chadbrooks

That is a Zemaitis....those guys are amazing. That wasn't the guitar that I was thinking of, I have never seen Jeff play that one before. Marshalls and solid state...they have a cheap solid state/tube hybrid called valvestate.....they pretty much sound like crap unless you want to be in a nu-metal band. Don't knock the blackface deluxe...they are GREAT amps.

I have a POS artisan and it has worked out for me. If you don't know that much about guitar modification and or repair get ready for a headache...but I do so it wasn't that bad. with lap steel there is a few things you need. Volume pedal. people have already talked about that. I have some cheap no name pedal that I picked up years ago Reverb. Alot of it. It really makes it sound like great. I just turn mine on the amp up to about 8. Watts. I used a tiny little Gibson Skylark at first. It was about 11 watts. Then I got my peavey classic 50 head working again so I started runnin

Jeff's black guitar is a les paul studio with some stickers on it. It also has a bigsby tremelo. I saw him use it last year in mississippi for hell is chrome. I couldn't figure out why he used it, it couldn't have been the bigsby, because I have seen several telecasters through the years with them (both during jay and after). The only thing I can think of is the humbuckers. That is something that you never really saw onstage with Jeff and Nels. Most of their guitar have some sort of Fender lineage that includes singe coils and P-90's (except for Jeffs love of SG's). The Les Paul Studio

This was really a great show. The wife and I lucked out and had semi-decent tickets (row F). It wasn't as sweet as being 10 feet away from jeff last year in MS but it worked. I enjoyed the live treatment of the new stuff. I really dug the last 2 records, but I think Sky Blue Sky is turning out to be a natural progression from summerteeth. Everytime Jeff mentioned the "Wayback Machine" I started hoping they would pull out Pieholden Suite or something, but Via Chicago was nice. I actually got Jeff's setlist from the show and was really bummed when I saw "Always in Love" after Heavy Metal