Poor, poor, pitiful me!

Savell · Post by **Savell** » 1 Nov 2004 7:06 pm

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Bart Maloney · Post by **Bart Maloney** » 1 Nov 2004 7:43 pm

Well I had to sell my pedal steel to pay rent, thank God it was only a Maverick.

I'm working on getting another one. I guess this story goes the other way from making a sacrifice to keep playing. Once I get another, I won't let it go!

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Eric West · Post by **Eric West** » 1 Nov 2004 8:11 pm

As long as I kept playing it, in public, and for money, I haven't had to sacrifice anything worth mentioning.

Other than the best years of my life, I suppose.

EJL

Ricky Davis · Post by **Ricky Davis** » 1 Nov 2004 8:15 pm

There's too many to list.
Ricky

chas smith R.I.P. · Post by **chas smith R.I.P.** » 1 Nov 2004 8:39 pm

a sacrifice they have had to make somewhere down through the years just to keep playing the psg.

I don't think of it at all, as being a sacrifice. I think of it as a trade. A form of "commerce" if you will. For instance, I chose a music/art path, instead of a more traditional one. Some of my friends are envious of my lifestyle, I envy their stability, but I don't want to trade places with them. It's simply a matter of being willing to do what needs to be done to achieve what ever it is that you want to do. I need money, so I go to work and trade those hours of my life for "paper" which I then trade for other things, including guitars and time to enjoy them.

Sacrificing one of the ex-wives has a certain appeal.......

Billy Joe Bailey · Post by **Billy Joe Bailey** » 1 Nov 2004 10:26 pm

I read one time that back in Arkansaw, there was a time Glenn Campell song his for free???
Well,I have broke alot of 11 and half's on my E-9-neck, at those free gig's,but loading, and un loading is the fun part.And even more if it's raining.
As for those place that I played free ''''
As some of you know the exciteing gospel news I don't go there any more. For a much greater price was paid for me on Calvary.
Ok I'll set down now.
and that was the Ranson paid for who so ever will.

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Paul King · Post by **Paul King** » 2 Nov 2004 4:06 am

Savell, My world has been turned upside down the last two months. No job and looking I am in serious danger myself. However, where I go to church I do play my steel. There is a elderly couple there that loves the real country and they love me and my steel. They on their own accord have made my last 3 steel guitar payments for me and want to continue to do so. They are what you call real friends. My goal is when my tax refund comes in February I will pay the note off. So far I have not had to sell anything to live but life has some wicked curves.

Rick Garrett · Post by **Rick Garrett** » 2 Nov 2004 4:54 am

Wow what a post this ones going to be. Great question. I'm kinda new to steel so I haven't sacrificed alot for the love of music. I took the more traditional work your tail off method of getting to where you can keep the bills paid. I think that we all sacrifice for what we want in this life. Thats the way its meant to be.

I've found in my own life that hard times seem to breed creativity. Its almost like that "You gotta have the blues to play the blues" line.

Rick

Bill Terry · Post by **Bill Terry** » 2 Nov 2004 7:28 am

I was out of work in 2001, laid off.. bank account basically drained, dismal job market with no improvement in sight, and out of the blue I get a check in the mail. It was a final part of my severance package when I was 'right-sized' at Cisco Systems... almost $3000.

So knowing that the job market was very tight, and that it might be months or more before I could find work I did the only sensible thing... I bought a '67 P/P from Mike Cass.

Ray Minich · Post by **Ray Minich** » 2 Nov 2004 7:46 am

In case of tornado, order of importance to get to safety...

1. Daughter
2. Steel
3. Amp
4. Wife
5. Everything else if time...

Jim Peter · Post by **Jim Peter** » 2 Nov 2004 9:54 am

Two hernias.

Jim

James Cann · Post by **James Cann** » 2 Nov 2004 10:04 am

Well, the only sacrifice I made was to sell my MSA Semi-Classic, which at the time was idle most of the time, and buy my wife a second Schnauser, a loveable little guy but, as time showed, rather short on intelligence. He also was a diabetic, which had something to to with his shorter life.
However, my wife enjoyed him immensely, and, now, I have another guitar after a 15 year wait.

PS: Since both dogs are gone now and we can't agree on breed, there remains little hope for a third--and no hope for the type of funding of which I spoke earlier.

James
Sho-Bud LDG

Mark Herrick · Post by **Mark Herrick** » 2 Nov 2004 11:25 am

I was wondering if anyone had a good tale to tell about a sacrifice they have had to make somewhere down through the years just to keep playing the psg.

How about your sanity?

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Jack Smith · Post by **Jack Smith** » 2 Nov 2004 12:44 pm

I do have a story of sacrifice. My father was a minister and at that time the church thought that the preacher should be living in poverty. I wanted to play PSG at 11 years old after going as far as I could with no pedals. At that time, 1964, PSG's we still very expensive. I dreamed about a double 11 ZB but that was totally unaffordable on the income of a minister. Because my father made so little money as a he would find houses fix them up and sell them quick as an extra income for the family. He had bought a house near where we lived by putting down $100.00 against the price of the house which was $1500.00. An old gentleman named Joe Leverett loved near. Joe was a loner he had no family and no friends. I felt sorry for him and had become friends with him. I would go by after school and visit and he would come to school and walk home with me. One day while visiting with Joe I was quite depressed. He asked what was the matter and I told him that I really wanted this new ZB Custom and I was upset because I would never be able to have that guitar because we didn't have the money. Joe asked how much the guitar would cost, I told him around $1500.00. I really didn't think anymore about it because Joe lived in a worse house than we did and never gave the impression that he had any money. The next day my father said the strangest thing happened, Joe came to him and said that he had been looking at the same house that dad had put the $100.00 down on and told him that he would give him $1500.00 more than he paid for it cash. I got my ZB and have had a wonderful life thanks to a giving/loving ol' man, who by the way was a Sam Walton type with more money than any of us could believe, and a wonderful father and mother who never let me loose sight of the sacrifice.

Bill Myrick · Post by **Bill Myrick** » 2 Nov 2004 1:26 pm

Thanks, Jack--I needed that--In a time of unheavels and greed-- a refreshing thing from your past !! There are still good spots in life here and there and it's uplifting to hear of them.

Savell · Post by **Savell** » 2 Nov 2004 1:36 pm

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Anders Brundell · Post by **Anders Brundell** » 3 Nov 2004 2:14 am

My wife has sacrificed an awful lot to keep my playing going over the years, so now I owe her all future incomes 'til I die (sob!).
I guess that that's the case for a lot of other forumites as well - ain't it? (What should we have been, if not for our loving and understanding wifes?)

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Ron ! · Post by **Ron !** » 3 Nov 2004 3:23 am

I sold all of my stuf a few years back to pay the bills.
My girlfriend at that time said to me she would do anything to make it happen that i could play again.
After a while I started thinkin' that it would be a great idea to build me my own steel and so I did.
And now i am playing a Nikaro SD10 4x6 wich I build all by myself.

Ron

Nikaro SD10 4x6

Savell · Post by **Savell** » 3 Nov 2004 5:05 am

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Glyn Bone · Post by **Glyn Bone** » 3 Nov 2004 6:13 am

Does it come down to ` sacrifices` or `choices` ??
I had an Emmons Loafer SD10 when I was in Australia...also had a Yamaha 1100 V-Star cruiser too...I had to sell both of these to be able to get to Canada to be with my `bride` of one year...I guess I could have waited a few more months and at least kept the Emmons, but I wanted to be with her so I sold it....sacrifice or choice?...I hope that withing the next year ( or so ) I will be able to purchase a new steel and resume my playing again...and I know that my wife is right behind me on this as she loves to hear my efforts and progress.

All in the name of LOVE eh

No Regrets either

Glyndwr

Scott Appleton · Post by **Scott Appleton** » 3 Nov 2004 8:13 am

Wifes, cars, trips to exotic places you name it ..
I have just continued to play no matter what.

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Mullen S12 Almost Mooney
71 Tele, Regal 45
Sho Bud S10 NP
Line 6 Flextone 3 + JBL D130

Roger Rettig · Post by **Roger Rettig** » 3 Nov 2004 9:08 am

I've played for my living since 1959. I'm now coming up to 62, have no pension, have never had a new car, and still have a mortgage; it doesn't look - on paper - like a smart course to have steered, does it?

It's never felt like any kind of sacrifice, though, and relative prosperity is only as far away as the next 'phone call.....

RR

Lem Smith · Post by **Lem Smith** » 3 Nov 2004 9:08 am

Great story, Jack. Btw, I recently listened to the archive of the E.T. Midnight Jamboree where you were playing steel with Connie Smith. AWESOME playing man!!!!!!

Lem

Chris Lasher · Post by **Chris Lasher** » 3 Nov 2004 3:22 pm

Jack, that's a fantastic story. Thanks for sharing that.

Jim Phelps · Post by **Jim Phelps** » 3 Nov 2004 3:32 pm

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