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Slide

25 Apr 12 - 05:28 PM (#3343252)
Subject: Slide
From: Kara

How many slide guitarist does it take to change a light bulb?


25 Apr 12 - 05:51 PM (#3343261)
Subject: RE: Slide
From: Leadfingers

No Idea ,but I DO know how many Traditional Folk singers it takes !

And its Twenty Four


25 Apr 12 - 05:58 PM (#3343265)
Subject: RE: Slide
From: GUEST,999

About a half dozen. One to effect the change and the others to talk about how they could do it better.


25 Apr 12 - 06:15 PM (#3343269)
Subject: RE: Slide
From: Leadfingers

No Mate - One to change it , three to sing (In Harmony) what a wonderful light bulb it was , and the other twenty to moan about how much better it would have been if it hadnt been electric


25 Apr 12 - 06:39 PM (#3343283)
Subject: RE: Slide
From: Big Al Whittle

leave us slideplayers alone - we're all right.


25 Apr 12 - 06:54 PM (#3343292)
Subject: RE: Slide
From: Kara

what does a slide player need to see?


25 Apr 12 - 07:54 PM (#3343313)
Subject: RE: Slide
From: Bobert

I must be ambidextrous because I play slide and...

...can change a lightbulb!!!

B~


26 Apr 12 - 11:22 AM (#3343558)
Subject: RE: Slide
From: GUEST,999

. . . and at the same time, too.


26 Apr 12 - 11:45 AM (#3343571)
Subject: RE: Slide
From: Leadfingers

Thats just showing off !!


26 Apr 12 - 11:48 AM (#3343572)
Subject: RE: Slide
From: GUEST,999

This is Bobert we're talkin' about here. He wets his finger before testing light sockets. But he knows his way around a slide guitar.


26 Apr 12 - 12:09 PM (#3343581)
Subject: RE: Slide
From: Amos

Well, there's only two directions, so it ain't all that! :D


A


26 Apr 12 - 12:27 PM (#3343586)
Subject: RE: Slide
From: GUEST,999

Amos, consider that line stolen.


26 Apr 12 - 01:48 PM (#3343623)
Subject: RE: Slide
From: Bee-dubya-ell

It depends on the slide guitarist's specific style.

   He may play acoustic or electric.

      If acoustic, he may play bottleneck or lap-style.

         If bottleneck, he may play on a regular acoustic guitar, a wood-bodied resonator guitar, or a metal-bodied resonator guitar.

         If lap-style, he may play on a modified regular acoustic guitar, a Dobro, or a Weissenborn style guitar.

   If electric, he also may play bottleneck or lap-style.

         If bottleneck, he may play on a regular electric guitar, or the amplified version of a resonator guitar.

         If lap-style, he may play on a lap steel or a pedal steel.

I count that to be ten different ways to play slide guitar. We slide players can't even make up our minds how it should be done and you want to know how many of us it takes to change a lightbulb?


26 Apr 12 - 02:42 PM (#3343655)
Subject: RE: Slide
From: GUEST,Hookey Wole

"How many slide guitarist does it take to change a light bulb?"

almost an infinite number ????

However many are in the room taking it in turns to run the bulb up and down their guitars
deciding if it sounds any better than a beer bottle neck !!!??


27 Apr 12 - 05:15 AM (#3343899)
Subject: RE: Slide
From: David C. Carter

If Bobert plays his electric slide guitar, naked,whilst taking a shower(every 6 months,wether he needs one or not)he ain't going to need
to change no light bulb!


He'll be just another "flash in the pan".

I'll get me coat