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Topic: Does your world revolve around steel guitar? |
Tommy Dodd
From:
Acworth, Ga., USA (deceased)
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Posted 27 Aug 2012 10:16 pm |
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I know I have been struggling with our blessed instrument for more than 50 years. It's been very good to me and afforded me the opportunities to play music with some fantastic musicians and singers. I just designed a shirt that reflects how important it has been to me over these years(see http://bb.steelguitarforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=232431).
Yes, I've been very fortunate and blessed in my life. My family, my GOD, my friends, and my steel guitar. That pretty much sums it up. |
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Bobby Bowman
From:
Cypress, Texas, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 27 Aug 2012 11:38 pm
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Me too, Tommy. 
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If you build 'em, build 'em good!
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Paul King
From:
Gainesville, Texas, USA
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Posted 28 Aug 2012 2:31 am
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| I wonder what my life would have been like without the pedal steel guitar. I started at 19 years of age and the last 33 years have been enjoyable playing pedal steel. Just think, the steel guitar will be in heaven as well. The bible talks about an instrument of ten strings. |
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Douglas Schuch
From:
Valencia, Philippines
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Posted 28 Aug 2012 3:37 am
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Hello. My name is Doug, and I am a steel-aholic.
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Doug Paluch
From:
Michigan, USA
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Posted 28 Aug 2012 4:21 am
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While I'm relatively new to the instrument, it has taken over my practice time completely. I also play guitar and drums, and both have dust gathering. I was told that the instrument would be a fad, and I would quit due to frustration. I am undeterred!
I get up at 4am to play for a couple hours before work, and I always slip away after work to get some time in. When I'm not playing, I'm thinking about playing,and all day long I hear steel melody lines in my head. I'm really not interested in listening to any kind of music that doesn't have steel in it. Nah, it doesn't really affect my life at all.
I feel like this is the instrument I should have been playing all along... |
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Tony Prior
From:
Charlotte NC
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Posted 28 Aug 2012 4:35 am
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No...but it is a part of my life..a good part..
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Emmons L-II , Fender Telecasters, B-Benders , Eastman Mandolin ,
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jobless- but not homeless- now retired 9 years
CURRENT MUSIC TRACKS AT > https://tprior2241.wixsite.com/website |
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Larry Bressington
From:
Nebraska
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Posted 28 Aug 2012 5:50 am
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I have always built my life around Steel Guitar...I work it to where i can have what time i need and dates to play, Hence...Why i own my own business after a 10 year Road stint...I'm still working it baby and i always will, so i'll be ordering that T-shirt Tommy!
Remember boys; That Steel guitar will always be there, even when the other woman won't [cigar puff] 
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chris ivey
From:
california (deceased)
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Posted 28 Aug 2012 8:13 am
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| it was either steel guitar or 'get a job' for me! |
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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Ray Montee
From:
Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 28 Aug 2012 9:42 am Round and round it goes...................
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| Steel Guitar has ALWAYS been the center of MY universe and continues in that capacity to this date. |
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Jerry Humphries
From:
Jasper, AL.
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Posted 28 Aug 2012 8:29 pm
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| I bought one of these 10 string devils in 1972 right after i got out of the Navy. The guy said if you decide you can't hack it bring it back . So after a couple of days i took it back after being completely whipped by it and i gave up. Fast forward to 2006 and while healing up from rotator cuff surgery my cousin informs me of the steel guitar forum on the internet. After reading a lot of the instructional posts i decided to give it one more try. Bought me an emmons legrande 11 and it has taken over my life, nearly. LOL, My wife says steel guitar has become my mistress and i tell her that her cell phone is her other man. I think theres a country song in all of this somewhere. But my point in all of this is, if there had been the internet and steel guitar forum back then, how much farther along i would be in the learning process now. |
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Joe Naylor
From:
Avondale, Arizona, USA
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Posted 29 Aug 2012 5:15 am Me too
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I started on lap steel when I was 6 - took a break for a few years (mistake) and really really got back in it 10 ago plus when I got AZ.
And yes Tommy "it's my world too"
That's why I bought steelseats I guess too.
Joe Naylor
www.steelseat.com
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Joe Naylor, Avondale, AZ (Phoenix) Announcer/Emcee owner www.steelseat.com *** OFFERING SEATS AND Effects cases with or without legs and other stuff ****** -Desert Rose Guitar S-10, Life Member of the Arizona Carport Pickers Assoc., Southwest Steel Guitar Assoc., Texas Steel Guitar Assoc., GA Steel Guitar Assoc., KS Steel Guitar Assoc. (Asleep at the Steel) tag line willed to me by a close late friend RIP |
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Daniel Policarpo
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Posted 29 Aug 2012 5:25 am
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I am in the midst of a two week vacation and having just purchased my first pedal steel am having trouble seeing how going back to work will be feasible. I know it's the "right thing" to do, but...  |
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Tony Prior
From:
Charlotte NC
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Posted 29 Aug 2012 5:30 am
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By the way, those of you that are ALL IN..all the time..this is great...I have been involved in several different projects over the past few years on Guitar, Dobro, Mandolin and Pedal Steel of course...just because it is not my "all In " instrument right now doesn't mean I don't love it..I do .
By the way, I have not seen Tommy over the last couple of years but he is one HEXX of a player...Many of us have seen TD evolve from a really fine kinda local player ( Saluda and such) to a PRO..he is top notch.. Tommy and Donna, you couldn't ask for nicer folks....
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Emmons L-II , Fender Telecasters, B-Benders , Eastman Mandolin ,
Pro Tools 12 on WIN 7 !
jobless- but not homeless- now retired 9 years
CURRENT MUSIC TRACKS AT > https://tprior2241.wixsite.com/website
Last edited by Tony Prior on 29 Aug 2012 10:55 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Dave Grafe
From:
Hudson River Valley NY
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Posted 29 Aug 2012 10:45 am
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My wife says if I am passing up good paying work to make dozens of dollars playing the steel guitar that pretty much answers the question...  . |
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john buffington
From:
Owasso OK - USA
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Posted 29 Aug 2012 4:24 pm
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God, family, steel guitar, friends.
My wife and kids both agree of the order!
JB |
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Roual Ranes
From:
Atlanta, Texas, USA
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Posted 29 Aug 2012 6:42 pm
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| It definitely causes OCD. |
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Alan Harrison
From:
Murfreesboro Tennessee, USA
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Posted 30 Aug 2012 3:47 am
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For the last 40 years, if I'm not playing I'm thinking about playing. "My GOD comes first then my wife of 58 years and family then my Mullen runs a real close third....
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Ken Metcalf
From:
San Antonio Texas USA
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Posted 30 Aug 2012 5:09 am
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Do you mean are there Steels and amps in my living room?
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Little Walter PF-89.
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Joe Naylor
From:
Avondale, Arizona, USA
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Posted 30 Aug 2012 5:57 am
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Ken --- my better half said, "does it mean a steel, amp and a dozen steelseats in the livin room" -
she just added one to it - as I finish steelseats they are in the living room.
thanks for the laugh
Joe Naylor
www.steelseat.com
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Joe Naylor, Avondale, AZ (Phoenix) Announcer/Emcee owner www.steelseat.com *** OFFERING SEATS AND Effects cases with or without legs and other stuff ****** -Desert Rose Guitar S-10, Life Member of the Arizona Carport Pickers Assoc., Southwest Steel Guitar Assoc., Texas Steel Guitar Assoc., GA Steel Guitar Assoc., KS Steel Guitar Assoc. (Asleep at the Steel) tag line willed to me by a close late friend RIP |
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Stephen Silver
From:
Asheville, NC
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Posted 30 Aug 2012 6:16 am
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Simple answer.....no!
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 30 Aug 2012 1:59 pm Does your world revolve around steel guitar?
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No, not any more. Of course, there was a time when I lived and breathed pedal steel, played 8-10 hours every day, bought all the records, and went to all the shows. Yes, it was flippin' ridiculous. Nowadays, outside of my day job, I'm involved in many other things: antique collecting, book collecting, contributing to an automotive forum and a shooter's forum, and studying American history and the golden age of cinema, along with helping to care for for many family members who have a dearth of problems. Consequently the steel guitar gets a very small share of my time nowadays.
There's a whole world outside of steel guitar...and I missed it for far too long.  |
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Michael Hummel
From:
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Posted 1 Sep 2012 8:56 am
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Always been trying to find balance...in my early twenties I was an active rock guitarist. My wife-to-be wasn't crazy about the idea, so when we decided to start a family I had to quit the band and set up a recording studio in the basement. Quite a reasonable compromise.
Thirty years later, the kids have moved out, and I'm back in the band scene with a new country outfit, playing guitar, keys, and just started learning pedal steel (a longtime dream). I have to admit the PSG occupies my mind for much too big a percentage of the day, but that's always the way I've done things (go big or go home!)
When I don't have a big challenge in my life I tend to be miserable and bored silly. The PSG is filling that spot for me in a big way these days!
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Dave Mudgett
From:
Central Pennsylvania and Gallatin, Tennessee
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Posted 1 Sep 2012 9:57 am
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No. Like Donny, I did go through a period where I lived, ate, and breathed steel guitar. Of course, I have also gone through periods where I have lived, eaten, and breathed guitar, physics, mathematics, control systems, and computer science. I mean 14-16 hours a day, days and weeks and sometimes months at a crack. I don't know any other way to get serious about it.
I am a musician and a scientist/engineer. I try to do them both seriously, not as a dilettante. But when I'm a musician, I am not absolutely partisan to any instrument, even though my heart is obviously with steel and guitar. I'm even learning to play drums right now, and spent some time studying bass years ago, and could cover bass in a straightforward musical context if I had to. If this all seems crazy - when you want to put a band together, what is your main problem? Mine is trying to find the right rhythm section, which is the core of any band. If the rhythm section is right - good time, good feel, doesn't over/under-play - the band is right. Everything else depends on that. So having a good feel for bass and drums is very useful for any band musician's basic training. My opinion.
I'm also into classic cinema, classic music in general, shooting, politics, working out, cooking, and hanging out with my family and friends. My main problem is that I could use 30-hour days, 24 is not enough to do everything I want to do. Such is life. |
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Jim Curtain
From:
Phoenix,Arizona, USA
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Posted 1 Sep 2012 1:20 pm
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| Golf, PSG, friends, family......All is well! |
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