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Topic: Jan 2016 Phoenix steel show |
Larry Behm
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Posted 8 Sep 2015 12:57 pm |
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Just booked my airlines tickets, prices are holding steady, so think ahead and book now. Support a really good event, lots of players from California to Texas. Several of us are coming down from Portland to slap backs and tell lies and get some sunshine.
There are several local players working in the area also like Mike Smith and Danny Sneed. So between the steel show on Thur-Sat and a club the other nights, make it a multiple day event, stay a week, you deserve it.
Like most shows there are vendor tables and large rooms where one can test drive steels and other gear.
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'70 D10 Black fatback Emmons PP, Hilton VP, BJS bars, Boss GE-7 for Dobro effect, Zoom MS50G, Stereo Steel amp, Telonics 15” speaker.
Phone: 971-219-8533
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George McLellan
From:
Duluth, MN USA
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Posted 8 Sep 2015 1:05 pm
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Looking forward to it.
Geo |
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Billy Easton
From:
Nashville, TN USA
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Posted 8 Sep 2015 10:28 pm
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The dates are January 14, 15 and 16. See the website for more information...
www.swsteelguitar.com
Billy Easton
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Billy & Meriul Easton
Nashville, TN |
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Paul Wade
From:
mundelein,ill
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Posted 9 Sep 2015 6:14 am Jan '16 Phoenix steel show
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will be there first time 
p.w |
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Ray Harrison
From:
Tucson, Arizona, USA (deceased)
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Posted 9 Sep 2015 7:44 am
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All you forumites that are attending please look me up and let's visit in person. I love to put faces to the people I meet on the forum.
I won't be hard to find.
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Ray Harrison
Bass/sing/Love PSG
77 Stingray/Kiesel 5 string bass
Telonics , Fender Rumble500, Polytone Amps
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John Macy
From:
Rockport TX/Denver CO
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Posted 9 Sep 2015 5:21 pm
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Really wanted to make it this year but will be on tour in Europe...
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John Macy
Rockport, TX
Engineer/Producer/Steel Guitar
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Wally Moyers
From:
Lubbock, Texas
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Posted 10 Sep 2015 8:46 pm
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| Great Show! Really looking forward to it! |
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Billy Easton
From:
Nashville, TN USA
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Posted 10 Sep 2015 9:23 pm
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It's gonna be a goodun!! Save the dates for Phoenix!
Billy Easton
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Nashville, TN |
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Herb Steiner
From:
Spicewood TX 78669
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Posted 11 Sep 2015 9:18 pm
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The Phoenix show, the SWSGA Convention, is one of the top two events for me every year, with the TSGA Jamboree. Along with the opportunity to hang once again with old and dear friends, I love the musical diversity the show offers.
There are a few of the regular top performers from the East like Jernigan, Hicks, and Dodd; Texas is also represented by players like Albert Talley, Jim Loessberg, Mark Giles, Rose Sinclair, and your correspondent, as well as Colorado players like Chuck Lettes, Chris Kennison, Bob Case also get well deserved exposure. Of course excellent AZ players like Frank Carter are featured as well.
Most importantly for me is that I get to hear and hang with many old friends from CA, all excellent steel players as well as masters of other instruments: Doug Livingston, Boo Bernstein, Skip Edwards, Jim Palenscar, Rick Schmidt, Harry Orlove, Peter Freiberger, and of course Jay Dee Maness and western swing legend Bobby Black.
With the exception of Jay Dee, these are players that are seriously under-recognized by the steel guitar community, IMHO. The SWSGA show offers folks the opportunity to hear some incredible music not ever performed east of the Mississippi.
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Son, we live in a world with walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with steel guitars. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinberg? |
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Bill L. Wilson
From:
Oklahoma, USA
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Posted 11 Sep 2015 9:57 pm Hot Rods and Steel Guitars.
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| I love coming out to The Barrett Jackson Auction and The Phoenix Steel Show...Great weather, Hot Rods, and Steel Guitars....And visiting with Ole Fred Justice, he's kinda like "Elvin Bishop Settin' on a Bale of Hay", "He Ain't Good Lookin' But He Shore Can Play". He builds a fine steel, and even puts up with me settin' down behind one of his steels to Butcher some steel tunes. |
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Len Ryder
From:
Penticton B.C.
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Posted 12 Sep 2015 1:55 pm
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| Like those before have said "it's a great time". Attended in '14, missed '15 but am definitely heading up from Yuma for '16. |
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Jim Cohen
From:
Philadelphia, PA
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Larry Behm
From:
Mt Angel, Or 97362
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Posted 12 Sep 2015 2:10 pm
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Jim be sure to check with the Calif gang to see if they want to play with you. 
It will good to see you again. Gosh, at my age, it will be good to see anyone again.
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Phone: 971-219-8533 |
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Jim Cohen
From:
Philadelphia, PA
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Posted 12 Sep 2015 2:15 pm
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| Larry Behm wrote: |
| Jim be sure to check with the Calif gang to see if they want to play with you. |
Larry, just because most of them have turned me down doesn't necessarily mean that they all will...
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www.RonstadtRevue.com
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David Wright
From:
Pilot Point ,Tx USA.
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Posted 13 Sep 2015 3:18 am
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| Looking forward to this show every year..be coming from TEXAS... !!! |
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Boo Bernstein
From:
Los Angeles, CA
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Posted 13 Sep 2015 6:33 am
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I love the Phoenix show -- great music, incredible camaraderie, really fun "hang."
Herb, thank you so much for the kind words. And back atcha! It's always great to see (and hear) you too -- one of the highlights of the trip.
It's also wonderful to meet all the other steel players from across the country.
I feel like all of the California players have been adopted into the SWSGA family and it is greatly appreciated. I'm hoping my schedule permits me to be there again this year! |
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Fred Justice
From:
Mesa, Arizona
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Posted 13 Sep 2015 6:59 am
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Boo your absolutely right, the California players are a big part of the SWSGA and were so proud of that equation.
I to hope you can make the 2016 Show Boo.
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Peter Freiberger
From:
California, USA
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Posted 13 Sep 2015 7:46 am
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| I'm practicing for Phoenix, always a great show. I believe with a lot of hard work in the woodshed I can embarrass myself slightly less every year. |
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 13 Sep 2015 8:41 am
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| Most importantly for me is that I get to hear and hang with many old friends from CA, all excellent steel players as well as masters of other instruments: Doug Livingston, Boo Bernstein, Skip Edwards, Jim Palenscar, Rick Schmidt, Harry Orlove, Peter Freiberger, and of course Jay Dee Maness and western swing legend Bobby Black. |
When did Harry take up the steel guitar?  |
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Joe Naylor
From:
Avondale, Arizona, USA
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Posted 13 Sep 2015 9:13 am Barry you have tapped in to a joke we have on stage
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Many times everyone on stage last year played steel as well as whatever they were playing.
I was emceeing and made the statement, "Everyone on stage plays the steel ..... except Harry of course."
It has been a running joke. We even had a joke going to find him a steel guitar player.
Joe Naylor
www.steeelseat.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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Stu Schulman
From:
Ulster Park New Yawk (deceased)
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Posted 13 Sep 2015 9:21 am
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I'm gonna try my best to be there,and hopefully embarrass myself trying to play a few songs 
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Steeltronics Z-pickup,Desert Rose S-10 4+5,Desert Rose Keyless S-10 3+5... Mullen G2 S-10 3+5,Telonics 206 pickups,Telonics volume pedal.,Blanton SD -10,Emmons GS_10...Zirctone bar,Bill Groner Bar...any amp that isn't broken.Steel Seat.Com seats...Licking paint chips off of Chinese Toys since 1952. |
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Earnest Bovine
From:
Los Angeles CA USA
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Posted 13 Sep 2015 9:59 am Re: Barry you have tapped in to a joke we have on stage
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Many times everyone on stage last year played steel as well as whatever they were playing.
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I think Jay Dee is the only one of us who started as a steel player. |
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Stu Schulman
From:
Ulster Park New Yawk (deceased)
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Posted 13 Sep 2015 10:44 am
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I'm pretty sure Dan Tyack started on Steel guitar?
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Steeltronics Z-pickup,Desert Rose S-10 4+5,Desert Rose Keyless S-10 3+5... Mullen G2 S-10 3+5,Telonics 206 pickups,Telonics volume pedal.,Blanton SD -10,Emmons GS_10...Zirctone bar,Bill Groner Bar...any amp that isn't broken.Steel Seat.Com seats...Licking paint chips off of Chinese Toys since 1952. |
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Justin Griffith
From:
Taylor, Texas, USA
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Posted 13 Sep 2015 5:52 pm
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Phoenix is by far my favorite show. Something just feels more like home.
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Emmons/Sho~Bud/Blanton, Fender/Peavey.
Telonics pedal |
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Skip Edwards
From:
LA,CA
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Posted 13 Sep 2015 5:59 pm
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Looking forward to the '16 show...should be a hoot.
Billy, Troy and the folks at SWSGA really know how to do it right...
Great music, great weather & a great hang...what's not to like?
Thanks for the snaps, Herb...looking forward to seeing, hearing & hanging with ya. |
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