Alembic Guitars Club
Connecting => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: lbpesq on September 06, 2010, 09:51:08 AM
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Check out these pics (http://www.vintagerockandrollphotos.com/cGRATEFUL/The_Grateful_Dead) from 1971. What guitar is Jerry playing? The neck looks to be a Gibson, but the body is unlike any I'm familiar with, and it looks to have been modded with some type of brass plate, maybe? (Gee, I wonder who could have done that?)
Bill, tgo
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Could the body be the work of Rick Turner ?
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The body reminds me of the peanut guitar. I found this in a post from Susan in 2004.
There were other guitars made at Alembic for Jerry, of the first dozen instruments made, 5 were guitars for Jerry. He wanted a guitar that had the smallest body imaginable, I called them peanut guitars. Those guitars eventually evolved into the Guitar that later became known as Wolf. BTW we currently have a peanut guitar number 6 made for Jerry that we are refurbishing for sale.
Here is a link (http://club.alembic.com/index.php?topic=15162) to the thread. There area couple of pictures if you scroll down.
Keith
(Message edited by keith_h on September 06, 2010)
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Oh, yes the Peanut Guitars ! I remember those now !
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In Grateful Dead Gear Turner describes the first one he built (pre-Alembic); it was the neck off a trashed LP Custom for which he built a Stauffer-shaped body out of mahogany w/walnut veneers. That sounds like this one (check the inlays), and he said he sold it to Jerry, and was an evolutionary step toward Alembic - an inspiration for the peanuts, perhaps?
Peter
Peter