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  Topic: Joe Wright
Darrell Criswell

Replies: 5
Views: 881

PostForum Section: Steel Players   Posted: 25 Mar 2024 7:13 am   Subject: Joe Wright
There is something wrong with Joe's videos on the Sierra site. The Universal lessons can't be watched. They play for a minute and then stop and go into an endless buffer mode. I don't know if the rest ...
  Topic: Joe Wright
Darrell Criswell

Replies: 5
Views: 881

PostForum Section: Steel Players   Posted: 25 Mar 2024 6:58 am   Subject: Joe Wright
He is still teaching. Go to the Sierra website and he has some great videos to start out, his strategy is to teach technique first not songs, you can start doing his exercises, best to start with his ...
  Topic: My Photos from the 2024 TSGA Jamboree
Darrell Criswell

Replies: 22
Views: 1387

PostForum Section: Steel Players   Posted: 18 Mar 2024 10:27 am   Subject: My Photos from the 2024 TSGA Jamboree
Steve Palousek is the only person smiling!
  Topic: Trigger-finger!!!
Darrell Criswell

Replies: 13
Views: 761

PostForum Section: Steel Players   Posted: 15 Mar 2024 6:56 am   Subject: Trigger-finger!!!
My surgeon said the injection or two almost always works, when I came back in 3 months for another shot, he said you need surgery. In my case the shot worked for a few months.

If you have surgery ...
  Topic: (She’s) Gone Country
Darrell Criswell

Replies: 34
Views: 2291

PostForum Section: Music   Posted: 3 Mar 2024 6:36 pm   Subject: (She’s) Gone Country
If she really wanted to do country, she should have started with a couple of Carter Family, Faron Young, and Wanda Jackson songs.
  Topic: Ron Elliot
Darrell Criswell

Replies: 38
Views: 9392

PostForum Section: Gone Home   Posted: 27 Feb 2024 7:10 am   Subject: Ron Elliot
Ron told me the story of how he jumped in a swimming pool to save Stonewall Jackson's life. Stonewall had dove into the pool wearing his vest of silver dollars and couldn't swim, after he had taunted ...
  Topic: Similarity "Rocky Top" and Your the Reason God Made Oklahoma
Darrell Criswell

Replies: 43
Views: 2629

PostForum Section: Music   Posted: 12 Feb 2024 8:42 am   Subject: Similarity "Rocky Top" and Your the Reason God Made Oklahoma
Doug: Thanks, do you really believe it was copied?
  Topic: Similarity "Rocky Top" and Your the Reason God Made Oklahoma
Darrell Criswell

Replies: 43
Views: 2629

PostForum Section: Music   Posted: 12 Feb 2024 7:27 am   Subject: Similarity "Rocky Top" and Your the Reason God Made Oklahoma
Was there any evidence the son was really copied or paraphrased. I hear a lot of stuff that sounds similar and these two songs seem very different. Are the chords really the same, they are in differ ...
  Topic: Similarity "Rocky Top" and Your the Reason God Made Oklahoma
Darrell Criswell

Replies: 43
Views: 2629

PostForum Section: Music   Posted: 11 Feb 2024 3:37 pm   Subject: Similarity "Rocky Top" and Your the Reason God Made Oklahoma
I just read Bordeaux and Felix Bryant sued Larry Collins for copyright infringement and won over the song "You're the Reason God Made Oklahoma". They said it was almost the same as "Ro ...
  Topic: "Tuning Tips & Tuners" A new Paper
Darrell Criswell

Replies: 16
Views: 7740

PostForum Section: New Product Announcements   Posted: 31 Oct 2023 5:13 pm   Subject: Correction
My question for Tom and anyone else. I read (but didn't fully understand) the section on piano tuning which I assume is for a mechanical piano. What about a keyboard whose sounds are generated elect ...
  Topic: "Tuning Tips & Tuners" A new Paper
Darrell Criswell

Replies: 16
Views: 7740

PostForum Section: New Product Announcements   Posted: 31 Oct 2023 2:18 pm   Subject: "Tuning Tips & Tuners" A new Paper
My question for Tom and anyone else. I read (but didn't fully understand) the section on piano tuning which I assume is for a mechanical piano. What about a keyboard whose sounds are generated elect ...
  Topic: Practicing on a 10 string nonpedal?
Darrell Criswell

Replies: 11
Views: 5714

PostForum Section: Pedal Steel   Posted: 25 Oct 2023 4:51 am   Subject: Practicing on a 10 string nonpedal?
I travel a lot and can't carry a pedal steel. Would a ten string lap steel or practice board be good for practicing e9 pedal steel and how much better would it be. Than an 8 string or even a six str ...
  Topic: Nashville Tennessee Steel Guitar Association
Darrell Criswell

Replies: 19
Views: 9657

PostForum Section: Upcoming Event Announcements   Posted: 12 Oct 2023 4:20 am   Subject: Nashville Tennessee Steel Guitar Association
I am totally confused. I thought I had seen a schedule for Oct 14 headlining Lynn Owsley as your featured player for this year and the last player. I could not find a schedule on your Facebook page ...
  Topic: Middle six of pedal steel for lap steel/dobro?
Darrell Criswell

Replies: 13
Views: 2343

PostForum Section: Pedal Steel   Posted: 5 Oct 2023 2:46 am   Subject: Middle six of pedal steel for lap steel/dobro?
What are you referring to as Add9 tuning? Thanks

Darrell, if we're to give names to things, the F# is the "9" in E9. Its the 9th step in the E major scale, as Jim described.

With chord ...
  Topic: Middle six of pedal steel for lap steel/dobro?
Darrell Criswell

Replies: 13
Views: 2343

PostForum Section: Pedal Steel   Posted: 3 Oct 2023 1:28 pm   Subject: Middle six of pedal steel for lap steel/dobro?
I have explored that tuning on lap steel, it has some very good qualities.
As a tuning, the 'add9' is pretty modern sounding, with no 7th or 6th present.

It certainly would help with E9 fretboard ...
  Topic: Middle six of pedal steel for lap steel/dobro?
Darrell Criswell

Replies: 13
Views: 2343

PostForum Section: Pedal Steel   Posted: 3 Oct 2023 1:15 pm   Subject: Middle six of pedal steel for lap steel/dobro?
So , do you have a pedal steel at this time , or are you looking to get started without one ?

I have a pedal steel but want something to practice on when I travel. The pedal steel is just too heav ...
  Topic: Middle six of pedal steel for lap steel/dobro?
Darrell Criswell

Replies: 13
Views: 2343

PostForum Section: Pedal Steel   Posted: 2 Oct 2023 5:02 pm   Subject: Middle six of pedal steel for lap steel/dobro?
What about tuning a lap steel or dobro guitar to the middle six strings of the E9 pedal steel, for practice and for learning. Can I get any decent sounds with it or is it just a waste of time? Or wo ...
  Topic: Who was the best live band you've ever seen?
Darrell Criswell

Replies: 132
Views: 100229

PostForum Section: Music   Posted: 13 Sep 2023 11:54 am   Subject: Who was the best live band you've ever seen?
Best Club band was The Insiders at Pearls dance hall with Reggie Rueffer on fiddle and Gary Carpenter on steel. Reggie is absolutely the most phenomenal fiddle player.

Best big name was David Alan ...
  Topic: Facebook
Darrell Criswell

Replies: 29
Views: 8326

PostForum Section: Steel Players   Posted: 10 Sep 2023 5:41 am   Subject: Facebook
If you are referring to Facebook marketplace it is free and easy, people are familiar with the platform.
  Topic: Looking for rhythm track to "April's Fool"
Darrell Criswell

Replies: 11
Views: 1840

PostForum Section: Steel Players   Posted: 25 Aug 2023 2:23 pm   Subject: Looking for rhythm track to "April's Fool"
Colin Ray did a great version of it, not very much alike the Ray Price one.
  Topic: Shoji Tabuchi
Darrell Criswell

Replies: 5
Views: 3262

PostForum Section: Gone Home   Posted: 12 Aug 2023 7:19 pm   Subject: Shoji Tabuchi
Shoji Tabuchi's family just announced that he has passed away.
  Topic: Joe Wright Instructional Material.
Darrell Criswell

Replies: 0
Views: 740

PostForum Section: Steel Players   Posted: 8 Jul 2023 8:08 pm   Subject: Joe Wright Instructional Material.
I just visited Joe Wright's website (pedalsteel.com). All the instructional material he used to sell is free and available to download. I highly recommend reading his book My Approach, it is truly r ...
  Topic: Repair Memphis Nashville area?
Darrell Criswell

Replies: 2
Views: 503

PostForum Section: Pedal Steel   Posted: 30 Jun 2023 4:49 am   Subject: Repair Memphis Nashville area?
Anyplace/one in the Memphis TN or Nashville TN area that I can get to replace a knee lever rod and tune up my BMI single neck? Thanks!
  Topic: Music near the Grand Ole Opry
Darrell Criswell

Replies: 8
Views: 1696

PostForum Section: Steel Players   Posted: 24 Jun 2023 7:37 am   Subject: Music near the Grand Ole Opry
Best bet by far for country music is the Music City Bar and Grill. The Nashville Palace is more oriented in my experience to draw a crowd than to draw country music enthusiasts, but you might find a ...
  Topic: Southern Illinois Steel Guitar Show
Darrell Criswell

Replies: 0
Views: 841

PostForum Section: Upcoming Event Announcements   Posted: 23 Apr 2023 11:18 am   Subject: Southern Illinois Steel Guitar Show
I attended the Southern Illinois steel guitar show this weekend and it was excellent. It was extremely well organized. with great players, great attendance and a great band. The highlight for me was ...
 
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