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Gift for Shane

As a way of saying thank you to Shane for his promotion of the CBG movement over the years, and the creation of the CBN site, several CBN members got together and pitched in to buy Harrison Withers' Ghetto Born lap steel guitar. Shane had his eye on it for a long time, but never had the money to buy it.

Harrison shipped it to me, and I hand delivered it to Shane at his open mic night this week. Harrison also included a wooden plaque attached to the back of the guitar.

I brought a video camera along, but the lad I asked to run the camera got it out of focus, so the first part of the event is missing. I replaced it with a still picture and left the audio intact. Shane was speechless and very appreciative that we thought of him.

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Permalink Reply by Harrison Withers on November 4, 2011 at 8:46am

glad i could be part of it!

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Permalink Reply by Delvero on November 4, 2011 at 9:31am

Nice Guys!!! That is the Ultimate!! Very nice work Harrison, it surely ROCKS!!!!

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Permalink Reply by Matthew Borczon on November 4, 2011 at 10:41am

that was a wonderful gesture from you guys. Nice to hear Shane play one last time here. More proof that this is one great place full of people with true and pure hearts. Really nice of all involved.

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Permalink Reply by Ryan Rose on November 4, 2011 at 12:49pm

Very cool.

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Permalink Reply by Mark Bliss on November 5, 2011 at 3:59am

Very nice gesture, And that thing sounds great! Well played too of course. And as far as "one last time here" goes, I somehow doubt that is the case.........

I personally hope to see him return as a participating member, free from the duties of owner/administrator to do his thing.

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Permalink Reply by Slowpaw Steve T on November 5, 2011 at 4:40am

Hey that's great! (-:

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Permalink Reply by Ben "C. B. Gitty" Baker on November 5, 2011 at 10:59am

Glad to see this guitar get to where it was supposed to go :)

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Permalink Reply by Mark Lillo on November 5, 2011 at 11:44am

This is the kind of thing that makes this community a great place to be a part of. Well done guys!

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Permalink Reply by Bob Harrison on November 5, 2011 at 2:31pm

I wish I had of known , I could have pitched in as well. Shane helped me so much at a hard time, he's the King. Harrison's Wesserban is tops.

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Permalink Reply by Harrison Withers on November 5, 2011 at 3:03pm

I thought about using one of your pups, but I knew the Elmar would work good since I had used one on the rat rod. Sorry!

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Permalink Reply by Ron "Oily" Sprague on November 6, 2011 at 4:19am

Just wanted to say a huge CBN Thank You! to everyone who contributed to this project, responded so positively when the idea popped into my head, and made it happen, especially Dan Sleep, Harrison Withers, Josh Gayou, Diane In Chicago, Hollowbelly, Roadkill aka John Maw, Uncle John, BeetleJuice (John McNair), Keni Lee Burgess, Ben (C.B. Gitty)...ummm... Did I forget anyone? If so, my deepest apologies; I'm trying to remember off the top of my head.

Also, to those who might have liked to contribute, but didn't get a chance to, I'm truly, deeply sorry I couldn't / didn't contact you. I don't know everyone at CBN, and am only vaguely aware that several / many of you have a long history with Shane.

The way this went was, Harrison posted his pics. Simultaneously, Shane and I were looking at them. Shane posted his lust after the Original Ghettoborn, and lamented the state of his finances. A random thought popped into my head when I saw that: "Hey, the guy has put enormous energy into CBGs and this website; maybe I could gift it to him to say Thanks, to let him know just how much people appreciate him..." Then another thought appeared: "Noooo, better would be to take up a collection..." So I ran it by Dan, Ben and Harrison, all of whom responded enthusiastically. Harrison told me Shane had wanted this guitar since he first laid eyes on it several years ago; between Dan and myself, we came up with a relatively short list of contacts. If some of you feel slighted, please don't; it wasn't intentional on either of our parts. We just came up with a quick list of names on the fly, and went with it. I sent Friend requests to those on our list; those who responded were made aware of the project details. Those who further responded back positively were given payment details. I suggested people could kick in 10 - 15 bucks each, and thus we could meet Harrison's sales price rather quickly. Which is what happened, after some good natured negotiating between Harrison, Dan and myself. Dan then offered to have it shipped to him, so he could catch Shane unawares at his Wednesday open mic, and Harrison told Shane that unfortunately, it had just been sold, so as to keep the surprise element. That is the ONLY reason for the secretive nature of the project: to increase the surprise factor. I asked Dan if he could video the delivery, which he most graciously did ( see link above). I think Shane himself said he was speechless, so I guess the surprise worked.

Once again, my sincere, deepest apologies to anyone who may have wanted to contribute, and yet feels slighted. Harrison made a nice plaque that he attached to the back of the Ghettoborn, as you can see from his pic above, which reads "from the Cigar Box Nation." Everyone who contributes to this website, however often, is thus represented in this gift to the man who gave us a place to build, play and share our love for these funky instruments. If you wish to discuss this privately, please feel free to contact me via my CBN Profile page.

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