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I was very saddened to read this news. The steel guitar community is having a rough year, and it's barely started.

Yes, I rememember doing the trading fours on Autumn Leaves thread and accompanyi ...

Nice, Mike. That's a song that really lends itself to steel guitar. I recorded a similar arrangement about a dozen years ago, based on the Gene Pitney recording. It's probably still up on Soundclou ...

Thanks, Guy. Nice job. There may be more players playing A6 than my C13 (Low to high Bb C E G A C E G, like Jr. Brown's), so it's good to have tab for that tuning. Also, for anyone following along wit ...

Thanks for tabbing and scoring that, Guy. Looks pretty accurate to me. I really liked your version on 8-string resonator, too.

Rest in peace, my friend. Thanks for everything.

Congratulations on your retirement, b0b! I haven't been on the forum lately as much as I used to be, but you know I've been here since the very beginning, and connected with you even before, on AOL a ...

Jon, I'm glad you have it. Hopefully you can use it. Funny about the holes, but I just made what he requested. I'm sorry I never got to meet Stu in person. I'm sure we would have hit it off. He sen ...

Stu had seen my post about the bar holder / organizer that I made for myself, and asked me if I could make one for him. Almost all his bars were 15/16". I made it to fit his collection and sent ...

Having a D on top of the eight string C6 tuning would be of more benefit, I think, to pedal steel players who use that and have already incorporated it into their playing. I have tuned that way to re ...

I am so sorry to hear about Stu. It's quite a shock, as I had been corresponding with him only a few days ago. Rest in Peace, man.

Anybody have any idea how these would sound on a lap steel?
Would I be able to get that old time tone or would they be too bright? Question

Andy, I have Alumitones in almost all the steels I have built ...

Ha! I don't know it would be sexy to anybody, but I'll take it, thanks! Actually, I think I got the idea from the test tube holders they use in science labs, so there ya go...

Today’s project…A thing that no one needs- except me, I guess. I made this bar holder out of some rosewood and acrylic I dug out of my scrap bin. Over the last three decades or so, I have managed ...

I love this. Acoustic volume level, relaxed playing. Inspires me to play. Nice job on the video / audio, too.

I had a steel shipped to me via Greyhound, and it was great. Very economical as well. The box was hand loaded into the bus baggage compartment and not handled again until it was unloaded at the dest ...

I only met Mike once, back in 1996, but he was an online presence even before the earliest days of the steel guitar forum, going back to steel guitar groups on AOL and Usenet in the early nineties, if ...

Thanks for the nice comments!

Bored at home, making music videos... If you dig jazzy blues, here's a short version of an old Barney Kessel tune that I used to enjoy playing in jazz groups, called "Bluesy". It's mostly ...

That was really nice. A very engaging piece of music, and great production. Thanks for posting.

Thanks again, everyone!

Paul, to answer your question, There are a lot of ways to do this. My recording method is pretty simple, although including video adds another layer and is a little more c ...

Thanks for the kind words, everyone!

I know a lot of folks have already seen this on Facebook, but hereâ€™s a swing tune that I wrote a few years ago for twin steels, but never recorded until now. Iâ€™m playing my 1950 Fender ...

Here's a not very impressive version that I did 11 years ago when I was just getting my feet wet with lap steel (though I'd been playing pedal steel for years). It's the first song I learned on the B ...

I once watched Robert Randolph change a string during a song, in less time than I've ever seen anyone do it, while keeping a vocal going the entire time. This was in the early days of the Family Band ...

I believe that Bud Carter is generally credited with the scissor changer mechanism as we know it today for all pull guitars, Though he didn't claim credit for it. I do remember him telling me that he ...

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Topic: John Steele
Jerry Gleason Replies: 7 Views: 1721	Forum Section: Gone Home Posted: 2 Feb 2025 1:28 am Subject: John Steele
Jerry Gleason Replies: 7 Views: 1721	I was very saddened to read this news. The steel guitar community is having a rough year, and it's barely started. Yes, I rememember doing the trading fours on Autumn Leaves thread and accompanyi ...
Topic: A Town Without Pity
Jerry Gleason Replies: 20 Views: 4374	Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 4 Apr 2024 12:58 pm Subject: A Town Without Pity
Jerry Gleason Replies: 20 Views: 4374	Nice, Mike. That's a song that really lends itself to steel guitar. I recorded a similar arrangement about a dozen years ago, based on the Gene Pitney recording. It's probably still up on Soundclou ...
Topic: 'Steel Guitar Strut' twin guitars
Jerry Gleason Replies: 3 Views: 1513	Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 2 Dec 2023 4:41 pm Subject: 'Steel Guitar Strut' twin guitars
Jerry Gleason Replies: 3 Views: 1513	Thanks, Guy. Nice job. There may be more players playing A6 than my C13 (Low to high Bb C E G A C E G, like Jr. Brown's), so it's good to have tab for that tuning. Also, for anyone following along wit ...
Topic: 'Relaxing' for E13
Jerry Gleason Replies: 7 Views: 3464	Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 26 Nov 2023 12:26 am Subject: 'Relaxing' for E13
Jerry Gleason Replies: 7 Views: 3464	Thanks for tabbing and scoring that, Guy. Looks pretty accurate to me. I really liked your version on 8-string resonator, too.
Topic: Robert Paul Lee (Bobby Lee) Aug 1949 - Mar 2023
Jerry Gleason Replies: 372 Views: 2985881	Forum Section: Rest in Peace b0b (Bobby Lee) Posted: 8 Mar 2023 10:17 pm Subject: Robert Paul Lee (Bobby Lee) Aug 1949 - Mar 2023
Jerry Gleason Replies: 372 Views: 2985881	Rest in peace, my friend. Thanks for everything.
Topic: Time for me to retire.
Jerry Gleason Replies: 220 Views: 44263	Forum Section: Steel Players Posted: 20 Jan 2023 4:37 am Subject: Time for me to retire.
Jerry Gleason Replies: 220 Views: 44263	Congratulations on your retirement, b0b! I haven't been on the forum lately as much as I used to be, but you know I've been here since the very beginning, and connected with you even before, on AOL a ...
Topic: Stu Schulman
Jerry Gleason Replies: 83 Views: 32124	Forum Section: Gone Home Posted: 30 Sep 2022 8:22 pm Subject: Stu Schulman
Jerry Gleason Replies: 83 Views: 32124	Jon, I'm glad you have it. Hopefully you can use it. Funny about the holes, but I just made what he requested. I'm sorry I never got to meet Stu in person. I'm sure we would have hit it off. He sen ...
Topic: Stu Schulman
Jerry Gleason Replies: 83 Views: 32124	Forum Section: Gone Home Posted: 30 Sep 2022 11:32 am Subject: Stu Schulman
Jerry Gleason Replies: 83 Views: 32124	Stu had seen my post about the bar holder / organizer that I made for myself, and asked me if I could make one for him. Almost all his bars were 15/16". I made it to fit his collection and sent ...
Topic: C13 with D on top
Jerry Gleason Replies: 20 Views: 4294	Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 22 Jul 2022 12:58 pm Subject: C13 with D on top
Jerry Gleason Replies: 20 Views: 4294	Having a D on top of the eight string C6 tuning would be of more benefit, I think, to pedal steel players who use that and have already incorporated it into their playing. I have tuned that way to re ...
Topic: Stu Schulman
Jerry Gleason Replies: 83 Views: 32124	Forum Section: Gone Home Posted: 6 Jul 2022 2:32 am Subject: Stu Schulman
Jerry Gleason Replies: 83 Views: 32124	I am so sorry to hear about Stu. It's quite a shock, as I had been corresponding with him only a few days ago. Rest in Peace, man.
Topic: Alumitone pickup - how does it work?
Jerry Gleason Replies: 18 Views: 8116	Forum Section: Electronics Posted: 31 May 2022 9:07 pm Subject: Re: For use on lap steels?
Jerry Gleason Replies: 18 Views: 8116	Anybody have any idea how these would sound on a lap steel? Would I be able to get that old time tone or would they be too bright? Andy, I have Alumitones in almost all the steels I have built ...
Topic: A quick afternoon project
Jerry Gleason Replies: 9 Views: 3579	Forum Section: Builders' Corner Posted: 23 Apr 2022 2:59 pm Subject: A quick afternoon project
Jerry Gleason Replies: 9 Views: 3579	Ha! I don't know it would be sexy to anybody, but I'll take it, thanks! Actually, I think I got the idea from the test tube holders they use in science labs, so there ya go...
Topic: A quick afternoon project
Jerry Gleason Replies: 9 Views: 3579	Forum Section: Builders' Corner Posted: 19 Apr 2022 2:10 pm Subject: A quick afternoon project
Jerry Gleason Replies: 9 Views: 3579	Today’s project…A thing that no one needs- except me, I guess. I made this bar holder out of some rosewood and acrylic I dug out of my scrap bin. Over the last three decades or so, I have managed ...
Topic: Anthony Locke and Mikiya Matsuda in San Francisco
Jerry Gleason Replies: 20 Views: 3775	Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 18 Apr 2022 2:50 pm Subject: Anthony Locke and Mikiya Matsuda in San Francisco
Jerry Gleason Replies: 20 Views: 3775	I love this. Acoustic volume level, relaxed playing. Inspires me to play. Nice job on the video / audio, too.
Topic: No more shipping ?
Jerry Gleason Replies: 47 Views: 12812	Forum Section: Pedal Steel Posted: 9 Nov 2021 11:26 pm Subject: No more shipping ?
Jerry Gleason Replies: 47 Views: 12812	I had a steel shipped to me via Greyhound, and it was great. Very economical as well. The box was hand loaded into the bus baggage compartment and not handled again until it was unloaded at the dest ...
Topic: RIP Mike Perlowin
Jerry Gleason Replies: 130 Views: 77579	Forum Section: Gone Home Posted: 23 Jul 2021 11:38 am Subject: RIP Mike Perlowin
Jerry Gleason Replies: 130 Views: 77579	I only met Mike once, back in 1996, but he was an online presence even before the earliest days of the steel guitar forum, going back to steel guitar groups on AOL and Usenet in the early nineties, if ...
Topic: Bluesy
Jerry Gleason Replies: 16 Views: 4160	Forum Section: Steel on the Web Posted: 24 Oct 2020 1:51 pm Subject: Bluesy
Jerry Gleason Replies: 16 Views: 4160	Thanks for the nice comments!
Topic: Bluesy
Jerry Gleason Replies: 16 Views: 4160	Forum Section: Steel on the Web Posted: 23 Oct 2020 10:20 pm Subject: Bluesy
Jerry Gleason Replies: 16 Views: 4160	Bored at home, making music videos... If you dig jazzy blues, here's a short version of an old Barney Kessel tune that I used to enjoy playing in jazz groups, called "Bluesy". It's mostly ...
Topic: Virtual Lap steel Duet dadgad tuning
Jerry Gleason Replies: 16 Views: 4064	Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 8 Sep 2020 1:41 am Subject: Virtual Lap steel Duet dadgad tuning
Jerry Gleason Replies: 16 Views: 4064	That was really nice. A very engaging piece of music, and great production. Thanks for posting.
Topic: Dueling Fender steels- "Steel Guitar Strut"
Jerry Gleason Replies: 18 Views: 4063	Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 6 Sep 2020 3:25 am Subject: Dueling Fender steels- "Steel Guitar Strut"
Jerry Gleason Replies: 18 Views: 4063	Thanks again, everyone! Paul, to answer your question, There are a lot of ways to do this. My recording method is pretty simple, although including video adds another layer and is a little more c ...
Topic: Dueling Fender steels- "Steel Guitar Strut"
Jerry Gleason Replies: 18 Views: 4063	Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 4 Sep 2020 3:29 pm Subject: Dueling Fender steels- "Steel Guitar Strut"
Jerry Gleason Replies: 18 Views: 4063	Thanks for the kind words, everyone!
Topic: Dueling Fender steels- "Steel Guitar Strut"
Jerry Gleason Replies: 18 Views: 4063	Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 3 Sep 2020 1:12 am Subject: Dueling Fender steels- "Steel Guitar Strut"
Jerry Gleason Replies: 18 Views: 4063	I know a lot of folks have already seen this on Facebook, but hereâ€™s a swing tune that I wrote a few years ago for twin steels, but never recorded until now. Iâ€™m playing my 1950 Fender ...
Topic: "SAND" Let's all have a go
Jerry Gleason Replies: 28 Views: 9860	Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 3 Sep 2020 12:50 am Subject: "SAND" Let's all have a go
Jerry Gleason Replies: 28 Views: 9860	Here's a not very impressive version that I did 11 years ago when I was just getting my feet wet with lap steel (though I'd been playing pedal steel for years). It's the first song I learned on the B ...
Topic: Changing broken string fast
Jerry Gleason Replies: 47 Views: 20451	Forum Section: Pedal Steel Posted: 17 Aug 2020 7:38 pm Subject: Changing broken string fast
Jerry Gleason Replies: 47 Views: 20451	I once watched Robert Randolph change a string during a song, in less time than I've ever seen anyone do it, while keeping a vocal going the entire time. This was in the early days of the Family Band ...
Topic: Who invented the All pull changer ?
Jerry Gleason Replies: 21 Views: 7116	Forum Section: Pedal Steel Posted: 4 Jun 2020 11:06 pm Subject: Who invented the All pull changer ?
Jerry Gleason Replies: 21 Views: 7116	I believe that Bud Carter is generally credited with the scissor changer mechanism as we know it today for all pull guitars, Though he didn't claim credit for it. I do remember him telling me that he ...