When did Jerry play this guitar?

Early '71. Rick Turner built.

https://rickturnerblog.com/2017/12/05/garcias-turner-peanut-guitar/

I love this guitar! Something about the tone caught my ear when I got turned on to Skull and Roses NFA>GDTRFB many moons ago as I was getting on bus. Never realized that it was this guitar until years later when I saw a pic of show from Manhattan Center (4/5/71) that album version was culled from. Thanks for Turner blog link Bss!

Dammit. Was trying to post pic I was referring to but can't figure it out. If anyone feels like explaining how to do on a Mac, I'm all eyes and ears. Thank you!

Here is a link at least...

 

https://jerrygarcia.com/image/manhattan-center-new-york-ny-04-05-1971-18/

The zone needs to fix.   Make it way easier to post pictures 

Says here he played it in March and April of 71

 

 

http://dozin.com/jers/guitar/history.htm

To post a pic from a mac, find the picture icon on the lower of the 2 menu bars on top of the comment box, and click on it (if you hold your mouse over it should say IMCE)

After several seconds, and then a few more seconds, a menu should appear on the screen that pops up,

click on "upload",  then click on "choose file" from the mini menu that pops up,

choose a file (some size / other restrictions)

then click on "upload"

once the picture appears in full, click on "insert file"  

Sweet photo doc

>>> Thanks for Turner blog link Bss! <<<
 

Yep. Rick's page is a veritable goldmine of useless rock history.

1964. Cambridge Mass:

 

"Another regular, but relatively local was Peter Rowan, a great Bluegrass singer and guitarist drawn into the scene.   We got along famously with Peter, and when his draft notice came, we all got together to strategize how to convince the draft board that Peter was unfit for service.   Bear in mind that we didn’t even know about Vietnam at this point.   We hear vague rumblings of things going badly in South East Asia, and we were for the most part Seegerized anti-war peaceniks, but we weren’t yet anti-Vietnam war protesters.   We just didn’t want our pals or ourselves to be pushed into the army to be trained to kill for no particular reason other than corporate maneuverings and politics.

 

At that point in time, the standard ways to be declared 4-F were to show up without any underwear and unwashed for a few weeks, say you were queer, or appear to be a drug user,   They hadn’t yet figured out that half their army was about to be drug users and that they could just throw stoned soldiers at the front lines.   So we decided to give Peter a good dose of acid that he would take right before going for his draft physical.     Well, it worked, and how!   Peter went in a mumbling lunatic without having to do very much acting.     They basically threw him out on the street whereupon the legend is that he found a Macy’s department store pet shop and started to let the birds go free from their cages, just as he had been let free.   Ask Peter about that the next time you see him…"

from what I remember it was 71 SPring run on the east coast - possibly a few shows when they recorded "Skull"

I enjoy this type of thread more than the political ones. Or the pizza ones.

Got me to listen to Spring 71. Thank you.

Spring 71 is some of my all time fav dead. Jerry's tone is really great. I always thought he was playing the alligator but that's a cool little guitar. Some of bears best recording work in 71 with the dead IMO as well

^^^^Not quite Spring, but the late Feb Capitol shows were the debut of several songs that would be core material for the rest of their career^^^^

Bertha   Loser   Greatest   Playin'   Wharf   Birdsong   Deal

Alligator didn't come on stage until 72. ---I think he did play a sunburst Strat some in 71- and his SG. --At Fillmore West closing show (7-2-71) he was playing a white Les Paul Special- I believe- which sort of looked like a Melody Maker. - He played a sunburst Les Paul also in 1971 - and Bob played a black Les Paul Standard on 7-2-71.

Milwaukee, WI 3/21/1971, Rick Turner "Peanut"

San Diego, CA 8/7/1971, Gibson Les Paul Junior Double-Cut

 

Berkeley, CA 8/14/1971 Gibson Sunburst Les Paul

Correction - he did play the Alligator a few times in 71 - before he put the gator on it

burnz!