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Topic: steel guitars & cats |
scott murray
From:
Asheville, NC
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Posted 13 Apr 2015 11:24 pm |
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I've got a lady friend who loves the steel guitar and country music almost as much as she loves cats.
feel free to post any pics or stories of your cat's steel guitar adventures in this here thread.
any country songs that mention cats will also be very much appreciated. I have quite a list going already...
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Joachim Kettner
From:
Germany
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Posted 14 Apr 2015 8:12 am
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My cat Franzel, whose no longer with me, was my biggest fan. He would listen to me, with his head lying on one of his front legs. I sometimes played only because I thought he liked it.
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Brett Day
From:
Pickens, SC
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Posted 14 Apr 2015 12:29 pm
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| My cat Dillweed, who is no longer with me, laid on top of my steel a few times. I think he thought of my steel as a cat bed |
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Tony Smart
From:
Harlow. Essex. England
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Posted 14 Apr 2015 1:47 pm
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I like steel guitars and I like cats, but,
I couldn't eat a whole steel guitar...... |
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b0b
From:
Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Jon Light
From:
Saugerties, NY
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Posted 14 Apr 2015 4:28 pm
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My cat is a rescue who I adopted as an adult so I had no opportunity to acclimate her to my life. She takes what she likes and she leaves the rest.
She leaves the room quickly when I make the first sound on a steel. I try to not feel totally dissed. |
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Tim Russell
From:
Pennsylvania, USA
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Posted 14 Apr 2015 5:35 pm
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b0b - That's a great pic!
Jon - So what you are saying is that your cat cares as much for your playing as she does the vacuum cleaner?  |
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Jon Light
From:
Saugerties, NY
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Posted 14 Apr 2015 6:25 pm
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| I can usually find the cat within 5 minutes after I've stopped playing. More like two hours after the vacuum. But a steel guitar never sucked up her face. |
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Kevin Maki
From:
Trimountain,MI. U.S.A.
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Posted 15 Apr 2015 6:11 pm
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| Great pic Bob ! My cat spends a lot of time sleeping on my seat,and loves to dig his claws into my guitar case.I think he knows it irritates me ! |
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Jim Lindsey (Louisiana)
From:
Greenwell Springs, Louisiana (deceased)
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Posted 16 Apr 2015 7:24 am
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I had a Calico cat named Puss-Irving who loved playing with my steel. I'd turn on the C6th neck, hit the volume a little, and she'd go to town. Only problem with that is, she sounded better on C6th than I ever did! 
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1986 Mullen D-10 with 8 & 7 (Dual Bill Lawrence 705 pickups each neck)
Two Peavey Nashville 400 Amps (with a Session 500 in reserve) - Yamaha SPX-90 II
Peavey ProFex II - Yamaha R-1000 Digital Reverb - Ross Time Machine Digital Delay - BBE Sonic Maximizer 422A
ProCo RAT R2DU Dual Distortion - Korg DT-1 Pro Tuner (Rack Mounted) - Furman PL-8 Power Bay
Goodrich Match-Bro by Buddy Emmons - BJS Steel Bar (Dunlop Finger Picks / Golden Gate Thumb Picks) |
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James Stewart Jr
From:
Vero Beach Florida
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Posted 16 Apr 2015 10:41 am 13 years old and going strong
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Walter Killam
From:
Nebraska, USA
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Posted 17 Apr 2015 9:41 am Anabelle Sings!
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Here's Anabelle singing for her supper!
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Mike Perlowin
From:
Los Angeles CA
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Richard Wilhelm
From:
Ventura County, California
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Posted 17 Apr 2015 5:31 pm
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Maybe this thread should be retitled 'Nashville Cats'. My cats have always been true appreciators of Hawaiian steel guitar music.
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"Be Kind to Animals, don't eat Them"
"If you know music, you°ll know most everything you°ll need to know" Edgar Cayce
"You're only young forever" Harpo Marx
Fender 400, Fender FM212, G&L ASAT.
Was part of a hippie-Christian store in Cotati, California (circa 1976) called THE EYE OF THE RAINBOW. May God love you. |
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Tim Russell
From:
Pennsylvania, USA
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Posted 17 Apr 2015 6:12 pm Re: 13 years old and going strong
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A Tuxedo cat playing a Sho~Bud. Now I've seen everything! |
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Kyd Brenner
From:
Washington, DC/Harman WV
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Posted 17 Apr 2015 6:50 pm
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| I've had cats for all 35+ yrs I've been playing steel. None have ever showed an interest in listening to me play. As with most things I blame it on right hand technique.... |
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b0b
From:
Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Eric Philippsen
From:
Central Florida USA
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Posted 18 Apr 2015 6:59 am
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| Never fails. I sit down to practice and the cats run out of the room before the first note is played. |
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Dave Hopping
From:
Aurora, Colorado
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Posted 19 Apr 2015 4:24 pm
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I start practicing and Mikey gets up on the steel wanting some attention.Or else he wants me to stop hurting his ears.Still not sure.........
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James Stewart Jr
From:
Vero Beach Florida
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Posted 20 Apr 2015 12:20 pm
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1975 Sho~Bud Pro III Custom (8-7)
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James Stewart Jr
From:
Vero Beach Florida
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Posted 20 Apr 2015 12:24 pm
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| Eric Philippsen wrote: |
| Never fails. I sit down to practice and the cats run out of the room before the first note is played. |
Same Here!!
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b0b
From:
Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Tim Fleming
From:
Pasadena, CA. The other Rose City (deceased)
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Posted 22 Apr 2015 2:35 pm
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Well, he IS about the same size - - -
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Brett Day
From:
Pickens, SC
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Posted 23 Apr 2015 7:24 am
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| My cats were not amazed by my steel playing for some reason. When both my cats Dillweed and Tinkerbell were alive, they would run any time I started to play. Tinkerbell's favorite place to sleep was always in the guest bedroom of my house, and at one time, my Jackson Steel was in there. Everytime I would go in there to play steel, Tinkerbell would wake up when she saw me coming, walk to the edge of the bed, jump down off the bed when I'd turn the amp on, look up at the steel guitar, and then she'd meow and go into another room. When I wasn't playing, Dillweed would jump onto my steel and lay on the fretboard, thinking it was his cat bed. |
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