This is one of those photos that you can tell what song the band is playing by the kind of guitar Tom’s holding.
It’s “Mary Jane’s Last Dance,” and this is just a few seconds into the iconic guitar riff that opens the song. On the 2017 tour, Tom almost exclusively played a Gibson SG on “Mary Jane’s.”
I loved this moment. You could hear a pin drop most nights just before Tom played the intro riff. The stage was usually dark, save for a lone spotlight on TP. Tom would wander around the stage, strumming the guitar, before settling on the stage edge to launch into the song. By the time the band kicked in, the stage lights were up and the crowd was ecstatic.
“Mary Jane’s” was a galvanizing force in the band’s show, whether it was up front in the setlist or toward the end of the night. Everyone knows the words. Doesn’t matter if it’s under a circus tent in Cork, Ireland, in a hockey arena outside Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, in a big beautiful park in Napa, CA, or at Deer Creek Music Center in Noblesville in front of tens of thousands of Indiana girls (and boys) on an Indiana night. Everyone sings along.
— Andy Tennille
Archival pigment print, unsigned. Prints are sold unframed.
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