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Topic: Where you guys giggin this weekend? |
Nick Reed
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Russellville, KY USA
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Posted 26 Jul 2002 1:31 pm |
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Friday night 7/26 I'll be with the Beaver Creek Band at the Clarksville Senior Citizens Club Dance in Clarksville, TN. Starts at 7pm. Thank you Jeff Peterson for working on my 66' Emmons this week. . . .she sure plays sweet now!
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Jeff Peterson
From:
Nashville, TN USA
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Posted 26 Jul 2002 4:24 pm
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Ya' know, working on those guitars is just pure pleasure. I've never met an Emmons I didn't like. That '66 is due for a complete clean-up. Tone on these is second to none...I'm working on a '72 fat back at Bobbe's as we speak...tone to the bone, and when I finish.....playability-smooth-solid-reliability....there just really is no other guitar quite like them.
You know, I think we understand the design and adjustability of these guitars better now than when they were made. Because of this understanding, we can make them more 'playable' and better feelling than they were 'back then'. I just love 'em. I wish I could own 'em all!! |
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Bob I. Williams
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Sun City West, Arizona, USA
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Posted 26 Jul 2002 4:39 pm
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| I'll be at Rock Springs Az. Sat.& Sun 8:00 Sat and you're all invited to the JAM at 4:30 on Sun 40 miles n. of phoenix SEE YA THERE BOB |
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Herb Steiner
From:
Spicewood TX 78669
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Posted 26 Jul 2002 5:30 pm
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Saturday night at the world famous Cabaret Club in Bandera TX, with "The David Letterman of Country Music," Cornell Hurd and the CHB.
Cornell is also known as "the Baryshnikov of the Hillbillies," but he feels he really doesn't deserve the honor.
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Herb's Steel Guitar Pages
Texas Steel Guitar Association
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Doug Seymour
From:
Jamestown NY USA (deceased)
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Posted 27 Jul 2002 3:51 am
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wow, steel players are still doin' it! Great you guys are gigging! Hey, Nick how's it goin'! Nice to meet you folks, sorry I could'nt stay for your gig....next time! We
just need to talk Bobbe into flying up here to get me....and I'll bring my tooth brush and stay awhile! Jeff, enjoyed meeting you, I still owe you that drink, but I'll make that good next trip, too! What a mechanic!
Nice work. I enjoyed the whole crew at Steel Guitar Nashville!!! Especially meeting Brandy! |
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Joe Smith
From:
Charlotte, NC, USA
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Posted 27 Jul 2002 4:24 am
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Well, last night (Friday) I played at a dance for a singles club. Tonight I will be appearing with The Stragglers at Puckitt's. Here in Charlotte.
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Playing PSG keeps you on your toes.
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Jim West
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Posted 27 Jul 2002 7:44 am
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In my garage.  |
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Jim Smith
From:
Midlothian, TX, USA
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Posted 27 Jul 2002 8:48 am
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Last night I played a private party in Dallas for the Texas A&M football season kickoff with a great singer named Kyle Hutton from Houston.
Tonight I play the White Elephant Beer Garden (outside) in the historic Fort Worth Stockyards with a local group called Sweatin' Bullets. It's going to hit 100 degrees again today, so we will definitely live up to the band's name!  |
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Johan Jansen
From:
Europe
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Posted 27 Jul 2002 9:34 am
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Still on vacation, BBQ-ing in the back-yard
Anybody a recepy against a fat belly and love-handles? 
JJ www.steeljj.com
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Bobby Lee
From:
Cloverdale, California, USA
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Posted 27 Jul 2002 10:08 am
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Topic moved to 'Events and Announcements' section.
I'm at Ukiah Brewing Company with Open Hearts on Saturday night (9-12), and in the Healdsburg Town Square with the Country All Stars on Sunday afternoon (2-4).
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 Bobby Lee - email: quasar@b0b.com - gigs - CDs
Sierra Session 12 (E9), Williams 400X (Emaj9, D6), Sierra Olympic 12 (F Diatonic) Sierra Laptop 8 (D13), Fender Stringmaster (E13, A6) |
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Marc Friedland
From:
Fort Collins, CO
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Posted 27 Jul 2002 11:06 am
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| 3 gigs with 3 bands in 3 different locations within 24 hours. Thursday 5 - 9 PM, with Rosemarie & the Rythym Riders in Danville, CA. Friday 10:30 - 11:15 AM, with The Dave Russell band at the Garlic Festival in Gilroy, CA. Friday 9 - 1:30 with the Jolly Ranchers in Penngrove, CA. Tonight I'm in Penngrove again, and tomorrow on Sunday the 28th I'll be at The Fremont Festival of the Arts. And yes I know how fortunate I am to be able to do what I love and to gig so much -- Marc |
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Dyke Corson
From:
Fairmount, IL USA
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Posted 27 Jul 2002 7:39 pm
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| We are waiting on a baby so it's just pickup gigs for me right now. Did a gig with Modern Cowboyz at Clark Park in Champaign, tomorrow morning I'm playing my wife's LDG in praise band. |
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Paul Graupp
From:
Macon Ga USA
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Posted 27 Jul 2002 8:50 pm
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Herb: do you guys play the Bandera Waltz ??
I used to love that song and since you're in Bandera for a gig, that would be a nice one to play for those folks. I'll bet they know it.... 
BTW: I like those Night Life changes you use on Hal's song; My Bluest Day. 
Regards, Paul |
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Ray Montee
From:
Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 27 Jul 2002 9:53 pm
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Nice comment Paul!
I love the way Jerry Byrd plays Bandera Waltz.
I'm playing regularly.....in my music room and in my mind. I guess this is what it means to have studied so long and practiced so hard and to have purchased quality instruments.......so that at the height of one's playing ability.....you end up with no where to play music. Oh well. |
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chas smith R.I.P.
From:
Encino, CA, USA
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Posted 27 Jul 2002 11:24 pm
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One set, in Beverly Hills at an opening, with DEVO. Mark and the boys are more country than some of the stuff coming out of Nashville. "Are we not men, we are DEVO,
Are we not men, D..E..V..O..." |
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Bob Hayes
From:
Church Hill,Tenn,USA
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Posted 28 Jul 2002 4:51 am
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I'm up at the Mountain City,Tenn Mid Atlantic Steel Guitar Assn. With I think about 20 there steelers..and Heavy Weight.Bryan Adams, Mike Sweeny (Nashhville Palace,Jerry Flemminf,Bo Miller,,and a staff band that would go note to note with the Oprey staff band..I mean Incredable..
Ok I've got to hit the road and go back up
Grouchyvet  |
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Larry Bell
From:
Englewood, Florida
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Posted 28 Jul 2002 6:43 am
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chas,
In my book YOU WIN coolest gig award.
This weekend I played truck drivin' music on Friday at a bar, stone country for a private club (Eagles) on Sat, and today I'm playing alternative and roots rock in a microbrewery.
Life is good (fer now)
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Larry Bell - email: larry@larrybell.org - gigs - Home Page
2000 Fessenden S-12 8x8, 1969 Emmons S-12 6x6, 1971 Dobro |
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Bobby Lee
From:
Cloverdale, California, USA
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Posted 28 Jul 2002 9:30 am
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I wonder if Devo still wears those snappy uniforms. They are a real band!
How about a report, Chas?
Workin' in a coal mine, goin' down down down... |
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Tony Farr
From:
Madison, Tennessee, USA (deceased)
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Posted 28 Jul 2002 9:58 am
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| Hey Guys, I got to work last night for a change. I was at the American Legion in Elizabethtown,Ky. it was packed about 400 people and a big steak dinner. It sure was fun. The people wouldn't set down between songs, they were liking it so good. |
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chas smith R.I.P.
From:
Encino, CA, USA
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Posted 28 Jul 2002 11:02 pm
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quote:
I wonder if Devo still wears those snappy uniforms. They are a real band!
How about a report, Chas?
Fred Eric is a restauranteur who is opening the first of a chain of Airstream diners. So when you think of Airstream, you think of Ohio, where they are made? And when you think of Ohio, the first thing you think of is DEVO, where they were made. When you think of trailers, you think of trailer parks and when you think of trailer parks, the first thing you think of is pedal steel, so it was a natural combination.
Actually, a couple years ago at another of Fred's restaurants, Vida, in Hollywood, I played at an opening in a band that had Brantley Kerns on fiddle, Ry Cooder and Bob Mothersbaugh on guitars, Matt and Jessie, don't remember their last names, on vocals and keys, Sheldon on bass, Joaquin Cooder on drums and 2 exceptionally attractive sisters on vocal backup. The high point of the evening was when one of the sisters bent over and touched her head to her shins to stretch, I got down and chewed the chrome off the leg of my guitar.
So, fast forward to Sat nite, The restaurant is on the corner of Camden and Little Santa Monica in Beverly Hills. Camden was closed off, (Fred must have some juice for that to happen) and it would have been easier to get into Fort Knox, there were a bunch of stars on the guest list, but I don't know if any of them showed up, there was a lot of food and an open bar with very attractive and hip looking people doing the serving. A stage with an impressive sound system and lighting was set up on the street, which was walled off and covered with astro turf. Big crowd, I couldn't help but notice that the people over there look a lot better than the people where I live, maybe that's whats happening to me, it's contageous. There was a DJ spinning friendy Brazilian music followed by Daniel Lanois who played a solo set on his Sho-Bud LDG into a Vox AC-130. He doesn't use a volume pedal or finger picks and he had a very sweet overdriven sound. Followed by us.
The DEVO snappy uniform for the evening was white T-shirts with dumb red, white and blue graphics and those colored cowboy scarves, mine was a very masculine pink and hats that said DEVO-LVED AIRSTREAM, which we threw out into the crowd between songs . I've played and recorded with these guys before, but never as DEVO. They opened with Jacohomo (sp?), Latin for clown, that had a lot of steel. C, A-, E- G, plenty to work with followed by Secret Agent Man. Evidently Johnny Rivers sued them and they had to give up their version to him.
Next was, and I don't know the real name, but "Out of Control" is the hook, "Yaa..yaa..yaa..yaa..ya.ya.ya.ya.ya.ya.ya.ya" power chords. I have a Prescription Electronics (Portland, OR) octave overdriver that I love. After Mark does a lengthy out of control solo on the keys, Chas does an even lengthier out of control solo on C6, most of it with the bar twisted up around the 24th fret and picking/scraping around the 7th with a lot of bar slams and related techniques. (You'll want to be sure to do a lot this at the Convention, to prove your guitar prowess). Actually the solo was more out of control than I had planned since we were so loud at that point, I heard about half of what I was doing. The audience seemed to like it, it reminded them of the car crusher over at the junk yard that cubed their Buicks.
We closed out with "It's A Beautiful World" with lots of steel and a long solo. It was a lot of fun. Mark is a big fan of the steel guitar and when it's possible, uses it in his sound tracks. |
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Glenn Suchan
From:
Austin, Texas
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Posted 29 Jul 2002 3:13 am
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Saturday we played at the Smirnoff Music Centre (formerly known as the "Starplex") in Dallas. We were part of a package that included Django Walker (Jerry Jeff's son), Hank III (WOW! What a crazy man!), Lee Ann Womack and the great Willie Nelson. In fact, I got to use Willie's old Baldwin amplifier (Poodie insisted on it). Willie's people are some of the best folks you'll ever meet in the business....
Sunday night we did the "Front Porch Show" on "The Wolf" 90.5 FM in Dallas. Lots of fun and lots of beer...
Keep on pickin'!
Glenn www.kevinfowler.com [This message was edited by Glenn Suchan on 29 July 2002 at 04:17 AM.] |
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Tore Blestrud
From:
Oslo, Norway
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Posted 29 Jul 2002 6:01 am
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| Friday night I played at a festival in Norway with the great Texan Chris Wall. What a guy, and what a show. His songs are great to play for a pedal steel player, and thankfully he was very pleased with the band. |
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Steve Stallings
From:
Houston/Cypress, Texas
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Posted 29 Jul 2002 6:57 am
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Saturday night we played the "Washington County Fair Kick Off Gala" at Silver Wings Ballroom in Brenham, Tx. KTEX 106 did a live remote and introduced us. The DJ was a steel guitar buff and talked with me for a while about pedal steels. Silver Wings is a big hall that easily holds 3,000 folks. We had a great, enthusiastic crowd. We are off until Aug 17th, when we are at the Navasota Fairgrounds.
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Steve Stallings
Bremond, Texas
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Michael Holland
From:
Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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Posted 29 Jul 2002 7:33 am
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Chas, I enjoyed your account more than you could know!
By contrast, I played a high school reunion at the Bellevue Community Center and a pool party yesterday afternoon that ended with an evacuation of the pool following a bio-hazard incident (pool poop). My life sucks. |
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Earnest Bovine
From:
Los Angeles CA USA
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Posted 29 Jul 2002 7:59 am
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| Where I was, they should have evacuated the room due to music poop. |
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