What's in your pedal steel seat?

[Christopher Miller]

I am new to pedal steel and this forum. As I acquire equipment, I have to justify the cost of a seat to my wife. Please write or show pictures of what you keep in your pedal steel seat that make this a worthwhile purchase. Thank you.

If this post exists already, I apologize.

[Paddy Long]

Most importantly your seat will be the correct height (all the time) ...and then it will hold everything you need, volume pedal, tuner, leads, strings, spare bar, wire cutters, your lunch and three cans of beer ! :-}

[Jim Park]

Plus tools .....Allen wrenches, screw drivers, EXTRA power supply for volume pedal,hand towel, camera, note pad, pens , Sharpies, and if your budget allows, small soldering iron

[Lane Gray]

Main box: volume pedal, vocal mic, Izzy Plus, Buzz Tone/Buzz Boost, Dunlop reso pedal, the power supplies for those two, about three more cables than I need, Peterson phone adapter, an old prescription bottle with my thumb/fingerpicks.
Sidekick box: a mess of bars, a mess of strings, three tuning wrenches.
Biggest thing: a comfortable seat at the right height (standard chairs are 3-5 inches too short.

[Marco Schouten]

Strings, volume pedal, tuner, various tools, extra cords, bars, extra picks

[Dustin Kleingartner]

thats where I keep my super boutique tone computer

[Tom Kaminski]

I have to justify the cost of a seat to my wife.

A few months ago I saw a really cool graphic of a decision making algorithm one should use to determine if you need to buy a new guitar. It started off with "how many pairs of shoes does your wife have?

1 to 5 ... she's lying
6 to 10 ...

you get the idea!

[Richard Sinkler]

Main box: 2 volume pedals, low profile and high profiles (depends on whether I wear boots or tennis shoes, plus one can act as a spare), tuner, 4 effect pedals, power supplies for every stomp box and volume pedal, and a mess of cords.

Side Box: pouch with bar and picks, extra picks; tools, strings (both full sets and singles), a picture frame level, glucose tablets, wash cloth for wiping the strings.

[Skip Edwards]

In your seat is virtually everything you need to do your gig...not to mention being a stable platform to sit on.
Lesson learned here... I had my seat stolen a bunch of years ago. Discovered it was gone while getting into my car on the way to a gig. Talk about a nightmare... Everything I needed was in there, including a bunch of spare parts I'd rummaged from the 3rd floor of Sho-Bud on Lower Broad. The contents were worth nothing to anyone who would want to steal it, but absolutely valuable to me.
It would have been way easier for me if they had grabbed my steel, instead...

But I digress...
It's a valuable asset... just get one, and get one with a backrest.

[Tony Prior]

uhmmm.....strings, pen, wrenches, screwdriver, all sorts of picks, cords, business cards, small flashlight,batteries, string cutter, string winder, spare small tuner, V-Pedal, V-Pedal string,black electrical tape, spare guitar leg feet, home grown CD's and lots of other stuff that I've been carrying around for a long time that I may need one day.

The seat is our office, our tool box and anything else we may want it to be !

Oh yeah, we get to sit on it too!

[Dan Beller-McKenna]

Volume Pedal, sets of strings and extra singles, 1/4" cables, pouch with picks, bar, tuning wrenches, mini flashlight, Goodrich matchbox, Zoom MS50G multi-stomp and adapter, EH Hum debugger with adapter, duct Tape, electrical tape, power-strip, earplugs, pouch with wire cutters and peg winder for string replacement, extra tone bar, small container with all applicable allen wrenches, one or two small containers with all sorts of emergency and backup needs (wing nuts, extra pics, washers, brass barrels, nylon tuning nuts, guitar picks, etc.) set of mini screw drivers, small regular and phillips screwdriver, needle-nose pliers, corkscrew, band aids, sharpie, wrenches, iRig phone adapter.

Hey! I think I just figured out why my seat weighs more than my amp!!!

[Jerry Van Hoose]

Hi Chris, I have a couple of seats, one here in Florida and another in Tennessee. Here's one with the bare essentials that I haven't yet unpacked. In no particular order, there's a Goodrich 120 volume pedal, 3 ft. & 10 ft. georgeL cables, an original Maxon AD80 analog delay w/power supply, 7/8" BJS bar & BJS pouch, JF fingerpicks, Golden Gate thumb picks, Peterson StroboPlus tuner, a pen light given to me by Ken Fox that comes in handy whenever searching for a particular string while on a darkened stage, georgeL wire cutters & cable checker, a string winder and several sets of Live Steel Strings including many singles and a New Testament given to me by Billy Cooper.

[Rick Campbell]

I am new to pedal steel and this forum. As I acquire equipment, I have to justify the cost of a seat to my wife. Please write or show pictures of what you keep in your pedal steel seat that make this a worthwhile purchase. Thank you.

If this post exists already, I apologize.

Christopher,

Get the seat, junk it up with the stuff mentioned here...... but put a piece of jewelry in there. Show it to the wife and say "look what I found in this box" That should be all the justification you need.

RC

[Larry Jamieson]

Jerry, either you're way to organized or you haven't got enough stuff in there...

[Kevin Fix]

I have a Walker seat with a back rest with all of the above misc. things in there also. The Walker seat with a back rest is the best..........

[Jerry Van Hoose]

Hi Larry, I'm never organized . There's also a georgeL screwdriver in there somewhere, probably underneath the BJS pouch. My other seat is a sidekick model and it's stuffed full, practically 2 of everything. In all seriousness though, I always check my guitars thoroughly before taking them out to play and have never had a need to carry many tools with me .

[Dan Robinson]

Stuffing... Tama drum throne holding up me butt since 1982. Old school milk crate fer wires and goodies.

[Scott Duckworth]

Nothing.... I sold it!

[Larry Jamieson]

Mine's not nearly as neat as Jerry's... Volume pedal, not one but two power supplies, bag full of tools, picks, bars, 3 audio cables, extension cord, extra strings, Snark tuner, and who knows what else you might find if you dig through to the bottom.

[Bill L. Wilson]

Since '99, I've carried an old Sho-Bud seat with a backrest made from the hinges of a knee brace. I believe the seat was built in the '60's and it is sturdy, packed full, and weighs in at 40lbs. With an Emmons vol. pedal, tool pouch (old bank bag), tuner, extra strgs, flash light, Goodrich Matchbox, (2) BJS bars, picks, Carbon Copy delay, (2) Boss Fender Reverb pedals for guitar and steel on bouncy stages, several lengths of Geo. L's cords, clip on reading light for dark stages, clip on mounts for the tuner, delay, and bar holder, batts., a small flip top box with string, steel feet, fuses, nylon nuts, C-clips, and more picks. Then in separate cases in my van, I have a box of tubes, an Anvil briefcase with mics. and cords, and a small case with (2) Emmons vol. pedals. Those Reverb pedals and the reading lights are the most useful extras that I carry around.

[Steve Pawlak]

A 6 pack of beer and some Viagra and Flomax
Getting old I guess

[Peter Harris]

Have you noticed that no-one has said "BANANAS" ??????

[Jeff Triplett]

By the weight of it, feels like to much. Volume pedal, tuner, resonator pedal, power supplies for all, plenty of strings, picks, cables, couple for tuning wrenches, tools, small extension cord and instrument as well as vocal mic. Digital delay stays with the amp and I carry a passive VP just in case.

[Stephen Kuester]

I resisted the pack a seat for a long time. It just seemed like an over priced accessory. I used everything: drum throne, keyboard bench, chairs, stools. Inevitably, screws fall out, or something breaks, had one fall apart on stage and there I was, on the floor in front of a room full of people. Embarrassing. Was at Billy Cooper's steel shop a few months ago and he talked me into buying a Walker and I'm so glad he did. Sure, the storage ability is convenient, but it's the height, width, and comfort that makes these things so valuable. They're simply perfect for pedal steel. The legs don't interfere with volume pedal placement and they're cozy.

[Richard Sinkler]

A 6 pack of beer and some Viagra and Flomax
Getting old I guess

Me too, but I use Cialis, and have to strap the beer onto the bottom of the seat.