| What do you do while you don't play? |
| 1) close your eyes and move your head and get deep into the music |
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2% |
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| 2) close your eyes and move your head and pretend to get deep into the music |
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| 3) keep your eyes open and move your head to try to get a better eyeball angle on that lady with the open button on her blouse |
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70% |
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| 4) what do you mean I'm not playing....if there's no steel, there's no deal, I'm outahere....they didn't hire a musician, they hired me |
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5% |
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| 5) you fill in the blank |
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8% |
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| 6) my cat's breath smells like cat food |
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Topic: What do you do on the stand while you don't play? |
Jon Light
From:
Saugerties, NY
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Posted 28 Oct 2008 1:55 pm |
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One of the great techniques of musical expression is laying out, either at the start of a song or in the middle, and making your entrance really count. Your presence, the absence of your presence and the presence of your absence are all wonderfully heightened.
So you find yourself sitting at your steel with the rest of the band playing away and you are doing nuthin. How do you justify your stage presence and not look like a dork as you wait for your grand entrance? |
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Jim Cohen
From:
Philadelphia, PA
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 28 Oct 2008 3:25 pm
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I overplay. Seldom is there a time on stage when I can't find something melodious and creative to add the the existing cacaphony. 
"Why is that guy standing by the stage?"
"Oh, that's just our air guitarist...he's laying out". 
Last edited by Donny Hinson on 28 Oct 2008 3:28 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Ray Montee
From:
Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 28 Oct 2008 3:25 pm It's WHAT YOU Don't do, that's important!
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When I was actively playing regular television shows each week, it became readily apparent that there were a number of things you don't do while ANYWHERE in a studio where there is live video cameras.
Laying out while others are kicking off a song or playing there mid-verse solo's......is a norm so don't get caught:
Standing up and pulling your shorts out of the crack of your butt;
pickin' your nose or the banjer players, either;
diggin' in your ear with your finger picks;
combing your hair with your finger picks;
licking your eyebrows;
patting the girl singers' behind.......
These are just a few tips. What one's have I overlooked? |
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Larry Bressington
From:
Nebraska
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Posted 28 Oct 2008 4:55 pm
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I'm hired to entertain, so i drown out the singer and play his melody line with him!
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A.K.A Chappy. |
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Ray Montee
From:
Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 28 Oct 2008 5:05 pm That's a good point.............
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I played a four hour gig in McMinnville, OR., and in the little band was a symphony violinist that always played the same note the singer was singing. Same when the steel played his turn, the fiddle player just kept playing the meloday line throughout.
In spite of all of his technical knowledge, he had not a clue as to the workings of a small country band. It's so sad. |
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Roger Edgington
From:
San Antonio, Texas USA
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Posted 28 Oct 2008 5:26 pm
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| Gee, I thought I was different but I'm guilty of most of these responses. Sometimes I tune or harass the other guys that are trying to play. When it's my turn to play, they try to kick stuff under my pedals or put something on my hat. Actually, I'm busy most of the time. When I finish my lead or fill I sometimes back off a little and pad chords depending on the song. Sometimes, nothing is a better choice. We have fiddle,lead,steel and sometimes piano and everyone plays a lot and gets plenty of time to shine. |
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Jim Cohen
From:
Philadelphia, PA
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Jim Bob Sedgwick
From:
Clinton, Missouri USA
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Posted 28 Oct 2008 6:16 pm
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As one lady told me..... You must be good friends with the band. They let you sit up there at that little table while they play!  |
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Matthew Prouty
From:
Warsaw, Poland
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Posted 28 Oct 2008 6:18 pm
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Jim Bob
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Ben Jones
From:
Seattle, Washington, USA
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Posted 28 Oct 2008 6:19 pm
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Great topic. I have always been the singer and guitarist and almost always in a power trio with just bass and drums, until starting up on steel a couple years ago. It is SO hard for me to just sit there laying out, and yet i know from hearing others how effective this can be on steel. i have no idea what to do when laying out AND i have a hard time doing it to begin with. Just another thing on the pile of things I havent grasped yet on this instrument.
Last edited by Ben Jones on 28 Oct 2008 6:23 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Cal Sharp
From:
the farm in Kornfield Kounty, TN
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Posted 28 Oct 2008 6:21 pm
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Whatever you play when it's your turn is relative to what has been played just before. Grin and check out the babes on the dance floor, under the brim of your hat, take a drink of your beer and then try to play something that blows away whatever came before you. Then grin again and take another drink.
It's always been my theory that laying out for a few bars will make whatever you do play that much more more stunning. Like a session.
It's not easy to look cool as a steel player. Like, nobody ever plays air steel on the dance floor. Watch some Emmons videos, huh?
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John De Maille
From:
On a Mountain in Upstate Halcottsville, N.Y.
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Posted 28 Oct 2008 6:29 pm
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| When it wasn't my turn to do a solo, I always played chords or accents at a subdued volume, just in case somebody dropped the ball, I could play and keep the music going. It didn't happen a lot, but, there were times. |
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Dave Mudgett
From:
Central Pennsylvania and Gallatin, Tennessee
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Posted 28 Oct 2008 7:42 pm
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What makes you think you need to do anything? But sometimes I just take a sip of beer, or yell at the drummer to stop speeding up.
Sometimes I'm also expected to play my 6-string guitar. Most of the time, I'd rather just leave space, listen, and figure out what I'm gonna do next. |
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Mickey Adams
From:
Bandera Texas
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Posted 28 Oct 2008 8:12 pm lookin
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IM LOOKING FOR MY NEXT WIFE... who cares about the drummer?...
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Bo Borland
From:
South Jersey -
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Posted 28 Oct 2008 8:39 pm
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| Play some pads or catch up on my cell phone calls |
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David Doggett
From:
Bawl'mer, MD (formerly of MS, Nawluns, Gnashville, Knocksville, Lost Angeles, Bahsten. and Philly)
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Posted 28 Oct 2008 9:14 pm
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| Sip my coffee, beer, or bourbon and water. |
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Dave A. Burley
From:
Franklin, In. USA
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Posted 28 Oct 2008 9:41 pm what do you do when not playing
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My musioal career has taken me from hillbilly to classic country to sixties rock to big band to jazz and back to classic country and to bluegrass. In the sixties when playing rock and roll, the band would sit on the stage, during our breaks, swami fashion and smoke some of that old rope through a very large water pipe. It happened in Streater, Illinois at a popular police off hour hang out. No one knew what the stuff smelled like back then except for us musicians so we had a high ole time during our breaks. Now about what we were doing when on stage during a number but not involved in the musical production at the moment???I don't remember and I'm sure that I really didn't care at the moment if you know what I mean. :D Now, that's been over forty years ago and I have changed quite a bit but it is still part of my memories. :)
Thanks,
Dave Burley |
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Tony Prior
From:
Charlotte NC
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Posted 29 Oct 2008 1:30 am
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| I turn Steel upside down and change my copendant |
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Larry Bressington
From:
Nebraska
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Posted 29 Oct 2008 5:28 am
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Singer sayes; Time for a lead ride, i say back; I just took one!
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A.K.A Chappy. |
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Joe Stoebenau
From:
Pennsylvania, USA
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Posted 29 Oct 2008 8:17 am
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| watch Bobbe's instructional video on my iPod to learn another lick for the bridge. |
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Josh Haislip
From:
Midland, Texas
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Posted 29 Oct 2008 11:48 am
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Hord all the free beers for myself.
/Ralph Wiggum Rules |
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John Steele
From:
Renfrew, Ontario, Canada
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Posted 29 Oct 2008 2:55 pm
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Tune.
-John |
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Mike Perlowin
From:
Los Angeles CA
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Posted 29 Oct 2008 3:48 pm
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When I was playing with the late Jerry Eugene, the band did "The Hokey Pokey" and instead of playing, I would leave the stage and join the dancers. The at one point Jerry would sing "You put your steel player in, you put your steel player out..."
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chris ivey
From:
california (deceased)
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Posted 29 Oct 2008 8:44 pm
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| drink...take girls' numbers..file away their motel room keys...snort a line or two...pick my butt...snort another line while i'm taking a drink and rolling a joint.. wipe crap offa my steel..smooth my hair and beard...have another drink...pose for a picture..snort a joint..roll a line...prepare for break time!! |
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