December 10, 2025 • 10 mins
Didgeridoo Maverick.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
There he is. Pitts.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
How are you.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
Doing well, Leet, How you doing today?
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I am doing fantastic. Pitts. We were talking about you yesterday.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Yeah I heard. I wasn't tuning in, but all of
a sudden my phone blew up. It's like, Pitts, call Elly.
He wants to talk to you. He wants to talk
to you.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Yeah, so I was reading your I had read your story.
I also, Pitts, I also have a Didgery Do.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
By the way, I was shot at the number of
listeners who have a Didgery Do.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
It was amazing to me how many there are. Now.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
I don't think any of us are at that level
of the Digery Do Maverick.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Obviously I'm nowhere.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Clothes but the But I did like your story about
how the Didury Do essentially saved your life.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Yeah, it really did. You know. It came to me
at a critical time in my life where I was
heading down a dark road.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
And.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
It showed it offered me a healthy, positive lifestyle. And
luckily I was awake enough to take that invitation and say, yeah,
let's go and leap behind these really bad things.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
You know, I'm just trying to remember in my mind's
eye just reading the article and it talked about how,
like you said, it kind of got you back on
a good path.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Who gave you the didgerido?
Speaker 1 (01:18):
It was Christmas Day nineteen ninety three where my lovely
wife ordered a digeridoo from a world music instrument catalog.
And this was kind of before the internet was really happening,
and it came with an instructional cassette. So it was
a cassette. That's how long ago it was. So it
was my wife who gave me a ditch. God bless
(01:41):
her soul.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
I just made a note.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
I'm only going to refer to it as those of
us that play call it a didch hey. But so
I just want to follow up on that for a second.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Did did she.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Just order it because she thought this would be cool
for you or had you guys ever discussed it?
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Well, we probably did talk about it because I always,
like I still to this day, like real special, unique sounds.
And I was always the kid in the back of
the room making weird sounds in the classroom, making my
friends laugh. And she knew, she knows that I like
weird sounds. It's like, all right, So the didgerido is
(02:22):
in my mind is the king of special sounds. I'll
put it that way, interesting sounds. So she thought a
perfect gift for me, and it totally it worked, and
it changed my life and gave me a healthy direction
and in turn a career.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Hey, and just going back to school, I have to
imagine if you were sitting in the back of the
class making your friends laugh like you were doing like
arpit farts like stuff like.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
That, the classics.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
There you go. But then yeah, then we heard from
some people in Frederick who have seen you out on
on out on Market Street just playing away.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Hey.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Yeah, Well I got contacted by the Frederick Frederick Downtown
Partnerships like, hey, Pitts, can you play did Redo to
Christmas music? And I said, well, yes I can. So
then they set me up in front of a brand
art yoga right there on Market Street. And every Saturday
(03:22):
I'm playing did WeDo with fun holiday classics.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Yeah, and then we did hear from some people in
surrounding shops. Most of the time they're cool with it.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Most of the time. I hope it's all the time.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Hey, Pitts, I hate to be I hate to be
so forward.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Is there any chance you have your ditch nearby absolutely
by the way.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
How many do you have? How many do you have?
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Well, you know, it's hard to tell because I make instruments,
and I have many of them. I don't know, maybe
seventy or eighty of them in various states of complete.
But the ones that I really like, I have five
that are my true go to digs.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
I only have one.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
It was given to me by a band called the Kin.
They gave me a ditch it is. It's plastic and
it retains a lot of my spit inside because I.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Don't play it very well. I just, honestly, it sounds
like I'm farting into This was the technique for the
breathing again. Oh, what is circular breathing pits?
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Yes, circular breathing. It allows the player to breathe while
they're playing the instrument, so the sound is continuous, so
you don't have to stop and take a big breath
and then continue on. You're breathing while you play, so
it's one long piece of music, and basically you can
play for as long as you like because you're breathing.
(04:49):
All what's happening is that hard.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
I did get a note from somebody yesterday Elliott, my
husband can do the circular breathing.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
He got a recording quality.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
I'm going to use the proper term digg while he
was in Australia years ago. And then here's James. He
sent me a picture of his digch. But is it
hard to learn? Like you're not born able to do that,
You have to train your body to do that.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Yeah, circular breathing is the most difficult aspect of playing
the instrument. And so I've been teaching people for over
thirty years and it's a step by step progression and
everything that we learned along the way, it takes you
to that mountain top of circular breathing. So it's all
(05:34):
about cheek muscles, throat muscles, and then timing of the
whole thing.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Can you reverse it?
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Can you breathe like in order to play, you're breathing
in through your nose and exhaling through your mouth. Do
you have the ability to reverse it where you can
breathe in through your mouth and out through your nose.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Well, that's you can do that, But if the air's
coming out of your it's not going to make any
sound because it's not inside the instrum.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
No, no, not for the ditch asking for a friend
who smokes.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Oh sorry, yeah, well I think that's the reversal. I
have never tried that, actually, and that's a that's a
good question. I haven't heard that in all these years.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
All right, well listen, pitts without further ado, without further ado.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Let's oh wait, but we ran into this problem yesterday.
Do you have an iPhone?
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Is it like that noise canceling iPhone where like it's
you're gonna play it and I'm not going to be
able to hear it.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Yeah, you know, I don't know that. I know on
the zoom you can select the musician's audio option, but
I don't know. How about if I try it and
that good call?
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Good call?
Speaker 1 (06:52):
In seconds?
Speaker 2 (06:52):
All right, very good, very good.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Okay, here we go.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
Here's the DIGERI maverick, dude, he's good.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
That's freaking awesome. I would do anything to be able
to play my didgerido like that.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
They came through. Okay, then, oh.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
It sounded great. It sounded great.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Now, I don't know if you were playing a song,
I couldn't make out the song, but.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
That was awesome.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Thank you. Yeah, I just did a little jam for
ten seconds or so, you know, you get you get
your lips going, and then you could put your voice
on top of thing, different rhythms with your tongue movement.
And so there's a lot going on in that hollowed
out tree branch.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Is there a.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Oh that's the other thing we learned, is that age
Back in the old days, it was made by termites
eating out the wood.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Yeah, they're still made like that. Actually, that's the old
school traditional way. Is the instrument maker when they need
an instrument, they'll go around and look for a termite
mound near a eucalyptus tree, and most likely those termites
have done their thing as far as they go into
the trunk of the tree and eat out from the inside,
(08:12):
up the trunk and out the branches. Sure, and then
the instrument maker world knock on the branch to hear
how hollow it is, and if it's ready to go,
then they'll take that branch and bring it back and
let it dry out and continue the process.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Is there a song that you are known for?
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Like when people gather around to watch you play in Frederick,
are they like, oh no, no, no, don't leave yet.
Pits hasn't played, Like, is there a song you're known for?
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Yeah, well, I could call it my greatest hit, and
that would be my song called Moving, which is it's
about when you're amped up on caffeine and you can't
stop moving. And of course there's a dig redo solo
in it.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Can I just get a little part of that solo?
Speaker 3 (08:55):
I just one more taste pits, one more taste well
of the Yeah, please.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Sure hang on with second.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
All right, dude, that's fantastic. That is fantastic, hey pants,
here's what I want to do.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Let me well a couple of things. Number one, let
me get your shirt. That's not worth anything, but let
me get your shirt. And then also let me hold
on to your number in case I ever need a
didgerid or a player.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
I want the best that there is, and that's you.
Well heavy out there? Oh will you be out? Will
you be out busting? This weekend?
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Well, this weekend I am performing in Frederick, but not
on the sidewalk. I'm actually indoors. We're a place that
has some heat. So I'll be at Reverie performing my
one man Groove show. And Reverie is on Market Street
four or five Market but the Saturday the twentieth, I'll
be back outside in front of Brand Art Yoga playing
(10:07):
Christmas music. Were the did Redo And that's one to
four in the afternoon, Saturday the twentieth.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Pitch. You're fantastic. I appreciate you calling, Thank you my friend,
thank you for.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Having me on the show. I super appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Hey, you got it. Hold tight one second. He's good. Yeah,
very much. He's good. Seem like a great guy.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
I love everything about him.
There he is. Pitts.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
How are you.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
Doing well, Leet, How you doing today?
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I am doing fantastic. Pitts. We were talking about you yesterday.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Yeah I heard. I wasn't tuning in, but all of
a sudden my phone blew up. It's like, Pitts, call Elly.
He wants to talk to you. He wants to talk
to you.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Yeah, so I was reading your I had read your story.
I also, Pitts, I also have a Didgery Do.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
By the way, I was shot at the number of
listeners who have a Didgery Do.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
It was amazing to me how many there are. Now.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
I don't think any of us are at that level
of the Digery Do Maverick.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Obviously I'm nowhere.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Clothes but the But I did like your story about
how the Didury Do essentially saved your life.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Yeah, it really did. You know. It came to me
at a critical time in my life where I was
heading down a dark road.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
And.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
It showed it offered me a healthy, positive lifestyle. And
luckily I was awake enough to take that invitation and say, yeah,
let's go and leap behind these really bad things.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
You know, I'm just trying to remember in my mind's
eye just reading the article and it talked about how,
like you said, it kind of got you back on
a good path.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Who gave you the didgerido?
Speaker 1 (01:18):
It was Christmas Day nineteen ninety three where my lovely
wife ordered a digeridoo from a world music instrument catalog.
And this was kind of before the internet was really happening,
and it came with an instructional cassette. So it was
a cassette. That's how long ago it was. So it
was my wife who gave me a ditch. God bless
(01:41):
her soul.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
I just made a note.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
I'm only going to refer to it as those of
us that play call it a didch hey. But so
I just want to follow up on that for a second.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Did did she.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Just order it because she thought this would be cool
for you or had you guys ever discussed it?
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Well, we probably did talk about it because I always,
like I still to this day, like real special, unique sounds.
And I was always the kid in the back of
the room making weird sounds in the classroom, making my
friends laugh. And she knew, she knows that I like
weird sounds. It's like, all right, So the didgerido is
(02:22):
in my mind is the king of special sounds. I'll
put it that way, interesting sounds. So she thought a
perfect gift for me, and it totally it worked, and
it changed my life and gave me a healthy direction
and in turn a career.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Hey, and just going back to school, I have to
imagine if you were sitting in the back of the
class making your friends laugh like you were doing like
arpit farts like stuff like.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
That, the classics.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
There you go. But then yeah, then we heard from
some people in Frederick who have seen you out on
on out on Market Street just playing away.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Hey.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Yeah, Well I got contacted by the Frederick Frederick Downtown
Partnerships like, hey, Pitts, can you play did Redo to
Christmas music? And I said, well, yes I can. So
then they set me up in front of a brand
art yoga right there on Market Street. And every Saturday
(03:22):
I'm playing did WeDo with fun holiday classics.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Yeah, and then we did hear from some people in
surrounding shops. Most of the time they're cool with it.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Most of the time. I hope it's all the time.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Hey, Pitts, I hate to be I hate to be
so forward.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Is there any chance you have your ditch nearby absolutely
by the way.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
How many do you have? How many do you have?
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Well, you know, it's hard to tell because I make instruments,
and I have many of them. I don't know, maybe
seventy or eighty of them in various states of complete.
But the ones that I really like, I have five
that are my true go to digs.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
I only have one.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
It was given to me by a band called the Kin.
They gave me a ditch it is. It's plastic and
it retains a lot of my spit inside because I.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Don't play it very well. I just, honestly, it sounds
like I'm farting into This was the technique for the
breathing again. Oh, what is circular breathing pits?
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Yes, circular breathing. It allows the player to breathe while
they're playing the instrument, so the sound is continuous, so
you don't have to stop and take a big breath
and then continue on. You're breathing while you play, so
it's one long piece of music, and basically you can
play for as long as you like because you're breathing.
(04:49):
All what's happening is that hard.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
I did get a note from somebody yesterday Elliott, my
husband can do the circular breathing.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
He got a recording quality.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
I'm going to use the proper term digg while he
was in Australia years ago. And then here's James. He
sent me a picture of his digch. But is it
hard to learn? Like you're not born able to do that,
You have to train your body to do that.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Yeah, circular breathing is the most difficult aspect of playing
the instrument. And so I've been teaching people for over
thirty years and it's a step by step progression and
everything that we learned along the way, it takes you
to that mountain top of circular breathing. So it's all
(05:34):
about cheek muscles, throat muscles, and then timing of the
whole thing.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Can you reverse it?
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Can you breathe like in order to play, you're breathing
in through your nose and exhaling through your mouth. Do
you have the ability to reverse it where you can
breathe in through your mouth and out through your nose.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Well, that's you can do that, But if the air's
coming out of your it's not going to make any
sound because it's not inside the instrum.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
No, no, not for the ditch asking for a friend
who smokes.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Oh sorry, yeah, well I think that's the reversal. I
have never tried that, actually, and that's a that's a
good question. I haven't heard that in all these years.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
All right, well listen, pitts without further ado, without further ado.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Let's oh wait, but we ran into this problem yesterday.
Do you have an iPhone?
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Is it like that noise canceling iPhone where like it's
you're gonna play it and I'm not going to be
able to hear it.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Yeah, you know, I don't know that. I know on
the zoom you can select the musician's audio option, but
I don't know. How about if I try it and
that good call?
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Good call?
Speaker 1 (06:52):
In seconds?
Speaker 2 (06:52):
All right, very good, very good.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Okay, here we go.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
Here's the DIGERI maverick, dude, he's good.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
That's freaking awesome. I would do anything to be able
to play my didgerido like that.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
They came through. Okay, then, oh.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
It sounded great. It sounded great.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Now, I don't know if you were playing a song,
I couldn't make out the song, but.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
That was awesome.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Thank you. Yeah, I just did a little jam for
ten seconds or so, you know, you get you get
your lips going, and then you could put your voice
on top of thing, different rhythms with your tongue movement.
And so there's a lot going on in that hollowed
out tree branch.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Is there a.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Oh that's the other thing we learned, is that age
Back in the old days, it was made by termites
eating out the wood.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Yeah, they're still made like that. Actually, that's the old
school traditional way. Is the instrument maker when they need
an instrument, they'll go around and look for a termite
mound near a eucalyptus tree, and most likely those termites
have done their thing as far as they go into
the trunk of the tree and eat out from the inside,
(08:12):
up the trunk and out the branches. Sure, and then
the instrument maker world knock on the branch to hear
how hollow it is, and if it's ready to go,
then they'll take that branch and bring it back and
let it dry out and continue the process.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Is there a song that you are known for?
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Like when people gather around to watch you play in Frederick,
are they like, oh no, no, no, don't leave yet.
Pits hasn't played, Like, is there a song you're known for?
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Yeah, well, I could call it my greatest hit, and
that would be my song called Moving, which is it's
about when you're amped up on caffeine and you can't
stop moving. And of course there's a dig redo solo
in it.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Can I just get a little part of that solo?
Speaker 3 (08:55):
I just one more taste pits, one more taste well
of the Yeah, please.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Sure hang on with second.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
All right, dude, that's fantastic. That is fantastic, hey pants,
here's what I want to do.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Let me well a couple of things. Number one, let
me get your shirt. That's not worth anything, but let
me get your shirt. And then also let me hold
on to your number in case I ever need a
didgerid or a player.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
I want the best that there is, and that's you.
Well heavy out there? Oh will you be out? Will
you be out busting? This weekend?
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Well, this weekend I am performing in Frederick, but not
on the sidewalk. I'm actually indoors. We're a place that
has some heat. So I'll be at Reverie performing my
one man Groove show. And Reverie is on Market Street
four or five Market but the Saturday the twentieth, I'll
be back outside in front of Brand Art Yoga playing
(10:07):
Christmas music. Were the did Redo And that's one to
four in the afternoon, Saturday the twentieth.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Pitch. You're fantastic. I appreciate you calling, Thank you my friend,
thank you for.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Having me on the show. I super appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Hey, you got it. Hold tight one second. He's good. Yeah,
very much. He's good. Seem like a great guy.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
I love everything about him.
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