From the Vault: Property from the Grateful Dead and Friends

From the Vault: Property from the Grateful Dead and Friends

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Property of Grateful Dead Productions

Jerry Garcia | MC 2500, used in JGB

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October 14, 07:50 PM GMT

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3,000 - 5,000 USD

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Property of Grateful Dead Productions


Jerry Garcia

McIntosh MC 2500


Stereo power amplifier (10.5 x 19 x 17’’), 500 watts per channel or 1000 watts monoblock, with anodized gold and black panel. Top panel with duct tape reading “Steve” to center; remnants of adhesive & paint to top and right edge. Serial number: CS2233.


“Big Steve" Parish: “Jerry used this Mac 2500 for a couple of shows, and then gave it to John Kahn in the Jerry Garcia Band.”


This amp was used on tour by Garcia’s side project, the Jerry Garcia Band. The band was formed in 1975 as a place for Garcia to explore his musical interests beyond the scope of the Dead. The side project predominantly played covers, focusing less on experimental and world music influences, and instead drawing more prominently from rhythm and blues, reggae, gospel, and Americana—their “repertoire came from Motown and Trenchtown, Chicago Blues and Southern gospel, Irving Berlin and Mick Jagger, Hoagy Carmichael and Van Morrison” (Dodd and Spaulding, 291). Garcia’s musical taste was wide ranging, and the band was an extremely important outlet for his creativity; it remained his most important side project, spanning twenty years until his death.


Produced from 1980-1990. 


REFERENCE

Dodd, David, Diana Spaulding. The Grateful Dead Reader. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002 — For McIntosh restoration questions, please contact Audio Classics in Binghamton, NY

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