Steel Convention - 2025?!

Greg Simmons · Post by **Greg Simmons** » 13 Nov 2004 12:58 pm

Hey all of you out there in steelguitarland

I'm taking a break from packing up the house for our move next week - uh, don't tell the Missus

- and am musing about what a steel guitar convention will look and sound like in, say, the year 2025.

I have some thoughts but want you to show me yours first

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<size=-1>Greg Simmons
Former custodian of the Unofficial Sho~Bud Pedal Steel Guitar Website </size>

Jim Florence · Post by **Jim Florence** » 13 Nov 2004 1:07 pm

It will be done with computers, and you won't have to actually attend. Merely submit your credit card number.
Jim

Walter Stettner · Post by **Walter Stettner** » 15 Nov 2004 9:48 am

Put on your interactive helmets (for the visual effects like 3D, surround sound etc.), pay for as long as you want to view and select the players and projects you want to hear.

Here are a few of the acts available:

1) "Steel And Cuss" (the only hip-hop trio using three pedal steels)

2) "Steelin' Gangstas" (cool rap on the non-pedal steel)

3) "Steelmill" (ancient garage rock from the early 21st century, played on vintage instruments)

4) "No Bars Attached" (trendy computer rhythm, using unforgettable sample steel sounds from the last 10 years)

5)"Smooth Steel" (the sounds for the nostalgic, songs that changed the world - from Shania Twain to Celine Dion - played on the three-string lap steel)

Go order now!

Kind Regards, Walter

www.lloydgreentribute.com
www.austriansteelguitar.at.tf

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[This message was edited by Walter Stettner on 15 November 2004 at 09:49 AM.]

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 15 Nov 2004 10:52 am

We'll have instant replay available, so we can see that lick again, and again, and again...

Greg Simmons · Post by **Greg Simmons** » 15 Nov 2004 11:05 am

...from cameras mounted in the tone bars, finger and thumbpicks, and possibly retrofits on the retinal implants required by our virtual employers to insure that we aren't staring off into space too often...

Ron Fredericksen · Post by **Ron Fredericksen** » 15 Nov 2004 11:08 am

Greg, I'll wait till 2024 and make my big move, But will shoot you some pic's from MARS soon as my bubble settles......Ron

Rick Garrett · Post by **Rick Garrett** » 15 Nov 2004 11:09 am

You'll have to pay 57.50 for a REALLY REALLY bad cheesburger.

Rick

Gerald Ross · Post by **Gerald Ross** » 15 Nov 2004 11:22 am

It will be sponsored by the "Prostate Health Clinics Of America"

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Gerald Ross
'Northwest Ann Arbor, Michigan's King Of The Hawaiian Steel Guitar'

Gerald's Fingerstyle Guitar Website

Farris Currie · Post by **Farris Currie** » 15 Nov 2004 11:43 am

you will walk up,put your 5.00 in the slot,and pick the selection you want to hear.some be-bop sound,no more country!might be a R.R.or something like that!oh oh,guess i'm allowed to say that in this thread!!! farris

Dave Van Allen · Post by **Dave Van Allen** » 15 Nov 2004 12:33 pm

it will be cancelled for lack of performers and attendees.

The five of us who are left and can still put together a sentence will gripe about it on whatever the internet becomes.[This message was edited by Dave Van Allen on 15 November 2004 at 12:34 PM.]

Greg Simmons · Post by **Greg Simmons** » 15 Nov 2004 12:46 pm

So Dave, in other words, you'll have found "A Way to Survive"?...

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<size=-1>Greg Simmons
Former custodian of the Unofficial Sho~Bud Pedal Steel Guitar Website </size>

Wally Maples · Post by **Wally Maples** » 15 Nov 2004 3:13 pm

At the rate it is going now, there won't be any steel 'cause there won't be any COUNTRY MUSIC, at least on the radio!!!

Roger Edgington · Post by **Roger Edgington** » 15 Nov 2004 3:21 pm

And it still won't be accepted as a true jazz instrument I suppose.

Chris Lasher · Post by **Chris Lasher** » 15 Nov 2004 3:23 pm

Walter, your post amuses me.

Drew Howard · Post by **Drew Howard** » 15 Nov 2004 4:44 pm

I assume that there will be steel guitar shows in 2025 provided the current administration doesn't hasten the coming of the rapture :>) WHOOPS, sorry.

This is a very pertinent topic. Who are the young stars of steel guitar?

Hmmm, that's what I thought.

Drew

Dave Van Allen · Post by **Dave Van Allen** » 15 Nov 2004 6:07 pm

Greg...

So Dave, in other words, you'll have found "A Way to Survive"?...

it's only 21 years away- I'll be 72 the same age as my dad when he passed, and younger than several of our fellow forumites are now.

If I lose 80 lbs and start walking everyday, lay off the pork, oh I dunno - I might make it.