I just played a gig at a great music fest in Guelph, Canada.
On sunday there were 4 bands in a row on the lake stage with pedal steel players. And the next bands had guys playing lap steels !
I missed the first guy who was playing an MSA U12 of some sort. Then there was Stew Crookes playing a EMCI S10 who just sounded great. Then I was playing in some improv set up with these Iranian dudes and my band Hem. After me was Mike Castellana playing an old Emmons. He got the crowd roaring after a couple of his solos. He had a perfect steel sound with that twin and PP. The guy can really play no matter what he tells you. I heard there were some other steel players floating around out there also.
Overall it was a great scene. No stupid Dave Mathews type crap music. Just real good bands playing interesting music well.
Vishwa Mohan Bhatt did a workshop that I missed on saturday.
It was pretty amazing in a way. Everybody seemed to know what a pedal steel was and they were into it. I asked the sound crew if it was weird that there were so many steel players and he said, not really. Everybody wants a pedal steel in there band these days.
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[This message was edited by Bob Hoffnar on 01 August 2006 at 09:33 AM.]
