@ZackTeibloom The Van Morrison- Dead Weather conflict has been keeping me up at night. I’ve always wanted to see Van. I can’t miss Jack White picking up a guitar for almost any reason. Even if he only plays it once or twice. Bryn will kill me if I can’t report fully on Van. I’ll kill myself to know Jack is performing on the other side of the field and I’m not there. It’s Van! It’s Jack! It’s time for a contest.

How long will I spend at The Dead Weather show? Whoever gets closest wins a “Die by the Drop” 7″ vinyl 45 courtesy of our friends at Filter. Here’s how the contest works: I’m planning on starting at Van and fighting the crowd to get to The Dead Weather. You have to answer the question, “How much time will I end up seeing The Dead Weather” and “will I hear “Die by The Drop?” A winning answer will look like “You’ll see 15 minutes and 6 seconds of The Dead Weather” and you will Die by the Drop.” or “You’ll see 0 minutes of The Dead Weather and you won’t  ”Die by the Drop.” I’ll start a stop watch as soon as I can hear/see Jack and stop it when they take their bow. They always bow.

Leave your answer in the comments. It’s like Price is Right. If you go over, you lose. You guess 18 minutes and I’m there for 17: 59, sorry. No go. You can leave your answer in the comments and you have until Monday night at 5 pm central to enter.

Why Monday 5/3 at 5? The Dead Weather is performing their new album live at Third Man Studios and streaming it from their MySpace

Follow me on twitter for clues on how long I stayed @ZackTeibloom and @festivalcrasher.

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