The Official 2026 Secondary Kit thread [R]

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Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks met at San Jose State. Then there was the Count Five with “Psychotic Reaction”. And Nikki Sixx was born in San Jose.

 

For the record, The Grateful Dead formed in Palo Alto in 1965. So, Santa Clara County, anyway.

I didn’t know any of them, but I had friends and relatives who did.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grateful_Dead

Go Quakesfans!!

 

Didn’t somebody write a song about San Jose once?

 

Yes, looking forward to the Burt Bacharach jersey!

 

The San Jose connection is that their first show using the Grateful Dead name was in San Jose.

 

They aren't real tie-dye, they're like if an 8 year old tried to make a homemade one....lol

 

Jerry and various incarnations of The Dead and Joan Baez used to play at St. Michael’s alley in downtown PA. The first location closed in the 60’s due its supposed bad “beatnik” reputation. Then reopened on Homer as the St. Michael’s Waiting Room. Apparently the clientele was more “reputable” but the owner complained that they were cheap . I played there a few times in the 90’s(?) with a singer-songwriter guitarist.

https://jerrygarciasbrokendownpalac...st-michaels-alley-436-university-ave.html?m=1

 

St Louis is doing a Tina Turner kit. Not kidding.

 

Real tie-dye IS homemade.

 

St. Michael’s Alley was the restaurant, St. Michael’s waiting room was next door, where they served only drinks and snacks. You couldn’t get dinner in the waiting room, but that was the 80’s. Also, it was always a high-end place, at least in the 70’s and 80’s, but now I’m dating myself.

 

Yes I wrote that when it reopened it was St. Michael’s Alley Waiting Room (the little place with music). But I think the original location in the 60’s was just St. Michael’s Alley.

 

Perhaps now with the Grateful Dead jersey, we change our forum tagline to “What a long, strange trip it’s been”.

 

I didn't even know I liked soccer back then, so yeah, that wouldn't have been on my bingo card.

 

I started playing soccer in the 60’s. Loved it right off. But I lived in South Palo Alto, so I didn’t spend a lot of time going downtown. Some, but not tons. I didn’t hang out at Stanferd either.

After college I spent more time downtown.

And later, I worked right on University Ave.

 

Pudley’s Gold Mine Special. $5 burger and beer! On University Ave. back in the day.

 

Holding that axe like someone who’s never played…

 

I took up the electric guitar a few months ago, and I am having a lot of fun, but it is very hard! I have large, old hands, and I tend to inadvertently mute strings learning the chords. I do a lot of finger exercises, but, am far from getting the amount of “stretch” I want. I bought a nice “beginner” guitar, a Fender effects amp with 30 presets, distortion pedal, overdrive pedal, wireless system, and headphones.
I told myself if I stick with it a year I can buy myself a better guitar, like an American-made Gibson or Fender. And maybe a better amp as well. Rock on!

 

Gotta work on that hand strength and build finger tip calluses. Playing a steel string acoustic with a high bridge and thick strings would probably help accelerate that.

 

I did buy one of those devices you squeeze to build finger and hand strength, the kind where you can do one finger at a time if you want.