THE BIG PAGE OF LINKS!
Constantly being added to.
Enjoy!
AND understand just because I link to a page because it is interesting, or I got some knowledge out of it, does NOT mean I promote or encourage anything else that person, company, or group may be in to on or off other portions of their site. Thanks!
OTHER PAGES IN THIS SITE
MEMORIALS
The Frank Sears memorial page
The John Kirtland “Uncle Johnny” memorial page
WRITINGS
18 Seconds of Sheer Kinetic Oblivion
OTHER SITES ON THE WEB
OLD HOUSE
Some info on dating glass doorknobs
INSTRUMENT CRAFTING
Guitar #1711
Steinway #L1037
PRS Guitars 2024 factory tour
Carmine St. Guitars
Making 'Moktak' for Buddhist Monks
Gibson factory tour 1967 (promo film)
Gibson factory tour 2024
A 2,000 Year Old Tradition - Morin Khuur
The making of an Oud
Martin Guitars, Nazareth PA tour
Notes from the workshop - a Luteshop documentary
A Retired Engineer's Pursuit of the Perfect Mandolin
INSPIRING CRAFTSMANSHIP
Japanese masters turn sand into swords
The gunsmith of Williamsburg Every screw! I had helpers at the guitar workshop watch this so they “got it.”
Jewelry made from junk classic car pieces (and a company made from this)
PREPAREDNESS
Your version of a “Go bag” is something every responsible and ready person should have in case of natural emergency or other happening.
HOW THINGS ARE MADE
Great Eastern Cutlery factory tour, old style pocketknives - part 1 - part 2 - part 3
GUITAR RESOURCES
Chord name generator
CREATIVE INSPIRATION (adapt as needed to your world)
On being prolific and releasing lots of art - your body of work
MUSIC RELATED
George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass Classic Albums Review (18 mins.)
www.youtube.com/@sakuzanjazz A great YT channel with obscure jazz album reviews
The Church of John Coltrane documentary
Meddle: The Album That Defined the Pink Floyd Sound documentary (1 hr.)
The Ramones True Story documentary (1hr7mins)
Rush 2112 and Moving Pictures Classic Albums bonus material (1hr)
The story behind the great “Lo-fi girl” channel on YouTube with the awesome work music!
Ted Greene seminar on guitar chord substitutions and jazz moves
The Pedal Movie - all about the history of guitar effects pedals
GREAT BLUES DOCUMENTARIES
1969 Memphis Country Blues Festival (Some great Delta stuff!)
Blues Before Sunrise doc (2015)
Good Morning Blues (1978)
GIP documentary - juke joints
Blues Story: A Documentary
Muddy Waters: Can’t Be Satisfied
Step It Up and Go
Rural Blues
You See Me Laughing: The Last Of The Hill Country Bluesmen
Chicago Blues Documentary
OLD BLUES PLAYERS I DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT
Nathan Beauregard
Jo Ann Kelly
GREAT JAZZ DOCUMENTARIES
1959 the year that changed jazz (Best jazz doc ever?)
The Kid From Redbank - Count Basie documentary (1 hr)
On The Road With Duke Ellington (1 hr)
GREAT MUSIC MOMENTS
Pearl Jam absolutely nails The Who’s “Love Reign O’er Me” (Live)
Stevie Ray Vaughan’s most beautiful recording of “Little Wing”
Zeppelin crushing Kashmir live in 2007
LEGENDARY MUSIC MOMENTS
Keith Richards on having the singer’s back on stage
AMAZING MUSIC CONCERTS
Jazz Sabbath - fantastic, and the dry English humor about this band’s “history” is hilarious.
Ibrahim Maalouf Istanbul 2013
Paul McCartney and Wings live 1980 (2hrs+)
An early Nirvana set from 1989 in Australia!
PEOPLE AND CULTURE
Some folks nearby in far-up NY state, the Ganienkeh Mohawk territory.
CANNONBALL RELATED
(Most people think it was just a cheesy movie. It was a few cheesy movies. But stuff in those cheesy movies, some of the craziest stuff, actually happened in the real - yes, real - Cannonball Runs. Plural. Hush-hush coast-to-coast races. It’s been happening since the early 1970s as we know it, but way back as long as there have been capable vehicles and balls of steel. From THE Cannonball Baker to the Cannonball Baker Sea To Shining Sea Memorial Trophy Dashes, then several others, and lots of individual attempts. Quite a story.)
Wikipedia.org Cannonball Run
Secret 2020 Cannonball record run exclusive interview podcast
Cannonball (1976 movie)
Cannonball, the real story of
The Cannonball Countach - complete history
We set an unbeatable Cannonball record
Musketball - Cannonball with 100 horsepower cars!
I ran the fastest coast to coast run in 32 years
Prepping two cars for cannonball and how they did
Australian 1984 Cannonball car article
Another on the car and run with pics and footage!
Page of history of Australia cannonball runs
CHANNELS OF CANNONBALLERS OR CANNONBALL CONTENT
https://www.youtube.com/@switchcars
https://www.youtube.com/@VINwiki
OLD TRUCKING DOCUMENTARIES
1976 USA trucking Oregon to Arizona
“On The Boulevard” 1979
LIVING ON WHEELS LINKS
SIMPLE / RURAL LIVING LINKS
Trout & Coffee YouTube channel
The best info on old manual water pumps
Another by the same great channel, he rebuilds one step by step AND puts a well in and draws up water
GREAT MUSIC INTERVIEWS
The best (ex-Metallica bassist) Jason Newsted interview ever. All the details.
GREAT 16-minute Alice Coltrane interview/doc
The Universal Mind of Bill Evans
CAMPING SKILLS THAT ADAPT TO CAR/VAN LIVING or BUG OUT - Great stuff to know!
Blackie’s minimalist portable cook set
Corporal’s Corner solo overnight gear explanation - fantastic.
I love this guy’s camping videos: Ken Kramm
TRAIN RIDING CHANNELS (the best)
Stobe A personality all his own, who plays his own piano soundtrack of related songs. RIP.
Mouse From England, a truly daring rider more into social/political documenting of the cultures who ride.
Shoestring Decades on the rails for this character, who teaches us the ways and equipment. RIP.
Owen RanOutOnaRail is mostly long-form with stunning views and minimal talking. Amazing.
SONGS I LOVE (a rotating exhibit)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xf-Lesrkuc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjohnEnCJ6I
OFF-GRID LIVING
Living off-grid near the Grand Canyon
Deep in the backwoods in a camper
13 Years Communal - What I was part of forming in TX (and wrote Together by Choice about) never got close to this, but watching these people does bring back SUCH memories…
RANDOM
1979 Daytona 500 - one of the wildest “stock car” races ever… 3 hours.
A drive along Rt. 11 in far up NY. 11 is a fascinating old road from New Orleans, LA angling up and over to Canada.
(((((A MESS FROM HERE DOWN - WORKING MATERIAL FOR THE SITE)))))
MORNING PRACTICE BOOK
MORNING - the very first part of the day, what you wake up and enter into.
PRACTICE - something you do every day, how you get better at something.
for
ITINERANT - wandering, no fixed place or (in this context) specific path, and not necessarily lost either. Exploring, free.
SOULS - that intangible drop of something greater that animates us; the life force, consciousness, spirit; who I am inside the body.
MORNING PRACTICE for ITINERANT SOULS
Ideas on how to begin your days, with discipline and devotion, to better life and results… for people of no specific spiritual path. Or, maybe you do have one or are called to one way; this is fine, I hope what’s in here helps you walk that path better. This book is not about the path, but about the walk.
FROM THE BOOK (page 13):
Even at a basic level, morning practice is a reset button to set you straight in difficult times in all different moments. In its sameness, the parts of practice remind you of the best and the basics in, around, and beyond you that do not change with every new wave or the day’s shifting breeze. Truths that remain however you may feel today. Of what lives deep in your core and connections that need not change either to suit these temporary winds.
The discipline to DO is strengthened by the doing every day. Habits are easy to keep… so set up a good one! Once you’re doing it, it’s doing you - you build your morning practice and it will build you. That minute or ten or hour, whatever it is to you in your current practice, you come out of it better than when you went in. Stronger. Cleansed. More focused and more planted. More established. More ready.
Reasons alone to have morning rituals! But healthy ones. Artificial chemical enhancement or asking for this or that, I can’t speak on. Do something to better yourself, your health, your own situation. Build that from inside, in ceremony, starting first thing in the day.
“I am very much enjoying mine. Thank you. Will be sharing with several others.”
”My wife and I have been reading from it every morning.”
”I love your books! Thank you for the time and energy you invested into creating such insightful wisdom.”
A FEW WORDS FROM SCOTT: I can't claim creation, I just got the gift of words and ways to present. Anything I write about is made up of little (and not so little) pieces I gathered or were given, but they all came from somewhere else. I just hope my little ways of presenting how I pieced them together will help others to piece theirs together. I’m a pretty positive and productive guy, and I can trace a bunch of that to how I try to start the day. A non-sectarian look at the struggle and sweetness of a devoted morning practice for the mind, body, and spirit. I’m no “expert” and this is WHY these 43 pages can help you get and keep yourself together!
https://www.amazon.com/Morning-Practice-Itinerant-Souls-Beckwith/dp/B0C1JGTSBC/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1JITY6MNWY3D8&keywords=scott+beckwith&qid=1683230453&s=books&sprefix=scott+beckwith%2Cstripbooks%2C198&sr=1-1
MORE FROM THE BOOK (page 19):
Discipline, ritual, physical activity. It will adapt. And, again – I’m not talking some huge level of sudden change. I’m talking “better than you were yesterday.” This is not easy but we grow better through the trying, and this is a major accomplishment in this world to – against all negative forces – feel a little better anyway.
Soul: It helps to have, however it may be robed, the perspective that you are not a body having a conscious experience; you are consciousness having a body experience. You are more than the body. And you don’t have to be able to define that to know it. Our perception is limited, but definitely good enough to notice there’s a lot more going on than we can quantify.
(…and from page 26):
Mentally, physically, spiritually. Aim for consistency - set a doable bit and do that bit every day. Again, if it’s 5 minutes, do that five minutes rather than beating yourself up over the hour that doesn’t happen. Attainable goals. Steps. Grow it, grow you, grow more. That’s the hardest thing for me, consistency. I wake up with a head full of things to do and my little legs already going.
But I know I’m not bringing my highest to all of it unless I tune myself up first, establish my ground, focus my intent for the day, and - for me personally - offer my thanks and myself. I get to it after that, and I’m healthier overall because of it. And I stay right-minded longer and easier, like I’ve slipped a raincoat onto my consciousness before stepping out into the storm a day in a life can be.
43 PAGES may not seem like a lot, but these are powerful pages that will help.
ORDER yours at the link above - I’ve priced this one low, so you can get multiple copies to share with others. OR if you can’t swing that, contact me directly and I WILL SEND YOU ONE. Stay strong, keep hope alive in your heart, and take the next step forward. All the best good to you and your circle. ~Scott B.
F
POETRY
Sprout dharma
The plant just reaches for sky
It doesn't ask why
It won't begrudge you picking its fruit
Cutting its leaves or pruning its shoot
When dry it withers
In rain it greens
But all it knows
Is there's light so it leans...
And reaches and drinks
From what nourishes most
The water and sunshine
And smelly compost
Its purpose is pure
From the seed to the weed
To emerge and to grow
To bloom and to feed
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One For The Whys
I don't live by that kind of logic
That leaves a man's pockets full
But his soul empty
Having never seen over the mountain
I do not wonder "What if" from here
I have tasted the wind
I have felt the rain
Not just gotten wet
This I know...
The turning point is far, far
Far beyond the point of no return
If sense holds you back
That is fine
If you don't understand the quest
That is OK
Go back and be sensible
In your safe decisions
Where your future awaits
But don't for a minute pretend
That going around the mountain
Will give you the view
Or turning back from it
Will leave you wiser
Merely because you avoided failure
By avoiding the bigger odds
Of the bigger dreams of stirred passions
Where another's destiny calls
*
Uncertain Times
I am not a preacher just a pilgrim on a path
Onward to whatever’s down this road
And I would never promise that my way’s the one for you
Not knowing what it takes to ease your load
But may we both look back
From some distant better day
And with all respects paid all
We ever lost along the way
See the best in each other
In these uncertain times
I wasn’t born a winner - I have stumbled to this hill
And it is but another of its kind
We all got here from somewhere - we’ll get somewhere else from here
I may die climbing for what’s left to find
Or maybe from the top
Looking over what has been
With no way to go back
Only to begin again
See the best in what happened
In these uncertain times
Find the best in each other
In these uncertain times
(S. Beckwith)