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Topic: What If someone disconnected your pedal rods while playing! |
Don Benoit
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Posted 16 Mar 2002 5:05 pm |
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This should be interesting as a topic! What would you do if someone disconnected your A, B and C pedals just before it was your turn to take a turnaround in a song? single string or octave string runs. What else to play the turnaround!
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Bill Ford
From:
Graniteville SC Aiken
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Posted 16 Mar 2002 5:24 pm
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Don,
One night while setting up,I broke the "B"
pull on my MSA,with no way to repair it I played all night with the Bs tuned to pedal down.It was a long long night.....
Bill Ford
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[This message was edited by Bill Ford on 16 March 2002 at 05:24 PM.] |
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 16 Mar 2002 5:48 pm
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| Along with the octaves and single string stuff, there's a lot of nice chords left...majors, minors, sixths, sevenths, and nineths...even with no pedals! Add to that the moving harmonies, the hammers and pull-offs, plus a bunch of harmonics, and you begin to see what made some of the old timers like Jerry, Don, Leon, Dick, and Roy so special. [This message was edited by Donny Hinson on 16 March 2002 at 05:57 PM.] |
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Michael Johnstone
From:
Sylmar,Ca. USA
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Posted 16 Mar 2002 5:55 pm
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| I've heard of people doing that.I have been fooling around with the top 8 strings of a regular E9 pedal tuning on one of the necks of my Stringmaster and simulating the pulls with slants. So I could probably get thru a tune or two before it got REAL old.If you check out Tom Morrell's E13 tuning(very close to an E9 pedal tuning)that's just about exactly what he's doing and making a career of doing it brilliantly. -MJ- |
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Richard Sinkler
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aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 16 Mar 2002 8:37 pm
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If I noticed that he was about to do that, I would kick his teeth out.
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Richard Sinkler
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Dave Van Allen
From:
Doylestown, PA , US , Earth
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Posted 16 Mar 2002 9:12 pm
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I'd just have to use my 6 knee levers. beats missing 3 measley pedals.  |
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Gary Lee Gimble
From:
Fredericksburg, VA.
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Posted 17 Mar 2002 4:09 am
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I'd tackle that turnaround with my BANJO! 
Gary Lee |
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Fred Jack
From:
Bastrop, Texas 78602
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Posted 17 Mar 2002 7:07 am
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| As Don Helms would say " that'id make yer nose bleed". regards, |
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Don Benoit
From:
Okanagan Falls, BC
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Jim Smith
From:
Midlothian, TX, USA
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Posted 17 Mar 2002 7:16 am
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| Here's another advantage of using, or at least knowing the Universal setup. Just lower your E's and 2&9 to C# and your swinging in B6 with an additional middle C# (D on C6). Now that I've made the switch, I find myself doing just that for a lick or two in even the most country of tunes. |
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Ernie Renn
From:
Brainerd, Minnesota USA
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Posted 17 Mar 2002 10:28 am
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I'd try some bar twisting.
My toe caught the rod holder on the A pedal one night right before my solo. In the middle of the solo the pedal rod popped off the pedal post. I kept on playing, turning the bar to get the notes. It was different than the regular ride, but I stayed in there. The rest of the song I played C6. The same holds true for breaking a string.
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Richard Sinkler
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aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 17 Mar 2002 11:33 am
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Don... I'd still kick him in the teeth. There are certain things you just don't mess with, My wife and kids and my steel guitar (which I consider part of the family ). Even best buddies should know better.
Of course I'm not very serious about these remarks and realize this topic is all in fun. I'd probably just laugh it off.
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Richard Sinkler
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Bill Myrick
From:
Pea Ridge, Ar. (deceased)
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Posted 21 Mar 2002 5:01 am
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I know a man that went to a gig and left his pedal bar at home. Did it stop him ??? Naw !! Just got two chairs and folded the knee levers up under that D-10 and set it on the chairs (of coarse in doing this he had some levers depressed which meant retuning it to open notes) then proceeded to play the whole gig !!! Wish we had a picture of that.
He's playing the Dallas Show this week end
so I can slip this in without him knowing I ratted on him . Huh J.R. ??? -  |
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Scott Clancy
From:
Liberty, TN, USA
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Posted 28 Mar 2002 11:14 pm
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I'd take the remaining five pedals off and wack him over the head with them !!!  |
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Terry Wendt
From:
Nashville, TN, USA
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Posted 28 Mar 2002 11:22 pm
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They'd only get two from me this day in age!  (That would still leave me with 5 knees though ) Everything after that would go about as it usually does... every man for himself!
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Vernon Hester
From:
Cayce,SC USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 29 Mar 2002 2:37 am
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Just play without them, Thats the way we did it a 50 yrs ago. Slant the bar and have fun
vern |
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Don Benoit
From:
Okanagan Falls, BC
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Joe Miraglia
From:
Jamestown N.Y.
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Posted 29 Mar 2002 6:02 am
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| I'd quickly tune it to the Alkire E-Harp Tuning. Joe |
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Buck Reid
From:
Nashville,TN
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Posted 29 Mar 2002 6:15 am
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Tony Prior
From:
Charlotte NC
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Posted 29 Mar 2002 6:28 am
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Hopefully I would realize it before too long....
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Johan Jansen
From:
Europe
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Posted 29 Mar 2002 11:37 am
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I would disconnect him.....
JJ |
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C Dixon
From:
Duluth, GA USA
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Posted 29 Mar 2002 1:41 pm
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"Topic: What If someone disconnected your pedal rods while playing!"
I would cut both his arms off, break both legs, cut off his neck and poop in it!"
He would sooner cut all my strings off for my wants. The pedals are as essential as my strings any day. They go hand in hand in my case.
Take care and God bless all,
carl [This message was edited by C Dixon on 29 March 2002 at 01:42 PM.] |
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Ray Montee
From:
Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 30 Mar 2002 12:40 am
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If 'THE MAIN MAN' had wanted everyone to have pedals in order to play the steel guitar there would have been no Roy Smeck,
no Jerry Byrd, no Howard White, no Kayton Roberts, no Junior Brown and the list goes on.
What's the BIG DEAL about having a pedal or changer break or stolen? The guitar has tunings (NOT PEDAL TUNINGS!)and tunings were meant to be played. To play it you have a BAR in your left hand. To get variable notes and/or chords, you play it straight or you slant it.
Since the advent of "slide guitars" has the logic of slanting the bar become that outmoded and/or forgotten? Is this really a new science? No one said life would be easy. |
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Mike Cass
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Posted 2 Apr 2002 11:12 pm
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When I lived back in Minnesota, Russ Pahl used to come into my house gig, walk up to the stage & disconnect my A & B pedals during a song.... he sure got a big kick outta it !....no biggie to me tho, slants were here before pedals
After he had moved here to Nashville, I did it to him one night at a club called "Real Country"(no longer open). What was funny when he did it to me, didnt seem near as funny to him when the roles were reversed...you;d have thought Id stolen his wallet for all the fuss!! btw,since that night MY pedal rods have consistently remained in place. I guess the Golden Rule would apply here
There is a long history of Steel Guitarists messing with each others horns; the old fretboard switch at the Opry being one instance that comes to mind.
Sometimes feelings get hurt, but usually one has only themselves to blame if they start foolin with a mans guitar...."if 'ya cant take it, 'ya best not dish it out
I did, however, hold down Gene Oneals A pedal one night at Skulls. He just stepped on my fingers like they werent there, & then proceeded to take all my $1.00 bills on the next break in a heated game of Liars Poker...'nuff said
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