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Topic: Dropped Bar |
Jerry Kippola
From:
UP Michigan, USA
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Posted 6 Nov 2012 6:15 am |
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| There's gotta be some stories out there about doin' the bar slant, and then havin' to go look for it, -i've done it-- |
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Eddie Cunningham
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Massachusetts, USA
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Posted 6 Nov 2012 8:16 am Different bar !!
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| I just pick up my bottle of beer and use that for a bar !! Worked for me !! olde geeze |
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Jim Lindsey (Louisiana)
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Greenwell Springs, Louisiana (deceased)
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Posted 6 Nov 2012 8:40 am
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Hi, Jerry. I've never dropped a bar yet while doing bar slants, but I have dropped my bar a few times at rehearsal and twice on stage (once at a regular gig and the other at the Grand Ole Opry) and both times had me red faced and wishing I was invisible at that moment.
I don't know if you've read the topic yet, but in the Stories section, there's one called "Bar Flies Away". The link is below and you might get a laugh or two out of the stories there. 
http://bb.steelguitarforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=171472
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1986 Mullen D-10 with 8 & 7 (Dual Bill Lawrence 705 pickups each neck)
Two Peavey Nashville 400 Amps (with a Session 500 in reserve) - Yamaha SPX-90 II
Peavey ProFex II - Yamaha R-1000 Digital Reverb - Ross Time Machine Digital Delay - BBE Sonic Maximizer 422A
ProCo RAT R2DU Dual Distortion - Korg DT-1 Pro Tuner (Rack Mounted) - Furman PL-8 Power Bay
Goodrich Match-Bro by Buddy Emmons - BJS Steel Bar (Dunlop Finger Picks / Golden Gate Thumb Picks) |
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Ray Montee
From:
Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 6 Nov 2012 9:35 am A dropped bar...............
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When about 16, I was standing at my Fender triple-8, before a good sized crowd on stage at the Oriental Theater here in Portland.
Without warning, my bar shot out of my hand and hit the hard wood floor with a loud, hollow thud. Not wanting to appear panicy, I strolled purposely around the end of my guitar. It was then that I first realized that the rolling sound of my bar seemed to be gaining momentum. Like a man chasing his hat on a windy day, I picked up my pace but was startled to hear 'NOTHING'; just total silence.
For what seemed like an eternity, nothing but total silence then from way down in the depths of the theater at the front of darkened stage there was this huge crash with some echoe. Sorta like the sound affects on Wiley Cyote........
This olde theater had an orchestra pit that had been lowered to the second or third basement level and so went my bar. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. |
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Rick Schmidt
From:
Prescott AZ, USA
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Brett Day
From:
Pickens, SC
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Posted 6 Nov 2012 1:12 pm
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I was playin' a steel guitar show in Gray, Georgia in '05 and I guess I was doin' "Bartender's Blues" and when I started singin' the second verse, my grooved bar started slidin' around in my left hand and almost fell to the stage floor, but amazingly, I was able to get it back into position for the steel solo of "Bartender's Blues". I don't know if it was because I was sittin' too close to my GFI steel or my left hand just didn't have a good grip on the bar.
Brett |
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Jim Cohen
From:
Philadelphia, PA
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Posted 6 Nov 2012 1:43 pm
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Back in the 80's when I had the opportunity to take week-long classes with Buddy Emmons at Jeffran College, Buddy would charge us $0.25 every time we dropped the bar. I guess maybe Jeff wasn't payin' him that well.... LOL. 
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Don McClellan
From:
California/Thailand
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Posted 6 Nov 2012 6:38 pm
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| I've seen Buddy Emmons drop his bar a couple times. Nothing will put a surprise ending (with an exclamation point) to your solo faster then that. I wish I could count on only one hand how many times I've dropped mine. Its even worse than getting your picks caught in the strings. |
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Patrick Strain
From:
Binghamton/Gilbertsville, NY
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Posted 7 Nov 2012 6:29 am
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A few months ago, I was playing at a bar in Syracuse. The stage is very small, so they built a couple of risers that they use to extend the stage when a band is playing. Unfortunately (for me) the person who set up the stage earlier, failed to push the riser up against the stage and created a two inch gap in the floor. That two inch gap swallowed up one leg of my stool causing me to fall over sideways. In the process I managed to not only send my bar flying across the room, but to also dump a full pint of beer all over my Peavey Nashville 1000. It took me a minute to actually find the bar. The Peavey is practically bullet proof so no harm was done. I'm sure it was pretty funny to watch.
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Jim Lindsey (Louisiana)
From:
Greenwell Springs, Louisiana (deceased)
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Posted 7 Nov 2012 7:09 am
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 Goodness, this thread might not have been good for me to read ... I just had my first time to drop my bar while doing a bar slant (much to the laughter and delight of my nephew while we were working up a few songs).
We'd just been talking a few moments earlier about this very thread and I was telling him how it can be pretty embarrassing dropping a bar. I also got a little cocky and said that at least I'll probably never drop my bar while slanting because I'm so careful with my bar when doing that. Talk about speaking too soon!
As we played, I was doing some two-fret slanting licks on the song we were playing when my bar suddenly left my hand and went spinning downward toward the floor. I didn't even feel it beginning to slip out of my grasp. As Fate would have it, my nephew's acoustic guitar was laying on the floor right at my pedal rack and as the bar descended, it managed to land right on his strings and somehow when through them into the hole of his guitar!
Not only did I have to listen to him say, "And you were just saying?" while he laughed hysterically, but we had a devil of a time getting my bar out of his guitar. Well, so much for being able to claim that I've never dropped one while slanting!
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1986 Mullen D-10 with 8 & 7 (Dual Bill Lawrence 705 pickups each neck)
Two Peavey Nashville 400 Amps (with a Session 500 in reserve) - Yamaha SPX-90 II
Peavey ProFex II - Yamaha R-1000 Digital Reverb - Ross Time Machine Digital Delay - BBE Sonic Maximizer 422A
ProCo RAT R2DU Dual Distortion - Korg DT-1 Pro Tuner (Rack Mounted) - Furman PL-8 Power Bay
Goodrich Match-Bro by Buddy Emmons - BJS Steel Bar (Dunlop Finger Picks / Golden Gate Thumb Picks) |
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Mike Nihen
From:
Fairfax, VA
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Mike Nihen
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Fairfax, VA
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Brett Day
From:
Pickens, SC
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Posted 8 Nov 2012 3:56 pm
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| I had another experience-this time I did drop the bar. I was playin' steel at my house and I was adding steel to a song on Dawn Jackson's "Inside Out" cd and I was playin' some pretty fast steel parts-the song didn't have steel, so I added it, but anyway, right in the middle of the song, my bar falls outta my hand and onto the floor, but it didn't bother me, I just picked up the bar and started the song over again. I guess it dropped cause I didn't have a good grip on the bar. |
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Ken Metcalf
From:
San Antonio Texas USA
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Posted 8 Nov 2012 4:39 pm
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Kicked off sleep walk ... C...Am... bar keeps going ...
BOOM!
Funny how those crappy hollow stage floors can amplify through the mic stands..
No teacher like public humiliation.
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Les Anderson
From:
The Great White North
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Posted 9 Nov 2012 8:16 pm
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I have dropped my bar a couple of times when I played outdoors and my hands got cold. Usually however, my 10 string bar stays in my hands.
Now my little Jerry Byrd style bar is another story. It has gotten away from my fingers many times.  I have been told several times to use various sticky compounds on my fingers; however, that means removing the strings, cleaning them then restringing.
Now, when my hands get cold while I am playing my D8, I switch to my old Stevens bar. |
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