Best steeler (Nick)names?

[Mark Bunster]

Didn’t see anything on this before:

What are your favorite steeler names or nicknames?

I’ll start with Pee Wee Charles and Sneaky Pete Kleinow.

[Richard Sinkler]

I'm Rusty Strings

[Wayne Brown]

I was known as Wanky years ago. Because I used to like wanken out the old slow crying in your beer steel songs...LOL
thanks
wayne

[Tommy Allison]

Asleep at the steel?

[Brett Day]

The man who helped me get started playing steel guitar was named William H. Stonecipher, but he went by "Stoney", so his name was William H. "Stoney" Stonecipher. He was called Stoney because his last name was Stonecipher. Stoney used to play steel at Dollywood and played Emmons guitars.

[scott murray]

Buddy Emmons took to calling Johnny Cox "Coxface"

endearingly of course!

[Craig Stock]

The West Virginia Creeper

[K Maul]

BJ Cole, when he played with the semi satirical yet very traditional sounding English band Hank Wangford went by the name of Manley Footwear. I saw them play in 1982 when I was over there bumming around.

[Don R Brown]

BJ Cole, when he played with the semi satirical yet very traditional sounding English band Hank Wangford went by the name of Manley Footwear. I saw them play in 1982 when I was over there bumming around.

I presume he wore leather boots, not Roman sandals.

[Brett Day]

Ed Ringwald, who played steel with Gordon Lightfoot was called "PeeWee Charles and the man who played steel with Little Jimmy Dickens was George "PeeWee Rogers. The man who plays steel with Jamey Johnson, former steel player with Hank Williams Jr. is "Cowboy" Eddie Long

[Frank Freniere]

Speedy West
Curly Chalker
Earnest Bovine
Muskrat Jones
Fuzzy Owen

[Bob Carlucci]

Tender Tom[Brumley],, Bucks nickname.....

Saw in an interview with NRPS many year ago, where Buddy Cage said his name was
"Captain Trip".....

[K Maul]

Tender Tom[Brumley],, Bucks nickname.....

Saw in an interview with NRPS many year ago, where Buddy Cage said his name was
"Captain Trip".....

Captain TRIPS was the moniker that Jerry Garcia often went by. There is a connection there…..

[Jim Cooley]

Johnny "Dumplin'" Cox

I used to joke with the band I played with that my stage name would be Les Moore. Well, maybe I was joking.

[Chris Brooks]

I like Slim Yamaguchi.

[Dennis A Brown]

Lucky Oceans.

[Mark Perrodin]

whoops

[Bill McCloskey]

"Captain Trip".....

I thought Captain Trips was Garcia.

[Marco Schouten]

Not sure if you can call it a nickname: Lloyd Green - Mr. Nashville Sound.

[Joe Alterio]

'Red' Rhodes

[Olaf van Roggen]

(William)" Bucky" Baxter

[Colton Stokley]

Sneaky Pete is #1 and there is no competition.

[Bob Carlucci]

ok, as much as I think this was ridiculous, and it was VERY long ago, I played a few times with a really good NJ band, and although I never actually became a member the singer introduced me several times [at his own accord} as "bullet bob", and maybe a few times as "mister bob"... A little later on, in a well known NJ club band I was with for 3 years I started getting called "bronco bob" early on by my band mates for reasons unknown, as I was an Italian NJ kid, and had never even been on a horse in my life. We all wore cowboy hats in those days. Never really liked that dumb name but it stuck for years and years afterward, and lots of people just called me "bronco" for decades afterward. Many people that followed the band never even called me bob.. just bronco... ugh... It was a different time, and I am not sure that sort of thing is happening much although I see marty stuart still uses nick names for his band guys at his shows,... I think Buck Owens kind of started that trend, but I suppose it could have been around before his time as well... bob

[Don R Brown]

(William)" Bucky" Baxter

Which brings to mind Jeff "Skunk" Baxter

[Lee Rider]

Sneaky Pete is #1 and there is no competition.

I dunno, I've always been fond of Lucky Oceans..