tackhead videos

This is the video of Hard Left by Tackhead (ON-U DP 16) from 1986. Gary et al riding round on top of an open top double-decker bus near the Houses of Parliament with bandages on his head!

Official video for Tackhead's 1990 single 'Dangerous Sex', directed by John Maybury.

Official video for 'Ticking Time Bomb' by Tackhead

This is the idiotic , stupidest thing i ever seen some one do ...if u cant stand blood or pplz in pain do not watch this

Tackhead featuring Bernard Fowler, currently back ground singer for The Rolling Stones, performing live: 'Mind and Movement Control'.

Recorded at The Town & Country Club, London 09/03/89 this is Tackhead at their wild best with Adrian Sherwood at the desk. They rocked the place from the front to the back and you can hear how much the crowd loved it.

Performance taken from the 1990 video compilation Dancedaze, filmed live at London's Brixton Academy. 'London meets New York head-on in Tackhead's 'Class Rock' it says.

A short video to announce that in 2009, Bernard Fowler, Keith Leblanc, Skip McDonald, Adrian Sherwood, and Doug Wimbish will unite to record and release the first TACKHEAD (12") single in 20 years. "Funky Obama" will also appear on a full-length album, scheduled to drop New Year's 2010. All Visual Arts [c.] dave.hogerty (DAVEHOGERTY.COM) photography/illustration/video/edit/production All Audio Arts [c.] tackhead (TACKHEAD.COM) also: myspace.com/hogertynews...

recording session

TackHead ... Skip McDonald, Keith Leblanc, Bernard Fowler, Doug Wimbish on their first musical memories (Video by Dave Hogerty www.myspace.com/davehogerty)

A tackhead banjo with a 10" pot and 21" scale. Using an internal tensioning system similar to those found in an Irish Bodhran. For more information on this banjo or other hand crafted folk instruments, go to deepcreekstrings.blogspot.com

Official video for the Tackhead track 'Reality'.

Newly completed commission. Another tackhead with internal tensioning system. The 12 inch rim is mahogany and bloodwood. The neck is mahogany and the fretboard is bloodwood. To see other handcrafted instruments like this one go to: deepcreekstrings.blogspot.com

studio

My first rim created on a lathe and it turned out pretty nice. The person who commissioned this banjo wanted steel strings, mechanical tuners and a crescent moon inlay at the 5th fret. Otherwise, this banjo is similar to my other tackhead banjos with internal tensioning systems. To see other handcrafted instruments like this one go to: deepcreekstrings.blogspot.com

Airborne Ranger (video), featuring Interference w/Doug Wimbish, bass guitar/vocals; Keith Leblanc drums/samples (Amsterdam 1991). — video by dave.hogerty

Raw camera footage from the Liverpool Arts Festival 2006 with Jesse Rae Tackhead and P-Theory

A full sized tackhead banjo from Deep Creek Strings. This instrument has an internal tension ring to tighten the calfskin head during humid days. The system works great! The tensioning hardware and the calf skin both from Mid-east Ethnic Musical Instruments. For more information on this and other handcrafted folk instruments go to deepcreekstrings.blogspot.com As an aside, my clawhammer playing is starting to improve.

The so-called tackhead banjos appeared in the 1800s, either along with the fancier minstrel banjos or perhaps a bit earlier.The tackhead banjo gets its distinctive name owing to the tacks which fasten the head to the hoop. It has no tension hoop, shoes, hooks or nuts for adjusting the tension on the head. The tackhead represents a stage of banjo evolution where we begin to see an instrument resembling the modern banjo. Tackhead banjos were generally unfretted, but many were retrofit with ...

13/2/2008, Tackhead rocks!

Doug Wimbish (bass), Keith Leblanc (drums), and Skip "Little Axe" McDonald (guitar) at Sully's Pub & Tiki Bar in Hartford, Connecticut. WIMBASH 2008 (August 9,2008)

TACKHEAD (Bernard Fowler, vocals; Skip McDonald, guitar; Doug Wimbish, bass; Keith Leblanc, drums) at The Town & Country Club in London (9/3/89)

me playing the dillards' tune on my 13-inch. banjo's by eric prust in washington state.

tack head - is there a way out feat dj cheese

Bernard Fowler and Tackhead, Doug Wimbish, Skip 'Little Axe' McDonald, Keith LeBlanc, Ramiro Gomez perform "New York Time" at the Highline Ballroom, NYC on March 22, 2009