I have a stupid question?

[Peter Siegel]

Lots of ways to go on this one. I would try a very muted attack, almost a pizziccato (sp) effect. Or make like you are a b3 organ w/o using your effects. Or comp with the horn section. When I played with Commander Cody, the sax player and I condsidered ourselves a "section" and had lots of horn type parts arranged together. It was too fun and sounded great to me. Playing rhythmically is a challenge on an instrument like steel which is so fluid and sustaining, but it sure is fun.

[wt golden]

I went to a party once that had a very diverse crowd of people. This was at an engineering conference and there were people from all over the world at this place. No one really knew each other - much less even spoke the same native language. Everyone was shy and we weren't being very sociable. All of the sudden the CD player changed disks and a Bob Marley CD came on. It was really great to see every ones reactions to this music. A crowd of people from all over the world - started bouncing their head to the beat, and in an instant, the whole room realized that we were all connected by this music. The atmosphere changed at that moment - and I tell this story to this day. I think most everyone in the forum has seen that the power of music is an amazing thing. And I think that Bob Marley is a great example of what a universal language music can be.