You may find it convenient next time you feel like posting on the Steel Guitar forum, to just post a link to this message instead, referencing the number of the subject you wish to weigh in on. I think it embodies the majority of topics currently under repeated discussion. It will save bandwith and time we could probably better use practicing. I hope y'all find this useful

The Canonical list of Repeated Steel Guitar Forum subjects (not including sincere questions from newbies):

1. My favorite brand of guitar, amp, bar, cable, volume pedal, FX unit etc. is great and your favorite is a piece of dry dog feces.

2. My favorite kind of music is the only music worth playing/listening to. Whatever YOU like is dried dog feces.

3. Tone is in (pick one): the right hand,the guitar, the pickups, the bar, the amp, the cables, the heart, the large intestine, your empty wallet.

4.There are no young players because they get scared off by the difficulty, expense, the lack of readily available affordable instruments at the local music mall, instruction information, or by reading the repetitive threads on the Steel Guitar forum and concluding "it's not something they need in their life right now"

5. I'm right. You are wrong.

6. I've been crapped on by a fellow forumite and I 'm taking my bar and going home.

7. Steel guitar will never survive unless it expands into genres other than country

8 Steel guitar will never survive unless it remains purely country

9. Wow, you should've heard (insert name of player here) at the (insert steel guitar show )!!!!

10. By cracky I remember when I was a lad we had to walk 20 miles uphill both ways to even hear a steel guitar and now what with MADD and crackdowns on DUI's we can't even do that now 'cause there ain't noplace to play anymore that doesn't smell like cigarette smoking DJ's anyway so I might as well stay home.

11. Gaylord has destroyed everything they touch. (actually repeat this one as often as necessary)

12. The SGHOF BOD are: saints, devilspawn, only human; (name of player) has been excluded from consideration because of unknown infractions against the sensibilities of said BOD;(name of player) must have REALLY screwed up to be excluded from consideration; what we think doesn't matter a whit to said BOD

13. Unversals suck. No player worth a damn plays one. All players worth a damn play a D10 as gawd intended.

14. D10's are an archaic holdover from a bygone era, and you are a Luddite if you don't switch to a Universal immediately.

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15. Jerry Garcia: "Was that guy a Steel God or what??? "(Thanks to Joey Ace)

16. Robert Randolph: I'll bet he can't play "Way To Survive"... to 60 thousand people while he shares the stage with Eric Clapton.

17. My Black P/P sounds better than your Black P/P. Why is that?

18. ? for BE: how did you play that 2 bar phrase from a recording you made 42 years ago, and what brand of folding chair was your amp propped up on in the studio at the time?

19. You can Tuna Fish, but you can't Tune a PSG: "'Just' do it!"; "Temper, Temper!"; "and the 'beat' goes on..."

20. And how often the third string breaks. And how finger picks are uncomfortable. And how much of a bummer it is that we can't make a 300 watt tube amp that you can carry around with one finger. (Thanks N. Dedring)

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[This message was edited by Roger Rettig on 27 May 2004 at 08:54 AM.]

Roger: Day vs Emmons (assuming we are talking pedal arrangement and not the first card at the Saturday night boxing match) has not been as repeatedly contentious as other listings... but it is worthy of consideration.

Carl: I respectfully refer you to item 19

and in closing, just for good measure I'd like to add:
23. Did you catch that attrocious crap they called music on (insert TV Show name here)?

[This message was edited by Dave Van Allen on 27 May 2004 at 12:14 PM.]

You could also add: PSG, the world's hardest instrument...

[This message was edited by Ray Minich on 27 May 2004 at 02:47 PM.]

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[This message was edited by Drew Howard on 27 May 2004 at 06:34 PM.]

I state in the title of my list that sincere questions are excluded from my curmudgeoness...

I understand being geographically challenged as well every time I read about the North Tennessee Steel Guitar Assoc shows...

I have attended Jams and been near some real players, but seldom jammed with them; I have rubbed Buddy's elbow exactly twice, and I don't think he much appreciated the invasion of his personal space

Mr Steward:I respectfully refer you back to item #19

and Drew, can we leave the politics to off topic please?

[This message was edited by Dave Van Allen on 27 May 2004 at 08:18 PM.]

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How about the thread complaining how a previous post had a mis-spelling or grammatical mistake in it.
Example "You can not spell faeces, therefore you are an illiterate ....... "( insert sociocultural, ethnic or political insult of choice.

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Another valid repetitive issue, taking others to task for typing too quickly or bein' too lazy to spellcheck, or as you imply, just plain ign'nt or illitr't...

although your example highlights the international nature of this forum, and the fact that my spelling of the word is correct on my side of the pond

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and I'd have gotten away with it too if it hadn't been for them steelies!

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Hey Dave how did you like the marathon show in Quakertown?

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24. Drifting and Dreaming...!! Non-sequitur replies to threads...TOPIC DRIFT; while not a repeated topic per se, a reoccurring issue...

Ben Lawson- I'll email you 'bout that show... it went as well as it could I expect .

[This message was edited by Dave Van Allen on 28 May 2004 at 09:15 AM.]