turtlehead

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...

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.

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.

Thank you very much for adding me as your new fiend... many nice things to discover on your page...°<[:-) [---]==={...

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! :-))

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.

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.

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

I'm loving your version of Shelter From the Storm on the Dylan album. Just thought I'd pass on my appreciation, cheers man.

Im hearing this song over and over and just digging the down homeness of it,way to start us off in top notch style,salud

glad to be nation friend mr Turtlehead; thanks for your kind comments;

 will take time stopping more time by your page and waching all your great stuff when i can !

Thanks TH for your nice comment, strange issue about your ability to add comments, has it just happened on my page or multiple? Anyway thanks again!

Figured out the problem, I guess I had comments only allowed by friends so I changed it so anyone can. Got any music by your friend? Im curious to hear haha

Thanks for your kind words turtlehead. I've been inspired by so many of the folks here and have had my creative horizons expanded so much by looking at and listening to what others are doing. One day I'll learn to do that video multi track thing like you did on Boxgrass!

Hey, are you gonna do a submission for the christmas album? I bet you could

make I saw momma kissing santa claus or here comes santa claus or frosty

the snowman, etc. sound great! My wife and I really like your sound, especially

Abilene. Thanks! Kenneth Wilson Hale

Thanks a lot Turtle, glad you liked it, i must say its my first big one, looks old timey,and plays just fine,Greeetszz  A.D.

thanks turtle...im just getting started in this whole cbg stuff

hey turtle, thanks for the comments on the last couple of vids. man, you got the country vibe down - real authentic sounds!

Thanks there Turtlehead, I glad you liked it, Greeetsszzz

Thx Glad you enjoyed the vid from the PA CBG fest!!  I'll be posting some more on FB over the winter, i'll try to remember to put some up here too!

Hee hee no kidding love the map Turtle!!!!! Meeeeowwwwwwzer^^

Turtlehead, Thank you :-)

Yep !! Thanks Turtlehead, trying to mix the Old and the New, thats what we do ! Greeeettsszzz  A.D

A  B bender CBG is just awesome.

hey turtle here's a little murder ballad i recently finished for the gallows ballad project. this one's from 1618

https://soundcloud.com/planetslade/the-unnatural-murder-by-meh229

fancy having a bash at one? i could hit you up with all the details

Yeah man, it would be great to see your process. I'm beginning to think that the time I spend trying to figure this stuff out would be better spent simply making and playing instruments. But then I see some of the cool vids like yours and Charles' and I get pulled into wanting to learn how to do that. Any info will be much appreciated!

Thanks turtlehead, likewise Buddy!

Hey Turtlehead,

I would also be very grateful for a 4 string tab or lesson of some kind. I love your Ripple video, that was actually what inspired me to build a 4 string. Thanks in advance

Hey Turtlehead,

I'm sure I will jump right on learning whatever song you choose. I checked out your jam tracks (saw the new Stones tracks last night), they're really nicely done. Much appreciated

thanks for the friending Turtlehead,Nation is a bit unstable here a t m,so i hope this goes through

I thought We were but couldn't fine you on My list wanted to let you know I wrote another song using one of your backing tracks thanks it turn out real good  posted on CBN  and youtube.

Hey Turtlehead. Thanks for being a friend. I'm honored to call you one. Thanks for the encouragement too. I really appreciate that. Stay well and speak soon :) 

Turtlehead hey, are you still searching for «historical examples of three string CBGs?» Should we open a new forum asking folks about their first three string CBG if built before 01.01.2000 or an earlier date, how it was tuned, and where they got the idea from, tracing back the inspiration step by step.

Some days ago I mailed Mac Arnold who still plays on a three string gas can guitar, but didn't yet get an answer: «Dear Mac, wikipedia states that your musical journey began in the 1950s when you and your brother Leroy fashioned a guitar from a steel gas can, wood, nails, and screen wire: I have two questions: how many strings had your first gas can guitar and how it was tuned? Did you maintain these settings till now?»

Maybe working with phone calls could be a better option, asking always for contact data about the person to ask next, but for this kind of investigation I'm living to far from folks which have relevant information.

From our Wisconsin lumberjacks I moved to Northern Finland to check if they know similar instruments and bingo: diddley bows with a can as resonator. In a recent blog I asked finnish followers for photos, but till now without success.

Hey Turtlehead, hope all's well. I just got the Diddley today! It's a bit surreal for me, I haven't had my hands on many cigar box instruments that were built by someone else. This little thing is great. 

Thanks again! 

am i that BAD ? cose of the Bone i reccon? im not allway's playing alone, are you not the guy that does all those drum&Bass backup tracks?Mmmmmm,oke

Yep i dit get that , i was just wondering Why, not in  the best of my days some stupid virus is taking my hearing away on the right side ,still trying whit the doctors got rid of the cold but not the deafness!!