>> like banjo guys in bands, they'll be like, "here's how to string a banjo.d then, i plateaued. i learned about three songs, which i would play all the time. and anyone in earshot was kind of well over it by the time i started -- >> jimmy: they're like, "yeah, we get it, 'oh, susanna!'" >> yeah, that's exactly -- >> jimmy: "amazing grace!" >> so now, i really upped the ante, and i take a lesson every week. and i'm really trying to learn sort of more -- >> jimmy: did you have to, like, those metal picks? >> yeah, yeah. finger picks, yeah. >> jimmy: see, that's where i jumped off the boat. >> i understand. >> jimmy: is that a term? >> it is. you jumped off the boat at the metal finger pick. >> jimmy: yeah. >> totally. >> jimmy: because i got it because i wanted to be steve martin. >> i know steve martin. although, he's part of the reason why i was inspired to learn. i mean, he's such an incredible artist, in general. and then, on top of it, he's like this -- >> jimmy: he's amazing, yeah. >> he's been here to play, right? >> jimmy: yeah. oh, my god, he's unbelie

this particular terminal is shaped like a banjo. screening would have been at the neck of the banjo and the round part is where all the gates are. he got past the neck of the banjo, walked past the entire neck and was in the round part of the area where all the airplanes are parked and where all the passengers are. this area was full of quite a bit of people. the fact that more people were not killed is quick response of the law enforcement. >> how does something like that? to use your i thinkry, how do you get through the neck of the banjo with a weapon? >> as anyone who has walked past security has scene there is always a line in front of the screening. there is no turnstile, no gates. if someone was waving a gun around it would be easy for someone to walk through the security gates and walk through the terminal. after that you have a nice wide hallway. >> just so i'm clear. the suggestion isn't that the semi auto was some how in the bag and got through the screen. this all happened as he was walking through the screening area and

the country seemed to swarm with painters, and they left a pictorial diary of our past: ( choppy banjo music ) salesman: side views and profiles of children at reduced prices. one hour sittin', $2.92 includin' frame and glass. fancy portraits includin' pets and other details, $25.00. narrat: ralph waldo emerson expressed the spirit of many of these naive painters when he wrote, "i embrace the common; i explore and sit at the feet of the familiar. give me insight into today and you may have tntique and future worlds." still others, poets and painters alike, saw visions of a future world in america. "i see a thousand kingdoms raised, cities and men, numerous as sand upon the ocean shore. the ohio then shall glide by many a town of note, and where the mississippi stamy forest shaded now runs weeping on, cities shall grow, and states, not less in fame than greece and rome." ( music ) ( music ) narrator: the east buiing of the national gallery of art in washing d.c.- built to relieve the heavily- burdened facilities ofhe original gallery, to house temporary exhibitions, and to serve as a ce

was popular in europe -- it was not popular in america, the primary instrument was the fiddle or the banjomartin began making the guitars he had learned to make in germany and very quickly established his business in america. today, the martin guitar is really the iconic american instrument. it has been played by the best performers, write to the 20th century. with aresley played martin guitar and the most iconic as the one that eric clapton played on his first unplugged performance, which began the latest age of acute -- acoustic music. the earliest of his guitars are beautiful instruments. they did not look like the guitar that we know of today. war, he wasivil making guitars that looked like the american guitar, today. what we discovered was that the missing link for the development of martin's guitars was the spanish guitar, which he discovered on new york stage within half a dozen years of setting up shop in new york city. the spanish guitar was a real revelation, a large instrument with more volume. and martin, being a businessman. designer,ftsman and a and an innovator, quickly adop

falls on a continuum between improvisation, musical creation that takes place during performance, [banjo plucking] ♪ pretty polly. and composition, musical creation conceived before performance. compositions are preserved, either through memory or notation, so that they can be repeated over and over again. (leek) a composer's role, i think, is to provide enough information to pass on to performers what they would like re-created in sound. [traditional arabic music played on the oud] (shaheen) the idea behind improvisation is to create an instant composition without preparing it or preconceive it as composition. it's a composition that is being composed on the spot. [sticks clacking] [cultural music montage] [rock music] (dispirito) i think that composing and improvising are very closely related because they are both somehow the shaping of musical ideas. to me, compositions though, represent a formalization of those ideas into a particular structure or a shape. improvisation is also shaping of a musical idea, but it is always somewhat free from having to do it the same twice or bringing o

i watched this guy for an hour, he -- play any bluegrass even after i threw a banjo at him. next up, folks, we only have so long on this planet. so when i die i want to be buried in the most massive mausoleum possible. that way i can spend eternity doing what i love most, take up more space than i need. (laughter) that's why i am so offended by this new product. >> a mushroom burial suit designed to help the body decompose after death is the latest concept turning heads at a convention downtown. >> it's a mushroom death suit embedded with an infinite mushroom spors designed to speed off-- feed off the body and speed up decomposition. >> speed up decomposition, i'm sorry, is my dead body not decomposing fast enough for you. how thoughtless of me. folks, i would not be caught dead in this mushroom death suit. which, incidentally, was also the name of my doom metal band. so i am giving a big wag of the finger to shroom tomb. folk, the burial industrial complex is rallying behind this mushroom shroud for the worst possible reasons. >> the idea to were tect the environment from t

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." >> he's here with his banjo toting buddy neil james.t with your bare hands. >> right. >> in the wild. >> in the wild, yes. >> how did all this happen? tell us that first. >> here you have it. i've been trying to do this ever since i was 5 years old, catching snapping turtles with my uncle philip. i kept making it grow, going to parties and stuff, and -- >> i bet you're fun at parties. >> yeah. >> we'll pull out every animal. before we do, neil james is going to do a little song about each animal. the first one is a turtle. >> this is serious stuff now. >> we're ready. ♪ she's big around the middle but ain't no need to win a girdle ♪ >> right here it is. >> okay. >> weighs 100 pounds dead weight. i hope i can hold him here. >> she or a he? >> let's see. >> oh, no. >> looks like a he. >> does it make any difference in their ferocity? >> yes. >> are men meaner than women or what? >> the women, you can't tame them. a male turtle, i've done it before. but i've never tamed a woman. true story. >> all right now. careful. let's move -- watch yo

put down the banjo. >> and burt reynolds would not have killed them because they all would have hated you. >> even that baby hated you. >> where are we in the story. >> who is overwhelmed by this? who thinks they are supermodels on that site. these are the same people who need the label on the superman cape at halloween who says you will not be able to fly if you wear this, right? i agree with brooke completely. this is trip los -- trip los. everybody knows there #r* false profiles and fake pictures. i miss the good old days when you didn't have to worry about the internet to disuh . people. >> her point is there are pictures of her. so people aren't portraying themselves as her and it is not her. >> what is that? >> she has a blog and she goes and she posts half naked pictures of herself on the internet. >> does that mean people can falsely portray themselves as her? >> pretty much? >> so i can use her picture as my twitter i con dism. >> if you wanted to. >> have you ever responded to a fake of a -- avatar? >> i actually got caught -- i didn't do anything, but the girl was being fla

he played banjo, which made for this superawesome photo during his dad's losesing campaign for governorll today, at senator dedes' home in rural bath county, it appears that the senator's son attacked his father with a knife, stabbing him multiple times in the head and upper body. senator dedes survived. but first he told the local press today that he lost a lot of blood. his condition is described by the hospital now as fair. at this time the working theory is the person that stabbed senator deeds and nearly killed him was his son gus. police say they're not looking for any other suspects. first responders at the scene found gus at the place where his father was stabbed, at the same home. gus himself was near death when first responders first found him. he died on the scene. police are treating this as an attempted murder and a suicide. gus deeds was 24 years old. the richmond times reported that he had been hospitalized briefly over an emergency custody order which allowed him to be held for four hours so he could be 'valuated psychiatrically to -- >> the son was evaluated yesterday a

. >> the fact that i played banjo at the white house was the biggest thrill of his life. >> that's how i felt about it. >> the roll out of new health care marketplace was rough. >> the president spoke about difficulties in implementing his signature legislation, but he did not call it obamacare. >> and, yes, we are going to continue to implement the health care law. the product is g. people want it. we should not live in a country where people are going bankrupt just because they get sick. >> and he appeared to depart from his written speech when he spoke about what makes california a special place. >> it's always been this magnet of dreamers and strivers and people coming from every direction saying to themselves, you know, if i work hard there, i can have my piece of the american dream. god bless you. >> [ cheers and applause ] >> god bless america. can't wait to see your next movie. >> randy page r. reporting there. the president is expected back at the white house in about so minutes. tomorrow, he will pardon the national thanksgiving turkey. >>> horrible act of cruelty against the

we're going to be following the parade all morning but you can do this with a free app called banjo. the first time this app is being shown on a national morning tv show because we are the awesomeness in digital here. you can pull up photos, tweets, pictures, all types of things right from the actual feed. look at them waiting outside already. already outside hanging out there. and what you can see is not only instagram posts, not only facebook, but also youtube, twitter, everything. you can also see the whole parade route. if you wanted to, you could say, oh, what's happening right here along the parade route and you will see all the posts that are happening. this is a really cool way to experience the parade from your couch while you wait for us at 9:00 a.m. >> i downloaded banjo on your recommendation last time, mario. >> it's free. >> i'm on to it. thank you. >> and mario gives us a new tagline. awesomeness in digital. >> yes. >> thank you, mario. >>> coming up, switching gears, former husband expected in court today at a trial with the famed chef has been accused of having a sec

a banjo-toting college student who helped deeds appeal to young voters. but there may have been hidden problems. on tuesday, the "richmond times dispatch" quoted a county official as saying the son was evaluate edmond at bath community hospital but was released because no psychiatric bed could be located across a wide area of western virginia. cropper declined to confirm the report for nbc news. whatever the cause, deeds' colleagues say they too are grieving. >> even if he recover, and i'm sure he will, he's still facing the loss of a son and that's going to be the toughest part. >> reporter: virginia governor bob mcdonnell, who beat deeds back in that 2009 gubernatorial race released a statement calling this utterly heart breaking. one white house official tells me everyone in the white house from the president on down sending their thoughts and prayers to the deeds family. investigators trying to figure out what could have sparked that fight between father and son in the first place. thomas, back to you. >> kristen, thank you. >>> pro-choice advocates s

smiling hundred his dad's right shoulder and again on the campaign trail with his blue grass banjo. >e deputies and troopers found gus, the son of mr. deeds, deceased inside the house from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. >> reporter: so how did this father/son team end up like this? the son allegedly killing himself after stabbing his own father in the head and chest ten times. >> i know as a father he had a lot of concerns about his son. >> reporter: he is not the only mentally ill person who did not get help in time. james holmes killed 12 people in a colorado movie theater. adam lanza shot 20 people at a newtown elementary school. liza strong created a firestorm last year when she compared her own son to lanza saying she lives in fear of what he might do because of his mental illness. >> as a society, i don't know what it will take for to us pay attention to this issue. and to be able to help children and families get the services that they need. >> reporter: gus deeds was brought in for a mental health evaluation monday. a magistrate issued an emergency custody order. me

. >> steve martin is very good at the banjo. >> and very funny. >> thanks. >>> just ahead, attacks likene we're about to show you here caught on video in crown heights, brooklyn, where strangers sucker-punked their victims out of the blue on the street. some are calling this violence the knockout game. is this trend real or media hype? i'm going to speak with one woman who was punched in the face. >>> plus, people call him the people's pope. and put all the reasons why in writing. and why the major church document is such a big deal for so many followers. female announcer: sunday's your last chance sunday's your last chance to save big during sleep train's triple choice sale. through sunday, thanksgiving weekend, save hundreds on beautyrest and posturepedic. or choose $300 in free gifts with sleep train's most popular tempur-pedic mattresses. you can even choose 48 months interest-free financing on the new tempur-choice with head-to-toe customization. the triple choice sale ends sunday, thanksgiving weekend. ♪ sleep train ♪ your ticket to a better night's sleep ♪ >>> tonight a reality c

. >> steve martin is very good at the banjo. >> and very funny. >> thanks. >>> just ahead, attacks likebout to show you here caught on video in brooklyn where suspects sucker punch their victims on the street. some are calling this violence the knockout game. is this trend real or media hype? i'm going to speak with one woman who was punched in the face. >>> plus many call him the people's pope. and today pope francis put all the reasons why in writing. why his first major church document is such a big deal for so many followers. got all the . [ grandma ] with new fedex one rate, i could fill a box and ship it for one flat rate. so i knit until it was full. you'd be crazy not to. is that nana? [ male announcer ] fedex one rate. simple, flat rate shipping with the reliability of fedex. >>> tonight a reality check on a story that has been getting a lot of attention nation-wide. on its face, it is flat-out shocking. videos like this one showing young people seemingly randomly assaulting a stranger on the street in pittsburgh. there have been reports of assaults similar to this one in an an

i usual live do this on the banjo but i brought this 1952 gibson tenor guitar so i want to play it.talk about the old west. ♪ i am a noted highwayman. cole younger is my name ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [applause] >> thank you. >> we have the cameras in the back, and c-span is here filming for booktv so if you have a question, if you can come up to the microphone to ask it. any questions? >> i guess i was just going to -- after they captured the youngers and the two james boys escaped, when was the next sighting of them? was it months later in missouri? how long did it take them to get from when they left minnesota, back down missouri? >> the james boys were in missouri by early october, and they really were never sighted. the detectives felt like they had a lead, and they had discovered -- they had spies in jackson county, and in clay county, and in fact there was one man that they tracked to a doctor's home, near independence, and this man had a nasty wound above his knee, and that was the same place that frank was supposed to have been wounded. the st. louis employing chief sent a

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and followed him to college at william and mary, where he watched as the sweet banjo-playing music studenty disappeared. he withdrew from school and his friends. >> he seemed scattered and different. he had strange paranoias. we wondered, do you think he could hurt someone? do you think he could hurt himself? while we were talking to him, i feel like we all felt like, well, you know, gus is still -- still gus. he wouldn't do that. >> reporter: the inspector general's office in virginia is investigating why there were no beds available for gus. senator deeds hopes to be an advocate for change in mental health. but for now, he just cannot talk publicly, quote, i cry a lot. i just cannot focus now and talk to anyone. george? >> such a sad story. >>> we're going to switch gears to the black friday sales, two days away. some of the best holiday deals are out there. retailers walmart to amazon, offering the kind of discounts we used to see only after thanksgiving. rebecca jarvis has the story. >> reporter: it's the final countdown to the biggest retail rush of the year. the last few minutes of c

couple years of creating a new music style where we're smashing the best of country music, the organic banjosut all of that, the show, in a circus. like taking a new york nightclub out into middle america. >> i love that. >> everyone is in their big production, lasers, fog, all the craziness we can put in there and so then this turns into a big party, after party, after the festivals. it can sit places for three or four days. one works good, you take that, you create another show to go to europe and we just put more entertainment on the road. >> that is brilliant. why has it taken so long? >> well, it's a lot of hard work. to come up with brilliance, it doesn't necessarily happen overnight. >> you don't have to tell us about it. so it's called electro shine. >> how soon will it be wheeling up to people's towns? >> it will be wheeling up this coming year in 2014. we hope to hit 25 cities with it and it's first one. we've been experimenting with it as we played shows all over the world. we've been doing after parties with it and see how people respond to this kind of music and they love it. the

a banjo toting college student. there may have been hidden problems. on tuesday, the richmond times quoted dennis cropper, a county official, saying the son was evaluated on monday, but was released because no bed could be located across a wide area of western virginia. cropper declined to confirm the report for nbc news. whatever the cause, deeds' colleagues are mourning. >> you face a loss of a son. that is the toughest part. >> reporter: now governor bob mcdonnell who beat deeds in the race released a statement calling this utterly heart breaking. a white house official from the president on down sending thoughts and prayers to the deeds' family this morning. now investigators are trying to figure out what caused the fight between father and son in the first place. matt and savannah, back to you. >> kristen welker, thank you very much. a sad story. >>> and the developments in the george zimmerman case. he appeared in court after alleged fight with his girlfriend. we have kerry sanders with more. >> reporter: good morning, savannah. george zimmerman