Jerry Garcia's Sho-Bud amp on eBay

scott murray · Post by **scott murray** » 20 Feb 2015 10:09 pm

purchased from Scotty in the early 7os. I imagine Jerry paid significantly less for it...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/JERRY-GARCIAS-P ... 4ae475732b

Charlie McDonald · Post by **Charlie McDonald** » 21 Feb 2015 4:08 am

E-bay? It should be listed by Sotheby's.

Henry Matthews · Post by **Henry Matthews** » 21 Feb 2015 9:52 am

Charlie McDonald · Post by **Charlie McDonald** » 21 Feb 2015 10:13 am

You may laugh Henry; there are guys who'd love to look inside the little pre-Alembic box on the front.
Me, I dig the tie-die.

chris ivey · Post by **chris ivey** » 21 Feb 2015 10:26 am

i'm not 'that' stoned!

Barry Blackwood · Post by **Barry Blackwood** » 21 Feb 2015 10:39 am

there are guys who'd love to look inside the little pre-Alembic box on the front.

Why?

Peter Freiberger · Post by **Peter Freiberger** » 21 Feb 2015 11:27 am

To find out the secret to his incredible tone, that's why.

Charlie McDonald · Post by **Charlie McDonald** » 21 Feb 2015 12:05 pm

Of course!

chris ivey · Post by **chris ivey** » 21 Feb 2015 12:17 pm

that is funny!

David Mason · Post by **David Mason** » 21 Feb 2015 12:34 pm

I heard that if you REALLY want to sound just like Jerry, you need to get the "Jerry-Mod" done:

I don't want to sound just like Jerry....

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 21 Feb 2015 12:36 pm

Bought it for $50K, selling it for $25K. Sotheby's would have been a better bet...

Barry Blackwood · Post by **Barry Blackwood** » 21 Feb 2015 12:52 pm

To find out the secret to his incredible tone, that's why.

Oh. Up 'til now, I was of the understanding it was his ZB…

chris ivey · Post by **chris ivey** » 21 Feb 2015 1:08 pm

was it jerry-rigged?

Richard Sinkler · Post by **Richard Sinkler** » 21 Feb 2015 2:24 pm

Charlie McDonald wrote:E-bay? It should be listed by Sotheby's.

Oh Charlie. You are so wrong. It should be in my living room.

John Billings · Post by **John Billings** » 21 Feb 2015 3:30 pm

The band had many "eclectic" techs. It might be interesting to find out if any mades were done, and id the mods were any good. Personally, as a former Hippie, I couldn't stand the band. Endless/aimless nooldling. Boring to me!

chris ivey · Post by **chris ivey** » 21 Feb 2015 4:53 pm

too bad you missed all the good songs thet wrote and recorded.

John Billings · Post by **John Billings** » 21 Feb 2015 5:00 pm

"too bad you missed all the good songs thet wrote and recorded."
There weren't thank many. A couple of good ones, and a lot of aimless noodleing.

But that's just a difference of opinion. I found them to be generally quite boring.But I was a Zappa guy, and into things quite different than the ungrateful dead.

Earnest Bovine · Post by **Earnest Bovine** » 21 Feb 2015 5:38 pm

John Billings wrote:I was a Zappa guy, and into things quite different than the ungrateful dead.

aimless noodler with a sense of humor

Charlie McDonald · Post by **Charlie McDonald** » 21 Feb 2015 6:19 pm

Richard Sinkler wrote:It should be in my living room.

It does, I can see it there, headband and all.
Definitely doesn't belong in a museum.
We were followers of the other aimless noodler with a sense of humor freshman year. 'Blank... empty... space....'

Henry Matthews · Post by **Henry Matthews** » 21 Feb 2015 9:33 pm

Jim Cohen wrote:Bought it for $50K, selling it for $25K. Sotheby's would have been a better bet...

I see why your not making any money. You didn't buy enough amps. Two or three more he owned should have done it.

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 21 Feb 2015 10:36 pm

Don't get the wrong impression, Henry. It's not my amp. ..

Richard Sinkler · Post by **Richard Sinkler** » 21 Feb 2015 11:13 pm

Charlie McDonald wrote:
Richard Sinkler wrote:It should be in my living room.
It does, I can see it there, headband and all.
Definitely doesn't belong in a museum.
We were followers of the other aimless noodler with a sense of humor freshman year. 'Blank... empty... space....'

I'll need to get out my headbands from my hippie Dead-Head days. I'll have to check under the cushions of my couch and get the money to buy this.

Henry Matthews · Post by **Henry Matthews** » 21 Feb 2015 11:52 pm

Jim Cohen wrote:Don't get the wrong impression, Henry. It's not my amp. ..

Yeh I know Jim, I was just being funny. Miss read your post, thought you were kidding about buying it.

Joachim Kettner · Post by **Joachim Kettner** » 22 Feb 2015 4:51 am

"Workingman's Dead" has lots of three minute songs with many unusual chord changes. And I don't think that's boring.

Mark Eaton · Post by **Mark Eaton** » 22 Feb 2015 8:06 am

Having lived most of my life in the Bay Area, "ground zero" for the Dead, I saw them play at a number of different venues, my favorite being Winterland in the 1970s. It's a good thing that not everyone liked them in the region, the shows there were crowded enough as it was. Some of the best fun of my life.

Of course you never knew what you were going to get on any of the evenings. That was part of the deal. And they were their own deal for sure. As Bill Graham once said: "They're not the best at what they do. They're the only ones who do what they do."

Once again, there is no shortage in the Bay Area of folks whom never liked the Dead, but some of us who do take it a little personally when people blow them off with a brusque, one sentence long wave of the hand dismissal of the band and their entire career. That's a pretty simplistic assessment, particularly of Garcia himself who is admired by many of the world's great musicians.

I'm not a big soccer fan but I'll watch the important games like toward the end of the Olympics or the World Cup. I'm more the typical American sports fan where my three favorites are baseball (Go Giants!), basketball (go Warriors!) and football (49ers - maybe next year).

But soccer is the most popular sport in the world. So even though I'm not real hot on the game myself, it occurs to me that there really might be something to the sport that I'm not getting. I don't think I have enough knowledge of the game to be able to quickly blow it off as being lame or boring.