This was asked in another thread, along with a broader question, and got lost. So, I'll ask it again:
Where are you folks located? I'm in far western Kentucky, and as far as I have been able to tell, I'm the only person here that is remotely interested in slide guitar.
If it ain't true, it ain't blues.
I'm in Bristol, Tennessee, which bills itself as "The Birthplace of Country Music." It's full of bluegrass, but not much blues. (Which is what I'm most interested in.) I know a couple of other guys who slide the blues, that's it.
There are some good Dobro players around here. I tend to forget about that, but it'd be cool if some of the bluegrass and country dobro sliders got on here and talked about what they do!
"A cheerful heart is good medicine."
Just North of Denver here
Immature? Of course I'm immature Einstein, I'm 50 and in a Rock and ROll band.
New Band site http://www.myspace.com/guidedbymonkeys
I'm in beautiful Bend, Oregon. I take guitar lessons but haven't found an instructor in slide. As long as omse one mentioned where they group up, I grew up in Manhattan, NYC and LI, NY but have lived in the following states: ME, OH, FL, NJ, MI, MA, AZ and finally beautiful OR.
"A wailing song and a good guitar are the only things that I understand, poor boy."
I'm just outside of Philadelphia, Pa. We may claim to be the birthplace of liberty, but there's a pretty active blues scene here, too.
When you have to shoot, shoot; don't talk
BTW - although there's an active blues enclave here, it's mostly electric. The guy I take lessons from has the Brozman DVD's and is only one step ahead of me
When you have to shoot, shoot; don't talk
England...just outside of Liverpool. Blues has always been popular over here, especially since the "blues boom" of the mid sixties, and most british rock bands play a few blues numbers in their sets. Probaby most brits who like blues got into it through John Mayall, Clapton, Beck or Page....
:D :D :D
Vic
"Sometimes the beauty of music can help us all find strength to deal with all the curves life can throw us." (D. Hodge.)
I live in the Finger Lakes region of New York State, US; "The Great Spirit's Handprint".
I'm not all that big a deal on slide guitar, I just have fun with it, and enjoy tinkering with different techniques as a means to the end of playing the music I hear in my head. Sometimes that calls for doing things a bit differently! But I'm just a hack. But a toneful one... ! 8)
Homebase - Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England....Where men are men - and sheep are nervous :lol:
Workplace - (our glass-shop) Amblecote, Stourbridge, West Midlands, England...the glass-working capital of the U.K. :D
Happy Slidin'
Big D.
Rock Hill south Carolina since 1999 ,I lived in Paducah Ky for 16 years or so , I grew up(mostly) in North West Indiana about 30 mi. SE of Chicago and lived all over Indiana in the 1960's
I am a yank from the blue state of Minnesota. well, it's where I ended up.
I live in Minneapolis. lots of music up here.
and my favorite guitar shop;
I dont work there. just my regular saturday morning visit. I get GAS .
any pedal steelers here?
I don't play a pedal steel, but I have a major jones for having three "benders" goin' on an electric guitar set-up for and tuned to Open-D...
Did you say "Pedal Steel?"
"A cheerful heart is good medicine."
Smokin' Dog,
You lived in Paducah!!!!!
I'm eight miles east of Paducah, between Smithland and Ledbetter. Dang, I wish you were still around, I don't know anybody hereabouts that's into blues or slide of anykind. (Except the pedal steel country player, who hates blues).
It's a small world, but still sometimes out of synch.
If it ain't true, it ain't blues.
I missed you by 6 years :( I lived on HC mathis drive across from Noble Park. not alot of blues players in western Kentucky for some reason. Lou Getton the weather man on the local NBC channel had a blues band , I hear he can play a pretty good guitar ala SRV. I used to work at the minit mart in ledbetter back inthe early 90's when i was going to nursing school, we may have crossed paths at some point :D --the dog
