Why don't steel players smile? The list.

Gary Lee Gimble · Post by **Gary Lee Gimble** » 15 Nov 2002 1:03 pm

Every time I sit down it smiles!
Gary Lee

Rick Collins · Post by **Rick Collins** » 15 Nov 2002 3:51 pm

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Every time I sit down it smiles.
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Gary, you're a genius. You've given me an idea. Drop your pants and shorts, sit on top of a photocopy machine, put a rubber band on the copy and use it for a mask while playing.

Rick

Jim Eller · Post by **Jim Eller** » 15 Nov 2002 4:00 pm

As stated in my original message, "Does anyone know where I might find this list?"

I'm starting a new one while this thread goes on.

Jim

c c johnson · Post by **c c johnson** » 15 Nov 2002 5:35 pm

I,m not there to sell toothpaste. Besides, with a screeching fiddle on my left,a wide opentreble guitar on my right, and a drummer with smash to smitherines cymbals in back of me, you expect me to smile.

Pat Jenkins · Post by **Pat Jenkins** » 15 Nov 2002 6:52 pm

When our band is doing well, and it is not my turn to play, I smile and occasionally wave to the folks as they dance by the bandstand. I wish I could get the rest of my frowning band to smile (actually they do), we have a blast some nights. It does help the crowd to relate to the band...and a lot of those dancers are our friends. Pat

Willis Vanderberg · Post by **Willis Vanderberg** » 20 Nov 2002 10:27 pm

I saw Lynn Owlsley up at Catfish Johhny's in Lake Panasofkee yesterday.He not only did a great job but smiled the whole time.Adn he was playing on a strange ( to him ) guitar

Buddy Van

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 21 Nov 2002 4:57 am

Tell 'em you're not smiling because you're beta-testing the new sphincter volume controller and if you smile, it gets too loud. (Then watch the expression on their face as they move away slowly from the stage area.)

Earl Yarbro · Post by **Earl Yarbro** » 21 Nov 2002 12:15 pm

Johnny Gimble, the great fiddler, anyone ever seen him ~~~ not smile? Makes that fiddle sound even sweeter than it is. It should work one the steel also.

Wayne Cox · Post by **Wayne Cox** » 21 Nov 2002 5:33 pm

Sometimes I break wind on stage. That could be really embarrasing but when I realize that the band is too loud for anyone to hear it...I smile real big!

~~W.C.~~

Gary Lee Gimble · Post by **Gary Lee Gimble** » 22 Nov 2002 1:32 am

Wayne, if you're talking all bark and no bite, then a real big smile is certainly justified. If some collateral damage starts to set in especially during a ballad, a real big smile might indicate that you were the author of that note.

Gary Lee Gimble

Tony Prior · Post by **Tony Prior** » 22 Nov 2002 2:17 am

It may be that we have that hold our breath "Steel Face" instead of a smile because we are anticipating the 3rd string breaking and we are concentrating in advance on two things;
1) we don't want the string to break
2) How the Heck will we finish the lick when it does break

Now I ask you, how could we smile with this on our minds?

tp

Gene Jones · Post by **Gene Jones** » 22 Nov 2002 4:03 am

[This message was edited by Gene Jones on 07 December 2002 at 02:47 PM.]