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Deleted. Best of luck Charley.

Been mostly away from the forum recently so I only just now saw this - I'm very sad. Music Works was (and still is, really) my "local" shop from my teen years on, and I used to see Pudgy fa ...

I'm with you there, Hamilton - I'll only be 60, but still. Oops is right.

So my answer the OP is, yeah, definitely. But for some reason I haven't yet - probably because I'm too stupid to understa ...

Funny. I've seen that pair of changes on every Buddy Emmons instructional material for the E9th neck.

I saw the same thing somewhere, on something on eBay (an album or a book or something) that app ...

Also by the Firesign Theater:

Everything You Know Is Wrong

(I just sold a box of cassettes We're All Bozos On This Bus.)

Which is also totally on-topic (just like Alan!), since, if they were ...

Let there be light!

Oh, wait...

And you'll probably get nothing much out of it.

(The book, that is - eventually you'll get plenty out of the dog.)

For what it's worth (and from me it ain't much), before I switched to two RKLs, I had the 6th string whole tone lower and the 1st string semitone raise together on the one RKL, and it worked well for ...

b0b, I believe you can close this one up if you want....

Funny but it was a couple of faux Lloyd licks (and a couple of Rusty Young licks too) that first caught my conscious attention to me doing that blocking trick! That feels a tiny bit better to think t ...

And John, thanks for the insights - in some ways, I can relate, because I have played a lot of different stringed instruments including lap steel, all of which have led to me developing somewhat uniqu ...

Chris, I have noticed that I also use the left-hand thumb to block the lowest strings as you describe. Same reason, really - to clean up the scraping of the wound strings when doing longish bar moves ...

And personally, I never liked having the B-to-A# move on the vertical - I use it so much more now that it's on one of my RKLs (but YMMV and all that stuff)....

Agreed that "losing" the standard C pedal would make some faster moves much more difficult, but I see no harm in using the vertical for an additional 4th string whole tone raise, which would ...

Thanks, Mike - I do roll the bar rather than "scrape" it for vibrato, but for fast moves from one fret to another, there's no avoiding it. I also do pick fairly forcefully now. Blocking th ...

I posted my similar problems with my middle finger a while back, which started for me when I switched fingerpicks. It's taken me a very long time, but slowly I've readjusted my small motor skills and ...

This is undoubtedly something that all decent players do* without even thinking about it, but as I've never seen it specifically taught in the books I've read, I thought I'd put it out there to see wh ...

Buddy was one of my heroes from childhood, many MANY years before I ever even considered actually trying to play the steel - just from reading about him in many music magazines from the times. I'm ju ...

It may not be the one that Gary's talking about, but it's the one I'm talking about! Smile

That steel never fails to make me drool....

Personally I find the waffle-style surfaced pedals on my '70s MSA to be more comfortable than the slicker pedals on my previous steel, a Simmons Genesis, and in terms of use with the vertical, I think ...

If it had been the double-strung steel Lane described, it would have been my dream Sho-Bud - and I would not have had the resources to purchase it anyway. Double darn. Sad

Very curious to learn ...

My LKV has a switch which gives me the 1 & 2 raises plus the whole tone 7 raise in one position, so count me in too, at least around half of the time!

Personally, I definitely prefer doing vert ...

...but I will have to teach the C6th neck the words, as it wants to hum a lot.

Thank you, Lane, for making me laugh out loud on that one!

Both - Steve Howe played a Sho-Bud rather prominently on "To Be Over" from Relayer, and somewhat more obscurely in the intro and outro of "Awaken" from Going For The One, with heav ...

He was my hero when I played bass. I spent a lot of time trying to approximate his trebly Rickenbacker tone (with very mixed results). Godspeed Mr Squire....

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Topic: Adjustable Knee Lever or Pedal with different pulls
Paul Hoaglin Replies: 4 Views: 1892	Forum Section: Pedal Steel Posted: 26 Apr 2016 12:22 pm Subject: Adjustable Knee Lever or Pedal with different pulls
Paul Hoaglin Replies: 4 Views: 1892	Deleted. Best of luck Charley.
Topic: RIP Duane Wong
Paul Hoaglin Replies: 10 Views: 9425	Forum Section: Gone Home Posted: 25 Apr 2016 2:17 pm Subject: RIP Duane Wong
Paul Hoaglin Replies: 10 Views: 9425	Been mostly away from the forum recently so I only just now saw this - I'm very sad. Music Works was (and still is, really) my "local" shop from my teen years on, and I used to see Pudgy fa ...
Topic: &%rghu&%$&&^
Paul Hoaglin Replies: 41 Views: 10281	Forum Section: Pedal Steel Posted: 24 Sep 2015 9:15 am Subject: &%rghu&%$&&^
Paul Hoaglin Replies: 41 Views: 10281	I'm with you there, Hamilton - I'll only be 60, but still. Oops is right. So my answer the OP is, yeah, definitely. But for some reason I haven't yet - probably because I'm too stupid to understa ...
Topic: Vertical knee lever that raises F# string up a 1/2 step?
Paul Hoaglin Replies: 41 Views: 11182	Forum Section: Pedal Steel Posted: 24 Sep 2015 7:58 am Subject: Vertical knee lever that raises F# string up a 1/2 step?
Paul Hoaglin Replies: 41 Views: 11182	Funny. I've seen that pair of changes on every Buddy Emmons instructional material for the E9th neck. I saw the same thing somewhere, on something on eBay (an album or a book or something) that app ...
Topic: Nothing
Paul Hoaglin Replies: 4290 Views: 1185246	Forum Section: Nothing Posted: 19 Sep 2015 5:02 pm Subject: Nothing
Paul Hoaglin Replies: 4290 Views: 1185246	Also by the Firesign Theater: Everything You Know Is Wrong (I just sold a box of cassettes We're All Bozos On This Bus.) Which is also totally on-topic (just like Alan!), since, if they were ...
Topic: Nothing
Paul Hoaglin Replies: 4290 Views: 1185246	Forum Section: Nothing Posted: 19 Sep 2015 9:03 am Subject: Nothing
Paul Hoaglin Replies: 4290 Views: 1185246	Let there be light! Oh, wait...
Topic: Nothing
Paul Hoaglin Replies: 4290 Views: 1185246	Forum Section: Nothing Posted: 19 Sep 2015 2:13 am Subject: Nothing
Paul Hoaglin Replies: 4290 Views: 1185246	And you'll probably get nothing much out of it. (The book, that is - eventually you'll get plenty out of the dog.)
Topic: Vertical knee lever that raises F# string up a 1/2 step?
Paul Hoaglin Replies: 41 Views: 11182	Forum Section: Pedal Steel Posted: 19 Sep 2015 2:07 am Subject: Vertical knee lever that raises F# string up a 1/2 step?
Paul Hoaglin Replies: 41 Views: 11182	For what it's worth (and from me it ain't much), before I switched to two RKLs, I had the 6th string whole tone lower and the 1st string semitone raise together on the one RKL, and it worked well for ...
Topic: Blocking the 7th string w/thumb pick (E9)
Paul Hoaglin Replies: 12 Views: 3180	Forum Section: Pedal Steel Posted: 16 Sep 2015 10:25 am Subject: Blocking the 7th string w/thumb pick (E9)
Paul Hoaglin Replies: 12 Views: 3180	b0b, I believe you can close this one up if you want....
Topic: Blocking the 7th string w/thumb pick (E9)
Paul Hoaglin Replies: 12 Views: 3180	Forum Section: Pedal Steel Posted: 14 Sep 2015 7:42 pm Subject: Blocking the 7th string w/thumb pick (E9)
Paul Hoaglin Replies: 12 Views: 3180	Funny but it was a couple of faux Lloyd licks (and a couple of Rusty Young licks too) that first caught my conscious attention to me doing that blocking trick! That feels a tiny bit better to think t ...
Topic: Blocking the 7th string w/thumb pick (E9)
Paul Hoaglin Replies: 12 Views: 3180	Forum Section: Pedal Steel Posted: 14 Sep 2015 3:18 pm Subject: Blocking the 7th string w/thumb pick (E9)
Paul Hoaglin Replies: 12 Views: 3180	And John, thanks for the insights - in some ways, I can relate, because I have played a lot of different stringed instruments including lap steel, all of which have led to me developing somewhat uniqu ...
Topic: Blocking the 7th string w/thumb pick (E9)
Paul Hoaglin Replies: 12 Views: 3180	Forum Section: Pedal Steel Posted: 14 Sep 2015 3:13 pm Subject: Blocking the 7th string w/thumb pick (E9)
Paul Hoaglin Replies: 12 Views: 3180	Chris, I have noticed that I also use the left-hand thumb to block the lowest strings as you describe. Same reason, really - to clean up the scraping of the wound strings when doing longish bar moves ...
Topic: Vertical Knee Lever
Paul Hoaglin Replies: 8 Views: 3068	Forum Section: Pedal Steel Posted: 11 Sep 2015 11:33 am Subject: Vertical Knee Lever
Paul Hoaglin Replies: 8 Views: 3068	And personally, I never liked having the B-to-A# move on the vertical - I use it so much more now that it's on one of my RKLs (but YMMV and all that stuff)....
Topic: Vertical Knee Lever
Paul Hoaglin Replies: 8 Views: 3068	Forum Section: Pedal Steel Posted: 11 Sep 2015 11:29 am Subject: Vertical Knee Lever
Paul Hoaglin Replies: 8 Views: 3068	Agreed that "losing" the standard C pedal would make some faster moves much more difficult, but I see no harm in using the vertical for an additional 4th string whole tone raise, which would ...
Topic: Blocking the 7th string w/thumb pick (E9)
Paul Hoaglin Replies: 12 Views: 3180	Forum Section: Pedal Steel Posted: 11 Sep 2015 11:21 am Subject: Blocking the 7th string w/thumb pick (E9)
Paul Hoaglin Replies: 12 Views: 3180	Thanks, Mike - I do roll the bar rather than "scrape" it for vibrato, but for fast moves from one fret to another, there's no avoiding it. I also do pick fairly forcefully now. Blocking th ...
Topic: right hand beta, trouble with then middle finger
Paul Hoaglin Replies: 13 Views: 3818	Forum Section: Pedal Steel Posted: 11 Sep 2015 10:28 am Subject: right hand beta, trouble with then middle finger
Paul Hoaglin Replies: 13 Views: 3818	I posted my similar problems with my middle finger a while back, which started for me when I switched fingerpicks. It's taken me a very long time, but slowly I've readjusted my small motor skills and ...
Topic: Blocking the 7th string w/thumb pick (E9)
Paul Hoaglin Replies: 12 Views: 3180	Forum Section: Pedal Steel Posted: 11 Sep 2015 10:20 am Subject: Blocking the 7th string w/thumb pick (E9)
Paul Hoaglin Replies: 12 Views: 3180	This is undoubtedly something that all decent players do* without even thinking about it, but as I've never seen it specifically taught in the books I've read, I thought I'd put it out there to see wh ...
Topic: Buddy Emmons R.I.P.
Paul Hoaglin Replies: 130 Views: 145957	Forum Section: Gone Home Posted: 30 Jul 2015 8:58 am Subject: Buddy Emmons R.I.P.
Paul Hoaglin Replies: 130 Views: 145957	Buddy was one of my heroes from childhood, many MANY years before I ever even considered actually trying to play the steel - just from reading about him in many music magazines from the times. I'm ju ...
Topic: '' Sho~Bud '' 16 string steel guitar .
Paul Hoaglin Replies: 34 Views: 13203	Forum Section: Pedal Steel Posted: 15 Jul 2015 12:48 am Subject: '' Sho~Bud '' 16 string steel guitar .
Paul Hoaglin Replies: 34 Views: 13203	It may not be the one that Gary's talking about, but it's the one I'm talking about! That steel never fails to make me drool....
Topic: Using the LVL
Paul Hoaglin Replies: 16 Views: 4413	Forum Section: Pedal Steel Posted: 14 Jul 2015 10:25 am Subject: Using the LVL
Paul Hoaglin Replies: 16 Views: 4413	Personally I find the waffle-style surfaced pedals on my '70s MSA to be more comfortable than the slicker pedals on my previous steel, a Simmons Genesis, and in terms of use with the vertical, I think ...
Topic: '' Sho~Bud '' 16 string steel guitar .
Paul Hoaglin Replies: 34 Views: 13203	Forum Section: Pedal Steel Posted: 14 Jul 2015 10:01 am Subject: '' Sho~Bud '' 16 string steel guitar .
Paul Hoaglin Replies: 34 Views: 13203	If it had been the double-strung steel Lane described, it would have been my dream Sho-Bud - and I would not have had the resources to purchase it anyway. Double darn. Very curious to learn ...
Topic: Using the LVL
Paul Hoaglin Replies: 16 Views: 4413	Forum Section: Pedal Steel Posted: 13 Jul 2015 9:00 pm Subject: Using the LVL
Paul Hoaglin Replies: 16 Views: 4413	My LKV has a switch which gives me the 1 & 2 raises plus the whole tone 7 raise in one position, so count me in too, at least around half of the time! Personally, I definitely prefer doing vert ...
Topic: D-10 Perm, got pics, got some questions, new pix/question
Paul Hoaglin Replies: 38 Views: 14639	Forum Section: Pedal Steel Posted: 30 Jun 2015 4:43 pm Subject: D-10 Perm, got pics, got some questions, new pix/question
Paul Hoaglin Replies: 38 Views: 14639	...but I will have to teach the C6th neck the words, as it wants to hum a lot. Thank you, Lane, for making me laugh out loud on that one!
Topic: Chris Squire 1948-2015 RIP
Paul Hoaglin Replies: 20 Views: 9669	Forum Section: Gone Home Posted: 30 Jun 2015 4:37 pm Subject: Chris Squire 1948-2015 RIP
Paul Hoaglin Replies: 20 Views: 9669	Both - Steve Howe played a Sho-Bud rather prominently on "To Be Over" from Relayer, and somewhat more obscurely in the intro and outro of "Awaken" from Going For The One, with heav ...
Topic: Chris Squire 1948-2015 RIP
Paul Hoaglin Replies: 20 Views: 9669	Forum Section: Gone Home Posted: 29 Jun 2015 2:41 pm Subject: Chris Squire 1948-2015 RIP
Paul Hoaglin Replies: 20 Views: 9669	He was my hero when I played bass. I spent a lot of time trying to approximate his trebly Rickenbacker tone (with very mixed results). Godspeed Mr Squire....