2. week report from Nashville:
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Lunch: On Gallatin Road at the Madison Square (Also near Midway Motel on Murfreesboro Road)
the Piccadilly Cafeteria: Soup, Meat Dish with 2 vegetables, dessert, milk and coffe for under $7.00.
Home Town Buffet on Gallatin Road near Rivergate Mall: All you can eat $7.98.
Both places 5 soups, 12 main dishes, 10 desserts, 8 cakes........to choose from.
Also Arbys and McDonald have healthy food like salads with green lettuce, tomatos, cucumber, beef, chicken and so on.
Breakfast near Midway Motel: Waffle House and McDonalds.
Daily small things like toothpaste, drinking water, ice cream: the gigantic supermarkets like Kroger or Walgreen.
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I like Nashville. (Who wouldnt) It is my 6th time here. (1971, 1982, 1985, 1992, 1996, 2005)
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Wednesday August 10) Pedal steelguitar lessons from Mike Sweeney in Millersville.
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Thursday August 11) I visited Lloyd Green !, and in the evening I heard piano player Beegie Adair with her trio at the F. Scott Club.
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Saturday August 13) Went out to the Grand Ole Opry, and saw the first show 6:30 to 9:00 PM. Talked to staff steel player Tommy White.
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Sunday August 14) Saw a show 1:00 to 5:00 pm at The Starlight Club in Gallatin with Charlie McCoy, Russ Hicks and wife singer Laney Hicks. Also with singer Doyle Holly (from Buck Owens former band) with Stu Basore on pedal steel.
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Monday August 15) Afternoon piano lessons with jazz pianist Beegie Adair at Nashville Jazz Workshop.
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Tuesday August 16) Visited George L.s factory (strings, cables, pickups etc etc)
Visited steel guitar builders Duane Mars and Jeff Surrat.
Pedal steel guitar lessons with Mike Sweeney.
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3. week report from Nashville

Wednesday, August 17 and Thursday August 18) Drove to Memphis to see Elvis Presleys Graceland and the Sun recording studio. Went also to a small town north of Memphis by the name of Henning
To see the Alex Healey museum. Alex Healey was the author of the famous book and television series Roots.
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Friday, August 19) Had pedal steel guitar lessons from Doug Jernigan in Smyrna, south of Nashville.
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Saturday, August 20) Was invited by Opry staff pedal steel player Tommy White to hear the Grand Ole Opry Show back stage.
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Sunday, August 21) Visited Classical Guitar Player and former quality controller at Gibson Guitars in Nashville Alf Fiedler and danish wife Ingrid.
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Monday, August 22) Saw the Elvis Presley show at Ernest Tubbs Theater in Music Village Opryland area.
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Tuesday, August 23) Had pedal steel guitar lessons from Mike Sweeney in Millersville.

4. week report from Nashville

Wednesday, August 24) Visited George L.s factory again. (strings, cables, pickups etc etc) George Lewis is still in the factory every day at the age of 82.
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Thursday, August 25) Heard jazz pianist Mike Rojas play with the Tropicoola Band at the BarCar, Cummins Station jazz club on Demonbreun Street.
A mixture of latin-american and modern jazz.
Cummins Station is a former train station rebuilt to a modern multi-function activity center.
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Friday, August 26) Took pedal steel gutar lessons from Stu Basore in Madison, TN.
Visited Bobby Seymours store Steelguitar Nashville.
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Saturday, August 27) Took piano lessons from Gene Rabbai in Hendersonville, TN
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Sunday, August 28) Visited with pedal steel player Tony Farr i Nashville.
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Monday, August 29) Visited with swedish / american music publisher Dan Ekbaek on Music Row in Nashville.
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Tuesday, August 30) Drove from Nashville in a rainstorm with the rests from Hurricane Katrina
whipping the back of my car. Overnight stop in Metropolis (home town of Superman).
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Wednesday, August 31) Saw the Superman museum in Metropolis, and drove the last 4 hours to St. Louis.
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Arrived at the Millennium Hotel by the Arch, where Scottys International Steel Guitar Convention is going to take place the next five days.
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Greetings from
Henning
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pedal steel guitar: www.henningkmusic.dk www.steelguitardanmark.dk www.geocities.com/nashville/1520
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piano & keyboard: www.sitecenter.dk/henning-kock
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If You Keep Pickin That Thing, It'll Never Heal!
;)

Oh boy I wish that was me takin' that trip and I would have loved to be in St. Louis this weekend, but that's just not possible.

I hope you have a fantastic trip over there Henning, you deserve it !

Well Summer is always the best time over here, but on the other hand, we rarely ever have real bad weather. We CAN have snowstorms during the December-March period, but more often than not it's fair weather during that period too.

Let me know if I can assist you in any way !

Ole
www.oledantoft.dk

[This message was edited by Ole Dantoft on 03 September 2005 at 03:46 PM.]

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Kind Regards, Walter

www.lloydgreentribute.com

[This message was edited by Walter Stettner on 07 September 2005 at 06:31 AM.]

Turbo
www.pedalsteel4u.dk

To Tony Palmer:
Hello Tony, The teaching styles of Nashville players Mike Sweeney, Doug Jernigan, Stu
Basore, Russ Hicks and later in St. Louis DeWitt Scott and Don Curtis were all different,
but they all had something to give. I just kept on asking them, what I wanted them to show
me on the steel guitar, like intros, fill-ins, endings, melodies, back up behind a singer etc. I
recorded everything on 20 Sony Minidiscs. All of these players also have printed tablature
materials published plus CDs and cassette tapes.
My advice to future students would be: just ask the steel teachers, what you want to learn,
and do not be afraid to ask the teacher to do more of one thing (like in example back-up) and
less of another thing (like in example music theory).
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To John Macy:
Hi John, Yes I enjoyed the Tropicoola's? It was certainly not country music, but a mixture of
moderen jazz and latin. I came there to listen to piano player Mike Rojas, and enjoyed his
moderen jazz improvisations in samba rhythm.
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Kind regards to all,
Henning
SEE MY FINAL 7 WEEKS REPORT AT http://steelguitarforum.com/Forum15/HTML/010545.html
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pedal steel guitar: www.henningkmusic.dk www.steelguitardanmark.dk www.geocities.com/nashville/1520
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piano & keyboard: www.sitecenter.dk/henning-kock

[This message was edited by Henning Kock on 21 October 2005 at 02:47 PM.]

It's SO easy to read between the lines of your "daybook" and to just feel the enthusiasm that you got from going through all those experiences and I'm just SOO envious (in the best sence of that word of course !)

I know you probably did countless hours of recordings over there and that you'll have to go through all of those now, to fully grasp the experience you've had on this trip, but that's just as much fun as beeing there, isn't it ?

Henning, I'm glad on your behalf that you managed to make this trip, I hope to hear a lot more about it and I look forward to hearing your comments !