First, let me say that I, as both a Deadhead & a former live sound professional, keep Grateful Dead Gear in my upstairs bathroom; when I finish it I immediately start over (don't know how many times I've been through it, but it's in double digits).
Jackson lists Bobby's progression as Gretsch Tennessean > Rickenbacker (he thinks a 330, but I think the heliport photos show the rounded edges of a 360) > swapping between a 335 & a 345 > Ibanez, etc.
I just reread Phil's Searching For The Sound (for my money one of the two best rock-star memoirs ever writ - the other being Levon's This Wheel's On Fire) , and for the first time noticed that on the TV show they lip-synced early on, the esteemed Mr. Weir is "playing" (no, I can't make that "chord"......) an ES-330-TD. It is the onliest pic have seen of him with one, and have come across no mention of it anywhere.
Does anyone know anything about his relationship, or lack thereof, with this instrument?
I ask because I am 1) not only, as mentioned above, a Deadhead, but also 2) a serious guitar geek, who 3) holds the 330 (and Epiphone Casino, which is the same ax) to be the acme of electric guitar development.
Thanks muchly.
Jackson lists Bobby's progression as Gretsch Tennessean > Rickenbacker (he thinks a 330, but I think the heliport photos show the rounded edges of a 360) > swapping between a 335 & a 345 > Ibanez, etc.
I just reread Phil's Searching For The Sound (for my money one of the two best rock-star memoirs ever writ - the other being Levon's This Wheel's On Fire) , and for the first time noticed that on the TV show they lip-synced early on, the esteemed Mr. Weir is "playing" (no, I can't make that "chord"......) an ES-330-TD. It is the onliest pic have seen of him with one, and have come across no mention of it anywhere.
Does anyone know anything about his relationship, or lack thereof, with this instrument?
I ask because I am 1) not only, as mentioned above, a Deadhead, but also 2) a serious guitar geek, who 3) holds the 330 (and Epiphone Casino, which is the same ax) to be the acme of electric guitar development.
Thanks muchly.