Our good friend, Dierks Bentley, never saw it coming. Lately we've been part of humorous prank battles with our friends Reckless Kelly; we're always worried every time we see them that this might be the night. With Dierks we were never worried; not one bit. He's the busiest man in the world so he doesn't have much time to be that creative (well except Halloween, he dressed up as me, that was pretty damn good).
Dierks has two electric guitars; one is a natural fender with a black pick guard (think Bruce Springsteen). The other is a Tom Anderson tele (almost identical to the fender) sold to him by David Grisham (badass guitar player). So I decided I would go find a guitar that looked like those, but with a budget of $300. I found one in Anaheim, CA about a week before the grand finale of HTH2 in Las Vegas, $200 later, we were on our way.
I asked the boys in the band if they thought it would be funny. They said "Hell Yes it would." So, the night of Vegas, Brian Kinzie, our production dude, used a block of wood taped to the strap to make it look like a wireless unit. It was almost uncanny except for the headstock (its said Squier not fender).
I decided to do it during our duet "Domestic, Light, and Cold" because …because I'm an asshole! I knew that after that song he was going to play his #1 hit, "Come a Little Closer". I knew it would dumbfound him during his intro of that song.
SHOWTIME:
Dierks asked me to come out and sing and he looked around and said "Dude why is everybody crowding around backstage?" and I said "Hell I don't know." Then he said "and why does Brian have a F'n camera?" I said it was probably because it was our last night of the tour.
I did everything I could to keep him from seeing the headstock: up, down, sideways, behind my back. He never saw it. I took the guitar off; took off Grady's cheap ass strap, stood on my tiptoes, held it high, and in the words of Champ Kind "Whammy." It broke into 7 or 8 pieces and the two big ones I gave to the crowd and walked off…laughing so hard I about pissed myself. It seemed like high fives from the world were given to me.
DB rubbed his chin and said "Dude was that my guitar?" I shook my head with a shit eating grin and said yes. He said I want to thank you guys for coming out to the last High Times and Hangovers Tour. He also said that Ragweed is the band that takes the joke too far.
I let him in on the joke after the last song and he almost strangled me.
So sit back (turn up your volume) and enjoy Dierks' pain.
Peace,Cody
Dierks has two electric guitars; one is a natural fender with a black pick guard (think Bruce Springsteen). The other is a Tom Anderson tele (almost identical to the fender) sold to him by David Grisham (badass guitar player). So I decided I would go find a guitar that looked like those, but with a budget of $300. I found one in Anaheim, CA about a week before the grand finale of HTH2 in Las Vegas, $200 later, we were on our way.
I asked the boys in the band if they thought it would be funny. They said "Hell Yes it would." So, the night of Vegas, Brian Kinzie, our production dude, used a block of wood taped to the strap to make it look like a wireless unit. It was almost uncanny except for the headstock (its said Squier not fender).
I decided to do it during our duet "Domestic, Light, and Cold" because …because I'm an asshole! I knew that after that song he was going to play his #1 hit, "Come a Little Closer". I knew it would dumbfound him during his intro of that song.
SHOWTIME:
Dierks asked me to come out and sing and he looked around and said "Dude why is everybody crowding around backstage?" and I said "Hell I don't know." Then he said "and why does Brian have a F'n camera?" I said it was probably because it was our last night of the tour.
I did everything I could to keep him from seeing the headstock: up, down, sideways, behind my back. He never saw it. I took the guitar off; took off Grady's cheap ass strap, stood on my tiptoes, held it high, and in the words of Champ Kind "Whammy." It broke into 7 or 8 pieces and the two big ones I gave to the crowd and walked off…laughing so hard I about pissed myself. It seemed like high fives from the world were given to me.
DB rubbed his chin and said "Dude was that my guitar?" I shook my head with a shit eating grin and said yes. He said I want to thank you guys for coming out to the last High Times and Hangovers Tour. He also said that Ragweed is the band that takes the joke too far.
I let him in on the joke after the last song and he almost strangled me.
So sit back (turn up your volume) and enjoy Dierks' pain.
Peace,Cody
posted by Willthing at 3:43 PM
