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Topic: Any "older" newbies here? |
Darrell Prichard
From:
Coppell, Texas, USA
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Posted 31 Jul 2006 8:24 am |
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First, thanks to everyone who responded to my question about playing and gigging (http://steelguitarforum.com/Forum15/HTML/012709.html)
A follow-up question to that is, how many of you started steeling at a later age - say, 40 years old or older? (I'm just using 40 as a baseline - at 46, I don't consider "40" old.)  |
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Walter Killam
From:
Nebraska, USA
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Posted 31 Jul 2006 9:25 am
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Depending on how you reckon such things . . . I had a student steel which I noodled around on for several years, but I didn't get serious about it til about 6 months ago. I'm 45, & consider myself to be a newbie!
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Magnum SD10, Ultralinear Twin, who could ask for anything more!
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Charlie McDonald
From:
out of the blue
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Posted 31 Jul 2006 9:36 am
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| I don't call you guys 'older.' 58 is 'older.' There are older newbies than me. |
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Dan Haas
From:
Rootstown, Ohio USA
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Posted 31 Jul 2006 9:38 am
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I took lessons when I was about 15. I started getting serious about 6 months ago and played out for the first time last night. At 42 I consider myself a newbie. I have a long way to go.  [This message was edited by Dan Haas on 31 July 2006 at 10:39 AM.] |
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Jimmie Martin
From:
Ohio, USA
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Posted 31 Jul 2006 2:53 pm
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| i'm 58 and have been tinkering around steel for 2 years. guess that makes me oldie but newbie. |
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Dale Lee
From:
Down Yonder
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Posted 31 Jul 2006 3:34 pm
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| I'm 62 on 7/14/06. I feel pretty good. Started steel on a 8 string fender lap steel (on legs) about 3 months ago. I like it. |
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Delvin Morgan
From:
Lindstrom, Minnesota, USA
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Posted 31 Jul 2006 4:08 pm
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| I have been studying the pedal steel (you notice I didn't say playing) for a little over a year and I am 59 |
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Lindy Griffith
From:
Kansas, USA
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Posted 31 Jul 2006 4:27 pm
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| Started 3 months ago at 50, but then a lady never really tells her true age. [This message was edited by Lindy Griffith on 31 July 2006 at 05:28 PM.] [This message was edited by Lindy Griffith on 31 July 2006 at 05:28 PM.] |
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Jerry L Miller
From:
Sublette, Kansas, USA
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Posted 31 Jul 2006 4:55 pm
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at 64 and one half playing in and out would i be a newbe, oldie, or a olde newbe or nether one? 
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Billy Gilbert
From:
Texas, USA
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Posted 31 Jul 2006 4:57 pm
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I started seriously on lap steel two years ago at 74. Billy
50s Fender Dual Pro |
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Tom Diemer
From:
Defiance, Ohio USA
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Posted 31 Jul 2006 5:22 pm
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I started playing pedal steel in 2000, I'm 52 now. Wish I'd started sooner, but better late than never.
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John Coffman
From:
Wharton,Texas USA
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Posted 31 Jul 2006 6:28 pm
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Started 2004 at age 41. Just starting to really feel as if I can find a chord or two.
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Thomas SD10 3/4,Thomas D10 8/5 and Desert Rose S10 3/4. Beginner
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Andy Jones
From:
Mississippi
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Posted 31 Jul 2006 6:45 pm
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I've been playing about a year.I'm 54 now and wished I had started sooner.I'll learn sooner or later because I haven't found anything that I can't do,if I really want to.
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Jim Sliff
From:
Lawndale California, USA
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Posted 31 Jul 2006 7:36 pm
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I started for a very short time in my 40's...basically a few months with an awful guitar.
Started again at 53, initally with ANOTHER awful guitar, then shifted gears to an old Fender and that was it and a bag o' chips. |
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Wil Limanen
From:
Lake Linden Michigan, USA
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Posted 1 Aug 2006 9:20 am
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Bought my first pedal steel at 54 and I am still confused at 56.(Pretty sure it's the guitar causing the confusion) Wouldn't give it up though!
Wil |
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David Ziegler
From:
Lancaster, Ohio, USA
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Posted 1 Aug 2006 11:37 am
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| I have been playing just over a year and a half and I am almost 55. I wish I had started earlier in life but I don't know that I would have been as committed or enjoyed it as much as I do now. |
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Bob Belcher
From:
Oklahoma, USA
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Posted 1 Aug 2006 12:52 pm
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| Here I am...played around with one years ago while doing cover song band stuff. Got serious at about 40 something...lost them all and restarted this year at 51. |
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Klaus Caprani
From:
Copenhagen, Denmark
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Posted 1 Aug 2006 1:00 pm
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I'm 45 and started roughly 3 years ago. I consider myself a newbie alright
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Klaus Caprani
MCI RangeXpander S-10 3x4
www.klauscaprani.com
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Don Walworth
From:
Gilmer, Texas, USA
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Posted 1 Aug 2006 1:07 pm
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72 --- guitar purchased this year.
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Don
West Coast Double 8 Nashville 112
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Sidney Ralph Penton
From:
Moberly, Missouri, USA
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Posted 1 Aug 2006 1:52 pm
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i started out on a carter starter two years ago last march. then went to a carter U12 too many strings then i went back to a 10 string now i have the best. but still learning how its done. thanks doc.
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zum SD10 peavy session 400 peavy XR600G
if its not a zum steel it isn't real
just trying to steel for the Lord>
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Sidney Ralph Penton
From:
Moberly, Missouri, USA
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Posted 1 Aug 2006 1:55 pm
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see there it goes showing my age and forgetting to tell how old i am well i am still in my prime.
59 be 60 in jan 07 |
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Dave Baldwin
From:
Saskatchewan, Canada
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Posted 1 Aug 2006 2:18 pm
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| im a newbe at 63 just started with a new carter starter and a little pevey 158 rage and a tascam gt 2 guitar trainer and love it |
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Mel Taylor
From:
Alabama, USA
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Posted 1 Aug 2006 7:48 pm
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I took lessons for a few years back in the 1950's. I think I was about 13 years old when I started. I quit playing for over 44 years and I just started back about 5 or 6 month's ago and I am 64 years old.
Mel Taylor
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James Morehead
From:
Prague, Oklahoma, USA - R.I.P.
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Posted 4 Aug 2006 4:44 pm
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| I've been a student of the steel for 3 1/2 years now. I'm 51 1/2, so I guess I'm gettin' "long in the tooth", too. I have never had something I enjoyed so much---just wish I'd started 35 years ago. [This message was edited by James Morehead on 04 August 2006 at 05:45 PM.] |
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Twayn Williams
From:
Portland, OR
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Posted 4 Aug 2006 6:13 pm
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| I've played 6-string seriously since I was 17, lap steel since I was 39, and now pedal steel at 43. |
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