Steelist?

Michael Douchette · Post by **Michael Douchette** » 27 Sep 2008 11:54 am

Not really funny, but no where else to put it...

If guitar players are technically guitarists...

Piano players technically pianists...

Bass players technically bassists...

... aren't we technically steelists?

Dale Gray · Post by **Dale Gray** » 27 Sep 2008 5:48 pm

Or pedallists?

Richard Sevigny · Post by **Richard Sevigny** » 27 Sep 2008 6:09 pm

Does that make me a steelist without pedalist??

Ken Mizell · Post by **Ken Mizell** » 27 Sep 2008 8:41 pm

Interesting point. Or, we could all be "Steelies" like the catchy term they use in the UK.

Brett Day · Post by **Brett Day** » 27 Sep 2008 9:03 pm

I've heard that Jenee Fleenor is a fiddlist, so why can't we steel guitarists be known as steelists? We're either called steelers, steel players, steel pickers, steel guitar players or steel guitarists, but steelist sounds awesome!

Brett

Tamara James · Post by **Tamara James** » 27 Sep 2008 9:12 pm

What's the difference? A rose by any other name would still have thorns that tear your flesh when you try to pick it.

LOL..that's like a pun.."pick it"

John Roche · Post by **John Roche** » 28 Sep 2008 12:20 am

In my case it would be = optimist

Mike Perlowin RIP · Post by **Mike Perlowin RIP** » 28 Sep 2008 12:39 am

The real question is, since I've decreed that the instrument should be renamed "TIFKATPSG" (The Instrument Formerly Known As The Pedal Steel Guitar), should we be called TIFKASTPSGISTS or TIFKATPSGERS?

Roual Ranes · Post by **Roual Ranes** » 28 Sep 2008 2:53 am

Everybody should know by now that it is a Console Harp.........therefore we are Harpist and they sound better if they are Black.

Steve Atwood · Post by **Steve Atwood** » 28 Sep 2008 4:30 am

I think "steeler" is better, Mike.

Otherwise a worker in a microbiology lab would have to be called a "cellist", and a body-shop repairman would be a "dentist".

Steve Morley · Post by **Steve Morley** » 28 Sep 2008 9:34 am

Nothing happens for long on the instrument without the bar, so might we be barists? Of course, if you get a gig in a high end coffee shop, then you'd be a barist playing for the barristas.

Howard Tate · Post by **Howard Tate** » 28 Sep 2008 12:19 pm

I may be a steelist, but most of my audiences are groanists.

Larry Jamieson · Post by **Larry Jamieson** » 28 Sep 2008 12:20 pm

Please, Ladies and Gentlemen: We are steel Guitar ARTISTS!
Larry J.

Lee Baucum · Post by **Lee Baucum** » 28 Sep 2008 2:34 pm

But, do we really make music with the steel? If that's the case, then yes, we are steelists. But, we actually make our music using a steel bar on a guitar.

Hey. Wait a minute! I just came up with a great name for us.

Steel Guitarists!

Whadaya think? Would it ever catch on?

Mike Perlowin RIP · Post by **Mike Perlowin RIP** » 28 Sep 2008 2:42 pm

Lee Baucum wrote:

Hey. Wait a minute! I just came up with a great name for us.

Steel Guitarists!

Whadaya think? Would it ever catch on?

Well the question is whether its steel guitarists, or steel guitarers

Jerry Hayes R.I.P. · Post by **Jerry Hayes R.I.P.** » 28 Sep 2008 2:47 pm

Steel Guitarist Mike?....... Next thing you know, someone might want to start a magazine with that name and no one would ever want that. Oh I forgot, that happened about thirty years ago didn't it....JH in Va.

Mike Perlowin RIP · Post by **Mike Perlowin RIP** » 28 Sep 2008 2:57 pm

I still like TIFKATPSGIST. Or TIFKATPSGER if you prefer.

Roual Ranes · Post by **Roual Ranes** » 29 Sep 2008 3:14 am

Just remember that on a "banner" or in any other print the letters must be "BLACK".

Dale Gray · Post by **Dale Gray** » 29 Sep 2008 6:30 am

No way, living in Bronco country. Dont like Kansas City either.

Bob Simons · Post by **Bob Simons** » 29 Sep 2008 11:44 am

I had to grind a sharp edge off a footpedal. Does that make me a "pedalfile"???

Jack Mattison · Post by **Jack Mattison** » 29 Sep 2008 12:22 pm

I'm just a steelearnist............... Ho-Hum

Bob Hickish · Post by **Bob Hickish** » 29 Sep 2008 2:27 pm

Bob Simons · Post by **Bob Simons** » 30 Sep 2008 4:34 am

Dale- I don't like Kansas City either- but that's because I live here! Why don't you like it?

Jeremy Threlfall · Post by **Jeremy Threlfall** » 30 Sep 2008 9:50 pm

I still find it hard to write the word copedant with a straight face.

"sharing my copedant" makes me feel like I am a part of a mutually interacting society of pedants

mmm...

Dale Gray · Post by **Dale Gray** » 1 Oct 2008 5:26 am

KC whupped up on the Bronco's

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