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Bob Hoffnar
From:
Austin, Tx
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Al Terhune
From:
Newcastle, WA
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Posted 15 Apr 2006 10:42 pm |
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Not bad!
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Steve Hinson
From:
Hendersonville Tn USA
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Bob Hoffnar
From:
Austin, Tx
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Posted 16 Apr 2006 8:34 am
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I love this answer to what a pedal steel is:
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Tania Boyer:"I would say that maybe it has something to do with a pedal and something made out of steel...."
I gradiated from high school using nothing but answers like that  !
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Jon Light
From:
Saugerties, NY
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Posted 16 Apr 2006 8:36 am
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| I dropped out of high school using nothing but answers like that. |
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 16 Apr 2006 10:06 am
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| Simple - It's a guitar with steel pedals attached to it .... |
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HowardR
From:
N.Y.C.-Fire Island-Asheville
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Posted 16 Apr 2006 1:31 pm
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Bob, ya' gotta' give her some credit....she knew that it had to be used in Hawaiian style music.
Now I know that Ray Montee would have flunked her, by I'm sorta' impressed. |
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Chris Erbacher
From:
Sausalito, California, USA
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Posted 16 Apr 2006 2:51 pm
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| my favorite is when someone calls it the steel pedal, or steel petal...do i correct them or let them go on thinking that is what it is called? i put some tracks donw on a friends cd and when she got the liner notes done, it was called a petal steel, i'm not sure if it is a typo or not. it looks like a big cheese slicer but sounds like an electric slide whistle... |
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Bob Carlucci
From:
Candor, New York, USA
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Posted 16 Apr 2006 3:54 pm
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| Be afraid.. be very friggin' afraid.... |
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Rick Garrett
From:
Tyler, Texas
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Posted 16 Apr 2006 4:38 pm
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"At least there weren't any"rednecks"over there calling RR"every name in the book"...
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!
Good one Steve. Hey man what's a redneck?
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Steve Hinson
From:
Hendersonville Tn USA
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Posted 16 Apr 2006 6:01 pm
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Rick...I think I'M a redneck...but I don't call people names...like"redneck"...
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David Wren
From:
Placerville, California, USA
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Posted 17 Apr 2006 2:39 pm
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Last weekend I had a sound man tell me to "give me a level on that pedal thing"....
but most of the times I just get compliments on the "great slide guitar", with an occasional "awsome keyboard playing man".
.....so much work left for us to do...
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Dave Wren
'96 Carter S12-E9/B6,7X7; Twin Session 500s; Hilton Pedal; Black Box
www.ameechapman.com
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David Doggett
From:
Bawl'mer, MD (formerly of MS, Nawluns, Gnashville, Knocksville, Lost Angeles, Bahsten. and Philly)
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Posted 17 Apr 2006 7:04 pm
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Ya can't say they don't have a clue. But that's about all they have, bless their hearts. The best one I ever got was a compliment on my "xylophone" playing. Then there was the time the drunk offered to help me carry my equipment out at closing time. He picked up my pedal steel in its case and grunted, "Man, this is heavy, what's in it?" When I told him a steel guitar, he complained, "Why do they have to make it out of steel?"  |
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Joe Savage
From:
St. Paul, MN
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Posted 19 Apr 2006 11:08 pm
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I once overheard a young boy say to his mother after a show, "Hey Mom, there's the guy who plays the 'slide piano'!"...
Which I thought was pretty clever on his part....I've used that many times since.
Joe[This message was edited by Joe Savage on 20 April 2006 at 12:11 AM.] |
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Charles Davidson
From:
Phenix City Alabama, USA
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Posted 20 Apr 2006 9:01 pm
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| I just always tell them I'm playing an electric table.Sure does save a lot of time trying to explain what it really is and how it works. |
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Mickey McGee
From:
Phoenix,Az
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Posted 24 Apr 2006 12:23 am
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| At least they didn't say it is setup next to the pig in the pit w/the hula girls. |
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Mike Perlowin
From:
Los Angeles CA
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Posted 24 Apr 2006 1:54 am
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A local magazine called it a "table slide,"
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mike nolan
From:
Forest Hills, NY USA
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Posted 24 Apr 2006 9:54 am
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| There was an article on pedal steel last week in The Wall Street Journal..... Maybe we'll finally start making some real money. |
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Bobby Lee
From:
Cloverdale, California, USA
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Posted 24 Apr 2006 9:57 am
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Pedal steel isn't the only instrument with name recognition problems. When I tell people I've taken up the marimba, I get the same blank stare.
Funny, but I can't remember ever not knowing what a pedal steel or a marimba was. |
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Mickey McGee
From:
Phoenix,Az
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Posted 24 Apr 2006 2:27 pm
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| I have heard them called a piano,organ,that thing,end table,and so on. |
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A. J. Schobert
From:
Cincinnati, Ohio,
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Posted 24 Apr 2006 4:15 pm
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| I think that was Jay Leno giving the questions out. |
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Henry Nagle
From:
Santa Rosa, California
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Posted 24 Apr 2006 11:04 pm
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| My two favorites are: "that pineapple Pearl Harbor thing" and "hammered dulcimer". |
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Mickey McGee
From:
Phoenix,Az
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Posted 25 Apr 2006 12:11 am
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| "hammered dulcimer".I think the person that said that was probably hammered! |
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Roger Rettig
From:
Naples, FL
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Posted 25 Apr 2006 1:56 am
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I was booked to add some overdubs on a 'project' many years ago. The lady who paid me afterwards told me she'd enjoyed my contribution very much, and asked what the instrument was called.
I must have spoken a little indistinctly, 'cause when I received a copy in the mail some weeks later, my credit on the sleeve read:
'Roger Rettig - pedestal'
I've been trying to get back up there ever since.
RR |
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A. J. Schobert
From:
Cincinnati, Ohio,
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Posted 25 Apr 2006 3:32 am
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| What is funny is that there is alot of music stores that there clerks don't know what a PSG is and these are guys that work in the guitar(6string) area of the store! |
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