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Topic: How old are you? |
Rich Gardner
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Columbus, Ohio, USA
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Posted 1 Feb 2017 7:19 am |
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| 68 this Friday |
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Andy Jones
From:
Mississippi
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Posted 1 Feb 2017 1:42 pm
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| 64 |
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Bill L. Wilson
From:
Oklahoma, USA
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Posted 1 Feb 2017 8:55 pm Man Oh Man.
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| "70" |
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John Bohannon
From:
New York, USA
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Posted 1 Feb 2017 10:21 pm
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29! just picked up pedal steel this year 
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Mike Archer
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church hill tn
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Posted 2 Feb 2017 1:49 am age
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I'm 65....
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Nashville 400 amp
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George McLellan
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Duluth, MN USA
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Posted 2 Feb 2017 5:46 am
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72 and still upright.
Geo |
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DG Whitley
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Posted 2 Feb 2017 7:00 am
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| 62...until April.... |
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Dennis Detweiler
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Solon, Iowa, US
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Posted 2 Feb 2017 8:15 am
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I think I counted 8 forum members below the age of 40. The majority are mid 50's to 80+. I had my youngest son with me at the St Louis Convention about 10 years ago. He was around 28yrs old at the time. He looked around the room and asked me, "how long will this convention survive? Everybody is old". 
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1976 Birdseye U-12 MSA with Telonics 427 pickup, 1975 Birdseye U-12 MSA with Telonics X-12 pickup, Boss 59 Fender pedal for preamp, NDR-5 Atlantic Delay & Reverb, two Quilter 201 amps, 2- 12" Eminence EPS-12C speakers, ShoBud Pedal, 1949 Epiphone D-8. Revelation preamp into a Crown XLS 1002 power amp. |
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John Limbach
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Billings, Montana, USA
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Posted 2 Feb 2017 8:35 am
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| 74. Took it up at 67. |
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Slim Heilpern
From:
Aptos California, USA
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Posted 2 Feb 2017 8:47 am
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62, been playing steel for less than 1 year, hope to have some decent chops by the time I hit eighty, should I make it that far... am enjoying the journey, regardless.
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Dennis Detweiler
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Solon, Iowa, US
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Posted 2 Feb 2017 9:03 am
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It's an addictive journey at any age.
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1976 Birdseye U-12 MSA with Telonics 427 pickup, 1975 Birdseye U-12 MSA with Telonics X-12 pickup, Boss 59 Fender pedal for preamp, NDR-5 Atlantic Delay & Reverb, two Quilter 201 amps, 2- 12" Eminence EPS-12C speakers, ShoBud Pedal, 1949 Epiphone D-8. Revelation preamp into a Crown XLS 1002 power amp. |
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Duncan Hodge
From:
DeLand, FL USA
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Posted 2 Feb 2017 10:01 am
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Just turned 60 last week. Yesterday, my steel playing sounded great. When I was in my 50's...not so much
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Mike Perlowin
From:
Los Angeles CA
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Posted 2 Feb 2017 10:37 am
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| Dennis Detweiler wrote: |
| I think I counted 8 forum members below the age of 40. The majority are mid 50's to 80+. I had my youngest son with me at the St Louis Convention about 10 years ago. He was around 28yrs old at the time. He looked around the room and asked me, "how long will this convention survive? Everybody is old". |
I saw the pictures of the players at the recent SWSGA convention in the event announcements section, and thought the exact same thing.
Perhaps the reason is that so many players insist on playing 45 year old music. Young people want to hear and play music of their generation. Playing SG Rag and A way to survive" all the time is a way to cause younger people to lose interest in our instrument.
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Earnest Bovine
From:
Los Angeles CA USA
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Posted 2 Feb 2017 11:40 am
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Perhaps the reason is that so many players insist on playing 45 year old music. |
No way! Everything I played was at least 55 years old. On a positive note, most of it was less than 290 years old. |
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Mike Perlowin
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Los Angeles CA
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Posted 2 Feb 2017 11:51 am
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| Earnest Bovine wrote: |
No way! Everything I played was at least 55 years old. On a positive note, most of it was less than 290 years old. |
Hi Doug. I got you beat. My Bourrée was written 500 years ago, back in the 16th century, by a man named Michael Praetorius.
http://pedalsteelmusic.com/?p=502
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Jerry Malvern
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Menifee, California, USA
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Posted 3 Feb 2017 8:29 pm
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Anybody ever think of selling prunes to forum members?  Seriously, I too seen the pictures from the Phoenix show and with the exception of a couple of players, it looked a lot like a jam session at a local senior center. Not a thing wrong with that, other than the pedal steel guitarist is not on the endangered species list.
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joe long
From:
San Antonio, Texas
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Posted 4 Feb 2017 7:43 am
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| 77 in December. |
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Joe Casey
From:
Weeki Wachee .Springs FL (population.9)
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Chris Schlotzhauer
From:
Colleyville, Tx. USA
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Posted 4 Feb 2017 1:25 pm
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| I was 62 when this thread started |
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Martin Abend
From:
Berlin, Germany
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Posted 4 Feb 2017 2:25 pm
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| 44 |
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Ben Jacoby
From:
Ohio, USA
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Posted 4 Feb 2017 4:12 pm
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| James Jacoby wrote: |
| 78---nuff said! ---ouch--my wrists hurt, writing that! -Jake- |
Hey Jake! Don't you know that trying to play a bass with too many strings after playing PSG makes your wrists hurt? Me 74. |
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Thiel Hatt
From:
Utah, USA
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Posted 4 Feb 2017 7:51 pm
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| 79 and counting.....Proverbs 20:29...(still with no bald spots) Psalm 33:2..(love to play the old hymns) |
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Matthew Begay
From:
Quantico, VA, USA
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Posted 6 Feb 2017 11:19 pm
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19 years old...still got a lot to learn 😃
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Bud Harger
From:
Temple / Belton, Texas
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Posted 7 Feb 2017 3:46 am
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80.
Been playing since 1948. The sound still fascinates me.
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Joshua Hicks
From:
Oklahoma, USA
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Posted 7 Feb 2017 10:37 am
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27!
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