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abraham Member Posts: 479 |
posted 16 January 2001 02:50 PM
 
What was the first song you ever learned on the steel? Mine was "All My x's live in Texas" and then "Sleepwalk"! ------------------ |
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George Rozak Member Posts: 387 |
posted 16 January 2001 02:52 PM
Faded Love |
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Gordon Black Member Posts: 166 |
posted 16 January 2001 03:13 PM
Same as on Dobro---Steel Guitar Rag. |
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Bob Shilling Member Posts: 469 |
posted 16 January 2001 03:20 PM
Steel Guitar Rag ------------------ |
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Smokey Fennell Member Posts: 194 |
posted 16 January 2001 03:27 PM
My first was "Lost in the Ozone" by Commander Cody. |
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slick Member Posts: 560 |
posted 16 January 2001 03:46 PM
Steel Guitar Rag
Msa S12 |
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Donny Hinson Member Posts: 8747 |
posted 16 January 2001 03:56 PM
My first steel was a Valco "Rocket" 6-string (one just like it sold on e-bay a couple of days ago) and my first song was "Silent Night", using the (high-bass) "A" tuning. I liked the way I could twist the bar on the triads and go from a 1 to a 4 chord...almost like having pedals! |
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RMckee Member Posts: 82 |
posted 16 January 2001 04:02 PM
"What a Friend We Have In Jesus" |
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road runner unregistered Posts: 82 |
posted 16 January 2001 04:05 PM
release me.. |
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Jim Walker Member Posts: 517 |
posted 16 January 2001 04:21 PM
Last Date ------------------ MCI D10 8+5 / Session 400 |
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Bobby Lee Sysop Posts: 14327 |
posted 16 January 2001 04:24 PM
Sleepwalk. |
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John Bresler Member Posts: 580 |
posted 16 January 2001 04:35 PM
At about the age of 10 - "My Wild Irish Rose" on lap steel - tuned E7 low bass. |
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John Bresler Member Posts: 580 |
posted 16 January 2001 04:37 PM
At about the age of 10 - "My Wild Irish Rose" on lap steel - tuned E7 low bass. |
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Jake L Member Posts: 315 |
posted 16 January 2001 05:04 PM
The solo on "Blue Bayou" |
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mike unregistered Posts: 315 |
posted 16 January 2001 05:10 PM
Just a closer walk with thee |
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Tim Rowley Member Posts: 957 |
posted 16 January 2001 05:49 PM
On pedal steel, probably "All I Have to Offer You is Me" by Charley Pride. On lap steel I think it was "Candy Kisses" by George Morgan, high bass A tuning complete with the reverse slant on strings 3, 4, and 5. Or it could have been "Sleepwalk". It's been a while. Tim R. |
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HOWaiian Member Posts: 77 |
posted 16 January 2001 05:54 PM
David Lindley's "Rag Bag," open D tuning |
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Steve Feldman Member Posts: 2981 |
posted 16 January 2001 05:57 PM
Still working on that. I'll get back to you. |
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Jim Smith Member Posts: 6379 |
posted 16 January 2001 06:19 PM
"G harmony scale" on an old Fender six string lap steel,  then "From A Jack To A King". |
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Pat Burns Member Posts: 2822 |
posted 16 January 2001 06:25 PM
..I feel like I'm confessing to something dirty and perverted..."Teach Your Children"... |
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Ron Dodd Member Posts: 76 |
posted 16 January 2001 06:31 PM
Mansion On The Hill
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Al Marcus Member Posts: 7023 |
posted 16 January 2001 06:59 PM
The first song I ever learned on steel was "Nearer My God To Thee" on a wooden 6 string Hawaiian Guitar in 1936....al |
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Bob Blair Member Posts: 971 |
posted 16 January 2001 07:39 PM
Wild Side of Life. "Teach Your Children" probably followed close on it's heels Pat! |
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Joe B. Long Member Posts: 25 |
posted 16 January 2001 07:52 PM
The first song I learned on the steel was either Steel Guitar Rag or I Love You So Much It Hurts Me. I can't remember but I do know the third song was Different Kind of Flower.  ------------------ |
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C Dixon Member Posts: 5912 |
posted 16 January 2001 08:03 PM
1945 "Nearer My God To Thee" carl |
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Tele Member Posts: 965 |
posted 16 January 2001 08:15 PM
"Bud's Bounce" Andy |
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Paul C Member Posts: 968 |
posted 16 January 2001 08:17 PM
San Antonio Rose. |
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boppa unregistered Posts: 968 |
posted 16 January 2001 08:38 PM
I ain,t got no-body 1946 Harmony 6 string tuned to A==jim harper |
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Murray Cullen Member Posts: 292 |
posted 16 January 2001 08:51 PM
Hank Snow's, "I'm movin' on", a version off a 50s tv show, saw it in '98, now I get to play it at the NAMM Fender museum, can't wait! |
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Jerry Roller Member Posts: 3646 |
posted 16 January 2001 09:40 PM
"I Overlooked an Orchid" on a Supro lap steel about 1954. Straight "E" tuning. Next came "Steel Guitar Rag". Jerry |
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Jim Cohen Member Posts: 7989 |
posted 16 January 2001 10:08 PM
I think it was probably Bud's Bounce, followed by Ride, Ride, Ride, followed by Rusty Young's "Grand Junction" ------------------ |
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Harry Hess Member Posts: 1131 |
posted 16 January 2001 10:17 PM
Bud's Bounce. '73? '74? HH |
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Tom Member Posts: 26 |
posted 16 January 2001 10:47 PM
My first song on Pedal Steel was A Maiden's Prayer.On Eight String Dobro, Mike Auldridge's House Of The Rising Sun. Tom, Marlen D-10 PP 4+8 |
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GARYPHILLIPS Member Posts: 923 |
posted 16 January 2001 11:42 PM
4 - WHEEL DRIVE, NO I THINK IT WAS TOGETHER AGAIN not sure need to think about that. I remember now YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE I think i'm going to play it again that been 12 years now and about 20 # 11 strings [This message was edited by GARYPHILLIPS on 17 January 2001 at 10:20 AM.] |
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Smiley Roberts Member Posts: 4241 |
posted 17 January 2001 12:23 AM
First "legit" song was,"Aloha Oe".B4 that,songs that were more exercises,than tunes. First song I ever played in public:"Your Cheatin' Heart".That's because,it was the only real Country song,(manuscript) you could find,back then.(VERY early '50's) ------------------ |
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Dave Boothroyd Member Posts: 682 |
posted 17 January 2001 12:38 AM
I'll bet this will be unique, but on first sitting down at a steel tuned to A6, I found that playing straight across the open strings, it played "Jerusalem" (And did those feet in ancient times etc.) "Summertime" came shortly after that- you actually need the bar for that one! |
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Ricky Davis Moderator Posts: 6460 |
posted 17 January 2001 12:57 AM
"Red River Valley"> right out of the Winnie Winston book>and thanks Herb Steiner for turning me on to it. Ricky |
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CrowBear Schmitt Member Posts: 5668 |
posted 17 January 2001 03:05 AM
Great Speckled Bird ( + Bud' bounce as second) Thanx to my Winnie Winston b k ! |
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Mike Spaeth Member Posts: 154 |
posted 17 January 2001 04:03 AM
The first "real" song after the Oahu lessons was Blue Hawaii. |
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Pat Jenkins Member Posts: 637 |
posted 17 January 2001 04:23 AM
Sweet Dreams |
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