Not stunt but Music

[Doug Moon]

I know alot of you guys out there play guitar and other instruments.

Check out this guy playing a slide .... through a loop back machine. AWESOME!  Relaxing if you ask me.

[Ralph Wenzel (d)]

Thanks, Doug. Truly amazing what captivating music can come from original sources!

Ralph

[Keith Spriggs]

Hey, Maybe I should trade my old flatop Gibson for a shovel. That guy sounds a whole lot better than I do.

[Randy Powell]

I thank I'll keep my Washburn, but it just proves you can make music with most anything.

[Will Hinton]

Well, I simply spend waaaaaaaaay too much time searching for exotic wood for my customs!!!!!!!!!!!  All I gotta do is visit the local hardware!!
Did you guys notice his guitar strap is an old seatbelt?

Will

Keith - when you want to get rid of the old Gibson, I'll trade you THREE shovels for it!  (And pay the shipping!)

[Larry Cunningham]

As a shovel, it's impressive. As a guitar, it's interesting. As music, it's not primo.

Definitely a testament to creativity. I've heard a couple of cigar box guitars that sounded tolerable, but this is the first shovel!
Here's an interesting link to cigar box guitars, check it out.

http://reddogguitars.com/BluesHistory/historicguitars.html

L.

"Never play cards with a man named Doc, and never eat at a place called Mom's." -John O'Hara

[Randy Powell]

Larry,

With the direction of the economy, all us guitar players may be playing wash tub basses and cigar top guitars. And maybe coal shovel guitars. But for now, I'll stick with the Washburn and Taylor guitars I have.

[Dalton Hammett]

Hi Randy

      I've done the wash tub base thing before for fun,  but I agree with you you can't beat the Taylor !!

   Dalton H.

[Steve Helmick]

Why is it that the music continues when the picker isn't pickin'? What's making that tapping sound? Why does that continue also? Seems to me like it's faked, but I'm not a guitar player, either. Please 'splain... Steve

[john e. holliday]

Years go while in Temple, Texas visiting family, we went to the loca pub for some entertainment.  The highlight of the band was when the lead singer played an old hand saw like a fiddle with a bow.  Sounded good to me.  If you watch the fingers of the picker, his is playing that shovel/scoop.   I'll bet not too many remember the old wash board. DOC Holliday

[Peter Ferguson]

i picked up a decorating tip..different stove top grates nailed to the wall.

[Randy Powell]

Steve,

The shovel has an electric guitar pickup and the player is sending it to a Roland Mixer. Notice the various pedals on the ground allowing him to switch to various "special effects" like the loop back (replays what you just played - set for frequency and number of loops). Also you can set all kinds of effects. My son has a sound effects mixers that will allow his guitar to sound like most anything. Over 200 various effects. The tapping drum beat is him tapping with his thumb on the shovel back and it being looped through a drum machine (possibly a program). For something that looks pretty low tech, it's actually quite sophisticated.

[Steve Helmick]

All I know about music is 1) what I like 2) what I don't like 3) that I've paid for a couple of those electronic organ board thangs and a piano that nobody plays. Thanks for the techo answers about the looping stuff, Randy. Closer to stunt than I thought!  Steve

PS: I like these:







And for FUN:

[Clint Ormosen]

Guitars with MIDI effects and fancy electronic keyboards are cool. But there is simply no denying that the absolute, end all be all, KING of instruments is......

        The Wurlitzer Theatre Pipe Organ!

Designed in the teens and refined in the '20's, the Wurlitzer built Hope-Jones Unit Orchestra was the original synthesizer. It replaced entire 40 piece orchestras for the purpose of accompanying silent films and vaudeville acts.







There are a TON of these, but need I say more?

[Ralph Wenzel (d)]

Ver-r-r-y interesting. What a heck of an instrument. It even transmogrifies "The William Tell Overture" into "Afternoon of a Fawn". <Grin>

Ralph

[Ralph Wenzel (d)]

And he-e-r-e-s yet another - - These guys are pretty good, too! Especially Antoine Dufour . . .



Ralph

[Charlie Pate]

Years go while in Temple, Texas visiting family, we went to the loca pub for some entertainment.  The highlight of the band was when the lead singer played an old hand saw like a fiddle with a bow.  Sounded good to me.  If you watch the fingers of the picker, his is playing that shovel/scoop.   I'll bet not too many remember the old wash board. DOC Holliday

I remember the washboard.I also remember Spike Jones and last but not least Jo Stafford singing
 her rendition of  Temp-Ta -Tion.
Great musicians pretending to be no talent entertainers.