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Topic: Sit or Stand |
Jack Mansfield
From:
Reno, NV
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Posted 31 May 2005 1:53 pm |
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| How many sit down or stand up when playing steel? |
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Erv Niehaus
From:
Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 31 May 2005 2:05 pm
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I like to use a foot volume pedal when I play and never could get used to using it while standing, therefore I sit when I play.
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Dom Franco
From:
Beaverton, OR, 97007
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Posted 31 May 2005 2:49 pm
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I always sit. I figure that's why it's called a "lap steel." My pedal steel legs won't extend very high. I used to have an old double neck Stringmaster and occasionally played it standing up. So I guess it just depends on the instrument.
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Bill Leff
From:
Santa Cruz, CA, USA
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Posted 31 May 2005 3:02 pm
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| I usually sit but when gigging I stand up. However, I've noticed my playing is not as good when standing. But since 99% of the audience doesn't know any better, and the band looks better with everyone standing, I usually stand. |
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Les Anderson
From:
The Great White North
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Posted 31 May 2005 5:01 pm
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I have a D8 on four legs so I can't see the sense of me using my legs as well.
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(I am not right all of the time but I sure like to think I am!)
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George Keoki Lake
From:
Edmonton, AB., Canada
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Posted 31 May 2005 9:29 pm
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I prefer to "semi-stand"...I use a fold flat high stool which, when opened, is just the right height for me to use a foot volume pedal while taking the stress out of standing.  |
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Peter Jacobs
From:
Northern Virginia
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Posted 1 Jun 2005 5:12 am
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I always stand when playing live -- looks better with the band, and I like to move around. I use a contraption called an "outrigger", which Ted Smith of Melobar made -- it's the back half of a fiberglas resonator guitar that the steel fits into, so I can strap it on like a Dobro.
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Keith Cordell
From:
San Diego
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Posted 1 Jun 2005 6:44 am
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For lap steel I stand. I got one of those metal sawhorses we were talking about a few weeks back and made a good stand out of it. It works out pretty well.
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Rickenbacher T-Logo Bakelite lap steel, Peavey Delta Blues, Proco Rat, Lap Dawg bar
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Rick Alexander
From:
Florida, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 1 Jun 2005 4:52 pm
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I stand, I never sit. Well, almost never . .
In the studio, it's easier to just stand because I always have to move from place to place - the board, the amps, mics etc., and getting up and down all the time can be pretty inconvenient. 
At a live show it's a lot quicker to hit the deck when the bullets & bottles fly. Plus I play
Guitar and often keep it slung across my back when I'm playing Steel. It looks better to stand on stage. As Zeb Carver once said to his young son: "If you sit down, it looks like you're playing a typewriter !" 
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Bill Creller
From:
Saginaw, Michigan, USA (deceased)
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Posted 1 Jun 2005 5:16 pm
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| Gee Rick, dont they chicken wire across the stage to protect you guys, like in the BLUES BROTHERS movie? |
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Rick Alexander
From:
Florida, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 1 Jun 2005 6:13 pm
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| No chicken wire Bill - all I got is the Triple 8 . . |
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Rick Collins
From:
Claremont , CA USA
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Posted 1 Jun 2005 8:56 pm
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...stand.
The sitting position is the only thing I don't like about playing pedal guitar.
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Terry VunCannon
From:
Greensboro, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 2 Jun 2005 1:30 pm
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| I play guitar & lap steel, so I have been playing standing up with the lap on a stand for quite a while. It makes it easier to change from guitar to lap. There are some pictures of my set up on my web page. http://community.webshots.com/user/keefriff [This message was edited by Terry VunCannon on 02 June 2005 at 03:01 PM.] [This message was edited by Terry VunCannon on 02 June 2005 at 03:04 PM.] |
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Michael Aspinwall
From:
Arizona, USA
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Posted 2 Jun 2005 2:02 pm
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| What he said. Makes it possible to go from guitar to steel during the same song; a real nice touch for live shows. |
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