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Topic: Stringmaster pays college loan ! |
Bob Hoffnar
From:
Austin, Tx
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Posted 3 Feb 2003 10:24 pm |
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I've recently picked up a steady gig playing my 58 D8 Stringmaster. I gotta say it is a ball playing that thing. I tried doing the gig on my pedalsteel but the sound and phrasing just wasn't quite right.
Its been an education on how to really play the steel for me. I'm loving it !
Bob |
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Jody Carver
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KNIGHT OF FENDER TWEED
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Posted 3 Feb 2003 10:57 pm
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| Good to hear that Bob. [This message was edited by Jody Carver on 04 February 2003 at 12:36 PM.] |
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chas smith R.I.P.
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Encino, CA, USA
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Posted 3 Feb 2003 11:24 pm
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| A lot of times, for me on C6, the pedals just got in the way. |
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Joey Ace
From:
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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Posted 4 Feb 2003 6:16 am
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What type of gig? Solo or band?
Bar or ? Type of music?
Congrats, BTW. |
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HowardR
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N.Y.C.-Fire Island-Asheville
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Posted 4 Feb 2003 9:16 am
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Bob, you're just recently paying off your college loan? you must have graduated suma cum finally  |
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Jody Carver
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KNIGHT OF FENDER TWEED
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Posted 4 Feb 2003 9:54 am
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| . [This message was edited by Jody Carver on 04 February 2003 at 12:34 PM.] |
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Bob Hoffnar
From:
Austin, Tx
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Posted 4 Feb 2003 10:23 am
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I've been trying to fill the shoes of a great reso player named Henry Bogdon in a Hawaiian type band called "The Moonlighters". Also I've started bringing the Stringmaster out to other gigs.
As long as I was giving up pedals I figured I would drop the volume pedal also. I plug it straight into my old Deluxe and go bowling for notes.
I went to colege in my 30's and got my edumacation at a conservatory about how to right music good.
Bob |
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chas smith R.I.P.
From:
Encino, CA, USA
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Posted 4 Feb 2003 10:41 am
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| I went to colege in my 30's and got my edumacation at a conservatory about how to right music good. |
Good idea, it won't interfere with your poverty vows. |
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Stephen Gambrell
From:
Over there
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Posted 4 Feb 2003 1:39 pm
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| And as long as you play steel, chastity won't be interfered with, either. [This message was edited by Stephen Gambrell on 04 February 2003 at 01:39 PM.] |
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Bob Hoffnar
From:
Austin, Tx
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Posted 4 Feb 2003 3:27 pm
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As far as tunings go, to make it easy I just took the 2 outer strings off a standard D10 tuning for the C neck. On the E neck I took the 2 high strings and the lowest string off the standard E9 and stuck a C# in the 3rd slot. That gives me a Fmag7/C6 tuning on one neck and an E13 on the other. I'm playing everything on the C neck with The Moonlighters at least until I get it more together.
We play every thurs night at 7:30 at Otto's on 14th between A and B. This thurs I was hired by the band with the 10:00 slot also. If my arm dosn't fall off (I've been having tendonitis problems) I'll be playing standards and swing type stuff at The Right Bank on Kent in Williamsburg as soon as I can get there. Most likely around midnight.
Bob
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Graham Griffith
From:
Tempe, N.S.W., Australia
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Posted 4 Feb 2003 6:37 pm
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Herb,
... I was just starting to think that multiple necks meant more possibilities ... and you've confirmed just that.
Graham |
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