Steel Guitar West’s Monthly Newsletter
Many years ago I had the honor of serving as the editor of The Pedal Press, the official publication of a small steel guitar club called Steel Guitar West. We published an 8 page newsletter monthly for about 4 years, from 1978 through 1982, and then the club fell apart from a lack of organizational energy.
Some of the material we published was timely, but much of it is solid steel guitar information that’s as valid today as it was 15 years ago. I toyed with the idea of turning the relevant articles into HTML to republish them, but eventually decided that the best course would be to scan complete issues and post them to the web. This way everyone can browse through them as I do from time to time, enjoying the sense of history and friendship as well as all the technical stuff.
Each page is a GIF image file wrapped in HTML with links to the other pages from that issue and a link back to this index. Clicking on the scanned image takes you directly to the next page of the newsletter. The single page GIF images range from 25k to 50k in size – not huge, but they do take a bit of time to grab with a modem connection. I think you’ll find most of them worth the wait.
-Bobby Lee, Autumn 1996
| April 1978 Page 1 – Club News by John Sala Page 2 – Editor’s Blurb Page 3 – Ray Bob Bowman’s B6th tuning Page 4 – Picking exercise by Ned Selfe Page 5 – Picking exercise continues Page 6 – Music Notation Reference Charts Page 7 – continued from Page 1 Page 8 – Who’s Where, Classifieds |
May 1978 Page 1 – Hawaiian Guitar Jam Session Page 2 – Club News Page 3 – Winnie Winston’s E9th S-12 Page 4 – E9th Musical Notation Charts Page 5 – continued from page 4 Page 6 – letters, call for articles Page 7 – cont. from Page 1, Classifieds Page 8 – Who’s Where, Steelers at Large |
| June 1978 Page 1 – Coming Event: Rich Sinkler Page 2 – From The Prez – John McClung Page 3 – Bob Lee’s Pentatonic Tuning Page 4 – Cross Picking by Ned Selfe Page 5 – p4 continues, club news Page 6 – Emmons all-pull reviewed Page 7 – p1 continues, Who’s Where Page 8 – Classifieds |
July 1978 Page 1 – Club News, president resigns Page 2 – From The Prez – Ned Selfe Page 3 – Meet Me in St. Louis Page 4 – Knee lever survey results Page 5 – The SGW E9 Copedent Page 6 – Review of Rich Sinkler concert Page 7 – p1 continues, Who’s Where Page 8 – Steelers at Large, Classifieds |
| August 1978 Page 1 – Bobby Black meeting announced Page 2 – Hawaiian Guitar Jam announced Page 3 – Who’s Where Page 4 – Lulu’s Blues by Bob Lee Page 5 – … for C6th lap steel Page 6 – Letter from Maurice Anderson Page 7 – Planning for the convention Page 8 – Classifieds |
September 1978 Page 1 – Ned Selfe on electronics Page 2 – p1 continues Page 3 – Elsie Jaggers meeting planned Page 4 – Bobby Black’s C6th tuning Page 5 – John Sala reviews Bobby Black Page 6 – Hawaiian Guitar Magic Page 7 – Who’s Where, Classifieds Page 8 – A cool Steel Guitar West logo |
| October 1978 Page 1 – 1978 Convention coverage Page 2 – continues Page 3 – October meeting announcement Page 4 – Steel Guitar West charter Page 5 – continues Page 6 – continues Page 7 – Who’s Where, Classifieds Page 8 – Display Ads |
November 1978 Page 1 – Pacific Steel Co. reviewed Page 2 – Editorial Page 3 – Andy DePaule’s tunings Page 4 – Emmons E9th Instructional Page 5 – continues Page 6 – p3 continues Page 7 – Classifieds, Who’s Where Page 8 – p1 continues |
| December 1978 Page 1 – Bobby Lee & the Castle-Lites Page 2 – Happy Birthday SGW Page 3 – Bobby Black review Page 4 – The Universal Tuning Page 5 – … by Greg Lasser Page 6 – p3 continues Page 7 – Classifieds, Who’s Where Page 8 – Display Ads |
January 1979 Page 1 – Jeff Newman announcement Page 2 – p1 continues Page 3 – Neil Livingston review Page 4 – … by Ned Selfe Page 5 – Display Ads Page 6 – Dorian DePaule’s drawing – (this issue was only 6 pages long) – |
| February 1979 Page 1 – Plea for help Page 2 – Meeting Notes Page 3 – Essay by Bob Lee Page 4 – Joe Goldmark’s records Page 5 – … reviewed by Page 6 – … Ned Selfe Page 7 – Display Ads Page 8 – Classifieds |
Copyright ©1996 by Bobby Lee