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Topic: What's the 2nd-best piece of equipment? |
David Mason
From:
Cambridge, MD, USA
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Posted 3 Dec 2004 9:38 am |
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| Besides your steel, amp, and a requisite six-string, what single other piece of equipment has helped your steel playing the most? Drum machine, tape deck, digital recorder, computer with BIAB, bong, tube preamp, fakebook, etc? |
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Terry Sneed
From:
Arkansas,
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Posted 3 Dec 2004 9:45 am
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Practicing with sound tracks has helped me a lot!
Terry
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Zum D10 /8x5 / session 500rd
steelin for my Lord
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Ricky Davis
From:
Bertram, Texas USA
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Posted 3 Dec 2004 9:54 am
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Practicing with a fixed "A" Tone.
Ricky |
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Gene Jones
From:
Oklahoma City, OK USA, (deceased)
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Posted 3 Dec 2004 10:11 am
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..a couple of bennies and a half pint of Four Roses always seemed to help! 
www.genejones.com |
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Steve Hitsman
From:
Waterloo, IL
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Posted 3 Dec 2004 10:16 am
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Lloyd Karenke
From:
Eagle River, Wisconsin, USA
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Posted 3 Dec 2004 10:18 am
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Ten four Gene...used a lot of 'em back in the 60's-70's...got us thru many a gigs!
Lloyd |
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James Cann
From:
Phoenix, AZ
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Posted 3 Dec 2004 10:22 am
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Amen,Terry.
In lieu of live gigging, nothing says "Get with it NOW" like a track, and, especially with Karaoke, the wealth of material and possibility is out of sight!
SB LDG |
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Ray Minich
From:
Bradford, Pa. Frozen Tundra
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Posted 3 Dec 2004 11:06 am
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| Spare time and a tape or CD player with Bobbe S., BE, Jimmy Day, Jay Dee or PF in the track. Pure motivation. Can't sit still... gotta go pick for a while. [This message was edited by Ray Minich on 03 December 2004 at 11:07 AM.] |
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Farris Currie
From:
Ona, Florida, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 3 Dec 2004 11:11 am
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| well,a good looking girl,doing her thing on dance floor right in front of you,make you find notes didn't know you had!!!!!!farris |
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Bengt Erlandsen
From:
Brekstad, NORWAY
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Posted 3 Dec 2004 11:29 am
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| 4track portastudio was my best investment after all guitars and such. I still find tapes with things I have recorded but forgotten over the years. It is nice to rediscover early ideas and listen to how my style of playing has changed. |
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Randy Reeves
From:
LaCrosse, Wisconsin, USA
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Posted 3 Dec 2004 12:18 pm
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| c'mon guys. the second best piece of equipment has to be the seat. in my case a drum throne. if I couldnt adjust my seat behind a pedal steel I would be bad off. |
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Jerry Van Hoose
From:
Wears Valley, Tennessee
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Posted 3 Dec 2004 12:31 pm
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| First and foremost, it would have to be a Boss DR5, then a Yamaha Data Filer along with a complete, pro-level Peavey sound system. |
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John Daugherty
From:
Rolla, Missouri, USA
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Posted 3 Dec 2004 12:41 pm
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| A wife and friends who encourage me to never stop playing. When you know someone likes to hear you play, you really strive to be good. |
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David L. Donald
From:
Koh Samui Island, Thailand
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Posted 3 Dec 2004 1:06 pm
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Gene, SROTFLOL
I go for an occasional Balvenie portwood single malt... and hold the bennies!
For AFTER practice. 
Well, actual real start em up tools :
Trap Truly's C6 chord chart and the RealBook, to really get a handle on how things layed out
Then Biab for working on specific problems.
Like the same form in an odd key placement,
or specific chord changes and how chords and scales lay out over them.
Lastly ProTools for looping and slowing down certain master's licks in specific solos for analysis.
They are different incarnations of the same tool usage.
Ricky's idea is quit interesting too.
I would use a midi file of a chord done as a groove and play to that in many positions. |
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Larry Robbins
From:
Fort Edward, New York
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Posted 3 Dec 2004 1:24 pm
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Peterson VS II,and "The Steel Guitar Forum"!!!! Every visit is a lesson in music,steel playing, and life itself!
THANKS B0b !!
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Sho-Bud ProII, Pro III custom,
Nash 400,Hilton pedal,Tut Taylor "Virginian"
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Thomas Bancroft
From:
Matawan, New Jersey, USA
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Posted 3 Dec 2004 1:38 pm
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Doh! So that's what they mean by speedpicking!
"I took 4 Bennies and my truck won't start"[This message was edited by Thomas Bancroft on 03 December 2004 at 01:39 PM.] |
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Fred Jack
From:
Bastrop, Texas 78602
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Posted 3 Dec 2004 1:41 pm
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| Gene ... Me and The Moon calls that "tuning fluid." It still works pretty good.Bennies sound so harmless today don't they?They worked in their day! Fred |
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 3 Dec 2004 1:48 pm
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A student! Nothing makes you feel as good as when you reveal a neat little something to a beginning player who's trying to learn to play steel.
I'd rather have just one player who really looks up to and respects me, than have a million who just "liked" me. |
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Jesse Harris
From:
Ventura, California, USA
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Posted 3 Dec 2004 5:08 pm
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| bong |
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