Me goofing off with an old Hag tune

[p2pAmps]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Yrfnzx1v4o

[Willabe]

Hahaha, I love it!!!!!!

Hey come on now, PLEASE post a FEW vids of you playing pedal steel/lap steel/Dobro!!!!!     

I know dang well you own at least a few old lap steels and wood body Dobro's. 

(I'd bet you play some mandolin too?)
 

[tubenit]

That was a great video!  Really enjoyed your playing and you looked like you were having fun with it.

Hope you will share more in the future.  And like Willabe,  I'd love to hear some Dobro playing if you have something to share in that regard.

Best regards,  Tubenit

[p2pAmps]

That was a great video!  Really enjoyed your playing and you looked like you were having fun with it.

Hope you will share more in the future.  And like Willabe,  I'd love to hear some Dobro playing if you have something to share in that regard.

Best regards,  Tubenit

You guys!  Thanks...  I guess I'm an old country guy at heart.  I have a short clip of me playing steel with Charlie Daniels last year where they gave me a solo around 2:30 !  Now, Charlie is a great guy an American too...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRXW1mwHZkc

[Ed_Chambley]

Love it Mike.  Couldn't see what type of steel you were playing?  Tuning?

I have seen CDB 5 times in the last year and a half.  When he was playing in Franklin at the Smokey Mountain Theater I got the opportunity to have a meet and greet and got him to sign my Les Paul.  It is amazing to me how good of a show he still does.  I really like all of these smaller venues that are opening giving a place for new and once popular artist to play.

Where was this recorded.  World Outreach Worship?

[p2pAmps]

Love it Mike.  Couldn't see what type of steel you were playing?  Tuning?

I have seen CDB 5 times in the last year and a half.  When he was playing in Franklin at the Smokey Mountain Theater I got the opportunity to have a meet and greet and got him to sign my Les Paul.  It is amazing to me how good of a show he still does.  I really like all of these smaller venues that are opening giving a place for new and once popular artist to play.

Where was this recorded.  World Outreach Worship?

I play a D-10 Franklin Steel with 8 pedals and 7 knee levers.  That was recorded at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville.  We had about 18K people that night and it was big fun...  I didn't care much for my tone of the console but it sounded on in my ears

[Ed_Chambley]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Yrfnzx1v4o

I saw this when you first started began posting on the forum.  I recognized your name and wondered if it was Mike Scaggs, the steel player.  Come to find out you play a mean guitar as well.  Playing steel is harder IMO, but I wonder why you flatpick guitar.  It looks like you are anyway, I cannot see your right hand.

You just doing that on Stealing Corn and single line stuff?

[p2pAmps]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Yrfnzx1v4o

I saw this when you first started began posting on the forum.  I recognized your name and wondered if it was Mike Scaggs, the steel player.  Come to find out you play a mean guitar as well.  Playing steel is harder IMO, but I wonder why you flatpick guitar.  It looks like you are anyway, I cannot see your right hand.

You just doing that on Stealing Corn and single line stuff?

I flatpick because when I learned to play I didn't know any better.  I used thumb and finger picks to play steel and banjo but have always hybrid picked a guitar.  I use a flat pick and my middle and ring finger.  Back then it was just something I did, now a days it's considered cool I guess.  I suppose I am considered a pre-Internet guitar player.  I started playing steel when I was 17 and guitar at 13.  Being a utility player always kept me working both live and doing sessions.  Now I just play at church and do a few bigger shows when I am invited to play.  Being in Nashville there is a big opportunity to play a lot but I just choose to do my day job (Cyber Security Engineer) and stay close to home with the family.  I'm 55 now so late nights are out for me LOL...  Getting old is for wimps I'm told.

Getting back to the flat picking stuff.  I can play guitar with a thumb pick and play pretty fast lines that way.  My issue is I fall apart rhythmically with a thumb pick.  Playing lead lines and fills are no problem it the groove rhythm stuff that gets me so I just use a pick.  Set in my ways. 

[tubenit]

That was great fun watching your play with Charlie Daniels!  Again, thanks for sharing it.  It's a real treat to have such talent on the forum.

Thanks, Tubenit/Jeff

[p2pAmps]

That was great fun watching your play with Charlie Daniels!  Again, thanks for sharing it.  It's a real treat to have such talent on the forum.

Thanks, Tubenit/Jeff

Thanks man, I know for sure you guys have way more talent than I will ever have.  This amp stuff is hard!  I read and try to learn everyday.  I consider myself a good assembler but the complete understanding of amplifiers is a ways off for me.

Cheers Ed

[tubenit]

Ed,

Don't underrate yourself.  You have 10 times the playing ability I have on a good day.  And the chassis of your first build was neater and better laid out then any of my 20 plus different amp builds. 

And I have NO training in electronics at all. Only what I've learned hanging out on the forum and read of the internet that's it.  I know very little.  I've just experimented ALOT and sorted out the failures and found what works for me (more or less).
 

Glad to have you on the forum!   Jeff 

[p2pAmps]

 

Ed,

Don't underrate yourself.  You have 10 times the playing ability I have on a good day.  And the chassis of your first build was neater and better laid out then any of my 20 plus different amp builds. 

And I have NO training in electronics at all. Only what I've learned hanging out on the forum and read of the internet that's it.  I know very little.  I've just experimented ALOT and sorted out the failures and found what works for me (more or less).
 

Glad to have you on the forum!   Jeff

[Ed_Chambley]

Ed,

Don't underrate yourself.  You have 10 times the playing ability I have on a good day.  And the chassis of your first build was neater and better laid out then any of my 20 plus different amp builds. 

And I have NO training in electronics at all. Only what I've learned hanging out on the forum and read of the internet that's it.  I know very little.  I've just experimented ALOT and sorted out the failures and found what works for me (more or less).
 

Glad to have you on the forum!   Jeff

Thanks guys, you are really nice to me and have helped me a lot.

Now I am, with you on this late playing.  I am 51 and quit clubs for 2 reasons.  First is the hours.  I did not want to play and work anymore and (2) when I actually found out how much money a touring guitar player makes, I said I will continue this for fun only.  The money was ok, but playing the "A"circuit on the east coast most of my funds were simply thrown away.  It is not as glamorous as I thought riding in vans and the occasional bus and listening to all the attitudes from everyone being tired and broke.

I hybrid pick some, but I am usually playing with a thumbpick when I do.  Weird, I know.  Has to do with dynamics and if I need to reinforce the thumbpick with my index finger to get a very hard attack.  I did find some thumbpicks that have a metal back that are more secure.

When I was first beginning to play I used a pick.  Then I went with my dad to see Jerry Reed at the civic center in Atlanta around 1974.  I was so amazed that I put all my picks away, except for the thumbpick.  Lot of guys have trouble with the upstoke and rhythmically this causes timing problems and I never thought it.

It is all in what you get use to.  Django Reinhardt only had 2 fingers so I guess none of us have any excuse. 

All that said, if I am playing rock I use a flatpick mostly if it is like Van Halen or fast 3 note per string shreds.  I don't do that much anymore.

Now days I play most every Saturday night for a clogging/square dance group.  Some really hot stuff cause the cloggers like it fast.
We play from 7 til 10 at the latest then on some Sunday at church when the regular guitarist needs a break.  Don't get me wrong, I love Gospel but I have to admit most P&W music is very low key and slow feeling to me.  On Sunday I practice chord inversions and timing.