South London Steelies POW_WOW is on! 6 October

[Nick Bidmade]

Fantastic! With Barry and Matt, we're up to 8 (assuming Barry brings a steel). I haven't got any experience of these things but I did think 8 would be the most we could accommodate in the room without it getting too crowded/noisy/difficult to set up etc. It may be that experience tells us 8 is too many or not enough! However, if we have a successful day, then maybe numbers/venue/frequency of meetings is something we can talk about.
I am on holiday from Monday 23 September, back on Saturday 28th.
Thanks to all for contributions and confirmations to date, especially Shaun for organising backing track for Cold Cold Heart. Hope you are all practicing!

[Shaun]

Hi All

I've got the backing track ready, might need a bit of tweeking but should be OK.
Runs for 24 goes round the chords so should give us all a couple of goes at it.
If anyone wants the MP3 or BIAB file PM your email address and I'll send it to you.

[JohnDavisStringsHere]

Just a thought, if you guys were to organise your future meets just outside the M25 I think the response to that would be massive, you would need a bigger hall but then it would probabley be cheaper........ it would be more likely to be 80 than 8 !!
London driving is no longer fun for old men..... but we can all still manage the race track ....

[Shaun]

Good Point John,
Definetly something to discuss at our first meeting.

[Barry]

Nick,
I will be bringing my steel along to have a play. Thanks to you all that have organised this.
Barry.

[Nick Bidmade]

Good stuff Barry. Don't worry about playing standard... there'll be a number of levels of skill between us, but that's the point - we all learn from each other and all find this a difficult instrument to get to grips with.
Hi John - yes, you are probably right about spreading further afield - but there seem to be sufficient numbers to make this viable as a London group and there are enough of us in South London... I'd be happy to travel an hour or so outside M25 - Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Hampshire, Essex, Herts, Bucks.... there must be a viable number of steelies out there?
However, we are up to 8 confirmed attendees. From little acorns....

[Basil Henriques]

Please accept my apology for butting into a "South of the River" posting, (from up here 'in the sticks') but I think CCH is a great choice of Round Robin tune.

We did it on the SGF a few years ago and it was "On-Line" fun.. and ran to 10 pages..
HERE

I contributed a Country and an Hawaiian version.
Alan Brookes from Oakaland CA. is visiting the UK and called 'round to bring a guitar to me (More about that later) and to jam a little.
Well, I was just playing around with CCH and he said I should post the noodling on the forum, so, here is my noodling at it, warts and all.
The country one performed ? with a complete lack of attention to the details of playing !! I was experimenting with ToonTrack's EZ Drummer and all the new plugins from Universal Audio..

BTW in Hanks version it's an 18 bar sequence whereas on the Don Helms video on YouTube, Don plays it as 17 bars, so I made it an even 16 and completely missed out the extra bar of 4 halfway through, and the extra bar of 1 at the end of each cycle.

Hank's key and tempo on my Emmons..
1970 Emmons-D10

The equipment in use for this :-
1953 Fender Stringmaster Mk1 D-8
1963 Fender 1000 (9 pedals)
1970 Emmons D-10 (was 9X4) now 4X3
Hilton Vol Pedal
Peavey Nashville 112 via its own "DI" to logic Pro 8 on a G5 twin 2.5Ghz
Tribotone Bar (The 10 string one)




The Hawaiian way WAS fun, I tried to disguise the melody by adding extra notes, but not subtracting any of the original melody ones, then I played the melody as chords, then from the hula vamp onwards, the melody in open and close harmony with the occasional chord.
The first and second part is the Fender 1000 and THEN the resurrected long scale Fender Stringmaster Mk1 Twin, twice through, Then the 1000 again..

The Semi Hawaiian Way

[Shaun]

That was great Basil really enjoyed that, thanks for posting.
Terrific playing.

[David Hartley]

Hi Guys.

I am glad you have organised this for yourselves.

If you would like a couple of long tracks to play along to, I have 20 minute long tracks for TOGETHER AGAIN and CRAZY ARMS.

Shaun, email me at [email protected] if you want to take them along to your POW WOW and I will send them to you by return email, or Dropbox if they are too big to attach to an email.

Wishing you a successful meeting.

David Hartley.

[Nick Bidmade]

That's very kind, David. Either of these tunes could be 'homework' so we had something to prepare for what I hope will be a second meeting! Hope Shaun can 'receive' these via the interwebby thingie - I'm afraid digital music has completely passed me by!
What keys are they in, David?