Hello fellow players,
A good thing about summer is that I get to see so many of you wonderful folks. I really like seeing each one of you and wish I could see all of you more often.
I’m watching steel guitar become more popular in music by the day, not necessarily country music, but music in general. I kind of made a derogatory remark on the steel guitar forum about the Jason Aldean steel guitarist, but he’s made me eat my words because I just saw him two or three weeks later and he is playing very well which means very smooth and doing fills the way we all like to hear them.
I recommend anybody that can go hear the Jason Aldean band to do so. This is not just a left over rock n roll group unless they want to be. I don’t know who the steel player is, I’m sure somebody will tell me, but he played very nicely the last time I heard him, very smooth and full.
I have heard about him doing steel guitar antics and trying to be more of a rock n roll artist than a rich steel guitar player. When I heard him, he sounded like he could be playing with any group in the United States anywhere. There are a lot of players working with big name groups that don’t sound like they should be working with the groups they are.
I apologize to him and Jason because this group definitely puts out some interesting sounds and it sounded like John Hughey possibly working with the Buddy Rich Orchestra. The moral of this story is, I shouldn’t be criticizing anybody without hearing them play more than one song.
Would somebody write me back and tell me who this young player is? I like surprises like this. Pleasant surprises are always welcome.
I just had a wonderful old friend, Larry Dahl, visit me from Florida. Larry has been a professional player in Florida for many years, always a good friend and a guy that studies steel guitar hard inside and out. The only problem is he was visiting me instead of me going and visiting him in Florida. Of course, if I drive to Florida, I like to do it in the winter.
I don’t think I’ll be traveling much this summer. I don’t have any steel guitar shows to play, big or small. I guess I need to sit here and wait for you folks to come by and see me even though I’m not spending as much time in the store as I have been, but my air conditioning is working, so come on in.
I was thinking how much easier it is to travel these days. Cars are getting better mileage, gas prices look like they’re going to be staying down this year. They have already dropped quite a bit this spring. Air conditioning in automobiles is very good nowadays and it seems like that in general, cars are nicer, holding up better and more thrifty on fuel than they have been in many years.
I remember Jimmy Day’s silly son that had a Plymouth 440 hardtop. I told him one day after he was complaining about an oil change and how much it was to change the oil, I said, “Do it yourself.”
He said, “I can’t do that. My lawn is full of ticks and I don’t want to lay down in the middle of them.”
I said, “Well that’s not going to hurt anything. Just get your girlfriend to pull them off of you with tweezers.”
He then asked me “So what am I supposed to do with them after I get them off. Those things are close to impossible to kill.”
I said, “It’s simple. Just rev your car engine up to about 3,000 RPM and dump the ticks down the carburetor.”
He said, “Then I guess I’ll have a ticking noise all summer long, right?”
I told him, “That ticking noise is going to be there anyway knowing that car the way I do and it’s a good way to get rid of the insects.”
I ended up buying that car from him a couple years later and I never had a bit of trouble with it. So that might be a good thing to do next time you get a can full of ticks. LOL It sounds like something Jimmy would have done himself.
Like the time he borrowed Buddy Emmons Oldsmobile. Buddy said, “Just treat it like it’s yours.”
Well he did. He sold it.
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