York, PA, USA musician, Shane Speal is responsible for the modern resurgence of the cigar box guitar, a once forgotten instrument of American blues and roots music. Few artists are as committed to expanding the boundaries of such a primitive instrument as Shane does. “A Cigar Box Guitar is quirky and appears ‘broken’ from the start,” says Shane. “They just don’t look like they should play any music. I love to see jaws hit the floor when I shove a socket on my finger and wail away.” In addition to performing and composing on cigar box guitars, Shane has also opened the first permanent Cigar Box Guitar Museum within the walls of Shane’s Tavern in New Alexandria, PA. He also has an ever-expanding lesson series on how to play cigar box guitars, found on Youtube, CigarBoxNation.com, CigarBoxGuitar.com and ShaneSpeal.com. His column, The DIY Musician has been read by thousands at GuitarWorld.com and showcases homemade instruments, players and techniques. Shane Speal & the Snakes latest album, Stay Primal features cigar box guitars, washtub bass, washboard, tin can microphones, and many other DIY instruments.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
Roy H. Williams of Wizard of Ads
When business started difficulties overcame:
“so I took my music and I took my marketing and I spent a few months that I had with unemployment benefits and used those benefits as an investment of time and energy into starting my own company. And so it was a struggle, it was finding that need filling it, it was balancing family life and taking care of my son while my life was at work, the other son was at school, how to keep that going. Then I slowly morphed it all into a business that was self-sustaining. It was a struggle every day but every day taught me that hustle, that morning hustle. And I knew if I didn’t find a different way to make money that day I was going to be behind and unemployment benefits only took me for so long I needed to make it work”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
Wizard of Ads Books by Roy H. WilliamsFavourite Quote:
“People think I’m crazy but I’m in demand” Ozzy Osbourne
Recommended Online Resources:
Wikipedia – is a free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Love people and hustle every morning. You know this isn’t about you is about your customer, this is about people around you so love the people around you and then hustle every damn morning, every morning you get up. Just get ready and go”…[Listen for More]
More About Shane Speal:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“If you’re interested in the living heart of what you do, focus on building things rather than talking about them.” Ryan Freitas, co-founder of About.me
Other Quotes From the Chat with Shane Speal:
- “I love being creative and I love people”
- “I didn’t have time to have doubts, I was sitting at home and I had to make something happen”
- “find something thing you are passionate about and go after it”
- “its passion and hustle for me 100%”
- “if I don’t sell I don’t eat”
- “The morning hustle is everything. When you wake up in the morning get yourself ready. ”
- “The secret to my success is collecting friends getting to know people and I love to connect people with each other. If I find somebody has a service that another friend could use I hook them up. I collect friends like people collect baseball cards. I love having a massive collection of friends and they have become my resources for building my business and also for blessing them back.”
- “It’s all about using absolute brilliance language in your marketing, dreaming big, chasing after dreams like Don Quixote and being an absolute artist in every bit of life”
- “what I do for a living is not normal.”
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