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Topic: How long have you been playing steel? |
A. J. Schobert
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Cincinnati, Ohio,
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Posted 7 Dec 2008 5:21 pm |
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| And that is all the better you are!!! |
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Bob Hickish
From:
Port Ludlow, Washington, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 7 Dec 2008 6:26 pm
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this is a funny thread
I'v been at it for
2 score and 19.8 -- and I'm on page two of
Mel-Bay's " so you want to play Steel Guitar " Book
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chris ivey
From:
california (deceased)
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Posted 7 Dec 2008 6:36 pm
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| long enough to know it's really called a TABLE SLIDE! |
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Alan Rudd
From:
Ardmore, Oklahoma
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Posted 7 Dec 2008 6:39 pm
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| Not as long as I wish I had...about four years. I wanted one long, long ago, but didn't think I could afford one. Finally bit the bullet. Should have done it way back there in the 80s when I first got the urge. |
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Brett Day
From:
Pickens, SC
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Posted 7 Dec 2008 6:59 pm
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I've been playin' for eight years, on Christmas Day, it'll be nine years. I started when I was eighteen. So, I've been playin' since I was eighteen. I started in 1999.
Brett |
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Robert Thomas
From:
Mehama, Oregon, USA
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Posted 8 Dec 2008 3:21 am
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| 62 plus years and still haven't gotten the courage to give it up! |
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Mike Perlowin
From:
Los Angeles CA
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Posted 8 Dec 2008 4:10 am
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29 years. I've had the green guitar in my avatar the whole time. I've bought and sold a couple, and had one stolen (fortunately it was insured and I replaced it) but I've had that one from the beginning.
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Billy Carr
From:
Seminary, Mississippi, USA (deceased)
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Posted 8 Dec 2008 6:13 am psg time?
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| Since 71' and still finding new things! |
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Mike Ester
From:
New Braunfels, Texas, USA
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Posted 8 Dec 2008 7:19 am
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| Started around 1980. |
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A. J. Schobert
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Cincinnati, Ohio,
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Posted 8 Dec 2008 8:17 am
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I thought of this thread when I was playing my 6 string and I was just playing around, a friend asked me how long have you been playing and I had to think, close to 15 years I guess, then his little girl yells out and that is all the better you are! I had to laugh.
I have been playing steel for 12 or so years, and I should be more advanced than I am. |
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Tamara James
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Posted 8 Dec 2008 10:10 am
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| one year and a half. I can set it up and pack it away pretty good. I can tune the top 10 strings open, sometimes get the foot-thingys tuned, but I am still working on how to tune those little plastic straw-like tubes at the right side. There sure are alot of those. Last week I learned which way the bar goes and the importance of hanging on to it so it doesn't hit your foot..ouch!! |
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Jerry Hayes
From:
Virginia Beach, Va.
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Posted 8 Dec 2008 10:13 am
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"And that is all the better you are"......There's a ring truth to that. I've known guy & girls who've been playing not even a fourth as long as I have and can play rings around me........
I first started in the US Army in Korea around 1962 or so in a stage show in which they needed a lapsteel player for a couple of tunes so I learned them.
I didn't have another steel until a couple of years later which was a MultiKord which I sold to a guy who wanted to play left handed.
A year or two later I traded a Fender piggy back bass amp for a Fender 400 which I kept for a year or two until I sold it.
I was playing guitar full time during all this and just "messing" with steel a little on the side.
I bought a Blanton S-10 in the early seventies which Blackie Taylor and I converted to a S-11 and he added two knee levers. It had 4 floor pedals. I started taking this one to the gig to do a couple of tunes on. I was also playing an afterhours gig with this guitar every Friday & Saturday night but playing very bad still. After a year or so I traded it to a guy for a 1958 Volkswagen.....
Sometime between '72 and '77 I aquired a Fender 1000 which was pretty much an experimental guitar and never played it out much at all.
My actual full time ownership of a steel guitar was from late '77 when I got a ShoBud S-12 and later a BMI S-12 which I still have and use.
At the end of '78 I got my first "real" full time six night a week gig as a steel player at the old Foothill Club in SoCal.
Since then I've been playing mostly Guitar and Steel gigs, either one or the other and taking the other instrument to the gig also. On occasion over the years I've had other full time steel gigs, but mostly guitar.....
After all that rambling history I guess you could say I've been at it over thirty years and still hear people say "You know, he don't play as bad as everyone says"............JH in Va.
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Paul Wade
From:
mundelein,ill
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Posted 8 Dec 2008 10:42 am
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started in 1980 with a shobud mavrick 3 pedals 1 knee
still trying to figure this thing out 
p.w |
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Roger Francis
From:
kokomo,Indiana, USA
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Posted 8 Dec 2008 11:19 am
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| Since 76, and my wife says "And that is all the better you are!!!", ahh, what does she know? |
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chris ivey
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california (deceased)
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Posted 8 Dec 2008 1:15 pm
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all this stuff is true...i know a young jerk or two who could play great in a year.
i thought i was really good after 3 years...then after ten years i realized i didn't know $**t.
then after 30-some years i finally got really great!! now i suck... |
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Randy Gilliam
From:
San Antonio, Texas, USA
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Posted 8 Dec 2008 2:14 pm Playing
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| I Been Playing Since 1974, I am Still Trying To Learn More,The You Tube Is Great For Learning New Licks , Randy Gilliam |
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Ray Minich
From:
Bradford, Pa. Frozen Tundra
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Posted 8 Dec 2008 2:21 pm
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Ever since I got "Honkytonk-itis in my Soul"... 
That happened when the tune was new...
My arms kinda went crazy about that time... |
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Richard Sinkler
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aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 8 Dec 2008 10:43 pm
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| 38 years in Feb. |
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CrowBear Schmitt
From:
Ariege, - PairO'knees, - France
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Posted 9 Dec 2008 12:24 am
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not long enough  |
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Bo Borland
From:
South Jersey -
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Posted 9 Dec 2008 1:43 am
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| I just stopped, so i played for about an hour. |
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Ric Epperle
From:
Sheridan, Wyoming USA . Like no other place on Earth... R.I.P.
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Posted 9 Dec 2008 5:09 am
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11 years last month...
Ric...
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Zeke Cory
From:
Hinsdale, New York USA
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Posted 9 Dec 2008 5:12 am How Long?
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44 years playing here. I started in 1962 when I was 7. Music and steel guitar kept me out of trouble all my younger life, except for skipping school to stay home and practice. It is the one thing that has challenged me and held my attention for any length of time. When I was about 10 years old, I had to get permission to get into bars after 9 pm to just set and watch the bands play,(obviously under band supervision). With the exception of my 2 kids, steel guitar has been the best thing in my life. I also have been lucky enough to do only this for a living every since. I thank God for something good in these hard times. Happy Holidays everyone. Zeke
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Jack Stoner
From:
Kansas City, MO
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Posted 9 Dec 2008 5:14 am
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With how "great" I play, I hate to say how long it's been. 
But, I got my first guitar when I was about 10 or 11. |
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Don Sulesky
From:
Citrus County, FL, Orig. from MA & NH
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Posted 9 Dec 2008 5:41 am
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| I'd say I started in 1976 when I bought my ShoBud Pro 1 S-10, but I dabbled with a homemade 6 string for about 6 years before that but nothing came of it. |
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Jack Ritter
From:
Enid, Oklahoma, USA
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Posted 9 Dec 2008 1:39 pm
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Since about 1943.My 1st "steel" guitar was a 6 string flat top with a nut under the neck to raise the strings up to make it a hawaiian guitar. I was about 9 yrs old at that time. I saw what was making that sound for the first time at a Gene Autry movie that cost a whole dime to get into and had heard it on WSM Grand OL' Opry on Saturday night radio before then. Even then, I
knew I wanted to try to learn to play one of those "things"--- and to this day, I am still trying to do just that.
What a journey!!!
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