NGIDFKHTPD (New Guitar I Don't Freakin' Know How To Play Day)

[hubberjub***]

Thanks to Craig's List and a severe lack of will power I am now the proud owner of a Sierra D-10 pedal steel. I bought a Carter Starter and started playing pedal steel a little over a year ago. The Carter is a beginner guitar with a single E9 neck with three pedals and four knee levers. It actually sounded pretty good but it is not built to handle spending hours in the back of a van or on stage at rowdy music festivals. This Sierra has the E9 neck and a C6 neck and has eight pedals and four knee levers. Before today I didn't even know how to tune the C6. This will be a learning experience.

[Eric***]

Wowsers. Awesome, but I wouldn't know how to play it either. Nice work and good luck!

[Spudman***]

Oh boy! That looks cool.

I just saw a band last night, The Band of Heathens, one guy played a lap steel sometimes and the other guy played a pedal steel sometimes. They look really compicated to me. Just after highschool a member of my band got one and he never did learn to play it very well. I think it was over his head.

Good luck.

[guitarhack]

I've been looking at lap steels and they seem like they would be fun. That's a super nice looking outfit you have there. Have fun with it.

[Kazz]

ooooh I hope you will put up some recordings when you get comfy. I love pedal steel.

[thearabianmage]

Very nice

All those foot pedals, and knee levers, and strings. . . look complicated. . .

[Katastrophe]

Awesome!

I'd love to try one of those out someday. Make some noise, and have fun with it!

My old steel guitar player in my last band used to kick in a Rat distortion pedal on some of his leads. He got a seriously wicked tone out of just that pedal and a Peavey amph.

Edit... You must have an older house, on an elevated (not a concrete slab) foundation. Not often you see electrical outlets in the floor these days! Diggin' the hardwood floor, too!

[marnold***]

When I played in a bluegrass band back in college, one of the banjo players wanted to take up pedal steel. Thankfully, he didn't because I can't stand the sound of the thing in a country music context. However, Robert Randolph has seriously made me rethink my opinion of it as an instrument, viz:

[thearabianmage]

Sick vid

[hubberjub***]

My old steel guitar player in my last band used to kick in a Rat distortion pedal on some of his leads. He got a seriously wicked tone out of just that pedal and a Peavey amph.

As with my guitar playing, I use a lot of effects to cover up poor playing. I'm currently running a rack system: pedal steel>Ernie Ball volume>Tube Works Blue Tube pre>Sabine rack tuner>Line 6 Filter Pro>Lexicon Jam Man>Electra analog delay>Electrix ModFX>Digitech RPM-1 rotary speaker simulator>ADA Microcab II>Tech 21 Power Engine. Here's a partial shot from a festival a couple of weeks ago.

[hubberjub***]

Edit... You must have an older house, on an elevated (not a concrete slab) foundation. Not often you see electrical outlets in the floor these days! Diggin' the hardwood floor, too!

Thanks man. Yep, the house was built in 1889 and it's on the historical register. The floors are white ash.

[hubberjub***]

When I played in a bluegrass band back in college, one of the banjo players wanted to take up pedal steel. Thankfully, he didn't because I can't stand the sound of the thing in a country music context. However, Robert Randolph has seriously made me rethink my opinion of it as an instrument, viz:

I love Robert Randolph. I had the pleasure of seeing him play in Northampton, MA about five years ago. I know what you mean about country steel. I'm not much of a fan of country music. The stuff I play is more like psychedelic country. Here's a little taste.

[MAXIFUNK]

wow that sure is one great looking instrument!!! Congrats!

[Monkus]

wow, i wouldnt know where to start, That Randolph dude rocks ! Congrats !