamented Gene Jones killin' it on stee ...
  Topic: John Hughey at his finest with Conway circa 1970
Bart Bull

Replies: 25
Views: 8281

PostForum Section: Steel Players   Posted: 16 Nov 2020 7:39 pm   Subject: John Hughey at his finest with Conway circa 1970
Evidently, green ones sound best.
 
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