Bosco

Same thing happened at some Boston t-shirt screen printer the week before the Super Bowl. Only now if you go to some third world country the people wearing those shirts believe that the "Patsies" pulled out that victory!

I know you are joking but that happens every year, they make shirts for both teams and ship them out. When I went to Houston for the Super Bowl they had shirts for both the Patriots and the Panthers and some where in some third world country they think the Panthers won. Mock them all you want but they did win 3 Super Bowls in 4 years and Tom Brady has 3 rings, not to many teams or Quarterbacks can make that claim.

So as to not be off topic, I have seen Uncle Tupelo, and I'd love to see them again sometime, at a Solid Sound would be ideal.

Yeah, she's a keeper. Except now I have to figure out something to do for her by July.

You could do what I did for my now ex on our 15th anniversary, I put our wedding vows to music and recorded the song for her. I used her vows as the verses and mine as the chorus. She was so blown away she bought me the Tweedy Breedlove (months later).

Apparently my wife just got me the Tweedy SG for my birthday! Picture of myself playing Impossible Germany (badly) to follow as I don't have it yet. Looking forward to the thin neck which is so different from my other guitars, and the vintage sound!

Congrats, cool wife!!

I saw someone else did this, so now (I'm adding this the day after my original post), I'd ask what # shows these are for you? Nice if you can add the details of which tour, how many times a tour & if you can that far- the locations for the shows...for some this could be a rather long & detailed list...as one person has already mentioned that the 3 shows they are seeing this tour represent #26-28 for them.

Soooooo...these are shows #2 through #8 for me.

I find it real interesting that people keep track of all that, I guess if I've only seen a band once or twice I might remember. When I first started going to Dead shows I noticed a lot of people kept track, I actually did for a while but when I passed 100 I gave up, I had friends who were doing their 400th and 500th shows and I'd figured I never get there so why bother. At this point I'm so old (and slightly burnt) I have no idea, hell people will be talking about a show I had no recollection going to then point out I was sitting with them or some obscure song was played, then a light bulb lights, "oh, ya, I remember that now". I'm sure I have most of my ticket stubs, and I certainly taped my fair share of shows, but to come up with a list of all the shows I've seen, that's not going to happen.

As a side note I'll point out I was a professional live sound engineer for many years, I worked with a lot of bands, and I saw a lot of bands that were on the same bill, so maybe I'm just not the typical concert goer. It all rolls into one... Or as Neil Young said in Hartford one year "It's all one song!"

1) Newport (maybe)

2) Cooperstown

3) Burlington

4) Mass MoCA

5) Hartford

Neither sounds better, they sound different because I used different microphones and sat in different locations, the first night will have a little more audience chatter because I was up front, night two I sat front row balcony and hung the mics over the wall. You would think night two would sound better however when the crowd gets real loud it peaked out my preamp, this doesn't effect the music though.

I'm not sure I'm a fan of how this one looks. It's so dark and bottom heavy...

I'm sure that has to do with the photographer and not the guitar. It doesn't look that dark in person, and if by "bottom heavy" you mean the size of the lower bout, it also doesn't look like that in person. As to the sound, I wouldn't say "dark" or "bottom heavy", to these ears (and remember I'm a sound engineer) I'd say it's very even sounding, woody and not loud.

Very nice

The name is on the Truss Rod Cover, those can easliy be replaced, just remember to save the original.

That's a beauty Bosco, two of them acutally. You'll have to let us know how the new one sounds.

I've been sick in bed so I don't have a lot of playing time yet, maybe 2 or 3 hours. It's all mahogany and I've never had a hog top guitar before, my initial impressions so far are it's got a more of a woody folksy sound, it's very tight and focused and not as loud as the other. When finger picking (which I'm not so good at) she sounds very warm and each note is very clearly defined. I'm having fun, and I have a feeling I'll spend a lot of time polishing up my finger picking skills.

My Martin 00-DB Jeff Tweedy arrived yesterday, yahoo!!! I guess I need to start saving for the SG now, I was saving before until this came up and my thinking was the SG will be around for a while so better grab the Martin, can't believe I got #10.

I call this shot "A Tale Of Two Tweedys"

It came in yesterday!!! I've never had an all Mahogany and I'm really digging it!

I am really glad I brought the term "circle wank" into this whole deal. It's got legs!

Could be a cool name for an album, then you could go on a "Circle Wank Tour" or how about "The Tour For Circle Wank"!

I hear Jeff has been keeping his chops up by playing suburban living rooms all across Chicago.

It is my sunburst Martin 000-28H.

 

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Looks sweet, I'm sure she sounds just as nice!

Testing out my new instagram account. Now that it is out for android, it is safe for non-hipsters now, right?

 

Nice pic, what is it?

Could someone please explain Instagram to me?

The song worked great with the scene.

I'll second that!

something the anti heads on here might find interesting is the dead heads for the most part hated when GD played "popular" songs like touch of grey and truckin and throwin stones. even US Blues sometimes.

WHAT??? I'll give you Touch after '87, but Truckin' no f'in way, to many awesome jams involved Truckin', US Blues was generally an encore and beat the hell out of I Fought the Law. Can't say I hated any songs, and to tell the truth I'd give anything to hear Jerry sing anything even Day Job these days. I was never a "song" person anyway, I preferred the Jams, that's why I'll take a Phil & Friends show anyday over a Ratdog show.

Patchouli I could do without out, spinners were annoying, selfish and hypocritical ("you're bumming me out invading my space dude...", well your space happens to also be my space so stop slapping me in the face with f'in your arms I'm just trying to get to the bathroom), I lived a very sheltered and comfortable life in the taper section and loved it!

Trying to convince someone with a preconceived notion about any particular band/style of music is generally futile.

 

Like Wilco being Dad Rock? Or Dave Matthews or The Band being Jam Bands?

Well...I was (and probably still am) a bit of a pugnacious deadhead...

Quick--somebody grab that as their band name!

I didn't even know what "pugnacious" meant, I had to look it up, it's my new favorite word, and some would say describes me to a tee. It would be an awesome band name, good call "Pugnacious Dead", I LOVE it!!! I may have to use it with the guys I'm playing with even if we don't actually play any Dead at the moment, we could always could add some.

I remember going to high school parties with tapes and sneakily lowering the volume of U2 or Guns and Roses and putting in 8.27.1972 or 9.17.1972 or 7.18.1976 or 9.17.1982...Girls would ask me about the "deep jamming" and i would say - "hey - I used to fast forward over the jamming. Now I fast forward to the jamming..."

You would put Veneta on at parties? That's a toughie, while I'm in the camp of that is one of the most amazing events ever, I'm also sane enough to know that is not a show for casual listening. I would describe that show as the perfect soundtrack to a psychedelic experience. This is a show where it was blistering hot and overwhelmingly humid, to top it off they had gotten dosed back stage and by that time they weren't really doing that anymore. Because of the heat and humidity their instruments were constantly going out of tune and they were forced to approach songs in a completely different way, and on acid to boot. There is a reason they won't release this show even though it's one of the most requested shows. Interestingly enough it's the only show (besides their "1st" show) they actually recognized and played a 10 year anniversary show for and then in '92 scheduled a 20 year anniversary show which was later cancelled. I can't imagine anyone hearing 8/27/72 as an introduction to the Dead coming out of it with anything positive to say about a band that couldn't play in time or in tune with each other.

So maybe we can agree to agree that "jam band" is kind of a dumb title for any band.

 

LouieB

 

Blashamey. Paul Weller, Bruce Foxton and Rick Buckler would not agree with this statement.

Nice!!!

As a long time follower of the Dead, a veteran of more shows then I care to count and a taper at most of those, I will state that the Dead could rock, I wouldn't say that was their forte or even when they were at their best, but they did rock. Anyone who says they didn't/couldn't obviously hasn't listened to them all that much and I would say aren't really in a position to comment on what they could or couldn't do. Then again it's really only one's opinion and everyone is entitled to one, doesn't mean they are right, just means in their own opinion.

wasn't a high bidder, but won a ticket via the lottery. i'm pretty stoked! that should be a great space for them.

Did they specify that you won on lottery?

theres still a spot between july 15th and july 21st that im assuming will be filled with a three night run in richmond virginia

And just about a week between Philly & Newport, NYC & Boston maybe?

Got fix for MASS MoCA, now should I start my tour in Newport, that's a hike to Cooperstown the next day, that's a tough call.