Lap Steel Meeting?

[mick hearn]

Is anyone aware of any meetings in the south Suffolk/north Essex area for lap steel players. My interest for lap steel tends to be western swing or thereabouts.
If not - would anyone be interested in starting such a meet. Any style as we can all learn from each other.

[JohnDavisStringsHere]

Mick seems a bit mean to exclude the peddlers plus your gonna need`em to help pay for the shed........
My interest re planks is the same as yours but I know buggerall about it, Your welcome to come over here but you will not learn anything from me on my plank

[mick hearn]

John. No-one is excluded given the fact that most pedal steel players use twin necks (I could never afford one) and already have a C6 tuning. What I demonstrated with the National was using the C6 tuning - and I have heard you mess around on C6. The differnece is that I will use bar slants whereas you probably have a pedal to do most things. Apart from the fact that you will be able to get a lot more wonderful chords out of yours than I would.

The lap steel interest with a lot of players ranges from western swing to overdriven blues as well as Hawaiian and the number of tunings used is tremendous.

The request was a passing thought. Once I am back from hols I will come over one day and we can swop licks.

Who knows, I might even do a teaching video for Sunny Side showing how I did it.

[JohnDavisStringsHere]

Once I am back from hols I will come over one day and we can swop licks.

Look forward to that Mick....

[sabatica]

oooh this sounds like a great idea. When where? I am in north london but can drive depending on what time of week and day. Usually sundays are good cause of free parking.

Just added some more audio to my blog. Check it out when you have a chance. I'm into anything that has feelings and lots of nice chords.
https://ilapsteel.wordpress.com/audio/


All audio recording are lap steel. no guitar was used in the making of any recordings.

Let the lap steel revolution start here in the uk. Let's jam.