Violent Femmes - "Blister in the sun ", live in München (1986), Alabamahalle

Violent Femmes spielten am 24.02.1986 live in München in der Alabamahalle. Dies ist "Blister in the sun"!

[@nelsonx5326]

Gordon is movie star handsome. I've never seen anyone mention that.

[@CarpetBanana]

Have you seen him today lmao

[@LowTempDabr]

@@CarpetBanana he's aged very well, what are you referencing? lol looks like a handsome old guy now 😂

[@jamesmaybrick2001]

@@CarpetBanana He is 61. I guarentee if you live that long you will look worse.

[@nelsonx5326]

@@CarpetBanana Yes. He got chubby and grew his hair long. Just like me, the old hippie. I think he was what the chicks would call 'cute'. More often than not cute doesn't age well. It's beauty, decent facial proportions, that age well. That tiny nose or whatever that made a person cute will look weird in old age, Grinch like.

[@budgles]

Oh, he’s one of my absolute favorite short kings. Watch the video for American Music. He’s 🔥.

[@helgazubiz1750]

Siete fantastici, ragazzi!

[@KlockoFett]

Holy crap! It's Steve from Shameless! I wonder if Fiona ever found out he was a rock star.

[@layinlow77]

All hail the mullet.

[@tamarahofmann2321]

Zeitlos:-) Kaum zu glauben....

[@julianfairbanks1264]

Bass player looks like a national league pitcher

[@NORATECHNOLOGIES]

Kean 96

[@wompus6570]

Anyone know what guitar Gordon is using?

[@_Azeem_]

I don't think they know man

[@brennantonellato1429]

This might be way more than you want to know. During their earliest days, Gordon used a sunburst '69 thinline Telecaster that was stolen sometime in '83. By '84, Gordon mostly used a Bullet S-3, Fender's successor to the Mustang. He would continue using that instrument up until '87 or so. By '91, Gordon acquired a custom shop thinline Telecaster that he continues to use today. To answer your question, I don't know what this specific guitar is. However, I know that Gordon occasionally played guitars atypical to his usual "primary" guitar (Gibson Melody Maker, Ricky 425).

[@thetruthhurts5902]

A big one!

[@vanmann8347]

Yes….it is the Fender Mulletcaster

[@KlockoFett]

3 years later, but here goes... The headstock is shaped similar to the one on a Washburn bass I got in 1989. It was my first bass, and I still own it. I never play it, but it's my "first child," and I'll never part with it. My memory isn't fuzzy on that detail. Any images I find of Washburns from 1985/86 have a very different shaped headstock. The body looks kind of like a PRS, which coincides with an image of an ad for another Washburn featuring Alex Lifeson (Rush) from 1986. This is leading me to believe he may have at one point had a custom shop Alex Lifeson Washburn (if that was even a thing) with either a 4+2 or 5+1 headstock instead of the "off the shelf" inline 6 headstock being advertised. This could have also been either a prototype or just a less popular model. Rock stars have access to gear and otherwise non-existent custom shops that we mere mortals don't have. Custom shops we have access to will do things for them that they won't do for us. That all said, I don't know that this is a Washburn. I just saw the headstock and went down that particular rabbit hole. I was doubting Washburn, being that they're mid-level at best, and nothing was matching until I saw the Alex Lifeson. It could easily be something completely different, and I didn't find it because I wasn't looking for it. Google image search was useless. It came back with some really off the wall results (KISS, Carlos Santana, Matthew Sweet in hair metal getup).

[@vanmann8347]

A mullet? Was that Joe Dirt?

[@FriedrichN76]

Lauter! 😂

[@zorradevallecas]

Merveille