How many marriages have dissolved because of the steel guita

Pete Burak · Post by **Pete Burak** » 15 Oct 2002 8:47 am

My catch phrase is... "Hey... You married it!". (usually with my hands in there air like... whattidja-expect???)

Anne Marie O Keeffe · Post by **Anne Marie O Keeffe** » 15 Oct 2002 9:20 am

steel guitar + computers = marriage poison

What a load of nonsense. While John plays his steel I get on here and see how all the Forum steel players are getting along. It's definitely a recipe for marital harmony.

Paul Graupp · Post by **Paul Graupp** » 15 Oct 2002 9:40 am

Anne Marie: I always thought they spelled that kind of harmony as:

CELIBACY !!

Regards, Paul

Jim Smith · Post by **Jim Smith** » 15 Oct 2002 10:01 am

Wayne Cox said:

She says she loves those little "whiney" sounds I make.

But what does she think of your steel playing?

HowardR · Post by **HowardR** » 15 Oct 2002 10:04 am

Hey Ray, I think this thread that you started may break up a few marriages..

Stephen Gambrell · Post by **Stephen Gambrell** » 15 Oct 2002 11:29 am

The only "whiney" sounds I make sound like,"Honey, PLEEEEEAAASE?!?!"

Ernie Renn · Post by **Ernie Renn** » 15 Oct 2002 11:51 am

She turned me down...

So does this mean you were playing too loud? (Maybe that's why the first one left.)

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Anne Marie O Keeffe · Post by **Anne Marie O Keeffe** » 15 Oct 2002 12:25 pm

Paul, I NEVER said he spent all day every day playing his steel.

Tony Prior · Post by **Tony Prior** » 15 Oct 2002 12:46 pm

Ernie..She didn't "LEFT" I left...

tp

Bob Hayes · Post by **Bob Hayes** » 15 Oct 2002 5:01 pm

OK....First wife didn't appreaciate me using my REINLISTMENT BONUS to buy My 1st Sho-Bud D-10. Then She found out That I was Messing 'round Wife # 2 while playing(or trying to play) my Sho-Bud..So she said THAT WAS IT It's Either Her or!!!!!!!!Well..I was getting used to playing the Sho-Bud..so I went with Wife #2. Wife # 2 Put up with it for quite a few years..but I was spending more time with New MSA D12 than with Her.I rode off into the sunset......and eventually found wife # 3 and 6kids.. Off course, by now I was about certifyable NUTS..with STILL Trying to learn how to play This screewed up instrument...keeping the names and faces of my lady friends strait..while trying to survive in a dog eat dog world....So I went with 6kids and wife #3..and gave Dolly Parton "Look A Like" her walking papers...Almost 17 years later,,and many different bands...I have New "Baby Blue" (Carter D 12).. Wife # 3 puts up with me..lets me play out occationally..Patronizes Me)..and lets me practice in my CLOSET!!!!!! and I'm STILL working on that DAMNED BLOCKING!!!!,,Maybe it's time to get wife # 4!!!!
Grouchyvet

Pat Jenkins · Post by **Pat Jenkins** » 16 Oct 2002 2:21 am

Interesting topic, to say the least. Both (former) wives loved the idea of being married to a musician/radio man. Until they actually were. I guess they had a difficult time with real life and fantasy. I am no fantasy. Even if I think so. It was always "You are never home enough", so I'd quit my band, then it would be "You never seem to get OUT anymore". Just couldn't win. Second divorce was final in May.
Well, at 49, I'm not looking to get married again, not looking mind you. I am working in several bands and loving it. I hadn't worked out in several years and was spending all of my time sitting at home feeling sorry for myself. Now, I am having the time of my life. Musicians make great friends. If I could only get my son to play music with me...LOL, my kind of music, not his...AAAAAAARRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHH Anyway, that's my two cents on the matter, whatever the matter is...Pat

Ray Montee (RIP) · Post by **Ray Montee (RIP)** » 16 Oct 2002 8:46 am

Hey Pat! You're in dangerous waters, I'd say. It's when you've convinced yourself that you're NOT LOOKING that things seem to fall perfectly into place and a real winner finds you. Good Luck to you...... I've enjoyed all the posts....tremendously!

George Keoki Lake · Post by **George Keoki Lake** » 16 Oct 2002 9:16 am

I've been married (very happily I might add) for 50 years. My former girlfriend was of Chinese extracraction and we could have become serious were it not for the fact I kept playing that old Chinese song:
"Tu Ning" over and over ad nauseum! (yech! sorry about that.)

David Doggett · Post by **David Doggett** » 16 Oct 2002 10:00 am

Well, I guess I did this backward. I got divorced and then started playing pedal steel. Actually, I started over 25 years ago in Nashville and Knoxville (bought my first used Maverick off Bobbe Seymour when he looked like he does on the cover of that Downtown cassett tape). I played briefly for Pam Tillis, back before I could play or she could sing (now she can sing like crazy, and I still can't play). But in '77 I quit entirely, went back to school on the West Coast, moved to the East Coast and started a day job career, got married, had four kids, then got divorced after about 10 years.

That whole back to school, career, marriage thing was my mid-life crisis. Now I'm back to my real life playin' pedal steel and tenor sax (I started that down in North Mississippi playing Rockabilly in the early '60s) - but it's all strictly amateur now.

Would I ever marry again? Not without an air-tight prenup. I put my ex through med school. Now she makes way more than me, and the court still has me paying her every month, even though the kids live with me half the time.

But I'm playing music again - so who cares![This message was edited by David Doggett on 16 October 2002 at 01:37 PM.]

Terry Edwards · Post by **Terry Edwards** » 16 Oct 2002 5:20 pm

Hello, this is Terry's wife, Sharon. I wanted to comment on the marriage situation. I bought my husband a beautiful Diamond Hawaii lap steel. Then an old Maverick caught my eye. So actually I guess I live in a hell of my own making. But I did live through his learning the banjo and the mandolin. You might say the steel would be an improvement, at least it doesn't go ring a dingy or plunk-cady-plunk all night long. So give me steel and no divorce.

Sharon

Jody Carver · Post by **Jody Carver** » 16 Oct 2002 5:48 pm

Ron
I like the acoustics and its dark in here &
my dogs cant wee wee on my legs,,my guitar legs.

Paul Graupp · Post by **Paul Graupp** » 16 Oct 2002 5:57 pm

Jody: When I used to work in hospitals they told me the definition of a nurse was:

Someone who could take two stainless steel ball bearings into a dark, empty closet; break one and loose the other........

Regards, Paul

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Ray Montee (RIP) · Post by **Ray Montee (RIP)** » 16 Oct 2002 8:53 pm

Are you guys really attempting to get this Forumite fellow to "come out of the closet"?

Alvin Blaine · Post by **Alvin Blaine** » 16 Oct 2002 11:56 pm

My current one was married to another steel player before me. She doesn't mind me playing steel but I can't play it when she's sleeping or she'll wake up screaming(her ex used to come home drunk and play steel all night). It is kind of fun to torment her with it, she'll be in a dead sleep and I can go in a room at the other end of the house with no amp and just hit a chord, push down a pedal and she wakes right up. I can play guitar, mandolin even dobro and she never wakes up, but one note on a pedal steel and watch out.

David Doggett · Post by **David Doggett** » 17 Oct 2002 8:35 am

Yeah, someone once told me my playing could wake the dead too.

Harry Johansen · Post by **Harry Johansen** » 17 Oct 2002 9:25 am

I'm divorced in feb.2002,but still married to my Fulawka.

Mike Jones · Post by **Mike Jones** » 17 Oct 2002 12:05 pm

I had a starter wife, she starting dating her bass player, yes she was a chick singer. She left and took my 66 Jazz Bass with her. I sure miss that bass.