| Author |
Topic: Is this true? |
clive swindell
From:
Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, UK
|
Posted 22 May 2003 4:04 am |
|
I recently managed to obtain a copy of the Rusty Young book from 1978 -'The Pedal Steel Handbook' and it makes mention of '...those who wear the diamond horseshoe ring, a tradition among steel players'
I have never heard that one before, is it true? |
|
|
|
Lee Baucum
From:
McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
|
Posted 22 May 2003 5:04 am
|
|
Do a search in the archives.
You should find lots of discussion.
Please be advised that several Forum members have mysteriously disappeared after revealing certain "secrets" that pertain to the wearing of such rings.
------------------
Lee, from South Texas
Down On The Rio Grande
[This message was edited by Lee Baucum on 22 May 2003 at 06:05 AM.] |
|
|
|
Gene Jones
From:
Oklahoma City, OK USA, (deceased)
|
Posted 22 May 2003 6:32 am
|
|
Diamond Horseshoe Ring? I never heard that one....I guess that's why I never amounted to much of anything! 
....and also, if I wore a diamond horseshoe ring while playing, all the reasons that I've always given my wife for not wearing a wedding ring while playing would be null and void!
Gene
www.genejones.com |
|
|
|
Jim Cohen
From:
Philadelphia, PA
|
Posted 22 May 2003 7:24 am
|
|
Clive, as they say downtown, "I could tell ya, but then I'd hafta kill ya."
Some questions are better left unasked... |
|
|
|
Roger Rettig
From:
Naples, FL
|
Posted 22 May 2003 7:33 am
|
|
Clive, the real reason is.....
Hold on, there's someone opening my front door - I'll just go and see who it
,i097dsdxcuyt0[\/
;';';';';'.mknlkn;.,bvbn |
|
|
|
David L. Donald
From:
Koh Samui Island, Thailand
|
Posted 22 May 2003 8:03 am
|
|
| I guess Roger got an offer he couldn't refuse! |
|
|
|
Joey Ace
From:
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
|
Posted 22 May 2003 8:14 am
|
|
Be sure to wear it the corrct way, or the luck will drain out. Gotta go, there's someone at the door...
|
|
|
|
Tony Orth
From:
Evansville, Indiana, USA
|
Posted 22 May 2003 9:49 am
|
|
It must be a beautiful day in the Neighhhhh...bor hood. So many visitors ringing doorbells.
TOny
|
|
|
|
Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
|
Posted 24 May 2003 9:13 am
|
|
| (The full "magic" of the diamond horse shoe ring isn't realized without the requisite pair of extra fingerpicks...dangling from a pullrod under the guitar.) |
|
|
|
John Bechtel
From:
Nashville, Tennessee, R.I.P.
|
Posted 1 Jun 2003 10:55 pm
|
|
I always wear a Horseshoe–Ring when playing out of the home! Have done so for many years. Contrary to many believers, the proper way to wear the ring is with the open end towards the finger-tip, in order to 'catch' the good-luck, not to 'lose' it! The only difference in my ring is that I never acquired a liking for Diamonds, so; my ring contains 11 Amathist stones. My Birthstone!
------------------
‘Til L8R, “Uh~” ƒƒ< “Big John” wknsg® http://community.webtv.net/KeoniNui/BigJohnBechtels
|
|
|
|
jim milewski
From:
stowe, vermont
|
Posted 2 Jun 2003 8:50 am
|
|
or the Polac who sold his only steel guitar to buy the ring
|
|
|
|
Larry Petree
From:
Bakersfield. Ca. USA
|
Posted 2 Jun 2003 8:57 am
|
|
| So many doorbells ringing....is there a door to door horseshoe ring salesman out there? |
|
|
|
George Wixon
From:
Waterbury, CT USA
|
Posted 2 Jun 2003 12:11 pm
|
|
John,
I wear mine with the ends pointing toward my wrist. Guess all the luck went to my head instead of my finger tips and that's why I can't play for ... BTW Jeff Newman in some of his videos also wears his the same, with the ends towards his wrist.
|
|
|
|
John Bechtel
From:
Nashville, Tennessee, R.I.P.
|
|
|
|
