How old are you?

Rich Gardner · Post by **Rich Gardner** » 1 Feb 2017 7:19 am

68 this Friday

Andy Jones · Post by **Andy Jones** » 1 Feb 2017 1:42 pm

Bill L. Wilson · Post by **Bill L. Wilson** » 1 Feb 2017 8:55 pm

John Bohannon · Post by **John Bohannon** » 1 Feb 2017 10:21 pm

29! just picked up pedal steel this year

Mike Archer · Post by **Mike Archer** » 2 Feb 2017 1:49 am

I'm 65....

George McLellan · Post by **George McLellan** » 2 Feb 2017 5:46 am

72 and still upright.

Geo

DG Whitley · Post by **DG Whitley** » 2 Feb 2017 7:00 am

62...until April....

Dennis Detweiler · Post by **Dennis Detweiler** » 2 Feb 2017 8:15 am

I think I counted 8 forum members below the age of 40. The majority are mid 50's to 80+. I had my youngest son with me at the St Louis Convention about 10 years ago. He was around 28yrs old at the time. He looked around the room and asked me, "how long will this convention survive? Everybody is old".

John Limbach · Post by **John Limbach** » 2 Feb 2017 8:35 am

74. Took it up at 67.

Slim Heilpern · Post by **Slim Heilpern** » 2 Feb 2017 8:47 am

62, been playing steel for less than 1 year, hope to have some decent chops by the time I hit eighty, should I make it that far... am enjoying the journey, regardless.

Dennis Detweiler · Post by **Dennis Detweiler** » 2 Feb 2017 9:03 am

It's an addictive journey at any age.

Duncan Hodge · Post by **Duncan Hodge** » 2 Feb 2017 10:01 am

Just turned 60 last week. Yesterday, my steel playing sounded great. When I was in my 50's...not so much

Mike Perlowin RIP · Post by **Mike Perlowin RIP** » 2 Feb 2017 10:37 am

Dennis Detweiler wrote:I think I counted 8 forum members below the age of 40. The majority are mid 50's to 80+. I had my youngest son with me at the St Louis Convention about 10 years ago. He was around 28yrs old at the time. He looked around the room and asked me, "how long will this convention survive? Everybody is old".

I saw the pictures of the players at the recent SWSGA convention in the event announcements section, and thought the exact same thing.

Perhaps the reason is that so many players insist on playing 45 year old music. Young people want to hear and play music of their generation. Playing SG Rag and A way to survive" all the time is a way to cause younger people to lose interest in our instrument.

Earnest Bovine · Post by **Earnest Bovine** » 2 Feb 2017 11:40 am

Mike Perlowin wrote: Perhaps the reason is that so many players insist on playing 45 year old music.

No way! Everything I played was at least 55 years old. On a positive note, most of it was less than 290 years old.

Mike Perlowin RIP · Post by **Mike Perlowin RIP** » 2 Feb 2017 11:51 am

Earnest Bovine wrote:
No way! Everything I played was at least 55 years old. On a positive note, most of it was less than 290 years old.

Hi Doug. I got you beat. My BourrÃ©e was written 500 years ago, back in the 16th century, by a man named Michael Praetorius.

http://pedalsteelmusic.com/?p=502

Jerry Malvern · Post by **Jerry Malvern** » 3 Feb 2017 8:29 pm

Anybody ever think of selling prunes to forum members?

Seriously, I too seen the pictures from the Phoenix show and with the exception of a couple of players, it looked a lot like a jam session at a local senior center. Not a thing wrong with that, other than the pedal steel guitarist is not on the endangered species list.

joe long · Post by **joe long** » 4 Feb 2017 7:43 am

77 in December.

Joe Casey · Post by **Joe Casey** » 4 Feb 2017 7:50 am

Here's one for you.. Smiley Roberts will be 79 the 10th of February. Try following him around. He's the real Energizer Bunny. P.S. Check out Smiley on Facebook. They just did a TV show Live with Smiley and Friends. https://youtu.be/38sd3wHNZbo?list=PLi9n ... 20qCqBRA8b

Chris Schlotzhauer · Post by **Chris Schlotzhauer** » 4 Feb 2017 1:25 pm

I was 62 when this thread started

Martin Abend · Post by **Martin Abend** » 4 Feb 2017 2:25 pm

Ben Jacoby · Post by **Ben Jacoby** » 4 Feb 2017 4:12 pm

James Jacoby wrote:78---nuff said! ---ouch--my wrists hurt, writing that! -Jake-

Hey Jake! Don't you know that trying to play a bass with too many strings after playing PSG makes your wrists hurt?

Me 74.

Thiel Hatt · Post by **Thiel Hatt** » 4 Feb 2017 7:51 pm

79 and counting.....Proverbs 20:29...(still with no bald spots) Psalm 33:2..(love to play the old hymns)

Matthew Begay · Post by **Matthew Begay** » 6 Feb 2017 11:19 pm

19 years old...still got a lot to learn

Bud Harger · Post by **Bud Harger** » 7 Feb 2017 3:46 am

80.

Been playing since 1948. The sound still fascinates me.

Joshua Hicks · Post by **Joshua Hicks** » 7 Feb 2017 10:37 am

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