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Dave Van Allen
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Posted 20 Nov 2006 9:14 pm |
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I have updated this list from April 2001 to include some recent developments.
You may find it convenient next time you feel like posting on the Steel Guitar forum, to just post a link to this message instead, referencing the number of the subject you wish to weigh in on. I think it embodies the majority of topics currently under repeated discussion. It will save bandwith and time we could probably better use practicing. I hope y'all find this useful
The Canonical list of Repeated Steel Guitar Forum subjects (not including sincere questions from newbies):
1. My favorite brand of guitar, amp, bar, cable, volume pedal, FX unit etc. is great and your favorite is a piece of dry dog feces.
2. My favorite kind of music is the only music worth playing/listening to. Whatever YOU like is dried dog feces.
3. Tone is in (pick one): the hands, the guitar, the pickups, the bar, the amp, the cables, the heart, the large intestine, your empty wallet.
4.There are no young players because they get scared off by the difficulty, expense, the lack of readily available affordable instruments at the local music mall, instruction information, or by reading the repetitive threads on the Steel Guitar forum and concluding "it's not something they need in their life right now"
5. I'm right. You are wrong.
6. I've been crapped on by a fellow forumite and I 'm taking my bar and going home.
7. Steel guitar will never survive unless it expands into genres other than country
8 Steel guitar will never survive unless it remains purely country
9. Wow, you should've heard (insert name of player here) at the (insert steel guitar show )!!!!
10. By cracky I remember when I was a lad we had to walk 20 miles uphill both ways to even hear a steel guitar and now what with MADD and crackdowns on DUI's we can't even do that now 'cause there ain't noplace to play anymore that doesn't smell like cigarette smoking DJ's anyway so I might as well stay home.
11. Gaylord has destroyed everything they touch. (actually repeat this one as often as necessary)
12. The SGHOF BOD are: saints, devilspawn, only human; (name of player) has been excluded from consideration because of unknown infractions against the sensibilities of said BOD;(name of player) must have REALLY screwed up to be excluded from consideration; what we think doesn't matter a whit to said BOD
13. Unversals suck. No player worth a damn plays one. All players worth a damn play a D10 as gawd intended.
14. D10's are an archaic holdover from a bygone era, and you are a Luddite if you don't switch to a Universal immediately.
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15. Jerry Garcia: "Was that guy a Steel God or what??? "
16. Robert Randolph: I'll bet he can't play "Way To Survive"... to 60 thousand people while he shares the stage with Eric Clapton.
17. My Black P/P sounds better than your Black P/P. Why is that?
18. ? for BE: how did you play that 2 bar phrase from a recording you made 42 years ago, and what brand of folding chair was your amp propped up on in the studio at the time?
19. You can Tuna Fish, but you can't Tune a PSG: "'Just' do it!"; Equal "Temper, Temper!"; "and the 'beat' goes on..."
20. And how often the third string breaks. And how finger picks are uncomfortable. And how much of a bummer it is that we can't make a 300 watt tube amp that you can carry around with one finger.
21. The Canonical list of Repeated Steel Guitar Forum subjects
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I would've posted this under Humor, but I'm just not finding it funny anymore, and nobody'd read it if it was in Forum Feedback.
[This message was edited by Dave Van Allen on 21 November 2006 at 09:59 AM.] |
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Les Anderson
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Posted 20 Nov 2006 9:21 pm
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ROFLMAO Dave, it can't be that time of the month for you again is it?
I got it, you missed a few notes again, right?
Actually, your post was quite humorous.
Oh yes, and there is that stupid Canadian spelling again. 
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Dave Van Allen
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Posted 20 Nov 2006 9:33 pm
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| not that time of the month...maybe the time of year |
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Papa Joe Pollick
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Swanton, Ohio
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Posted 20 Nov 2006 9:50 pm
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Think you missed one Dave.
Posters that don't seem to have anything better to do than complain about the way things are done on this fine forum,but for whatever reason,don't start their own forum.JMHO..PJ
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Dave Van Allen
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Doylestown, PA , US , Earth
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Posted 20 Nov 2006 10:07 pm
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21.Posters that don't seem to have anything better to do than complain about the way things are done on this fine forum,but for whatever reason,don't start their own forum.
Thanks PJ; I knew I'd left something out.
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Les Anderson
From:
The Great White North
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Posted 20 Nov 2006 10:27 pm
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I started my own forum. I used to hang out on a few forums and there was constant complaining that "I would love to tell you what I really think but I would get banned!"
So, I started a forum that had one very important rule, NO ONE GETS BANNED.
Let It All Hang Out
You have to be registered to read anything of course but the members in there sure don't hold anything back.  It's a great place to let off steam when you are having a bad day and want to rip on someone!
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John Parker
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Golden Valley, Az. USA
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Posted 20 Nov 2006 11:43 pm
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| oops double post [This message was edited by John Parker on 20 November 2006 at 11:45 PM.] |
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John Parker
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Golden Valley, Az. USA
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Posted 20 Nov 2006 11:44 pm
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Dave,
May I suggest:
22. The bass player and/or drummer can't keep time and throw everything off.
23. The d#@n lead guitar player cranks up his volume and won't let the steel player take a ride.
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John Parker
Zumsteel SD10 3x5
Peavey Session 400
Fender Steel King
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Chris LeDrew
From:
Canada
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Posted 21 Nov 2006 12:52 am
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| How about "The Gospel According to (*insert famous steel player*)" threads? "If famous so-and-so does it like this, then it has to be right because they are famous so-and-so and don't say anything about my hero or you'll be ostracized." |
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Mike Perlowin
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Los Angeles CA
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Posted 21 Nov 2006 1:57 am
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24: You need a four neck steel neck with 27 strings per neck, 216 pedals and 54 knee levers.
25: four strings and 1 pedal and no knee levers are more than enough. (Insert players name here) played an elecrtraharp with 2 broken strings, and if it was good enough for him, it's good enough for me.
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My web site
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Ray Minich
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Bradford, Pa. Frozen Tundra
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Posted 21 Nov 2006 4:13 am
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| What do you say to a bevy of college girls when they ask "what is that thang...?" [This message was edited by Ray Minich on 21 November 2006 at 08:02 AM.] |
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Ernie Pollock
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Mt Savage, Md USA
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Posted 21 Nov 2006 4:47 am
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Gee Dave, you took the words right out of my mouth, some of that stuff is getting a little worn out.
Ernie Pollock 
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Jack Stoner
From:
Kansas City, MO
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Posted 21 Nov 2006 4:47 am
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| On a serious "note", there is truth to the list. The same questions are asked over and over. No one uses the search function to view the previous "100" posts on the same subject. |
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Don Walters
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Saskatchewan Canada
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Posted 21 Nov 2006 8:01 am
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From the tone of some of the disagreements I'm not sure the dog feces is always dry.
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Billy Wilson
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El Cerrito, California, USA
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Posted 21 Nov 2006 8:10 am
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| #26 The list of over used SGF topics |
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John McGann
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Boston, Massachusetts, USA * R.I.P.
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Posted 21 Nov 2006 8:11 am
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27. Music Theory and Note Reading Is For Bowtie- Wearing Geeks Who Can't Play Anyway, Not Enough To Hurt My Playing and I Am The One With Soul And Tone Which Has Nothing To Do With What The Name Of The Chord Is And Who Cares About That Crap Anyway. (27a: Jazz is for queers because any idiot can play C6th because theres no wrong notes when you mash the pedals).
28. Tab and Pockets and Patterns is for Illiterate Drunks Who Can't Think Their Way Out Of a Paper Bag, Will Play Only The Same 10 Songs Forever Until Eternity, Insert Lick #4 Here, And Just Regurgitate Famous Players Versions of Tunes With Bad Time and Worse Tone.
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[This message was edited because Billy already took #26 by John McGann on 21 November 2006 at 08:11 AM.] [This message was edited by John McGann on 21 November 2006 at 08:14 AM.] [This message was edited by John McGann on 21 November 2006 at 08:16 AM.] |
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Russ Tkac
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Posted 21 Nov 2006 8:14 am
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"Jazz is for queers"
I think I have that book. |
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Henry Nagle
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Santa Rosa, California
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Posted 21 Nov 2006 8:28 am
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| Maybe we need a "therapy" section on the Forum. Maybe even primal therapy. |
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Ben Jones
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Seattle, Washington, USA
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Posted 21 Nov 2006 8:39 am
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welcome to the internet.
If repeated topics/questions bothers you to the point of annoyance then I am afraid you are in for a long annoying haul on the web. You always have the option to NOT click on threads you think you've seen before. This web forum is better and more insightful than most...trust me...or not and go see for yourselves. I havent started any of the above threads (okay maybe one of em), and maybe I havent been around long enough to be annoyed by them, but I dont see what the big deal is why "it just isnt funny anymore"?
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John McGann
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Boston, Massachusetts, USA * R.I.P.
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Posted 21 Nov 2006 8:39 am
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| Maybe we need a "therapy" section on the Forum. Maybe even primal therapy. |
It's called "off topic" and the link is at the bottom of the Forum Feedback page.
Go there and you will REALLY need primal therapy...
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David Mason
From:
Cambridge, MD, USA
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Posted 21 Nov 2006 8:48 am
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| Music Theory and Note Reading Is For Bowtie-Wearing Geeks Who Can't Play Anyway |
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| Tab and Pockets and Patterns is for Illiterate Drunks Who Can't Think Their Way Out Of a Paper Bag |
Mr. McGann, you are having a severe identity crisis and are in immediate need of (the aforementioned) therapy. Send me all your money and I will tell you what is wrong with you. Hurry! We don't have much time left.... 
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John McGann
From:
Boston, Massachusetts, USA * R.I.P.
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Posted 21 Nov 2006 9:03 am
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On it's way.
Funny, all my money fit in a VERY small envelope  |
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Peter Dollard
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Posted 21 Nov 2006 9:14 am
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| In January of 1997 when there were the same thirty(or less) posters in the Forum there was a lot of vitriol and anonymous postings where people did let it all hang out. Perhaps civility(or an attempt at it) is the dominant force now back then it was a testosterone fueled cat fight and each day held yet another confrontation. Who could forget Juan Valdez and the various "unknown" characters who tweaked the nose of everyone in the room and started yet another flame out?... |
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Jim Cohen
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Philadelphia, PA
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Posted 21 Nov 2006 9:30 am
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| (deleted.) [This message was edited by Jim Cohen on 21 November 2006 at 12:03 PM.] |
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Dave Van Allen
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Doylestown, PA , US , Earth
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Posted 21 Nov 2006 9:57 am
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| back then it was a testosterone fueled cat fight and each day held yet another confrontation. |
yeah Peter, it's better now. I remember how it was back in the day...
it's a tad more civilized now...
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