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Topic: Bringing Steel Mainstream with Sexappeal |
Wayne Baker
From:
Altus Oklahoma
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Posted 21 Sep 2003 9:10 am |
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I was thinking, maybe we are all missing the obvious. You watch those music tv stations out there and the guitarists wear anything and everything. What if we used the same approach? What if we came out only wearing a jockstrap and a bowtie? Just think of the possibilities. 
Wayne Baker |
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Jack Francis
From:
Queen Creek, Arizona, USA
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Posted 21 Sep 2003 9:27 am
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That would only work for Ms. Cashdollar.
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Brian Wetzstein
From:
Billings, MT, USA
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Posted 21 Sep 2003 9:28 am
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| I dare say no one would inquire about how many knee levers you have... |
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Kevin Hatton
From:
Buffalo, N.Y.
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Posted 21 Sep 2003 10:19 am
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| Yeah, and those knee levers are cold and dangerous. |
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Roger Edgington
From:
San Antonio, Texas USA
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Posted 21 Sep 2003 11:13 am
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| Wayne, You are a sick puppy. I've been to a lot of steel shows and even though I love to see and hear the players, I don"t think I care to see the average steeler(self included)in a jockstrap and tie. It's not a pretty picture. Maybe we should paint our faces like KISS. |
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Pat Burns
From:
Branchville, N.J. USA
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Posted 21 Sep 2003 2:55 pm
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..well, Wayne, now I see where you were coming from with your recent post about taking an hour to warm up for a gig on a cold day...
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David Cobb
From:
Chanute, Kansas, USA
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Posted 21 Sep 2003 3:47 pm
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I'd feel pretty sorry for the drummer.  |
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Larry Bell
From:
Englewood, Florida
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Posted 22 Sep 2003 7:22 am
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What rock are you guys hiding under?
Mainstream????
It's NOT Kiss makeup -- that was the 80's
It's NOT the jockstrap and bowtie -- that was Doug Clark & the Hot Nuts in the 60's
This just points out how OUT OF TOUCH many of us are, re: what pop culture is all about.
Even Britney and Aguilera (WHO?) are yesterday's news. It changes too fast for old farts like us to keep up.
Stick to the cowboy hats and bandanas.
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Larry Bell - email: larry@larrybell.org - gigs - Home Page
2003 Fessenden S/D-12 8x8, 1969 Emmons S-12 6x6, 1971 Dobro, Standel and Peavey Amps
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Pat Dawson
From:
Chesapeake Beach, Maryland, USA
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Posted 22 Sep 2003 8:28 am
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| Have you seen Gary Lee Gimble in his Rastafarian wig? A fashion pioneer for the avant-garde steeler. Go Gary! |
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J D Sauser
From:
Wellington, Florida
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Posted 22 Sep 2003 8:58 am
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I think it had sex appeal back in those crazy Speedy West days. It sounded dangerous (girls like boys with dangerous toys!). Speedy told me once of a dance where he overheard a couple, dancing just in front of him talk each other after he had taken it his way with a song: "Com'on let's move to the other side, 'cause this thing's sure gonna BLOW UP anytime".
Speedy was fun too, and humor is very sexy to the ladies. If it wasn't Joe Wright would never get a date, being as ugly as he is... 
Country music has taken the sex appeal out of it. Most steelers are overweight physically (and so are their dates) and their ego is mostly over weight too.
I remember when I was about 22 (that's only 15 years ago. 15 years allready!?!  ), I played in a hillbilly band. My playing was very basic and I was very nervous. At one point of a concert, I took my lapsteel and played a very primitive version of something like wabash canonball... faster and faster every turn, sitting on the edge of the stage. When I lookied up, because I almost couldn't hear my screaming Twin anymore because of the noise before me, a teenage girl was danceing wildly in front of me, she was hot, sweating and beautiful. When she saw me watching her, she came up close and screamed ".. I wanna f... you..". I lost the key and the song altogether, my bar slipped out of my hand and my picks dropped right there. I felt like Jerry Lee after playing Whole lott'a shakin' in public for the first time. I barely made it back stage on my own legs, my knees where shaking so much... but that's where she caught me and took care of me for that night.
Yes, she got herself a steelplayer, and one that really couldn't play yet, just because she wanted to.
Boys, unless you are Buddy Emmons, you gotta quit playing this E9th-way to survive stuff if you want them to look at you again and be of a pre-menopausal age.
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Ray Jenkins
From:
Gold Canyon Az. U.S.A.
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Posted 22 Sep 2003 9:54 am
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| Stick to the cowboy hats and bandanas |
WOW!!! What a great idea,who woulda thought
Ray
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Steeling is still legal in Arizona
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Wayne Baker
From:
Altus Oklahoma
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Posted 22 Sep 2003 3:00 pm
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Stick to the cowboy hats and bandanas
Did you mean only a cowboy hat and bandana??? Ok... Now, where exactly would the bandana be tied???
Wayne Baker[This message was edited by Wayne Baker on 22 September 2003 at 04:01 PM.] |
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Jackie Anderson
From:
Scarborough, ME
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Posted 22 Sep 2003 5:02 pm
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| I think the bass player tends to score better -- he's got the most opportunity to look around, pick someone out and work on eye contact -- everybody else has to focus too much on his playing (or, in the case of the leader, himself). At least, that's the way I remember it when I was a bass player (and I wasn't wearing the wildest duds, either).... [This message was edited by Jack Anderson on 22 September 2003 at 06:04 PM.] |
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Roger Edgington
From:
San Antonio, Texas USA
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Posted 22 Sep 2003 5:37 pm
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| Last night our young(23)shy guitar player started dancing all over the stage and we thought he was putting on a good show and getting into the act. Then we found out he had a cricket in his shirt. Maybe thats what we all need . |
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Buck Dilly
From:
Branchville, NJ, USA * R.I.P.
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Posted 23 Sep 2003 8:47 am
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| Steel and Sex appeal huh? Clearly you've never been to a steel guitar convention. |
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Jim Cohen
From:
Philadelphia, PA
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Posted 23 Sep 2003 8:52 am
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| Steel and Sex appeal huh? Clearly you've never been to a steel guitar convention |
Buck, no offense, but clearly you didn't make it to see Sara Jory's show at the ISGC this year! |
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