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Topic: Sneaky Pete Kleinow's Fender 400 | |
Michael Johnstone Replies: 27 Views: 1552 |
Forum Section: Steel Players Posted: 21 Apr 2024 10:22 am Subject: Sneaky Pete Kleinow's Fender 400 |
Maybe his finest recorded solo. A true unicorn. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CG1nnkq4QbQ | |
Topic: Jeff Newman RIP 20 yrs. | |
Michael Johnstone Replies: 11 Views: 1135 |
Forum Section: Gone Home Posted: 10 Apr 2024 9:13 am Subject: Jeff Newman RIP 20 yrs. |
He's the guy who convinced me to switch from a D10 to a universal. The steel guitar world lost one it's most influential and irreplicable figures that day. I'm proud to have known him. | |
Topic: New SX lap steel and the Certano Bender doesn’t fit | |
Michael Johnstone Replies: 3 Views: 576 |
Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 27 Feb 2024 7:33 pm Subject: New SX lap steel and the Certano Bender doesn’t fit |
You could find the right size blade pickup and the string spacing wouldn't matter. It'd prolly sound better too. Or get into slanting..... | |
Topic: Vertical Knee Lever | |
Michael Johnstone Replies: 8 Views: 1532 |
Forum Section: Pedal Steel Posted: 12 Jan 2024 8:15 pm Subject: Vertical Knee Lever |
The trick is to have it just barely graze the top of your knee at rest. If it's shaped wrong or too short, go out in your shop and fabricate a new one that sits just right. If the case won't close, fi ... | |
Topic: Fender Princeton Reverb II | |
Michael Johnstone Replies: 2 Views: 895 |
Forum Section: For Sale: Amps and Accessories Posted: 22 Oct 2023 7:29 pm Subject: Fender Princeton Reverb II |
6V6 or 6L6 power tubes? I can't tell from the photos. | |
Topic: The great Hop Wilson makes the Washington Post! | |
Michael Johnstone Replies: 2 Views: 1566 |
Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 22 Oct 2023 7:24 pm Subject: The great Hop Wilson makes the Washington Post! |
"Chicken Stuff" was my favorite tune of his. Hop use to play a Stringmaster laying on a folding card table which also held his cigarettes, ashtray, a glass and a bottle of hootch. | |
Topic: Lap steel with missing fingers | |
Michael Johnstone Replies: 10 Views: 1983 |
Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 7 Oct 2023 11:51 am Subject: Lap steel with missing fingers |
I saw a picture of a bar a few years ago that was a basic bullet bar about the size of a 10 string pedal steel bar and it had a steel ring coming out of the middle of it that could swivel. It seems li ... | |
Topic: Fender Dual 8 question | |
Michael Johnstone Replies: 9 Views: 1501 |
Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 17 Sep 2023 6:33 pm Subject: Fender Dual 8 question |
I'd put string ferrules like what you find on the back of a Telecaster in the holes in the tailpiece to give the strings a more solid anchor. | |
Topic: Ets **sold** | |
Michael Johnstone Replies: 19 Views: 3908 |
Forum Section: For Sale: Steel Guitars Posted: 6 Jun 2023 10:44 pm Subject: Ets **sold** |
It looks like the legs are a fixed length. There's got to be a way to at least level the back legs right? | |
Topic: Ets **sold** | |
Michael Johnstone Replies: 19 Views: 3908 |
Forum Section: For Sale: Steel Guitars Posted: 6 Jun 2023 6:32 pm Subject: Ets **sold** |
Can a person still get parts for that guitar if they wanted to add a pedal or another lever or just add a couple pulls to existing levers? | |
Topic: American Beauty Rag | |
Michael Johnstone Replies: 21 Views: 3091 |
Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 2 Jun 2023 10:05 pm Subject: American Beauty Rag |
That's really amazing Mike. I'm very impressed. | |
Topic: Help with new Rickenbacker | |
Michael Johnstone Replies: 20 Views: 2313 |
Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 29 May 2023 2:06 pm Subject: Help with new Rickenbacker |
Swap out the half-ass pickup for a nice 8 string pickup. A lot of the mojo of those guitars' tone comes from the large horseshoe magnets. The internal pickup is not particularly special. Its the huge ... | |
Topic: Benders on an A6 tuning? | |
Michael Johnstone Replies: 13 Views: 1678 |
Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 23 May 2023 5:07 pm Subject: Benders on an A6 tuning? |
I too play an A6 8-string tuned like this
E C# A F# E C# A G The 7th on the bottom opens up some nice combinations for western swing and bluesy jazz like a Dom7#9 among other things. If I ... |
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Topic: Where is the Half Stop Mechanism on a modern Excel U12 | |
Michael Johnstone Replies: 10 Views: 1151 |
Forum Section: Pedal Steel Posted: 23 May 2023 3:53 pm Subject: Where is the Half Stop Mechanism on a modern Excel U12 |
On my Excel U-12, the half-stops and I have them on 2 different levers, are nothing like any other guitar I've seen. Essentially it's comprised of 2 bellcrank looking parts facing each other. The one ... | |
Topic: Half Stop Feel Accuracy | |
Michael Johnstone Replies: 31 Views: 5362 |
Forum Section: Pedal Steel Posted: 22 May 2023 4:49 pm Subject: Half Stop Feel Accuracy |
Over many years I've learned 2 things about half-stops. You can feel the halfway point better with the inside of your thigh than the outside. And secondly, it's much easier to fineness the halfway poi ... | |
Topic: G6 Tuning: So many tasty flavours! | |
Michael Johnstone Replies: 12 Views: 1963 |
Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 17 May 2023 10:07 pm Subject: G6 Tuning: So many tasty flavours! |
I was experimenting with putting a dobro tuning on the middle neck of my Stringmaster. I knew I wanted an E in the middle but it got in the way of the core dobro tuning which I wanted to maintain. So ... | |
Topic: Tom Brumley on C6 | |
Michael Johnstone Replies: 4 Views: 1378 |
Forum Section: Steel Players Posted: 13 May 2023 1:47 pm Subject: Tom Brumley on C6 |
One time at the St Louis steel convention Brumley played Jerry Byrd's arrangement of 'Dance of the Goldenrod' on a Ricky Panda 6 string C6. There's a lot of tricky bar wrangling in there but he nailed ... | |
Topic: Stringmaster body swap? | |
Michael Johnstone Replies: 3 Views: 746 |
Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 12 May 2023 5:15 pm Subject: Stringmaster body swap? |
Everything's the same but the fretboard. They're not interchangeable due to the different scale lengths. | |
Topic: Bruce Wandmayer | |
Michael Johnstone Replies: 10 Views: 4745 |
Forum Section: Gone Home Posted: 1 May 2023 11:13 pm Subject: Bruce Wandmayer |
Wow. I first met Bruce in 2007 at Colin Alder's Lapstravaganza in Santa Cruz where he played a set opening for Freddie Roulette. And a year later when we were both playing the 2nd Lapstravaganza along ... | |
Topic: Jerry Byrd on Stringmaster + Why He Quit Hotel Work (1988) | |
Michael Johnstone Replies: 16 Views: 2754 |
Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 10 Apr 2023 12:41 pm Subject: Jerry Byrd on Stringmaster + Why He Quit Hotel Work (1988) |
When I first settled in North Hollywood in the early 70s, I lived about 2 blocks down Lankershim Blvd from Donte's jazz club. Every Monday was "Guitar Night" and they would either have Lenny ... | |
Topic: Please Close | |
Michael Johnstone Replies: 6 Views: 2061 |
Forum Section: For Sale: Steel Guitars Posted: 7 Feb 2023 2:34 pm Subject: Please Close |
How much does it weigh in the case? | |
Topic: My dilemma | |
Michael Johnstone Replies: 12 Views: 11966 |
Forum Section: Pedal Steel Posted: 11 Nov 2022 1:24 pm Subject: My dilemma |
Any auto upholstery shop can sew one up for you in any color vinyl in about 10 minutes. All you need is a picture or sketch of the bag and its sections and bring your legs and rods so they can be test ... | |
Topic: Difficulty of pedal steel vs other instruments. | |
Michael Johnstone Replies: 96 Views: 25801 |
Forum Section: Steel Players Posted: 29 Sep 2022 11:54 pm Subject: Difficulty of pedal steel vs other instruments. |
I started out on rock & roll guitar like most guys and I made a living for a number of years doing that in the 60s and early 70s. When I had a guitar repair shop in the back of a music store in No ... | |
Topic: 1989 Fender Strat Plus SOLD offsite | |
Michael Johnstone Replies: 0 Views: 1076 |
Forum Section: For Sale: Other Instruments Posted: 10 Jun 2022 11:24 am Subject: 1989 Fender Strat Plus SOLD offsite |
I inherited this from a friend who bought it new, never gigged with it - just played it around his apartment. I'd keep it myself if I played more guitar because it's exactly the color, pick guard, map ... | |
Topic: What Is Your Niche? | |
Michael Johnstone Replies: 39 Views: 6245 |
Forum Section: Steel Players Posted: 1 Jun 2022 6:47 pm Subject: What Is Your Niche? |
I've been playing steel around SoCal for about 45 years and the majority of the gigs have been 4-5 pc blend of California country rock and old school Nashville drinkin' & cheatin' songs. I played ... | |
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