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Connecting => Swap Shop and Wish Lists => Seen on craigslist, eBay, and elsewhere => Topic started by: lbpesq on February 24, 2007, 10:26:04 AM

Title: Jerry Garcia's Backstage Amp on Ebay
Post by: lbpesq on February 24, 2007, 10:26:04 AM

Here's an interesting one.  Ken Babbs' (of Kesey's Pranksters) son is selling an old amp that Jerry used backstage.
 
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=005&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&viewitem=&item=150092215967&rd=1&rd=1 (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=005&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&viewitem=&item=150092215967&rd=1&rd=1)
 
Bill, tgo

Title: Jerry Garcia's Backstage Amp on Ebay
Post by: keith_h on February 24, 2007, 10:55:39 AM

When I was still living in the Central Valley a guitarist I use to do pickup gigs with used one of these.  
 
Keith

Title: Jerry Garcia's Backstage Amp on Ebay
Post by: lbpesq on February 24, 2007, 10:59:32 AM

Did he have a beard and a missing right middle finger?
 
Bill, tgo

Title: Jerry Garcia's Backstage Amp on Ebay
Post by: dannobasso on February 24, 2007, 11:42:09 AM

The sound file alone would put me off a bid even if i did care about the ownership..

Title: Jerry Garcia's Backstage Amp on Ebay
Post by: keith_h on February 24, 2007, 03:33:17 PM

Bill,
No all of his digits were intact and facial hair was limited to a mustache.  
 
Keith