Where do you play the most? |
At Home |
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28% |
[ 30 ] |
In Church |
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11% |
[ 12 ] |
Nightclubs/Bars |
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36% |
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Shows (Fairs, Conventions,etc..) |
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13% |
[ 14 ] |
Studio |
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0% |
[ 1 ] |
Other |
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8% |
[ 9 ] |
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Topic: Where do you play most often? |
Whip Lashaway
From: Monterey, Tenn, USA
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Posted 14 Dec 2007 9:02 am
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I was just wondering where most of us spend time with our guitars. So here is a new poll! Let's find out.
"Great input guys. We get lots of talk on the forum about a lot of things. I always wonder about the background of some. Someone who always plays in his living room is certainly going to have a different approach than someone who always play bars. The bar picker is going to have a different approach than someone who always (like myself) plays shows. Get my drift? I know when I played a lot of clubs there was room for improve and playing stuff you never heard before (someone in the crowd wants to sing). Now doing shows everything is a very precise arrangement and lots of pressure not to screw up!!! What do you think, does this have much effect on a response to a question? If so how much and should the people involved take it into concideration?" _________________ Whip Lashaway
Sierra E9/B6 12 string
Sierra E9/B6 14 string
Excel S12 8x9 blue
Excel S12 8x9 black
Last edited by Whip Lashaway on 15 Dec 2007 12:20 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Darvin Willhoite
From: Roxton, Tx. USA
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Posted 14 Dec 2007 9:44 am
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Church picker here. I only play away from my church 3 or 4 times a year, and those are church related functions. I don't have time to play anywhere else. _________________ Darvin Willhoite
MSA Millennium, Legend, and Studio Pro, Reese's restored Universal Direction guitar, a restored MSA Classic SS, several amps, new and old, and a Kemper Powerhead that I am really liking. Also a Zum D10, a Mullen RP, and a restored Rose S10, named the "Blue Bird". Also, I have acquired and restored the plexiglass D10 MSA Classic that was built as a demo in the early '70s. I also have a '74 lacquer P/P, with wood necks, and a showroom condition Sho-Bud Super Pro. |
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Dennis Lee
From: Forest Grove, Oregon, USA
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Posted 14 Dec 2007 10:20 am Where we play?
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My experience has been limited to actually playing on two occasions at the local Elk's club. My best experience comes from a once-a-month "jam" at a local housing development that sports a beautiful log community center. We provide music for retired people who live in this development, and they have pie socials and things around our playing. I play with family members, friends, and we have a full compliment to make a band of sorts. It has been great practice and I can try to make my short-term playing time become better by not fearing what I try to play. |
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Dick Wood
From: Springtown Texas, USA
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Posted 14 Dec 2007 10:24 am
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Hey Darvin,my life's 180 from yours,for me it's been 31 years of clubs and I played in Church one time. |
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Steve Gorman
From: Gilroy California
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Posted 14 Dec 2007 11:15 am
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Hey Darvin, that's great that you play your steel in church. At my church here in CA, I played my steel ONE time, and got the comment that "you're making it sound like a saloon in here." I haven't used the steel there since...
Maybe its a Texas thing? |
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b0b
From: Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Posted 14 Dec 2007 11:41 am
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Other: Wineries |
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Charles Davidson
From: Phenix City Alabama, USA
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Posted 14 Dec 2007 12:30 pm
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Mostly honky tonks and bars,I have always loved Southern Gospal music and would enjoy playing it,If I could afford to do so I would,But I'm a poor man and it's a hard cold fact it takes money to eat and pay bills,I have friends that play gospal music,they may travel hundreds of miles to play,get to eat fried chicken and if they are lucky a little fuel money for their bus,don't you know. _________________ Hard headed, opinionated old geezer. BAMA CHARLIE. GOD BLESS AMERICA. ANIMAL RIGHTS ACTIVIST. SUPPORT LIVE MUSIC ! |
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Whip Lashaway
From: Monterey, Tenn, USA
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Posted 14 Dec 2007 12:37 pm
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Great input guys. We get lots of talk on the forum about a lot of things. I always wonder about the background of some. Someone who always plays in his living room is certainly going to have a different approach than someone who always play bars. The bar picker is going to have a different approach than someone who always (like myself) plays shows. Get my drift? I know when I played a lot of clubs there was room for improve and playing stuff you never heard before (someone in the crowd wants to sing). Now doing shows everything is a very precise arrangement and lots of pressure not to screw up!!! What do you think, does this have much effect on a response to a question? If so how much and should the people involved take it into concideration? _________________ Whip Lashaway
Sierra E9/B6 12 string
Sierra E9/B6 14 string
Excel S12 8x9 blue
Excel S12 8x9 black |
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Ernie Pollock
From: Mt Savage, Md USA
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Posted 14 Dec 2007 1:20 pm Church
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I play in church thanks mostly to the Whitehorse tavern & HillBilly Haven, those places would make any decent steel player into a chruch player & real fast!!
Ernie |
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Jerry H. Moore
From: Newnan, GA, USA
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Posted 14 Dec 2007 8:06 pm
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Put me down for bars and nightclubs. |
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Paul Wade
From: mundelein,ill
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Posted 15 Dec 2007 7:47 am
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i have played VFW.'s elks club started to play in bars in 1979 party's eagles clubs we play alot
of v.f.w dance's up in wisconsin...
p.w
www.countyoutlaws.com |
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Larry Kinner
From: Texas, USA
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Posted 15 Dec 2007 8:54 am
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Church, and played at a funeral. |
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Luke Morell
From: Ramsey Illinois, USA Hometown of Tex Williams
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Posted 15 Dec 2007 9:19 am
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I play mostly churches, but also country shows, like fairs etc. places you can take the whole family to. |
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Ernest Cawby
From: Lake City, Florida, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 15 Dec 2007 10:49 am Where to play
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I spend most of my playing for senior citisons, senior club Valdosta, a dance for seniors in Quitman. Some shows, Saluda, Bluntstown, etc, We did for a while 1 show a month at the VA Hos. Started a senior show on Monday nights for seniors, every Monday at Providence, been running for more than a year.
No pay but a good feeling, they come up and give you a hug and say how much they enjoy the show.
Even at our Fl. club meeting they come up hug and kiss you on the cheek, what could be more rewarding???
ernie |
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Roger Edgington
From: San Antonio, Texas USA
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Posted 15 Dec 2007 12:48 pm
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I play once or twice a week mostly in dancehalls or now and then a show or private party. |
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Don Brown, Sr.
From: New Jersey
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Posted 15 Dec 2007 5:06 pm
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Whip, I'd say that really takes the fun out of it. Or for me at least.
I've always liked playing the way I felt the song at the time. Different singers doing the same song, can change the whole aspect.
You're definitely making bigger bucks doing the shows, but in all honesty, since you're not really free to play as you might otherwise feel it, has that taken the real pleasure out of it, in at least, some small way for you or not?
For me, it was mostly Honky Tonks, Clubs, and one h''l of a great time...... Don |
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Terry Winter
From: Saskatchewan, Canada
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Posted 15 Dec 2007 5:17 pm
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Although I have played in church and volunteer at a nursing home, most my playing is at dances and luckily most people go to these to really get into dancing! |
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Stan Paxton
From: 1/2 & 1/2 Florida and Tenn, USA (old Missouri boy gone South)
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Posted 16 Dec 2007 12:13 pm
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Steve G., I can understand the put down it must have been at the church. Thankfully, not all churches are that way. Most of my playing for 15 or more years as week-end warrior traveling for Gospel groups was in church venues, some shows, some fairs, etc. When I retired from the road travel 1-05, I had to look at a number of churchs in order to find one where it would be acceptable that I could settle down in and play steel there.
Darvin, be thankful for your church.
And Bama Charlie, what you said is for sure the truth, don'tchaknow. No money in it, unless full time national travel, and most of those groups don't carry a band in recent years.
God Bless, and Merry Christmas to all _________________ Mullen Lacquer SD 10, 3 & 5; Mullen Mica S 10 1/2 pad, 3 & 5; BJS Bars; LTD400, Nashville 112, DD-3, RV-3, Hilton VP . -- Gold Tone PBS sq neck; Wechter Scheerhorn sq neck. -- "Experience is the thing you have left when everything else is gone." -anon.- |
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Jerry Roller
From: Van Buren, Arkansas USA
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Posted 16 Dec 2007 12:22 pm
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I play two Opry type shows a week, Fri and Sat and I play at various Churches on Sunday evenings with "One Way Flight".
Jerry |
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Shorty Smith
From: Columbus, Georgia, USA
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Posted 16 Dec 2007 3:14 pm
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I've played many different types of clubs, from the roughneck clubs with dirt on the floor to the country clubs with richiepoos. Its all in a lifetime, I'm 75 now and still have a regular Friday and Saturday night gig at the VFW and having fun doing it, I might retire when I'm 80, Keep Steeling, Shorty
Emmon D10 P/P, Peavy1000 and 112 Amps, Goodrich Dobro Box, Dobro brand Dobro, Fender Acoustronic Amp |
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William Fraser
From: New York, USA
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Posted 16 Dec 2007 5:05 pm where do you play
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Mostly Other, Pig Roast weddings & Outdoor Fairs & Festivals . _________________ Billy Lee ,Pro-II,, Session 400,Session 500 , Supro , National, SpeedDemons,& too many Archtops & Stratotones.Lots of vintage parts for Kay ! etc. |
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Lowell Whitney
From: Waynoka, Oklahoma, USA
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Posted 16 Dec 2007 6:06 pm
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Cowboy churches mostly, plus a few small social functions two or three time a month. _________________ Carter SD10
70's Telecaster
Nashville 400/Express 112/Artist VT Bandit |
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Larry Strawn
From: Golden Valley, Arizona, R.I.P.
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Posted 16 Dec 2007 6:12 pm
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I mostly play Vetrans, and Fraternal orgs. With Casino special events running second.
Larry _________________ Carter SD/10, 4&5 Hilton Pedal, Peavey Sessions 400, Peavey Renown 400, Home Grown Eff/Rack
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Brett Day
From: Pickens, SC
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Posted 16 Dec 2007 8:54 pm
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I play at home and at steel shows in Saluda, SC, Atlanta, Georgia, and sometimes Nashville, Tennessee.
Brett |
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Whip Lashaway
From: Monterey, Tenn, USA
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Posted 17 Dec 2007 1:18 pm
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Don, I know what your saying. At times it does get a little redundant. I've played 25 or 30 songs on the list for several years. At times I wonder if it actually gets in the way of my musical growth. I have to get involved with a good jam session a couple times a year just to let my hair down and see how off the wall I can get. Shows do have their rewards though. To perform in front of several thousand folks and just have a night when the whole band nails everything, it's like heaven! My whole idea on this post though is "Does where we play most, effect the way we would answer a question here on the forum? _________________ Whip Lashaway
Sierra E9/B6 12 string
Sierra E9/B6 14 string
Excel S12 8x9 blue
Excel S12 8x9 black |
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