A place to talk about the music of the Grateful Dead
tigerstrat wrote:JK and I would sometimes play as a duo of him:mando/fiddle, me:acoustic guitar, sometimes joined by our friend Lee on upright bass...in coffee shops or little art fairs and such.Was that during the wingnut time??
strumminsix wrote:That was actually probably 94-95, a year or two before Wingnut, in which I played electric bass 96-97. We also had a fusion/prog synth guitarist named Chris who had the full vintage "Pat Metheny" Roland/Ibanez synth system. JK played mostly 5-string electric violin (through his guitar rig, which at the time included his Fender Super 60 as a combo with Celestion Vintage30 (big Trey-head at the time), plus full fx... totally awesome and huge with the OC-2 and SD-1 engaged). John switched to guitar for certain songs, which at the time was his gold SSS-routed Paul Reed, with JB Jr. pickups. Think he played that one for like the first few months of DSO, but I didn't even see them until late in 98 maybe. Even though they hit huge right at their start about a month after forming in late 97, (with a lil help of a massive newsletter campaign drawing on all of their previous bands lists... nice kick start to send mail out to 4000 local heads!), while WE took several months to firm up our lineup, I still thought Paradise Waits (the 20th century edition, with me and Farmer and the aforementioned Lee) was going to be the next big dead band in Chicago!:lol:tigerstrat wrote:JK and I would sometimes play as a duo of him:mando/fiddle, me:acoustic guitar, sometimes joined by our friend Lee on upright bass...in coffee shops or little art fairs and such.Was that during the wingnut time??
heavy denial and shock I guess ...we settled on being popular with the hippies in Rockford, which was really a crazy beautiful scene when I look back. Amazing scene for such little bluecollar city on the prairie. You can tell I've had my quadruple espresso this morning... I'm sharing a lot!
