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Topic: 40 Years Of Playing Steel Guitar |
Nick Reed
From:
Russellville, KY USA
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Posted 30 Dec 2024 10:06 pm |
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2025 will mark my 40th year sitting behind one of these cheese slicers. I still enjoy it as much now as I did back in the day.
Last edited by Nick Reed on 2 Jan 2025 5:25 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Dave Hopping
From:
Aurora, Colorado
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Posted 31 Dec 2024 8:05 am
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"It's the most fun you can have sitting upright!"  |
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Dave O'Brien
From:
Florida and New Jersey
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Posted 31 Dec 2024 8:50 am 50+
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Me too!
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Dave O'Brien
Emmons D-10, CMI D-10, Fender Deluxe Reverb, PV 112, Fender Pro Reverb
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Brett Day
From:
Pickens, SC
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Posted 31 Dec 2024 2:51 pm
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| I've been playing steel for 25 years now, and I'm really glad that in 1999, I switched from keyboards to the steel guitar after being behind the keyboards for five years. I started loving the steel guitar at the age of eight, and by 1994, I was wondering what it would be like to play the steel guitar-I'd been listening to John Hughey's steel work with Vince Gill on Vince's "I Still Believe In You" record. I also remember seeing a video by Chet Atkins and Mark Knopfler called "Poor Boy Blues" and wondered if I could handle playing steel-the steel player in the video was Paul Franklin, but at the time I didn't know who the steel players were, I just knew the instrument, but after reading the credits of the "I Still Believe In You" record and seeing John Hughey's name on the record, I went to a Vince Gill concert with my mom and I looked at her and said, "That's John Hughey playing the steel guitar" and she asked me how I knew it, and I told her he played on a few records with Vince, and I didn't know at the time that I would meet John a year later, or start playing steel at the end of 1999, and in 1999, I also saw the band that inspired me to play steel, Ricochet, and they had a steel guitarist named Teddy Carr-Teddy had worked with Clay Walker and Little Jimmy Dickens, and at the show, he was playing a Franklin D-10, so I was able to see and meet one of my steel heroes before I started playing. When I started playing, I had no idea I'd become friends with so many steel players! |
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Kenny Davis
From:
Great State of Oklahoma
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Posted 31 Dec 2024 5:18 pm
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Congratulations Nick. You've aged well! Have you got a good pic from 1975?
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Paul King
From:
Gainesville, Texas, USA
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Posted 31 Dec 2024 5:24 pm
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| Congratulations Nick, I have over 40 myself. One day I plan on learning how to play it. |
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Erv Niehaus
From:
Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 1 Jan 2025 10:37 am
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I've got you all beat, I've been making noise on a steel guitar for 70 years. 
Erv |
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Paul King
From:
Gainesville, Texas, USA
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Posted 1 Jan 2025 11:53 am
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| Erv, You must have started right after being born. That is unheard of to have that many years in. I hope you stay with it. |
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Erv Niehaus
From:
Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 2 Jan 2025 8:57 am
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| Every once in a while I had to stop playing and change my diaper! |
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Bill Alexander
From:
Gowen, Michigan, and Homosassa Florida
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Posted 2 Jan 2025 3:52 pm 40 years
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Good for you, I love the instrument and have been cursing at it for about the same amount of time. But when I nail a lick I'm Paul Franklin sitting next to Vince Gill. Steel on brother
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Rick Campbell
From:
Sneedville, TN, USA
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Posted 2 Jan 2025 8:43 pm
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Nick,
Hello to you my friend.
Rick |
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