| Author |
Topic: What are the best things that happened to you? |
Brian Henry
|
Posted 22 Jan 2005 5:41 pm |
|
For me it is easy:
Reese Anderson for making me an awesome MSA!
Jeff Newman or teaching me how to play it!
Billy Phelps for providing me with back up tracks!
Thank you!! |
|
|
|
HowardR
From:
N.Y.C.-Fire Island-Asheville
|
Posted 22 Jan 2005 6:03 pm
|
|
| The Steel Guitar Forum & Brad's Page of Steel |
|
|
|
Al Marcus
From:
Cedar Springs,MI USA (deceased)
|
Posted 22 Jan 2005 7:19 pm
|
|
When I married my "Sweet Lorraine" back in 1947.....al 
------------------
My Website..... www.cmedic.net/~almarcus/
|
|
|
|
Eric West
From:
Portland, Oregon, USA, R.I.P.
|
Posted 22 Jan 2005 7:48 pm
|
|
So far, getting lessons from a really good bricklayer that decided to give steel guitar lessons from his retirement in the hills.
Duane and Jeff rebuilding my old Professional.
Getting the time in between to completely wear out a brand new Sho~Bud ProIII and prove myself worthy of getting a new one.
The love and total loyalty of Three Good Dogs.
Shadow, Merle, and Bill T Sherman. One cocker and two aussies.
My Father's grudging tolerance,
and my Mother's constant prayers.
That's about it.
Not necessarily in that order.
EJL |
|
|
|
Joey Gaskins
From:
New Bern, North Carolina, USA
|
Posted 23 Jan 2005 6:53 am
|
|
This is an easy one!!!
Jesus Christ
My wife and family
My music
My forum friends |
|
|
|
Paul King
From:
Gainesville, Texas, USA
|
Posted 23 Jan 2005 8:20 am
|
|
| I agree with Joey. I guess I have to put the Good Lord first. Of course my parents are on top of my list as well. I met my wife Tonya in March 1993 and married in August 1993. In 1996 we had our first baby, Brittany who weighed in at a whopping 3lb. 13oz. In September 1996 we had our second and last baby, John Paul. We have been blessed with good health and I sure love being a father as well as a husband. After that it would be my church family but my steel guitar is a big part of my life. I do not know what I would have done if I had never learned to play the steel. I might have taken up bagpipes,who knows. |
|
|
|
Brett Day
From:
Pickens, SC
|
Posted 23 Jan 2005 10:51 pm
|
|
The best things that happened to me are
1. I came to know Jesus Christ
2. I started playing the pedal steel guitar when I was eighteen
3. I played my first steel show on June 12, 2004
4. I got my brand new GFI Ultra pedal steel guitar December 3, 2004
5. Meeting a lot of steel players
6. Joining the Steel Guitar Forum.
7. Going to the ISGC in St. Louis in 2003
Brett, Emmons S-10, Morrell lapsteel, GFI Ultra D-10[This message was edited by Brett Day on 23 January 2005 at 10:52 PM.] |
|
|
|
CrowBear Schmitt
From:
Ariege, - PairO'knees, - France
|
Posted 24 Jan 2005 12:40 am
|
|
1 - Being graced by the Great Spirit who gave me Life
2 - The ways & teachings of my Mohawk family
3 - my 4 children & my wife
4 - Havin' gotten into Musik
5 - Spending many years on the road w: known bands at a time when things were pretty crazy !
6 - Havin' discovered this great Forum
7 - Gettin' my Sho Bud & then a Zum
8 - Communicatin' & exchangin' w: the Steel family
|
|
|
|
Jerry Hayes
From:
Virginia Beach, Va.
|
Posted 24 Jan 2005 5:27 am
|
|
My ex-wives (all four of 'em)....They were all the best at their appropriate times but it didn't last. I did however get 4 great kids and now 6 wonderful grandchildren who've really been a blessing. I remarried last June to a wonderful Christian lady and I'm now a regular attendee of my church and also have just been elected to the board. I just passed my 65th birthday on Friday and I'm still alive so things just keep on getting better. This Forum has really been a blessing and I thank Kenny Dail for turning me on to it a few years ago...Have a good 'un..JH
------------------
Livin' in the Past and Future with a 12 string Mooney Universal tuning.
|
|
|
|
Andy Zynda
From:
Wisconsin
|
Posted 24 Jan 2005 6:43 am
|
|
1) My wife Barb
2) The electric guitar and Roy Clark. Roy and my big brother Bucky are who made me want to play. (& Leo Fender of course)
3) When I finally learned to trust my gut.
-andy-
|
|
|
|
Les Anderson
From:
The Great White North
|
Posted 24 Jan 2005 11:17 am
|
|
Meeting my wife 39 years ago and finally making the choice to buy a steel guitar and learn to play the instrument that I spent most of my life admiring.
Jeez, do I procrastinate or what?
------------------
(I am not right all of the time but I sure like to think I am!)
|
|
|
|
Garth Highsmith
|
Posted 24 Jan 2005 12:50 pm
|
|
| . [This message was edited by Garth Highsmith on 12 January 2006 at 09:39 AM.] |
|
|
|
Charles Curtis
|
Posted 24 Jan 2005 4:14 pm
|
|
| Being born in the USA to my parents at the right time and location and the ensuing events as a result of the aforementioned circumstances that has brought me to this point in time with my wife, children and grandchildren. I have my life today to compare with picking cotton for two cents a pound and cropping tobacco for two dollars a day and other eclectic menial jobs in my formative years. I also remember a musician in northern South Carolina, Douglas Coates, who laid some Chet Atkins licks on me (he has since passed on) and I eventually got into steel. Mostly, I suppose, in the beginning, I was influenced by my Mother introducing me to the Christian faith, etc. At this point, just to be a functioning human being, appreciating life; every moment realizing that I exist by a fragile thread. |
|
|
|
Sidney Ralph Penton
From:
Moberly, Missouri, USA
|
Posted 31 Jan 2005 5:39 am
|
|
well there has been so many great things take place in my life but no matter if it is being back from viet nam or what ever there is only one reason for anything and the only reason for my exisitance is God. Don't make no difference who you are or what you can do nothing could ever be placed above God on any list. thanks doc
------------------
zum SD10 peavy vegas 400 peavy session 400
if its not a zum steel it isn't real
|
|
|
|
Mike Richardson
From:
Rutledge, Georgia, USA
|
Posted 31 Jan 2005 7:28 am
|
|
Having friends like Bill Ferguson that has helped me more than he will ever know and being in the steel guitar family.
Mike Richardson |
|
|
|
Lefty
From:
Grayson, Ga.
|
Posted 1 Feb 2005 5:51 pm
|
|
For me: First on the list would be my son, who weighed in at 4.5 lbs. as a preemie at birth, and went through heart surgery (a PDA), and now is 18 years old and is a strong, intelligent, and handsome lad, no, a man, who looks me eye to eye. (Thank you Lord).
Meeting my wife (goes before the first one) with a love of music as stong as mine, and a tolerance for my playing and love of guitars.
Borrowing a lap steel from our band singer in 1973, and discovering steel.
Hearing Buddy Emmons for the first time.
Buying my Dekley D-10, discovering C6th tuning, and wishing I had discovered it 20 years earlier.
Lefty,
Dekley D-10
Sho-Bud LDG
[This message was edited by Lefty on 01 February 2005 at 05:52 PM.] [This message was edited by Lefty on 01 February 2005 at 05:52 PM.] |
|
|
|
