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Topic: Back to the Future! Found me a "new" geetar! |
Steve Stallings
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Houston/Cypress, Texas
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Posted 20 Oct 2003 11:12 am |
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Well, after about a month of fruitless bidding on ebay and even less success trying to swap stuff, I have found my new "Sunday go ta meeting" guitar. This guitar is slated to sit on the stage at my church and will only rarely be moved. A couple of really funny things... This Sunday I took my G&L Comanche and played regular electric guitar. I was pretty worried because we have never had an electric guitar in the praise band. We have piano, drums, electric bass, and three accoustics plus about five vocalists... but never an electric guitar.
Anyway, it went over far better than I could have hoped with a great spirit filled session of worship and music. The pastor asked me to turn my guitar up during the music. I got home and thought... well maybe I don't need a pedal steel for church.
HA! Guess what was waiting for me at home on my computer? Yep, an email from not one, but two Christian friends and fellow steelers about a guitar I needed to check out.
Back to the Future we go! My very first pedal steel was a brand new MSA S12 E9 with five and four. I bought this in 1978 or so at a music store in Edgewood Maryland. Remember Winnies book? Remember the fellow demonstrating how to lift a steel? Well, that was the fellow I bought my first steel from. That steel is long lost to posterity but I think it surfaced here on the forum for sale about three years ago in Maryland.
Anyway, I digress...
The email begins by describing a mint recently restored D10 8X5 with new Jerry Wallace pups, new legs, new case...etc.
I raise my Es on LKL and lower them on RKL. I raise my first two strings on LKR lowering the sixth. I lower my Bs with LV. The RKR does the 2cnd and 9th string thing....
Yeah.. this is the old "Shobud" setup. Not the most common setup. The guitar described has my exact setup! Way cool! Not only that, it is drop dead gorgeous and lacquer to boot.
Here she is... A MSA SS D10 8X5 black lacquer with original wood necks.
http://www.villagephotos.com/pubbrowse.asp?selected=555897
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God Bless,
Steve Stallings
www.thenightshiftband.net
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Rex Thomas
From:
Thompson's Station, TN
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Posted 20 Oct 2003 11:45 am
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| NICE, Steve. |
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Chris Brooks
From:
Providence, Rhode Island
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Posted 20 Oct 2003 3:27 pm
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Steve, that MSA dealer in Maryland wasn't Herb Groff, was it?
I bought my MSA D 12 from him in MD. Not sure if it was Edgewood, though.
Chris
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now living in the Ocean State ....
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Larry Harlan
From:
Hydro, Oklahoma
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Posted 20 Oct 2003 4:01 pm
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| So, Steve, tell us some more about using pedal steel in your church praise band and the kind of music they play, comtemporary?, Southern Gospel? etc. Larry |
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Steve Stallings
From:
Houston/Cypress, Texas
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Posted 20 Oct 2003 4:54 pm
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Guys... I just can't remember the fellows name. I know he is listed in the credits of the book but I gave my copy to a student some time ago.
There are two praise bands in our church. Since our entire membership is about 150, I think that is great. The band I play pedal steel in is the Sunday morning worship band.
We play hymns out of the Baptist hymnal, some contemporary tunes and even a few secular tunes which we have found to contain a spiritual message. It is a continuing ministry which seems to be reaching people.
The other band is the youth praise band. They do strictly contemporary tunes which the kids pick. My 14 y/o plays guitar for this band. It has a bass player, guitarist, guitarist/mandolin/fiddle player, singer and currently a 52 y/o drummer...me!
We are really praying that a young person with an interest in percussion will turn up.
I am going to give free drum and guitar lessons at our youth center so possibly that will help.
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God Bless,
Steve Stallings
www.thenightshiftband.net
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Duane Noom
From:
Whitehall, Michigan, USA
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Posted 20 Oct 2003 5:57 pm
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| Congrats Steve, She's a Beauty. I just bought a ShoBud Pro III and now my Pro I is set up in church for good. |
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Winnie Winston
From:
Tawa, Wellington, NZ * R.I.P.
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Posted 20 Oct 2003 10:40 pm
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The fellow with "the suit" is Earl Sexton. Played around the MD, DE, and Philly area.
Remember taking my girlfriend to see him at a place that served dinner. She was hesitant to go... "oh not another steeler..."
So we're eating and the band comes on. After one song she says, "He's really good!" I said, "I told you that." She said, "I thought you meant he was South Jersey good. He's Nashville good!"
For about six months I had a gig at a place with two bands-- I was on steel with one, and Earl with the other. What a treat listening to him for 40 minutes during our break! The last 20 minutes was both of us together. Lots of fun!
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Steve Stallings
From:
Houston/Cypress, Texas
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Posted 21 Oct 2003 3:00 am
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Yeah! Earl Sexton... great suit too  He got me going with the MSA and a Shobud amp.
He was one of the nicest music store owners I ever met. I can remember how amazed I was that he actually knew you Winnie!
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God Bless,
Steve Stallings
www.thenightshiftband.net
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Jackie Anderson
From:
Scarborough, ME
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Posted 22 Oct 2003 11:23 am
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| So, what I want to know is, what ever became of that suit? |
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Roger Rettig
From:
Naples, FL
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Posted 22 Oct 2003 12:37 pm
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Yeah - I want to know about the suit, too!!!! I've never seen anything like it - before or since.....
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