Author Topic: Green day in san antonio, tonight! (Read 470 times)

pmoran · « **on:** August 21, 2005, 09:46:26 PM »

tonight, my wife and i saw green day at the sbc center. i've been going to concerts since 1969 when i saw the stones in dallas on the gimme shelter tour. we both agreed this was one of the best shows we've ever seen. i've seen at least 500 shows including having worked at least 40 shows as the director of backstage security here in san antonio when i was in law school and a kenpo student. what a show. btw, dirnt was playing a white sadowsky jazz. there's no explaining taste, but the show was tasty.

j_gary · « **Reply #1 on:** August 22, 2005, 07:03:04 AM »

WHAT! He doesn't use a Dirnt Fender?! Dag nab it, I'm trading mine in on a real bass. I hate when that happens. Lets see, I may be able to get an Alembic power supply for my Dirnt P Bass. So then all I need is a few bucks more for the bass and I'm good. Good band, love to see em live.

longhorncat · « **Reply #2 on:** August 22, 2005, 02:02:10 PM »

I was there! I took my 13-year-old son. It WAS a great show and we had a blast. The band spent a lot of time getting the crowd involved in the music. I thought Mike started out on a Fender then switched to the white bass when they went into their trio (Dookie) songs.

He definitely was playing his sig bass when they got the audience members on stage. That girl got to keep the bass she played.

Bill

pmoran · « **Reply #3 on:** August 22, 2005, 02:06:55 PM »

i looked at the fender dirnt model and this thing he played last night absolutely had the 3 inline controls angling down from the bridge pickup to the bottom rear corner of the bass just like a sadowsky. didn't look anything like the metal plate setup on a dirnt fender, but i could be wrong. just ask my wife. she'll tell you i'm always wrong! about everything which brings up the old conundrum: if a man speaks in a forest and his wife isn't there to hear him, is he still wrong?

keith_h · « **Reply #4 on:** August 22, 2005, 06:18:23 PM »

Well my wife would probably say yes. It doesn't matter whether she's there to hear the man it the fact that he is a man.

Keith

longhorncat · « **Reply #5 on:** August 22, 2005, 07:44:38 PM »

I assumed he would have a Fender Custom Shop version of the Dirnt bass to play on stage. I know he uses vintage Fenders to record with.

pmoran · « **Reply #6 on:** August 23, 2005, 06:04:26 AM »

maybe it was a custom shop and they've put a chrome trim strip under the 3 controls that looks like a traditional sadowsky jazz. the trim strip under the controls was absolutely not like what is on the dirnt fenders. and, longhorncat, i am speaking of the white bass he played. i just wasn't close enough to read the writing on the headstock. i've seen alot of concerts in my life. i've never owned a green day album prior to american idiot, but that was absolutely one of the tightest, musically clean, clear, dead-on performances i've seen in a long time. i tend toward metal and really, really hard rock, but sunday night's show was absolutely phenomenal. it's a shame there wasn't an alembic onstage the entire night! and my mark king arrives tomorrow. i'm a happy man!

longhorncat · « **Reply #7 on:** August 23, 2005, 09:36:32 AM »

We were sitting on the 5th row, about even with the first sound board, so I couldn't see any of the instrument details. I was also impressed with the sound (though the bass could have been turned up a bit).

pmoran · « **Reply #8 on:** August 23, 2005, 04:56:19 PM »

man, we were in 109 at 6:35 w/the stage at 9, and dirnt was coming thru loud and clear. i could every pic strike w/that classic fender electric thunk/clank sound. i thought they had billie mixed down too much, but jeez, that tour guitarist session guy was the obvious reason----he was unbelievable. reminded me of the time at the cotton bowl when i saw ted nugent come out and play rhythm guitar for aerosmith on milk cow blues. ted knows chords!