Jerry Garcia's bent -spent string

Larry Miller · Post by **Larry Miller** » 24 May 2002 2:49 am

what did he do about it?

Ian · Post by **Ian** » 24 May 2002 7:35 am

Chris Forbes · Post by **Chris Forbes** » 24 May 2002 8:04 am

change it?

Steve Feldman · Post by **Steve Feldman** » 24 May 2002 8:11 am

I believe he used either a Lucky-7 or a GOLO. You never heard him complain about premature .011 breakage did you?

Joey Ace · Post by **Joey Ace** » 24 May 2002 9:06 am

If you can find it, it's now worth mega-bucks on Ebay.

Chris Forbes · Post by **Chris Forbes** » 25 May 2002 6:15 am

my eyes ain't that good, what kind of steel is that and what is the arrow pointing to?

Jon Light (deceased) · Post by **Jon Light (deceased)** » 25 May 2002 6:19 am

The guitar would be a ZB and the arrow would be pointing to the fact that Jerry Garcia was the first steel player to not use a third string because of the accident he had years earlier that removed a portion of his third finger.

Steve Feldman · Post by **Steve Feldman** » 25 May 2002 9:12 am

Aw c'mon, Jon. You've got to be kidding. No third string or did I just take the bait on a big fish story...?

I knew he was missing part of the 3rd finger, but that was on his picking hand. Besides, he HAD to have been playing a G# raise on Teach...No?

Jon Light (deceased) · Post by **Jon Light (deceased)** » 25 May 2002 9:49 am

Would I lie to you?

And also, I bet you didn't know that ZB stands for Zebco.

Jon Light (deceased) · Post by **Jon Light (deceased)** » 25 May 2002 9:50 am

Oh, ok, I'll put up a

Chris Forbes · Post by **Chris Forbes** » 25 May 2002 11:07 am

so what is the arrow pointing at?

Joey Ace · Post by **Joey Ace** » 25 May 2002 12:34 pm

Jon is trying to create an Urban Legend.

Jerry had a third string, and used it a lot.

He often wondered why Red Arrows hovered above his Steel.

I still don't know what this thread is about.

BTW, Tab and Audio for TYC is at http://users.interlinks.net/rebel/steel/1970.html[This message was edited by Joey Ace on 26 May 2002 at 02:55 PM.]

Steve Feldman · Post by **Steve Feldman** » 25 May 2002 1:15 pm

I still don't know what this thread is about.

It's a Seinfeld kinda thing.

Chuck McGill · Post by **Chuck McGill** » 25 May 2002 2:33 pm

You guys must be smoking the same thing ole
Jerry did

Chris Forbes · Post by **Chris Forbes** » 26 May 2002 3:59 am

Chuck, it's been over ten years, but I still can't figure out what's going on. Maybe my brain is still trying to catch up, it's probably still confused by reality.

CrowBear Schmitt · Post by **CrowBear Schmitt** » 26 May 2002 5:41 am

i've been puffin' on it too and i still don't get it...

Jason Odd · Post by **Jason Odd** » 26 May 2002 11:11 am

I get it. No hints for you guys though.

Joey Ace · Post by **Joey Ace** » 26 May 2002 1:56 pm

I still don't get it...

Chris Forbes · Post by **Chris Forbes** » 29 May 2002 3:27 am

I give up

Ray Jenkins · Post by **Ray Jenkins** » 29 May 2002 4:21 am

The red arrow indicates the 3rd fret,when he moves to the 15th fret that section of the fret board is blocked from his view because his hair is in his left eye.The arrow prevents him from overshooting the 3rd fret.
I got this information from a friend of mine who is a second cousin to the nephew of a swinette player who worked for the brother of the b@njo player who is kin to the guy that put the arrow there.You can take this to the bank.
What was this thread about?
Ray

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