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At 11:05am on August 11, 2013, Vinylhed said…: I'm loving your version of Shelter From the Storm on the Dylan album. Just thought I'd pass on my appreciation, cheers man.

At 2:40pm on July 9, 2013, Kenneth Wilson Hale said…: Hey, Turtlehead, Thanks for the encouragement. Your photo icon showing the cohiba

input jack is great looking. The KIng Of Hearts is built out of a cohiba gigante box.

I had my brother in law do the camera work. He will be pleased with your good review

of his style. Thanks, again! Ken Hale

At 4:42pm on February 3, 2013, Ron "Oily" Sprague said…: Turtle,

Heheheheheheh! Galloping impending doom - I like it. This also taught me something the Beatles learned ages ago: record really sloooww, then speed things up, and vice versa. I learn something new every time I do one of these. That's why I keep doin' 'em. Based on early returns, its running neck and neck; simplest would be to include both on the album, one as a bonus track. Hmmm.

At 7:35am on January 30, 2013, Ron "Oily" Sprague said…: I'll know it's my Stairway when GCs all over the country start putting up Do Not Play Gypsy Caravan On Pain Of Deth! signs. ;-) Funny thing is, the song started with me hearing a combination of Misty Mountain Hop and Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp in my head, and thinking, "Gee, I wish I could come up with something like tha-aaat..." Thank you very much for the overly kind comments. I'm just trying to let the gits tell me what they wanna do. Really.

At 4:41am on November 30, 2012, Ron "Oily" Sprague said…: Turtle,
Thanks for the comments! Gandy was fingerpicked, while Graverobber was flatpicked. I find that I can play faster runs with only 3 or 4 strings to deal with; part of it's the narrower fretboard, so I don't hafta stretch as far, and part of it is these dang gits teaching me what they wanna sound like! Glad you liked the tone on Robber; Jamie and I just had a long discussion of how that came about (he didn't like it, but I explained that I favored it after trying practically everything else in my limited recording arsenal, including dry no effects).

At 2:02pm on November 18, 2012, Bad Finger (Eric) said…: Glad you liked the result of the collaboration! Happy Thanksgiving.

At 5:56am on November 8, 2012, Bad Finger (Eric) said…: Those lyrics have sat around unused since May. Time to turn them loose and have something great come as a result. I had the creative inspiration to write them and I thought it would be too much a shame to put them to an amateur level of playing and even worse vocals (me). I like to think I'm improving all the time, but I think those lyrics are still a couple levels above my pay grade.

At 2:54am on November 7, 2012, Bad Finger (Eric) said…: Hey, thanks for your contribution using my lyrics. I've been really disappointed with my own efforts to put them to use. I got the sound of Johnny Cash singing the song stuck in my head and couldn't purge it, even though it wasn't what I wanted. The idea to incorporate the Steel Gray Saturday instrumental never occurred to me and you did a great job grafting the two together. I'm very thankful that you took the time to do something with it.

At 2:13pm on October 8, 2012, eK said…: You're welcome! Actually, I owe you an apology for not having sent you a friend invite earlier. (Thought I had.) You're the guy that reminded me about open tuning and 5-string playing way back with your video on your "Keith" build. That kicked off a whole wave of new music writing and fun times for me. I owe you! :-))

At 1:45am on September 17, 2012, Phill Hill Charlie said…: Thank you very much for adding me as your new fiend... many nice things to discover on your page...°<[:-) [---]==={...

At 7:56pm on April 30, 2012, Ron "Oily" Sprague said…: Th,

Thanks for the Friend request! Gladly acepted. For some reason, I assumed we were already Nation buds. Glad we are now. Can't wait to hear your work on Two Hands.

At 2:03pm on April 20, 2012, Vinylhed said…: Hey Mate. No problems, I'll have a crack at it. I've played Pancho on a 6 string, but I'll have to work it out on my 4 string CBG.

At 4:17pm on April 10, 2012, Clock The Wolf said…: I'm constantly on the lookout for video material from multiple sources. This came from the U.S. National Archives, and was originally taken by agents of the Department of Agriculture. In its raw form it's several hours of material. The Prelinger Archives is a good source for this material and in fact has some of this footage, albeit haphazardly edited. Prelinger stuff is all in the public domain, which is important. You may want to try http://archive.org/ , although you need to triple-check whether or not you can legally use what you find there. The number of possible sources of legally viable material is endless... as I noted at the end of Behind The Mast, the ship images came from the Australian National Maritime Museum, via http://www.flickr.com/commons/ , although once again, you need to triple-check just what you can do with it...

Sometimes the film and images inspire the noise, other times it's the exact opposite.

Usually, it's kinda inbetween...

At 12:29pm on March 27, 2012, Kelly 2Fingers said…: Thanks Turtlehead for the kind words. Gearing up for build # 2

At 11:55am on March 27, 2012, Keni Lee Burgess said…: Thank you turtlehead for your reply. It works well with 3 string CBG too.

GDg (G5 tuning on my CD 4) or GDf (G5 add 7th) or GDa (G5 add 9)

Retune GDg to ADf# (Open D tuning on my CD 6) or ADf (D minor) or ADg (standard guitar chords / moveable e chord).

Oh, the vastness...Enjoy your practice.

At 2:38am on February 7, 2012, bemuzic said…: came to check out your version of Uncle J's song...well done, sounds great : -)

At 2:04am on February 7, 2012, Uncle John said…: Turtle,

LOVE your version of T & T. Excellent. Please, please post a video of it and use the song as you wish.
Thanks!

John