Last night I went to Cat's Cradle in Carrboro to see Man...Or Astroman? on their first tour in years. There were three bands: band No 1 was composed of a drummer and a guitar player (both roadies for MoAM). The second band was "Fiend Without A Face", a side project of Brett Hinds of Mastodon, and of course, MoAM.
With the exception of Brent, who played a Gretsch White Falcon, everyone in the three bands played Hallmark guitars.
The bass player for Fiend Without a Face played a real, live Ampeg Scroll bass throughout their set! It sounded great! Afterwards I asked him if he had any problems with head dive and he answered, "Everything I have has head dive", to which I replied, "you must be a Gibson fan". His eyes lit up, he held out his hand and said, "Right on, man!" Hilarious!
MoAM's bass player used to play Danelectro Longhorns all the time and I asked him about his last night because it didn't look like a Dano. I thought it was a Jerry Jones but in fact it was a Hondo with a vintage Dano lipstick tube pickup in it. That thing sounded great, too!
