I don't know if it made me a fanatic, but my first favorite song was Carl Perkins' Cadillac. I became a fanatic listening to the albums, the live shows on Archive, and finally seeing DBT live. Once I did that....it was over lol.

one belt loop wrote:*Day On The Green #4 & 5: Peter Frampton, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Santana, Outlaws (July 2 & 4, 1977). I was at the July 2 show.

Did you see Zeppelin when they played Oakland Coliseum Stadium July 23 and July 24th 1977? Their last US shows...

It's amazing to me how productive the time period of 2002 through 2005-ish was. Not only did they put out two damn fine albums, they wrote and recorded several outstanding tracks that didn't make either album and Jason wrote and recorded many of the songs that later appeared on his first solo album....

psychobillycadillac wrote:Nice! Does it have one of the new baked maple fretboards and the Burstbucker pickups?

No it has the 490R/498T combo pickups and a rosewood fretboard. My Les Paul has a baked maple fretboard. The baked maple gets a lot of hate on Gibson msg boards but I don't mind it at all.

Tequila Cowboy wrote: who replied "Drive-By who?"

That's the response I get from about 90% of people or family when I tell them something about DBT or about going to a show or doing to Athens for Homecoming weekend, etc. It makes me kinda sad that more people don't know how great this band is.

Finally purchased our ticket package for the two Winston shows @ Ziggy's. We'll finally get into double digit shows as these will be our 10th & 11th DBT shows. Wish we still lived in Winston, but we'll be making the trip from Raleigh for these shows. Still up in the air whether we will make the ...

I didn't grow up in the South, I grew up in rural Pennsylvania. I didn't grow up in the 70's, I grew up in the 80's. Still Southern Rock Opera speaks to me on so many levels and contains some of my favorite DBT songs. Taken as a whole it's mind-blowing. And I don't think you have to be from the Sout...

Recently traded in my MIM Fender Strat on a 2012 SG Standard in Heritage Cherry w/ coil splitting. Gorgeous guitar with a fast neck. Having quite a bit of fun with it lately.

I haven't heard anything but a couple songs off of Southeastern but part of what helped to deepen my appreciation of Heat Lightning Rumbles In the Distance was hearing those songs in concert. I couldn't agree more. I liked Heat Lightning when I first got it but after seeing Patterson a few months a...

I came of age in the mid to late 1980's and grew up a hard rock/metal fan. During college I discovered a lot of other bands/genres and now consider myself a fan of most musical genres and time periods. With that being said I am still a hard rock/metal fan at heart and I love DBT. So I guess they do ...

Probably hard to do unless they had another crew member. To it at all properly you'd need to run a seperate mix just for the recording, and probably have at least one pair of room mics for ambiance and crowd noise, if not more. I'd hazard a guess that's it's just not worth the trouble to sell maybe...

I know different bands offer "instant live" cds of shows you just attended. Other band offer downloads of live shows on their website after the fact. I would think the most effective way for this to be a money maker for the band would be to offer downloads on the website. Now I realize tha...

Tyler wrote:I actually think The Big To-Do was their attempt at going a bit mainstream. I mean, they made a video for the lead single? When else have they ever made a music video?

First of all, it's a great damn video. Secondly, was the video ever shown anywhere other than Youtube?

Wasn't Where The Devil Don't Stay and Lookout Mountain used in STP commercials with Cooley narrating? Was it an online-only thing? I swear I saw them on TV.

I'm not even sure what to say about this. We're all fans, we love the small venues but c'mon man, you're talking about people's livelihoods here. That's why I said "I know I'm being selfish". It's not like I'd stop being a fan if they suddenly hit it big and started playing arenas. I'm ju...

I know I'm being selfish, but I don't want them to get much bigger. I like being able to see them multiple times a year within easy driving distance in a relatively small room/venue. By the time of the Winston shows this summer we'll have seen them 6 times in 2013 all within a few hours drive, and w...

I think the Truckers are too "Southern" and not "hip enough" for the hipster indie crowd.

From a recent interview with Isbell: "Southeastern" is your first album not credited to "Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit" since 2007's "Sirens of the Ditch." Why was now the right time to make a full-on solo album and do you see yourself working with 400 Unit again down t...

Cool to see him join Jason's band I guess but I thought he was such a good fit with Drivin' n' Cryin'. Is Jason's band no longer called "the 400 Unit"? I don't see his current band mentioned by that name here. Jason tweeted something along the lines of "We'd like to welcome Sadler Va...

Other than The Living Bubba it took me forever to come around to this album. Even today I prefer the live versions of Gangstabilly songs compared to their studio counterparts, especially Buttholeville and Steve McQueen. I don't dislike Gangstabilly and it has it's own unique charm. It's probably the...

I've lived in North Carolina for 17 years and I have no idea what "The South" even is, other than what I've learned from DBT songs. Of course I live in Raleigh where every other person is a transplanted Northerner like me. Maybe my perspective would be different if I lived in the "rea...

Wait....Cooley has a computer?

I got into DBT right around the release of BTCD and I got it along with Dirty South and Decoration Day. I got into the band listening to those albums and live shows from the archive. I eventually picked up the rest of the albums and got A Blessing and A Curse last. I'd read poor reviews and just put...

Thought about this for awhile, I've only seen DBT 9 times but my favorite moment has to be my first People Who Died at the 40 Watt on 1/14/12. Always loved that song when I've listened to recordings, but didn't realize how special it is live. A close second would be the same song from the 40 Watt th...

Patterson's obviously on a roll tonight... I co-produced Jason's 1st solo album, but it didn't come out until a couple of years later due to record company bullshit. Dress Blues was a later addition to that album, but I wasn't involved in that part of the recording, as Jason was moving in other dir...

I always enjoy reading and hearing Patterson's thoughts about his and the band's work and the stories of the writing and recording process. I've said it in this thread already but I am really looking forward to a Patterson Hood book detailing the long & storied history of DBT. Hopefully it actua...

I'm not even sure who Luke Bryan and Jason Aldean are, but then again I don't know a thing about contemporary country music...well, I know who Taylor Swift is lol.

One interesting point about Isbell's contribution to this album that I didn't realize until years later is the fact that he had already written & performed many of the songs that appeared on his solo albums before they recorded A Blessing and A Curse. Songs like Crystal Clear, Brand New Kind of ...

I wish Patterson would write an autobiography or his take on the history of DBT.

Before moving to Raleigh this past July I lived in Lexington for 5 years. I grew up in PA so not a huge Carolina barbecue fan...probably had "Lexington Style" twice the entire time I lived there. I lived 1/4 of a mile from The Lexington Barbecue that was featured on The Travel Channel a fe...