--- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
>
> Hey Geezer,
> 
> Check out this site for the guy who built my new cigar box guitar! 
> The thing is so Delta and primitive I am loving life.  Tuned to open G
> on 4 strings.  This is the old, old school! 
> http://homepage.mac.com/bjagitsch/PhotoAlbum63.html
> If you scroll down you can see a video of him playing one.
> 
Whoa Curtis! Those things look and sound unholy as hell! That's not a sound 
you're gonna 
find at any NAAM show.

Some time back I worked on several sessions w/ Ry Cooder. I asked if there was 
anything 
he needed...he said " 20 gallon galvanized trash can". I said, OK fine figuring 
he was 
planning on generating a lot of trash. (With Ry you never know.) We got the 
trash can, he 
shoved it up against his amp, taped down the handles, took the mics we had 
carefully 
placed on the amp, and pointed them about 2 inches from the center of the (now 
lying on 
its side) trash can and began to play. I'm here to tell you it was a ragged ass 
thing of 
beauty, like a harmongus resonator.

No digital effect can make that sound and none can match those cigar box 
jobbies either!

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