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Topic: My biggest regret as a steel player is.... |
Louie Hallford
From:
denison tx
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Posted 20 Apr 2002 12:25 pm |
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that about a year before Jimmy Day died I went by his house in Buda TX ,while there I ask him about taking some steel lessons.
He told me he did not have any printed materials but to just bring a video camera when I came and I could video him as he as he taught.
My regret of course is that I never did it.What I would give to have had part of his knowledge and playing captured on a live teaching video.I was traveling to Austin about one week every month and could have easily taken several lessons. |
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Mike Cass
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Posted 20 Apr 2002 12:44 pm
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....that 25 years ago I didnt change my C6 tuning from the standard; D,E,C,A,G,E,C,A,F,C to D,E,C,A,G,E,D,C,A,F. I heard Buddy E & Terry Crisp using that tuning before the days of "The Great Stream" etc. As its a fairly recent addition to my setup, I feel 25 years behind the times.... dont know how I ever got along without it 
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Jerry Roller
From:
Van Buren, Arkansas USA
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Posted 20 Apr 2002 1:28 pm
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That I didn't buy a new '64 Emmons D10 and hang onto it!
Jerry |
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Jeff Lampert
From:
queens, new york city
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Posted 20 Apr 2002 1:33 pm
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| I stopped playing for 10 years right in my prime. I had reasons: I started a business and traveled alot, got married, I was playing in terrible bands in terrible gigs. But I could've figured something out. Instead, I just dropped it. Knowing what the last 7 years have bben like (I picked it up again in '94), I wonder what 10 extra years might have done. |
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Joerg Hennig
From:
Bavaria, Germany
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Posted 20 Apr 2002 2:31 pm
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| I wonder what ten extra years might have done |
Same for me. If only I had started ten years earlier. |
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chas smith R.I.P.
From:
Encino, CA, USA
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Posted 20 Apr 2002 2:49 pm
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| That I didn't start sooner, of course. In 1964 I saw a Fender 10 string in Gardner, Mass, and we couldn't figure out what it was. It looked cool and it looked complicated, but I was 16 and I wanted to get la*d, so I got a guitar instead. |
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Jody Carver
From:
KNIGHT OF FENDER TWEED
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Posted 20 Apr 2002 3:39 pm
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Chas
YOu should have called me. I didnt need any
guitars. I could have "filled in" for you. |
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Richard Sinkler
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aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 20 Apr 2002 8:24 pm
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That I really didn't practice enough and get better than I was. I say "was" because I quit playing for about 8 years and restarted about 2 or 3 years ago and I am not half as good as I was when I quit. I still don't have the time or will to practice much nowadays. I also regret this. Also, my day job has my hands hurting almost constantly which makes it even worse.
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Carter D10 9p/10k
Richard Sinkler
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Doug Jones
From:
Oregon & Florida
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Posted 20 Apr 2002 8:46 pm
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| Although I have no regrets how my life has turned out thus far, I do regret not taking the Ray Stevens gig in Branson when it was offered to me. I still wonder where I may have ended up as a steeler. Oh well ! ! |
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Reggie Duncan
From:
Mississippi
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Posted 20 Apr 2002 9:00 pm
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| No regrets! I do wonder where I would be if I had taken the steel job with the Original Hinsons in the late 70s. But, no regrets! |
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Rusty Hurse
From:
Hendesonville, Tn
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Posted 20 Apr 2002 11:31 pm
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| The only regret I have was having to watch that damn Mary Poppins movie on a certain female artist bus so many times. |
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Gene Jones
From:
Oklahoma City, OK USA, (deceased)
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Posted 21 Apr 2002 3:03 am
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| * [This message was edited by Gene Jones on 01 May 2002 at 04:04 PM.] |
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chris ivey
From:
california (deceased)
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Posted 21 Apr 2002 6:15 am
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| ...not being born Buddy Emmons! |
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Frank Parish
From:
Nashville,Tn. USA
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Posted 21 Apr 2002 6:40 am
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| Probably wish I had started a lot sooner but was never out of work playing the drums. I missed a great guitar once because I was too new to know what it was. (65 Emmons)I should've taken lessons. I could've come a lot farther. |
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Tony Prior
From:
Charlotte NC
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Paul Graupp
From:
Macon Ga USA
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Posted 21 Apr 2002 4:15 pm
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Jeff: If your picking is as clean as your thinking is in the Tab Forum, I can't see where you missed anything. I think my mistake was in not pushing the theory far enough before I got so old and muddled up.
But with what you and John Steele have been teaching us and things by BE and Carl Dixon, I can see the light at the end of the tunnel.
I hope it ain't no train !!!  
Regards, Paul  |
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Kevin Hatton
From:
Buffalo, N.Y.
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Posted 21 Apr 2002 6:41 pm
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| Getting talked out of buying a Sho-Bud in favor of one of those new LIGHT WEIGHT guitars when I first stated (The "oh, but they play so much better" line). I now have the Sho-Bud and the sound that I was originally looking for. Also,not having started sooner. |
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Jimmie Misenheimer
From:
Bloomington, Indiana - U. S. A.
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Posted 21 Apr 2002 8:29 pm
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Having for years had "decent to good" playing jobs, and for so long letting it go at that, instead of working at it through the week at home. I spent the last few years playing a club job on Thursday Night, and a "tourist trap", "opry type job" on Friday, and Saturday Nights. I had garnered enough equipment that I could leave a complete "set-up" at the club job, AND at the "opry job" as well, moving only my 4-space rack, and I still had enough gear to have another complete "set-up" at home to practice on. I never once that I remember worked on anything at home. No - it's NOT that I felt that I didn't need it, I just somehow NEVER got around to it. Now, due to a few different reasons I'm pretty much done playing, and I sure wish I had those years back - - yeah I REGRET THAT I DIDN'T WORK HARDER... Jimmie
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Bill Llewellyn
From:
San Jose, CA
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Posted 21 Apr 2002 8:46 pm
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...That I didn't "discover" the psg earlier and start working with it then. How much earlier? Maybe my teens. That was sometime in the last millenuim.
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Bill L | My steel page | Email | My music | Steeler birthdays | Over 50? |
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CrowBear Schmitt
From:
Ariege, - PairO'knees, - France
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Posted 21 Apr 2002 11:14 pm
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not havin' started sooner !
(like the rest of ya"s...)
Steel catchin' up...  |
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Wayne Morgan
From:
Rutledge, TN, USA
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Posted 22 Apr 2002 4:40 am
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My regret,,48 years ago, that I didn't put a pencle on the top of the neck of my first guitar, to raise the strings and play it with a glass bottle, by now I would be as good as John Hughey,,"YEAH RIGHT" !!!!!!
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Bob Carlson
From:
Surprise AZ.
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Posted 22 Apr 2002 8:46 am
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I regret that when I was seven or eight and starting on the standard that there was no steel players around. I might have started on steel at that time. Although I do feel knowing the standard has made learning the steel much easier.
Bob. |
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Barbara Hennerman
From:
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Posted 22 Apr 2002 6:50 pm
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| That I quit playing for five years just when pedals came in. I had to learn them later and pretty much by myself. |
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Buck Grantham R.I.P.
From:
Denham Springs, LA. USA
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Posted 23 Apr 2002 6:18 am
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| No regrets. I knew as far back as 1949 that I loved the music, but I also knew that I wanted to make as good a living for my wife and kids as i could, and being on the road all the time was not the answer,so I got a day job and was a weekend player for over 50 years and had a lot of fun with it ,and still do. |
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Guest
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Posted 23 Apr 2002 3:13 pm
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| Dealing with B.S. It's like a roadside diner-the foods OK but is the abuse worth it? |
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