Seasick Steve playing a home-made 1 string Diddley Bow

[TheVintageSound1]

that's not a diddley bow it's a cigar box guitar

[therosevilleband]

@TheVintageSound1 Actually, as It's only got one string and is played with a slide, it's more akin to a Diddley Bo, but with a sound box...that, and it's not made out of a cigar box! Haha

[Tserrofxam]

@macheteblack Thing is, he used to be homeless for pretty much most of his life. He's a very humble man and clearly doesn't let fame or money go to his head.

[jibster94]

i love this guy! come on he was homeless and besides this little wonder haha he also made his own electric guitar out of a hubcap broom handle rusty bolts scrap wire and other junk and ill tell you it sounds amazing!! it has a real character unlike any other guitar! :)

[bazza667]

@protomodelsdotcom - you're right, he can make music out of absolutely anything. I once saw him crank out some sweet, sweet tunes with a pair of used tea bags and a feather duster.

[HOMEnHIGH]

@bazza667 ...dude...ive seen him pluck 6 hairs from around his anus nail them to a wash board and play "whilst me guitar gently weeps" in D minor....whilst Chuck Norris kept tempo on a bongo made from the scrotum of a Komodo dragon...

[TheDairyMan420]

dam im jelous! i tried makin one of those, i dun think seasick would approve of it though

[kraker109]

I'm makin a 6 string right now....I just need running heads and I'm done

[psychotic33089]

Nice! - CGC

[thebakuman77]

cool

[RevolutionarySamurai]

Damn! How did you get backstage with him!!! =D Also d'ya know how he made his Diddly bow?? I want to make one XDD

[kevkraft]

Actually, since this a one-stringer, it's a diddley bow. Nice tone.

[stevejoalbert]

what guitar is a trans boogie whatever???????sounds like a harmony or silvertone

[ja555cd]

its a "trance wonder"

its like a fender colorado but with three strings nd loads of duct tape :L

[jaket1287]

JimHxn, you got to play the trance wonder? Help me out here. I know the tuning is approximately open g, but the strings are in the wrong places, yeah? What gauge strings are in what places on the wonder? If you happened to notice. Cheers.

(great vid & diddley bow, btw)

[JimHxn]

Ok, these are the strings, lowest to highest. The notes are 'gauge - position (in standard tuning) - tuning'

E - A - G

D - G - G (8va)

G - B - B

Hope this helps :D

[badboybaldy1]

@jaket1287 thanks jim...nice 1 help me too lovely man hey jim honest .....and fuk the heart drink wine got love that shit ..

in australia bless .......

[richyo1000]

Ha! talk about open tunings! this guy has definitely got a cool style and i really hope he gets that brit award!

Nice 'guitar' by the way Jimhxn!

5 million stars from me!

^_^

[gsjssss]

what string gage and tunning did u use

[JimHxn]

It's not really got a tuning, I've never played it with any backing musicians...but it has got a machine head if needs be ^_^

And the string is a standard gauge G for electric guitar.

Hope this helps!

[Addiction747]

Why not use an acoustic string?

[JimHxn]

cos it was an electric string i had to hand lol and i wanted a thick steel string rather than a wound one and that's the thickest i could get easily

[mrgreanjeans]

you just got to keep it simple and soulful.thats all that matters!anything else is secondary.thats why i dig it!

[joediablo66]

WOW

[goodbye41]

genius is a strong word that I don't like to use lightly, but this man has an obvious passion for his trade that's nearly unseen these days; a true modern day hobo bard right there and fuck if we don't need more people as into it as he is.

[AnimeDrumDude]

Comin from a drummer's point of view, this guys has got one of the strangest sounds I've ever heard...but I love it, come on the dude can play an entire song(including a solo) on 1 string he's pretty damn good.

[gxcope]

i guess you are still stuck fumbling on a six string...

fucking kids...lol

[H0LL0WBELLY]

wow! bet you were well chuffed getting seasick steve to try out your very own 1 string-he seems like a nice guy in the vid.cheers for posting.

[JimHxn]

Even more chuffed when he played one i made especially for him on BBC2 haha.

I also got to play the Trance Wonder which was absolutely...painful! The strings are like f**king cheesewires! Was ace though haha

[herby1020]

are you the guy who made one out of the hubcaps?

[JimHxn]

@herby1020 No i'm not, although it's a great little instrument ain't it? I'd love to know the tuning on that

[protomodelsdotcom]

@herby1020 Yup that's the guy. He can make music out of anything I think : )

[rossmorris]

the man is a genius

[forestdad]

agreed.

[natmermaid]

Wow that was amazing! he plays one-string better than I play six!!!

[ZombieGuitarPlaya]

I know what you mean mate.

[JustRyan25]

amazing!!