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Comment by turtlehead on April 20, 2015 at 7:09am

I wish I would've taken a picture - this was the best I could find on the net.  Doesn't seem to be a lot of info out there.

Link to the article: http://www.cripeguitars.com/hof.html

Looks like Wolf Jr was the last guitar Irwin made for Jerry and was never used on stage.  Tiger and Wolf went back to Irwin who auctioned them off and the Dead gave the rest to the HOF on the condition that they wouldn't charge to see them.  They're outside of the main hall, so you can just walk in and take a look.  Good ol' Grateful Dead.

And yes, there was more than a little of that "come on old man" going on.  I'm sure she was glad that her friends weren't there.

Comment by SlowHound on April 20, 2015 at 6:32am

Hmm...misread. A headless guitar?

Still taking in your little girl watching her daddy get all broke up.

But, putting quotes around her like "dayum dad get a grip" makes it fun also.

Comment by SlowHound on April 19, 2015 at 11:29am

The Takamine's mentioned near the bottom.

http://dozin.com/jers/guitar/history.htm

Sure it wasn't just Wolf?

http://www.dozin.com/jers/guitars/wolf/wolf.htm

Comment by turtlehead on April 19, 2015 at 10:31am

Checked out the Allusionist last night Vinyl - interesting.  I'd say that a couple busloads of kids sort of screwed up the flow and that's why we chose to go backwards, but it really is amazing that a place can absorb 100 people or so like it did. I suppose that's a credit to the designers and the point of that podcast.

Thank you Glenn!  Glad to take you on the ride.

Yep Slow, that's her.  I didn't even really see that until you pointed it out.  Pretty cool.  I held it together for the Irwins OK, but that might have set things in motion.  They also had his Takamine acoustic and a headless one called Wolf Jr. (I think) that I'd never heard of or seen before. 

Comment by SlowHound on April 18, 2015 at 5:42pm

Jerry's Irwin's and your reflection. Is that your daughter looking up at you? Your reaction to Pete Seeger's banjo would have been the same for me with Rosebud and Lightning Bolt.

Comment by Vinylhed on April 18, 2015 at 1:00pm

I have seen Tim's Vermeer, and really enjoyed it. That guy had superhuman levels of patience. I also loved chain smoking David Hockney.

Last week I was listening to the Allusionist podcast (really worth checking out), they covered the "science" of designing the placement of information on museum walls. They actually use the texts to help the flow of visitors around the museum. Less text to read in the smaller spaces, so people pass through quicker and not cause a logjam visitors, and more text where they wan't to slow up their movement. 

I wonder if being dragged round with a group of 7th graders would ruin the carefully designed flow? I bet it would if you had only an hour.

Comment by turtlehead on April 18, 2015 at 12:00pm

Thanks guys.  Yep, it was tough to leave.  I had about 30 seconds in front of everything we looked at.  Like wes says, you could spend a day or more.  They were closing down early for a show for Ringo who is being inducted solo this weekend, plus we had to get back.  It was a 15 hour round trip. 

LOL Vinyl.  At least you got to see the Vermeers.  Have you seen the documentary called Tim's Vermeer?  About an inventor/DIY type who thinks he figured out how Vermeer might have done his work and recreates it.  Fascinating.

Comment by SlowHound on April 18, 2015 at 11:37am

Great read. Only an hour? Must of been really tough to leave.

Bucket list for me.

Comment by Uncle John on April 18, 2015 at 7:20am

Nice story line and great photos.   Makes me want to visit it.  The Sergeant Pepper outfit awes me. 

Comment by Vinylhed on April 18, 2015 at 6:42am

Sounds like when I had and hour and a half in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. To be fair I was caught short and really only went in to take a leak. That was the most expensive widdle I've ever had. Still, at least I got to see the museum's collection of Vermeer paintings...Totally breathtaking.

We had a Rock and Roll museum in the Yorkshire city of Sheffield, but I closed down years ago.

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