GRATEFUL
GUITARS
Guitars, has kept that sentiment intact. The night after his winning bid, he handed Tiger to Derek Trucks for a rollicking performance at the Beacon Theatre in New York.
“ I’ m hoping this is a new trend,” Logan says,“ because it’ s so much better for everything. It’ s better for the instrument, it’ s better for the fans, it’ s better for the players.” That conviction is the seed of everything Logan has built. In 2021, he formalized Grateful Guitars Foundation( GGF) as a 501( c)( 3) nonprofit, but the impulse behind it goes back further, to roughly 2013, when he began loaning his growing collection of Garcia-associated instruments to working musicians in the jam-band world. What he saw there disturbed him:“ The players most devoted to keeping this music alive very often didn’ t have instruments commensurate
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