I was restringing my guitars for a show tonight at the Liquid Hero Brewery in York PA (5-8pm…come on out!) and I snapped some cell phone pics of my main guitars.  I also captured the little “set lists” I keep taped on the sides of the instruments.  Each one has a list of songs that is played on that particular instrument.  I change these every two months or so because I try to add new material.

When I’m not on stage, I’m probably in my woodshop building guitars.  Such is the life of a professional cigar box guitarist!  I just got several more instruments listed on my eBay page.  Haven’t done any demo videos yet.  I’ll try to get them filmed in a day or so (I’ll post about it here to let you know).  In the meantime, here’s the link to all guitars for sale.
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Performed a three hour gig at the Burning Bridge Tavern in Wrightsville PA tonight.  Been there several other times.  I brought along my new Darren Brown 3-string cigar box guitar (white cbg above…  http://dbrowncustoms.blogspot.com) along with:

• Daddy Mojo 5 (also above)
• Daddy Mojo 4 string
• my new 3-string electric/acoustic (dual pickups…humbucker and piezo rod acoustic p’up)
• My grandfather’s 4 string banjo
• the Pat Cook “Mother Leeds” cigar box guitar.  (also using it for “Tattoo of You” and the +LIVE+ cover, “Horse” lately)

I planned on doing the first set entirely on the new 3-string, but I busted the low A string after only two songs.  The setup will definitely need tweaking before tomorrow’s gig.  It also didn’t have the full sound that I previously got at another gig.  Still need to work on the overall tone of the instrument.

Had a great crowd for the first set.  They were attentive, buying cds, getting into the storytelling.  After a short 15 minute break, I came back to a lesser crowd that could care less what was happening on stage.  I really need to massage the setlist and create two 90 minute sets instead of three 45 min sets.

The Dixieland banjo didn’t go over with this crowd.  Oh well…gotta try new things when playing to the same bar in a close period of time.

Two hour gig tomorrow at the Tourist Inn in Hellam PA.  This is known as the heavy metal/biker bar in the area.  They’ll have me out on their deck at 6pm.  The perfect audience and the perfect stage for me.  Looking forward to it.

I’ll try to start blogging more on here.  I was doing so much Facebook, but I’ll just connect this to my FB account and give this info to a wider audience.

shane

ps.  I need to back off the foot stomper for some songs.

I bet there is lots of CBG history down there? whats your thoughts

watch this video and visit http://www.3-string-guitar.com/  where I will post more about it

check out the pickgaurd…whoooaaa

In a world filled with cheap Chinese instruments, Guitar World goes even cheaper with this online blog about cigar box guitars.  Also featured is a 9 minute video by Shane Speal on tuning secrets for a 3-string cigar box guitar.  LINK