Love these interviews, Russ! More, please!

Awesome interview; great stories -- what a career! Thanks Russ and Bruce!

Pearls of wisdom and wonderful interview. Thank you for all your posts. Bruce is indeed awesome. I would like to hear the story on his building a rack and then ditching the idea. Like every steel player I'm less than satisfied with my tone and equipment and explore or chase the trends of the pros I see, only to find they too switch gear often. Please do a series on how and why you and other great players are using gear in your live and recording sessions.

Thoroughly appreciate you both for this conversation!

Really appreciate you gents for having this conversation. Insightful and reassuring as a ‘new’ PSG player. The gems from the advice Bruce received over the years are also super helpful as well. Thanks again!

I didn’t know there was a youtube channel called this. I subscribed immediately.

Thanks for the great video Russ and Bruce!

So many pearls of wisdom there. Finding a place in the room and don't be a jerk... two things I struggled with from time to time.

Smooth!

Awesome video! Bruce, I have always loved your steel playing. Saw you with Ray, Ricky, and Bobby in the 80’s. That band was great!

Love the stories. Keep them coming.

Terrific interview and content! Keep up the outstanding work!

Good interview Eddie ,great answers to some hard questions .

Such a tremendous interview and self reflection. Thanks again for these great interviews.

Such an excellent series and resource for us lovers of pedal steel, thanks again for another sit down with a Nashville Legend! Also, if you’re reading this, please subscribe! They’re almost to 1k subs y’all!

Brilliant interview. Bruce is one of my faves!

Thank you, Russ and Bruce!

Hey y’all! Bruce, I’m a steel player near Richmond VA and heard great things of your early days playing while you were at VCU! Heard (hearsay, not sure if it’s fact) that you hit the road in 6 months of playing steel ? That’s impressive! Hope to meet you one day, trying to get to Nashville one day (or at least join a group based out of there) and live the road musician life ! I’m prob the only guy in Richmond that plays ALL over the place Just yesterday 6/20/24 I was at a RnB/blues/jazz jam playing with those guys and Is always a great experience! They enjoyed it too ! Great interview!!

Great stuff. Pedal Steel is the most interesting instrument of all time

Thanks! ya'll!

The Master! Doesn't get any better than that.

Thank you very much from up in Michigan.

What great stories!

Wow … thank you, sirs!

Steve Hinson is the coolest of cool!! Thanks for the interview!!

i love the head shake from Russ when Chris starts tellin' how things were played, who played them, what year they did it, who else was in the room and what colour their shirts were and where they played the day b4 and if they were still warin' that shirt!!! lolol!!! ;) M

I play guitar- not steel, but man, I found this fascinating. So cool to witness some masters diving into the craft. Thank you for this!

russ and mike cass showed up at one of my gigs one night. i should have been paid triple for the extra stress.

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I asked Bill Dearmore (Gene Watson Steel Man)to play Farewell party on my Mullen one day at a lesson and he reached up and pulled the 1st string with his finger.Id never seen that before. His Zum prob had that pull on it.

Man.I wish I had tracked Chris down when I moved to town in 97-99.He and I share a lot of the same personalities.

My first REAL steel player actually played w/out picks on some tunes.

Thanks Russ! 🍀

VERY VERY VERY 😎 KOOL

Is there any instrument Chris hasn't mastered? His knowledge of the history of the instruments and country in general is incredible.

The sound is all in the high-mids.

That was a ripper! Thank you. Never heard of this guy before so I'll check him out

I met Steve in late 80s, Knoxville...Cool Cat, Bobby S said, watch this boy, he's gonna be a great steel player , as usual Bobby could pick um, and was/is right on, keep on pickin Steve. Bill (pink hat)

LOL... Whaaaat is Cow Jazz?? Russ, please keep these comin'.

Thanks so much for this channel. Love hearing the stories.

Just that little bit of Webb Pierce voice that Steve imitated…funny. I asked Steve in a session one time…how many country music stars do you impersonate? Without thinking he said … “Only the ones who’ve fired me.” Great player and cat to hang with. I’ve edited this to include a story about Bobbe Seymour… I was doing a session at his studio with Steve one time… And Steve talked about Bobbe was always on the phone… That was so true. Bobbe was engineering this session we were on, and Steve could not get his attention to get more of something turned up in his cue Why? Because Bobbe was on the phone… Eventually Steve Hinson pulled out his big brick cell phone with antenna on it and called the control room and Bobbe answered it and when he did… Steve says… A man can I get more steel in the cue. Funny.

Flat-out, Steve Hinson is just so cool! :)

I love how y’all are so reverent (rightly so) about the generation of steel players before you. I have to say, though, you’re both on my Mt.Rushmore of steel players!

The history and knowledge Chis has about Nashville, Country Music, players, instruments, theory, technique, you would think he's a hundred years old and not a 30 something kid. Unbelievable. I could listen to him prattle on for days.

Russ you are the perfect host!!! Eddy is so dang good too!!!

I can listen to Chris talk for hours. Such a wealth of knowledge and well spoken man.

this is one of my favorite YT channels

Terrific interview! Thank you for this. Saw you both at the Blue Room about a week ago. Hope you guys continue to do those!

So glad you put this channel together Russ..thanks!

This is a very good video. Chris Scruggs know an awful lot about steel guitars and country music. And Russ Pahl is a good interviewer who let his guest speak, instead of speaking about himself.