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Robert Murphy
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West Virginia
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Posted 13 Dec 2006 6:29 pm |
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| Tonignt after attending my first Steel guitar Summit and meeting some great folks there, I played before family and friends at the local Comm. College. The program was classicial and modern arrangments and I played nylon on all of the sets. My partner Ed on a very nice Taylor and I on my 1930's Oahu acoustic lap steel played "Sleepwalk" for our duet. I did o.k. The folks after the concert were very complimentary about the steel guitar sound. I think I'll do this some more. Thanks to Rick Aiello for the summit, Ron Victoria for the arrangement of "sleepwalk" and Mike Nerr for the inspiration and all of my new family on the forum. |
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Ron Victoria
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New Jersey, USA
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Posted 13 Dec 2006 6:49 pm
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Glad to help. I have it posted on the Tabs board, but if anybody wants the sheetmusic, just shoot me an email. I must have sent to at least 40 forumites already.
Ron |
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Ron Brennan
From:
Orlando, Florida, USA; Formerly, Edison, NJ
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Posted 13 Dec 2006 8:02 pm
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Robert,
Good on you and to those that gave you inspiraton and help....Keep it going!! TX
Rgds,
Ron |
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Mike Neer
From:
NJ
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Posted 14 Dec 2006 7:48 am
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Robert, good luck and that's a good first step. I played my first gig as a steel guitarist on 2/16/04. I won't forget that date because it wasn't until then that I realized how deep I'd have to dig just to keep up.
Thanks for the acknowledgement and I'm glad my playing meant something to you.
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Mike Neer on MySpace
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c c johnson
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killeen,tx usa * R.I.P.
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Posted 14 Dec 2006 8:53 am
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| A word of advice for you first timers with stage fright. Just imagine that all the those people are naked and you are the only one properly dressed. This was told to me by my guru,Jack Shidler in Mishawaka IN in 1940 when I was going to Calumet City IL to play my first gig. cc |
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Brad Bechtel
From:
San Francisco, CA
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Posted 14 Dec 2006 10:29 am
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That doesn't work when playing at a nudist colony, though. Then you have to imagine the reverse!
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Brad's Page of Steel
A web site devoted to acoustic & electric lap steel guitars
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c c johnson
From:
killeen,tx usa * R.I.P.
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Posted 15 Dec 2006 5:31 am
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| Yrs ago we played a dance for nudist and thought we may disrobe. However the nudist took one look at the clothed physical specimans we were and decided we should keep our clothes on. They wee lousy tippers. cc |
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