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Topic: Introducing myself |
Thomas Leahy
From:
California, USA
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Posted 9 Jan 2015 4:17 pm |
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Hello everyone !
Joined this great forum just recently and wanted to introduce myself .
Been a guitar player and vintage guitar nut for 30 years. Worked at a few used/vintage musical shops in the SF Bay Area back in the 90's. Going to vintage guitar shows back then I Allways loved seeing the vintage lap steels and amplifiers. Someday I told myself. I study and play the 60's california sound of surf & hot rod music, Gary usher, Brian Wilson, Bruce Johnston, The wrecking crew and so on. Vintage Hawaiian music and exotica music to follow closely . The hawaiian steelers of the days gone by with their grace and beutifull tone Allways intrigued me.
Last summer at a vintage guitar show down in L A California, I fell in love and purchased I believe a 1940's Oahu lap steel with original case and oahu picks with a nick manoloff plastic bar and a black oahu tone bar. I love that the pickup cover has the oahu stamp.
I've purchased the jerry byrd BIG book and looking forward to many years of studying the c6th tuning. And I'm sure I will have questions along the way. Looking forward to my new journey......
Cheers, Thomas.
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Will Houston
From:
Tempe, Az
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Posted 9 Jan 2015 4:22 pm
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| Welcome Thomas, cool lookin Oahu. |
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Deirdre Higgins
From:
Connecticut, USA
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Posted 9 Jan 2015 5:04 pm
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Hi and Welcome Thomas!
That sure is a nice find.
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David Matzenik
From:
Cairns, on the Coral Sea
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Posted 9 Jan 2015 11:34 pm
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Hi Thomas, welcome to the SGF. By looking at your back story and interests, and your Oahu I would say you have no hope . . . of escape. 
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Don't go in the water after lunch. You'll get a cramp and drown. - Mother. |
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Jim Williams
From:
Meridian, Mississippi, USA - Home of Peavey!
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Posted 10 Jan 2015 11:43 am
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Welcome Thomas...nice guitar. You've found THE place to be for steel guitar.
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GFI SM10 3/4, 1937 Gibson EH-150, 2 - Rondo SX Lap Steels and a Guyatone 6 String C6. Peavey 400 and a Roland 40 Amps. Behringer Reverb Pedal. |
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James Kerr
From:
Scotland, UK
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Posted 10 Jan 2015 12:25 pm
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Looking forward to hearing that old machine sing, welcome Thomas.
James. |
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Thomas Leahy
From:
California, USA
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Posted 12 Jan 2015 7:46 am
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| Thank you all for the warm welcome. |
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