Earlier, I posted that oral history of the Dead in Austin; it goes on about Manor Downs, and one of those very shows got into the 30 Trips box: 7/31/82. I can’t link to the new mix, but this one is a Charlie Miller SBD with a bunch of good reviews, so it can’t suck.
Also from the oral history, here are two pictures of the Dead in Austin. They’re from–I think–the ’71 shows captured on the Road Trip release, and feature a terrible idea: see if you can spot it in this group shot.
Did you spot the terrible idea? You have to enlarge the picture, so luckily there’s a better shot.
Even if you’ve taken only a little tiny bit of acid, those numbers are going to start meaning shit. That will become distracting.
https://archive.org/serve/uploaded/wineland-Manor_Downs_7_31_82.jpg
missed it, had a little hangover from the rocks, but made it to jerry’s 40th the next day at ok zoo
http://www.texasguitars.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/1954-white-tcaster1_11-whole-guitar1.jpg
That is some full muppetry if I’ve ever seen it. In the first one Garcia kind of looks like a preview of himself in 82 or so, with a lot of forehead and beard and head pointed toward the ground.
’71 was the fattest of the early years, I think.
https://youtu.be/RdxSoF-yw2g
Ah, sick Spencer, thanks! This S>F is one of the reasons I’m an Enthusiast.
ha ha ha i was gonna say big steve glowering in the background!
I was thinking the same thing
Jerry is not wearing the same shirt in these photos (different show?) and I never saw fret numbers on his guitar before ever. I’m calling this photoshopped.
Then again, weirder things have definitely happened with this crew. Maybe he did have a fretboard like this briefly?
https://thoughtsonthedead.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/dead-jerry-bobby-donna.jpg
I once saw a photo of Robert Hunter playing a guitar like that- a Fender electric with numbered frets. With his mid-late 1970s band Roadhog, iirc. I think I saw the pic in Relix?
I’m not an expert- hell, I’m pushing things just by guessing- but to me, that guitar looks like a Strat body with a Tele neck and peghead. fwtw
There you go. That might even be the photo that TOTD cropped for his home page? Nudie suit?
I stole that photo from TotD.
So far I haven’t found much info on the numbers strat. ……I’m going to keep looking though
Seems like dozin is missing at least a two. http://dozin.com/jers/guitars.html
This brown strat here with the fretboard numbers and the sunburst / maple fingerboard strat (57?) seen at the Veneta 72 show. I learn more from this blog than I ever did in school.