First Performance

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Jim Williams
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First Performance

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Well, after much arm twisting and threats from my wife, I played my pedal steel in front of an audience at church for the first time Sunday night. I played Just a Closer Walk with Thee, using the arrangement from DeWitt Scott's book with a few changes here and there.

Went pretty well, with a couple of mistakes but not a total train wreck. My wife played chords on her ukulele :).

I've played other instruments before for the church but never the PSG, and to be honest I was so nervous I don't really know how it sounded!

One thing it did do though was prompt me to buy a leg bag from the PSG store! My GFI came with a nice case but no leg bag and wrapping them for transport was a bit of a hassle.
GFI SM10 3/4, 1937 Gibson EH-150, 2 - Rondo SX Lap Steels and a Guyatone 6 String C6. Peavey 400 and a Roland 40 Amps. Behringer Reverb Pedal.
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Post by Damir Besic »

nice... and those GFI's are great guitars as well ... I'm sure you had fun.... keep on picking .... :)
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Post by Erv Niehaus »

Jim,
Keep up the good work! :D
"Give praises to the Lord on an instrument of 10 strings".
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Post by Paul Norman (RIP) »

That is good. Those little mistakes were probably never noticed by anyone except you so don't worry about them and keep on playing.
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Post by Jim Williams »

Yeah, I did manage just to play through them without stopping or slowing down. Just mainly missed a couple of pedal changes even though I've probably played this song a thousand times. One of the main things I bought the guitar for was to play at church on 5th Sundays. I also got my leg bag in this morning from the store here...very nice and very fast shipping.
GFI SM10 3/4, 1937 Gibson EH-150, 2 - Rondo SX Lap Steels and a Guyatone 6 String C6. Peavey 400 and a Roland 40 Amps. Behringer Reverb Pedal.
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Erv Niehaus wrote:Jim,
Keep up the good work! :D
"Give praises to the Lord on an instrument of 10 strings".
(Psalms 33:2)
Thanks Erv, I need to get some tab ordered from you soon.
GFI SM10 3/4, 1937 Gibson EH-150, 2 - Rondo SX Lap Steels and a Guyatone 6 String C6. Peavey 400 and a Roland 40 Amps. Behringer Reverb Pedal.
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Post by Erv Niehaus »

Jim,
The tabs you ordered will be in the mail today.
Thanks! :D
Erv