GRATEFUL GUITARS with their level of ability. That was sad to me.” So, Logan started buying replicas, giving them away, and then began thinking bigger.
He started loaning guitars with a Steve Cripe-crafted guitar called Saturn, reportedly the follow-up to Lightning Bolt and commissioned by the Grateful Dead but never delivered as Garcia died before receiving it. Logan bought it from Cripe’ s apprentice, Adam Palow, and loaned it to be played on stage by Dark Star Orchestra’ s Jeff Mattson at the Great American Music Hall in 2013. He later bought a Travis Bean replica for loaning out and an additional one for Bay Area Garcia acolyte, Stu Allen. He watched Allen dig into it at shows.“ Selfishly, as a fan, he and others would really play hard and really play well, and we fans got to reap the benefit on the other side of the stage. It was a wonderful feedback loop.”
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