Video: Remembering ?Shaft? guitarist Charles Pitts

The Memphis guitar player who contributed to the ?Shaft? theme song has died at the age of 65. NBC?s Brian Williams reports.

>>> music business is also remembering the man who figured out how to make his guitar sound like this. that's the instantly recognizable wa- wa pedal guitar rift at the beginning of "the shaft." gave richard roundtree the perfect norkew york walking music. he also came up with the guitar line in the eisley brothers "it's your thing." skip pitts was 65 years old.

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