Comments on: #231 Mr. Vickroid’s Cigar Box Guitars

By: vickroid

vickroid — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 16:39:56 +0000

The Vickroids are currently on hiatus.
Drummer woes got to be to much hassle for a bit…
there is/was a one man band [in the works?]

By: Guitarras construidas con cajas de tabaco

Guitarras construidas con cajas de tabaco — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:14:30 +0000

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By: Vickroids Fan

Vickroids Fan — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:19:59 +0000

What the hell ever happened to the Vickroids??

I sure miss ‘em!

By: T2AP (Jerrod Modica)

T2AP (Jerrod Modica) — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 01:13:42 +0000

MR. VICKROIDS CIGARBOX GUITARS are real cool. http://tinyurl.com/6prkpe

By: frannya (Franny)

frannya (Franny) — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 23:06:56 +0000

#stl love via #boingboing Mr. Vickroids Cigarbox Guitars | LO-FI SAINT LOUIS http://bit.ly/Dh1Pz

By: the dish fairy

the dish fairy — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 01:10:19 +0000

get a hair cut and hire a maid…..for real, i enjoyed the video, if i knew how to play a guitar i might buy me one of those cigar boxes. i’ll spread the word they’re for sale.

By: Vickroid

Vickroid — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:08:22 +0000

HAHAHAHAHA

Full of good ole’ St. Louis Piss n’ Vinegar.

That’s me!

By: Kaz

Kaz — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 03:06:56 +0000

Amazing instuments. Hope the dude finds success as he is obviously talented at what he does. As a lifelong St. Louisan, I also find the video an interesting socio-psychological profile in the study of what can be deemed “Pure St. Louis staight up attitude”. Not saying it’s a bad thing. But on a scale of 1 to 10, this dude is clearly pushing somewhere in the teens…

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:12:30 +0000

Great video Bill. You find the coolest things to capture. That guy is obviously brilliant.
Very cool!!!

By: brody

brody — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:42:14 +0000

Excuse my very bad english
this man : very beautiful
What he does : very interesting
His voice: very beautiful
his guitars very strange
their sound beautiful
the mess in his appartment beautiful
But your film : bad, bad bad
You do not prepare the shooting
You do not think about it ,
you don’t go lookink for location
The image, beautiful,
like an advertise,
the sound good, but the film : hopeless
What a pity, knowing such an interesting person to do such a bad film

By: Clark

Clark — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:25:34 +0000

WOW!
WOW AGAIN!

MORE, MORE, MORE, MORE!

By: Steven Fitzpatrick Smith

Steven Fitzpatrick Smith — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 06:25:22 +0000

Very cool video. Great editing. And I like the contrast.

By: Vickroid

Vickroid — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:28:03 +0000

It’s not exactly a cigar box, but I made a full scale upright electric/acoustic double bass [fretless of course] with nylon strings, a piezo pickup, an oak soundboard and a weird pentagonal bucket body..
It’s currently on loan to APOP records. You should stop by and they’ll let you play it to your hearts content. There’s also a pretty cool little cigar box uke on loan up there too. Both are for sale.
I’ve also got a cigar box bass as well. It’s 4 strings, fretless, with an open frame headstock that uses cello pegs as tuning mechanisms. It’s got a small cigar box body and is meant to be played like an electric bass. It is, of course, electric. That one’s not for sale ‘cuz my friend Sam the Preacher made it for me, but I could make something the same or similar if wanted.

Hell, if you want it, I’ll make it. You tell me what YOU want. Frets, no frets, scale length, pickup type [magnetic or piezo] number of frets, tuning mechanism whatever. I’ve done basses, guitars [1, 2, 3, 4, 6 strings] ukes, mandos, dobros, violins, whatever.

By: Doc

Doc — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 02:22:12 +0000

Mark — Have you or can you make a cigar box bass?

By: vickroid

vickroid — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:27:04 +0000

Kopper – Bill didn’t get to see the dungeon/practice room in the basement. The missouri diddley-plank is hanging up down there. I stole the pickup, but the guitar is still all yours.

I’d love another show me blowout t-shirt though, mine got stolen before I even got to wear it once.

By: vickroid

vickroid — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:26:36 +0000

Aww, it’s OK Bill. I saw the related link too, just though I’d SHOVE it in.

By: vickroid

vickroid — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:25:14 +0000

By: Bill Streeter

Bill Streeter — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:04:14 +0000

No I didn’t.

By: Bill Streeter

Bill Streeter — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:00:25 +0000

Hey Mark, I thought about putting some of that footage from the other video but I knew that a link to it would show up as a related video in the sidebar, so it would be redundant.

By: Vickroid

Vickroid — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 23:34:53 +0000

Err… pps
check out lo-fi #185
http://lofistl.com/2007/08/20/episode-185-the-vickroids/
and the vickroids myspace for some CBG’s in action

http://www.myspace.com/thevickroids

Still lookin’ for a reliable drummer, by the way… Been practicing up for The Vickroid one man band, but it ain’t pretty.

By: Vickroid

Vickroid — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 23:14:08 +0000

PS If anyone needs their computer fixed, network setup, website worked on, audio visual system setup, computer or laptop built, spyware removed, spyware added, keystrokes logged or anything in that general vicinity gimmie a call at the same phone number you’d call for a guitar, it’s given at the end of the video.
That’s what the phone call at the begnining was about.

By: Vickroid

Vickroid — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 23:07:10 +0000

I thought you said I wasn’t gonna look like an idiot…
Just kidding bill, lookin’ pretty good… As good as an idiot like me can I suppose…
I vote for Vickroids footage at the end, and no phone call at the beginning… But thats why you’re the videographer and I’m the dummy makin’ guit-boxes from junk.

Vickroid quote of the month:
I’ll bet I could make something less crappy than that!

By: kopper

kopper — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:07:24 +0000

Hey Bill, you didn’t happen to see a guitar cut to the shape of Missouri while you were there, did ya?

By: Doc

Doc — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 02:19:03 +0000

This was a really good one, Bill. I think the spirit and sound of the cigar box guitars came through pretty well. The only thing that I think was missing was some footage of The Vickroids thrown in at the end, just to provide what the instrument is like in a band setting.