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Topic: Are Steel Players Like Old Boxers? |
George Redmon
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Muskegon & Detroit Michigan.
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Posted 10 Jun 2006 2:15 pm |
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No smiley...i don't mean the kind you're wearing!...i mean have any of you successfully come out of retirement? Last night Cass & i had the old gang over to my house for a cookout, and jam. What a great time we all had. I seen old friends i haven't seen in nearly twenty five years, we reminisced about old times, getting drunk, being thrown in jail, and fighting our way out of old dives. I sat down with my buddy Jimmy Carnes from Cincinnati Ohio. And we did our version of Sugar Foot Rag. Jimmy told me he hasn't touched a guitar in 20 years, yet he just smoked,note for note like we played 25 years ago... I found it just amazing that he could play that way after retirement of nearly 20 years. Have any of you retired, to play again, how long did it take you to get back in the groove? did you pick back up, where you left off?
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Whitney Single 12 8FL & 5 KN,keyless, dual changers Extended C6th, Webb Amp, Line6 PodXT, Goodrich Curly Chalker Volume Pedal, Match Bro, BJS Bar, Boyette Glass Bar, Carvin Guitars, & Amplification, and other neat stuff, and a 165 Pound Great Pyrenees..
I was keyless, when keyless wasn't cool...
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Doug Seymour
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Jamestown NY USA (deceased)
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Posted 10 Jun 2006 4:29 pm
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| Curious about your tuning ....S12 C6th. Back 1974 I got a MSA S12 and had been a C6th player wanting to get some of the E9th sounds I was hearing out of Nashville. I added a low F (just 'cause the string was there, I guess and put a B note on the 2nd string, so from the top down it was D, B, E, C etc on down. It didn't really work out, but I did use it for a year or so before I broke down and bought a D10. I'm just wondering what your setup might be?? By the way I've been keyless for quite a spell myself. BELA tuners on a Zum D10 in 1989! [This message was edited by Doug Seymour on 10 June 2006 at 05:31 PM.] |
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George Redmon
From:
Muskegon & Detroit Michigan.
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Posted 11 Jun 2006 4:28 am
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I'm from the old school i guess, i still use the high G on top, i have the D also, but gotta have that high G, for everything from
Hawaiian, to old standards, to country, swing, jazz. I'd be lost without it. Now when i say country, i mean "COUNTRY"! I think it's great that you're a keyless player...yes! |
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Terry Wood
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Lebanon, MO
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Posted 12 Jun 2006 5:45 am
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Truthfully, I think there is some truth and relation to your post. I quit and came back and I play better now than I did, when playing was my livelihood. Of course I don't make any money now, noe then, but never played for the money anyhow. I played for the best reason, the love of music and the love of steel guitar! Just wish my wife and family could have understood it! THat would have helped with life's musical adventures.
GOD bless!
Terry Wood |
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