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Topic: As seen on the History Channel |
Greg Johnson
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Greencastle, Pennsylvania, USA
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Posted 25 Jun 2014 11:06 am |
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(Don't know if this goes here:)
Played a carnival near home last week. A young man (20's) came up as I was sitting on a bench waiting for start time and asked if I was in the band. I said yes, and he asked what I played, I replied a PSG. He said what? I pointed it out to hime and he replied " Oh I have seen them on the History Channel". He stayed and told me later he was glad to hear such a thing in person.
I still haven't stopped laughing.
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Tom Gorr
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Three Hills, Alberta
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Posted 25 Jun 2014 5:38 pm
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I was asked at my last gig if it was a synthesizer or an organ. That was after playing for an hour and this was after they saw the strings and pedals.
People get excited about the sounds these things make, but they really do boggle the minds of people who have never seen one or knew they existed. I think it's a treat to be part of that experience. |
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Howard Parker
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Maryland
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Posted 25 Jun 2014 5:42 pm
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Showing folks the under carriage really gets gets them excited.
I'm always happy to do a "show & tell".
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Clete Ritta
From:
San Antonio, Texas
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Posted 25 Jun 2014 8:06 pm Re: As seen on the History Channel
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| Greg Johnson wrote: |
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That was probably the episode of Pawn Stars where an old Sho-Bud arrives at the pawn shop for sale. The son asks the granddad why nobody plays them anymore. He replies that besides being one of the hardest instruments to play, it is a lost art. I still laugh at that one also. |
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Jim Cohen
From:
Philadelphia, PA
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David Nugent
From:
Gum Spring, Va.
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Posted 26 Jun 2014 3:08 am
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| Took one of my guitars into 'Guitar Center' one time to try out a Fender Vibrosonic that they had. As you enter, the person at the door will have you open the case, (I assume to make certain that you do not leave with something other than what you came in with). After staring into the open case at the undercarriage for a minute or two the person asked sheepishly, "What is it and how do you play that thing?" I smiled and infomed him that the strings were on the other side. |
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Jerome Hawkes
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Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 26 Jun 2014 4:36 am
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maurice anderson told the story of him doing a recording session once with a full symphony. when he opened the case and began getting his stuff out he could sense the stares of all the orchestral players. he finally attached the legs and flipped it over and they all let out a gasp - seems they were all waiting in horror at just how he was going to play this contraption until they saw the strings on the other side 
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Glenn Suchan
From:
Austin, Texas
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Tom Gorr
From:
Three Hills, Alberta
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Posted 26 Jun 2014 7:02 am
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| Jerome Hawkes wrote: |
| maurice anderson told the story of him doing a recording session once with a full symphony. when he opened the case and began getting his stuff out he could sense the stares of all the orchestral players. he finally attached the legs and flipped it over and they all let out a gasp - seems they were all waiting in horror at just how he was going to play this contraption until they saw the strings on the other side |
Great visualization...I bet their jaws dropped in amazement a little later in the day... |
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Clete Ritta
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San Antonio, Texas
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Posted 26 Jun 2014 1:15 pm As Seen On...
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| Jim Cohen wrote: |
| ...shown on the Discovery Channel / Science Channel... |
Jim, that was definitely a very interesting episode, and I almost mentioned that one too, but Discovery and Science sound new and exciting, whereas History sounds, well…just funnier! |
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John Billings
From:
Ohio, USA
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Posted 26 Jun 2014 4:06 pm
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"Showing folks the under carriage really gets gets them excited. "
I've freaked out a lot of guitar players when I show the the "workings.
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Jack Aldrich
From:
Washington, USA
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Posted 26 Jun 2014 5:39 pm Re: Here's the Pawn Star episode
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That's a pretty hybrid instroument - the first 3 pedals are narrow ones, post 1977, and the rest are the older, wide type - the body is one of the earliest ShhoBud's. Hmmmm.....
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Tony Prior
From:
Charlotte NC
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Posted 29 Jun 2014 8:41 am
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HA !
from the Pawn Stars show
"The sound of the Pedal Steel is still popular in todays Country Music"
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Alan Brookes
From:
Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 29 Jun 2014 11:11 am
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| I'm wondering if the lack of knowledge as to what a steel guitar is is a phenomenon that is growing as the years pass. I'm pretty sure that when I was at school in England in the fifties, if you had asked the kids what a steel guitar was, 8 out of 10 would have known immediately. I built my first lap steel in 1963 and no-one questioned what it was, although people referred to it usually as an Hawaiian Guitar or a Slide Guitar. At that time I didn't have an amplifier, so I plugged it directly into the mixer and listened through headphones, and I was the only one who could hear what I was playing until the recording was played back, at which stage it seemed to have picked up the title "Electric Barbed Wire Fence". |
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Dan Beller-McKenna
From:
Durham, New Hampshire, USA
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Posted 29 Jun 2014 12:36 pm
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Also from the Pawn Stars episode:
"A lot of the music today is stupid, so they don't use them."
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Roy Dick
From:
Tahlequah okla. USA
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Posted 29 Jun 2014 5:55 pm about music today
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Dan, You are right on.
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