What sort of guitar, and what sort of action and string-gauges and fretboard-radius, will you be sliding on?I really like a concave-radiused bell-bras...

WOW, I never would've guessed that, every time I ever plugged my guitar into one of those RP-units I hated it! You sound particularly GREAT there, tho...

Hey, thanks!The backing-track is way cool fun to jam over, regardless of the way one plays (slide, fretted, etc.).Did you put that together, or is it ...

"slack key is the jargon they used to describe open tuning.ie; tuning slack from standard." O.K., so, when speaking in the context of Hawaiian Island...

Steinar, thanks for that link to "Kaluana o Hilo Hanakahi"; what a cool tune!I'll have to check out "Hapa Haole Hula Girl" now. (How can you go wrong,...

O.K., maybe I missed it somewhere, but-What tuning(s) do you want to use, and what style/approach?"Bottleneck" (with any kind of slide), where you can...

"...I really thought the Tricone sounded pretty good with the Quarterman cones in it, but it sure sounds a LOT better with the Continentals. ...Playin...

See, you have to learn how to damp and mute and move from one grouping of strings to another and back. And you have to learn how to throw in fretted p...

The Epiphone EZ Benders that I used fit on the stop-bar tailpiece of my Les Paul. They're levers with rollers, where the ball-end of the string fits o...

"Walters...Albert lee does use a B bender. he plays a Musicman with that.truthfully, I dont think he needs it; he's an awesome player." Aaaaah.... I ...

"...way cool. ...around those chords are classic cowboy licks.pedal steel guitar and lap steel are all about two or three note harmonies.and then one ...

:idea: Remember, those lap-steel guys are using those fairly heavy bars to slide on the strings; their hefty mass probably helps to keep 'em steady wh...

"oblique-bend techniques: are double stops with one note bent?" That's one example. Actually, any time you bend one note (up OR down) while holding o...