You Tube, The Embodiment Of Desirable Viewing

Bill Hankey · Post by **Bill Hankey** » 12 Oct 2008 1:27 am

A wealth of information and entertainment at our fingertips. Admittedly, some entries are of a grandiose nature, aspiring to reach new heights prematurely. The benefits are endless. The pros and cons of this valuable commodity, warrants further discussion.

Bo Legg · Post by **Bo Legg** » 12 Oct 2008 7:35 am

Bill, go for it and give us a video of your PSG playing. I have no doubt that it will be good.
You should at least join the Guru section of Youtube. Featuring videos on the subject of “Vernacular” (as in the consequences of erudite vernacular utilized irrespective of necessity).
You could also include your SG forum topics with a video concordance explaining them in detail and a video concordance for the video concordance.

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 12 Oct 2008 2:53 pm

Larry Bressington · Post by **Larry Bressington** » 12 Oct 2008 3:16 pm

Splendid!

Steve Norman · Post by **Steve Norman** » 12 Oct 2008 4:24 pm

anyone seen my keys?

oh yeah,,I like youtube. Lots of stuff I have never seen before.

Bent Romnes · Post by **Bent Romnes** » 12 Oct 2008 4:40 pm

Bo Legg wrote:Bill, go for it and give us a video of your PSG playing. I have no doubt that it will be good.

Bill, I second Bo's suggestion. Give it to us man!
Bent

Brian Kurlychek · Post by **Brian Kurlychek** » 12 Oct 2008 5:57 pm

AGNTSA

Don Brown, Sr. · Post by **Don Brown, Sr.** » 12 Oct 2008 8:55 pm

You know, I'm usually opposed to many of Bill's posts. But in this case, most out there are too young to remember how it was back in time when we (the older folks) all started out in the life of music.

There were no computers you could turn on and get a lifetime of information almost immediately, (as you now can) right here on the forum, nor much of anything else.

And most definitely not much information from anyone else. "Especially if you lived on the East Coast." Getting information off of anyone else at that time, was like a set in stone secret, that only they were going to know, and keep out any form of competition that might be waiting around the corner.

That's why I was so surprised on my first time in Nashville. I couldn't believe that folks there were so willing to simply let other players in on exactly how they were doing things, and trading licks as they were. That was a total 180 degree turnaround from this area.

So in all reality, I believe this time around that Bill's Thread does have merit.. If for nothing else, to let the new/er folks know exactly how much easier they now have it, as compared to the 'old school' days, long since past in time, that many would never even realize took place.

Possibly to many, it's as if computers have been around forever and information has always been easy to come by. So yes! I'd say the players of today, in the sense of the words: "have it made" as opposed to what many of us went through.

I'd only hope they realize and appreciate what they have before them now, that we never had.

Bob sure does deserve a ton of credit as well, for having a place where everyone can learn tons more from. And folks, you just can't begin to even put a price tag on what it's really worth for the amount of knowledge a person can get from right here on Bob's site.

I'd hope everyone takes a moment, and really thinks what it should be worth (to you) to have help at your fingertips on most anything you want to know about Steel Guitar right before you, and then follow your conscience and send it a donation that reflects your appreciation to help keep this site and Bob going strong. I know he'll appreciate it, and you'll not regret it. It would be the best money ever spent to insure the site remains for as long as possible. "You simply can't put a price tag on knowledge." And that's a true fact!

I wish you all, many, many years of complete success and the satisfaction that comes from knowing you're capable of doing your job and doing it well.

Stephen Gambrell · Post by **Stephen Gambrell** » 13 Oct 2008 2:51 am

Capos have advanced, much as the computer has.

Bill Hankey · Post by **Bill Hankey** » 13 Oct 2008 3:20 am

b0b,

I'm quite sure that jinxing has been a credo not linked to my usual self. I don't have a problem adjusting to the preferences of how an individual goes about getting the steel to represent years of study. Such interesting things as taking a players abilities under advisement by "The Bar Association", captures a decent from alternate thinking. Emmons' 360 degrees twirling of his bar while playing, "The Way To Survive", is a noggin knocker, first class. I get a kick out of watching Scotty encourage Buddy to always include that perfected maneuvering of the bar while playing that particular song. Scotty likes big boy's toys! A while back in time he was captured on film getting overexcited when Bobbe Seymour turned on his echoing device, while playing backup for a female steel guitarist singing "Rocky Top". The show included a full panel of excellent pickers, including Herby Wallace, and Doug Jernigan. It was hosted by The "Cajun" Steel Guitar Association in one of the southern states. This link with You Tube is truly the most outstanding achievement in teaching, with its unlimited collection of the finest steel guitarists in the world playing our favorite songs. What could be better? Going back to the subject of "Big Boy's Toys", album covers can be fascinating and creative. Lloyd Green's album cover depicting practicing in the quiet setting of a rowboat in a quiet waterway, with a Sho-Bud double 10, is a plus for the adventurous player. Combining one of the oldest forms of waterway transportation, with a modernistic musical instrument, rallies thought provoking tendencies. The indelibility of Paul Franklin Jr. practicing on a steel guitar "neck" while traveling on a bus helps to explain his incredible prowess. Three cheers for You Tube!

Charlie McDonald · Post by **Charlie McDonald** » 13 Oct 2008 3:46 am

Bill Hankey wrote:b0b

Surely you mean 'Don', Bill, unless you suspect b0b is lurking nearby, eager to see if there's indeed an unusual note of sarcasm to the title of the post....

Don Brown, Sr. wrote:You know, I'm usually opposed to many of Bill's posts. But in this case, most out there are too young to remember how it was back in time when we (the older folks) all started out.....

I'm opposed to grainy local television access channels with poor sound, but there they are....

So in all reality, I believe this time around that Bill's Thread does have merit....

Woops, I didn't read far enough.

I think most of us do remember, based on the average age of the forumite.
The resource is great, but it's cheap and looks like it. It's part of the computer age, for better for worse, and much of the time it's worse.
But you can find all of Paul Franklin's solos with Dire Straits from "On the Night."
I would just recommend that you get the video instead of getting a compromised artifact.

Altho I'll change my tune if I can find B. Emmons playing A Way to Survive.

Bill Hankey · Post by **Bill Hankey** » 13 Oct 2008 3:50 am

b0b,

My type has shifted to the right. How can this be corrected?

Charlie McDonald · Post by **Charlie McDonald** » 13 Oct 2008 4:01 am

I take it all back; I found Austin & Dalton Stewart playing the song. Plenty scary.

Bill Hankey wrote:b0b,
My type has shifted to the right. How can this be corrected?

You'd have to talk to Jim about the size of his photos. I mean... whatever it is.

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 13 Oct 2008 8:36 am

Charlie McDonald wrote: You'd have to talk to Jim about the size of his photos. I mean... whatever it is.

I'm available. What is your question?

Bo Legg · Post by **Bo Legg** » 13 Oct 2008 10:14 am

Bill Hankey wrote

My type has shifted to the right. How can this be corrected?

Maybe your type was a little to far left to begin with and your moving toward the middle.

Bill Hankey · Post by **Bill Hankey** » 13 Oct 2008 10:24 am

Jim,

I just came back from viewing the beautiful fall foliage over on route eight to North Adams. Some are suggesting that the wide poster may have disrupted the ability to edit, read, etc. on the far right edge of the page. Could you try anything to determine what may have caused the problem. Your large poster may have something to do with shifting type. Thanks, Jim...

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 13 Oct 2008 10:48 am

How's that? Any better?

By the way, all of your posts looked fine to me; nothing was pushed over on my screen.

Ben Jones · Post by **Ben Jones** » 13 Oct 2008 10:49 am

whats the topic again? youtube?
that would be a topic for either the "music" section or the "steel on the web" sections wouldnt it?

I think the real question is chocolate rain...yes or no?

This may be a hard question to answer but for those who remember having to get your lessons or licks face to face, without tab, without this great forum, wihtout cd trainers, without BIAB to back you up, by picking up and putting down the record needle, etc...do you feel something has been lost? Was there some stage of discovery or something to be gained fro these methods that is now lost on younger players who have all the advantages of youtube, tab, cd trainers, etc etc?

I am old enough and yet young enough to have experienced both and I guess for me the stuff I figured out on my own DID yeild some "extras" that the tab has not.

Don Brown, Sr. · Post by **Don Brown, Sr.** » 13 Oct 2008 11:11 am

Jim that seems to have taken care of the problem. I'm runnin 1024 X 768, and I had to scroll across also, to read before. Great now!

Thanks,

Theresa Galbraith · Post by **Theresa Galbraith** » 13 Oct 2008 11:19 am

WHERE?

Bill Hankey · Post by **Bill Hankey** » 13 Oct 2008 11:36 am

Jim,

Thanks Jim,

It's perfect now, as the Bailey and The Boys song goes. I appreciate your great help in assistance involving technical issues.

Theresa,

Oh! It WAS definitely there.

Ben Jones · Post by **Ben Jones** » 13 Oct 2008 12:01 pm

hmmm...another topic where anything and everything BUT the topic title is discussed?

was there ever, or is there now, the intention of dicussing youtube as it pertains to pedal steel guitar players? If so, we've gone far too many posts already without mentioning the great Mickey Adams.
(for the newbs out there search for "singlpilot" and go ahead and subscribe).

Should this thread ever get around to discussing the topic in the title, I will be curious to hear what the 'cons' of youtube may be ,aside from the obvious chocolate rain and the afore mentioned travesty of someone "aspiring to new heights prematurely".

Theresa Galbraith · Post by **Theresa Galbraith** » 13 Oct 2008 12:09 pm

Where on You Tube? I love You Tube!

Charlie McDonald · Post by **Charlie McDonald** » 13 Oct 2008 12:22 pm

Humor is spreading....
I knew it would happen.

Don Brown, Sr. · Post by **Don Brown, Sr.** » 13 Oct 2008 12:26 pm

Well Ben, first, the page had to be resized, so folks wouldn't have to scroll across the page in order to read it all.

If taking the time to let Jim know, inconvenienced you in any way, I guess we're all sorry. Some things have to be done for the betterment of everyone..