"Its a total thrill that an artist who has inspired us as much as Bobby would be caught in public wearing our art" Caroline Heins
Back in March we were thrilled to hear that Bob Weir was sporting one of our pins. We heard it through the grapevine and suspected that we were only one or two degrees of separation from him. We also heard that people had slipped him the pin, and that crew members had been into the scarab, but we could never find the videos or pictures we kept hearing about.
Then in April things started to change. We checked our messages in facebook (which took awhile cause FB changed stuff all around this winter) and found that Moldbreaker had sent this link. It's Bobby on CNBC talking about the Dead's business model. There it was, just shining back at us, twinkling like a little star. It felt like this real shout-out from someone who we totally admire. you know, like "Nice work kid" (with a little bit of: "get back to work kid")Then I opened Rolling Stone's April 15th addition and got this weird feeling. I was flipping through it, and Eddy Vedder is wearing some nondescript pin, plus Trey is all over that issue, so I was thinking that it would be cool if that happened with our pins with one of the bands we love....then on page 24
Pretty cool Right? Double Click the pictures for a closer look ...go ahead....Then I over heard some talk on the Ratdog message board about the RS shot. Still I did not post it just to see what would happen. Then, last week, someone on Reality-Tour posted pictures of Bobby at Daytona. So a buddy who is a member of that board sent me the shots
The pin is so clear on it that I was shocked. I am not sure where this was published, or who this lady is. I think its ESPN. Maybe someone on the board took it. The RT message boardies say this is his "half daughter" whatever that means! Whats a Half daughter? Maybe daughter in-law or stepdaughter or could even be half sister, with the right math. I don't know and this is not a news source so, sorry.There is also a picture of bobby hugging Danika Patrick on ESPN , but you can barely see the pin there. Here is a good Close up. Now..I did zoom in on it with photoshop but I did not alter the images here, I promise....
I do want to thank Red Beard for the kind words that he posted on the board that really meant a lot too. I am not really a long term member of any boards and don't want to post to much pin stuff as a newb, so I appreciate the words of support.
I just thought ya'll would appreciate this as much as we do. Plus you probably notice that this is not all on the same day or the same jacket....so he obviously likes that pin enough to keep up with it and change it around the way you guys probably do. I know I love my Scarab and we totally LOVE The DEADS MUSIC so I guess the whole thing makes sense.
