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Topic: Telluride Brews and Blues - two shows

Looks like there were only a few of us in telluride from the forum, so here is a short review.

Joe played a 1 hour set to about 8000 people - clearly the highlight of the afternoon.  Don't remember the full list, but just got paid, mountain time, Sloe Gin, etc, all electric set.  The just got paid included a variety of zep tunes as well, and the crowd was really into it.  Joe got set up in less than 20 minutes, with his full rig, and sounded great-hat's off to his crew who worked their butts off to get it done, then tear it down and set it up at the convention center for a late night show.

THe Convention center set was unlike anything I''ve seen joe do.  It started as acoustic set-with ball peen hammer, heartaches were nickles, etc  and just built tension from there to the end, a full 50 minutes of acoustic bliss.  THen came the rock, sloe gin, mountain time, etc. Ending with Just got paid.  encore was asking around for you and los endos-just a fantastic show.

Some pics of Joe and telluride can be seen in our gallery under telluride blues and brews www.category5amps.com.  It was a great opportunity for us as we were backlining the show anyway, and we got a couple of hours of Joe's time demoing a new amp we will build for him to sit in with others, but still carry his big tone with him in a 2 x 12 combo package.

A great show, and we were all beat by the altitude at the end of the day.

Thanks again Joe!!

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Re: Telluride Brews and Blues - two shows

Thanks so much for sharing..I'm jealous!!! 2 shows in 1 day and in such a beautiful place...I'll check out your pix..Cathy

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Re: Telluride Brews and Blues - two shows

DonR wrote:

Looks like there were only a few of us in telluride from the forum, so here is a short review.

Joe played a 1 hour set to about 8000 people - clearly the highlight of the afternoon.  Don't remember the full list, but just got paid, mountain time, Sloe Gin, etc, all electric set.  The just got paid included a variety of zep tunes as well, and the crowd was really into it.  Joe got set up in less than 20 minutes, with his full rig, and sounded great-hat's off to his crew who worked their butts off to get it done, then tear it down and set it up at the convention center for a late night show.

THe Convention center set was unlike anything I''ve seen joe do.  It started as acoustic set-with ball peen hammer, heartaches were nickles, etc  and just built tension from there to the end, a full 50 minutes of acoustic bliss.  THen came the rock, sloe gin, mountain time, etc. Ending with Just got paid.  encore was asking around for you and los endos-just a fantastic show.

Some pics of Joe and telluride can be seen in our gallery under telluride blues and brews www.category5amps.com.  It was a great opportunity for us as we were backlining the show anyway, and we got a couple of hours of Joe's time demoing a new amp we will build for him to sit in with others, but still carry his big tone with him in a 2 x 12 combo package.

A great show, and we were all beat by the altitude at the end of the day.

Thanks again Joe!!

Don Ritter
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Category 5 Amplification

Thanks for sharing DonR and always love looking at pics of Joe!!

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Re: Telluride Brews and Blues - two shows

Close,

That was the run for the front row seats-the beer tent opened on hour after that.

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Re: Telluride Brews and Blues - two shows

Cool pictures....looks like an awesome place to see incredible talent (Joe).  Question:  Who was the guy with the PRS goldtop?

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Tishamigo had the PRS.

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7 Reply by mchoate (edited by mchoate 2007-09-24 21:48:22)

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Re: Telluride Brews and Blues - two shows

We were there too and both shows were fantastic.  Here are my shots for the weekend (sorry, there is more than just joe in there, but maybe enuf to convince u to be there next year!)  :-) 
http://www1.snapfish.com/share/p=395231 … /otsi=SALB

It was our first time for that festival, and man, it was awesome.  We love Telluride anyway, so to me, you can't get any better for a venue.  Then when i saw Joe was on the lineup, plus John Mooney, Eric Lindell, Keb Mo, Bonarama, Los Lonely Boys.... I'm thinking it'll be tough to beat this next year.  And we discovered some new stuff we really liked: JJ Grey and MoFro, Marc Ford, Tishamingo.... it was very cool.... like New Orlean's Jazzfest, but with the stuff i wanna hear and only 8000 people instead of 100,000...and it was very well organized..and i didn't have to decide because only one stage...and really good beer.  And did i mention it was in a box canyon with mountains all around, aspen starting to turn, no humidity, 70 degrees..  hang on...lets keep this our little secret, shall we?

Highly recommended (no pun intended) :-)  That altitude was definitely affecting folks, and Joe complained about it, but we sure couldn't tell it, as he was belting out those lyrics like normal. :-)  He didn't do Blues Deluxe tho...maybe that's why. ;-)  Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhoooooooooooooo think I got it bad!!!!!!
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Hey Michelle,

Category 5 is Based here in Dallas(well fFrisco and Farmers Branch to be exact.) We'll be at the Ride.  Let's try to catch up at the show,

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Re: Telluride Brews and Blues - two shows

I'll be the one with the beaded Joe t-shirt and the big smile on my face. :-)  C U there.

10 Reply by Rocket (edited by Rocket 2007-09-30 01:01:43)

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Re: Telluride Brews and Blues - two shows

Thanks for the pics and review Don!  You sound like a really cool guy.  I even like you plugging Cat5 here on Joe's site (since you actually have Joe already hooked, happily, his own comments), maybe you can save 10% finder's fees here and there....just kidding man...Don gives 10% back to charities folks, see Cat5 website,...and any partakers of their products can skim a cool 'nuther 10% for themselves, if they convince a friend or two!!!  I'd like to take a look under the hood of those things.  Nothing prettier in my engineering book than premium quality electronics designed and brought forth by an obvious labor of love.  Keep up the excellent work.  The mountains sure are pretty, an so's that mad dash-pretty scary! Did they find the stuff they hide up in Telluride, after they moved it through Miami , before they sell it in L.A. (somebody's gotta know what I'm reeferring to)???!!! Thanks again for the review. 

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11 Reply by DonR (edited by DonR 2007-09-30 09:09:06)

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Hey Rocket,

Thx for the kind words-are you a guitar player?  Plenty of gut shots on the amps if you go through the gallery section.  As for what ends up in telluride, I can tell you there was enough 50-60 year old folks smoking something peculiar, that you had to take precautions not to get a "contact high".  I left that stuff back at college 27 years ago, I was amazed to see it so prevalent with that age group- I guess the 60's are alive and well.

DonR

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You're welcome Don.  No, I 'm not a guitar player per se, at least not like I used to be.  But I constantly play out the fantasies of one in my mind! Yes, I saw the gut shots a couple months ago...Under the hood for me means getting premium quality test equipment, taking endless measurements, gawking at waveforms and tweaking (hopefully not crashing) computer programs, punching and crunching numbers (man I hated that as a "thought controlled" youth, the disdain led to guitar playing!!!), looking at schematics, falling asleep thinking about how to.....whatever!, scratching illegible and indecipherable (sometimes to my head scratching self later) notes and drawings, burning the old burns on my fingers with the old soldering iron (I save the beauty protoype work for the Metcal). 
I evoke the 60's in many ways, but 2 of the popular things drop by the wayside, as I most like food and knowledge going into my body to stimulate my mind, and believe physical interfacing with brothers and sisters can stop at tight hugs instead of naked picknicking (never know what can show up and ruin a picnic, ya know).

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Rocket,

Sounds like we need you on the team as we expand!  We'll send you the amps with the poldergeists and let you sniff them out with the osilliscope.

thx again,

DonR

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Re: Telluride Brews and Blues - two shows

Rocket...just so you know SOMEONE picked up your reference:

...it's the lure of easy money....it's the Smuggler's Blues.

Gotta love Miami Vice smile

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You got it, brother!  I couldn't resist thinking of Don Johnson and DonR and Miami and Cat5 and Telluride....and you get it! Don got part of it from the missmelling! Remember the slide on that song?

Rock ON & Keep the Faith,
Rocket

CarljMD wrote:

Rocket...just so you know SOMEONE picked up your reference:

...it's the lure of easy money....it's the Smuggler's Blues.

Gotta love Miami Vice smile

CarljMD

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http://jbonamassa.com/tour-dates/
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“Now, this isn’t your ordinary party crowd, here.  I mean, there are professionals in here.”