Thanks!

I've been delayed in responding because I was robbed the day before yesterday.

I came from a gig at a banquet hall, a luncheon that was earlier attended by the mayor of the town (Chicago Ridge, IL), and my car window was smashed and my netbook and USB modem were stolen. About $550 in damage.

This was the first time in 12 years performing in the Chicago area that this has happened to me. Anyway, I'll keep my valuables in the trunk from now on.

As far as the pedal steel goes, I wasn't ever dreaming of fooling a pedal steel player, even though maybe there are keyboardists who can.

I did have a lot of 6th chords in there when I was on the tonic.

I used to own a Hank Williams cassette that had some pedal steel in it, and I kind of wanted to get that feel.

Those half steps are difficult to do, unless it's just a blues note.

As far as the just the bottom note bending, Yamaha does have an S.A. pedal steel that does have that effect. I was thinking of maybe alternating in the solo between the voice I was using and the S.A. pedal steel so I can get that bottom note bending effect.