GRATEFUL GUITARS
above: ● Mick Taylor with the Weir Walnut Blackknife, September 24, 1988. The Blackface Twin, used with Dylan and the Dead in 1987, is part of the Logan collection. Photo: Bob Minkin.
left: ● Bob Weir with the Walnut Blackknife( Logan collection), May 1988. Photo: Bob Minkin.
cious, for reasons he is happy to explain), along with Garcia’ s 1943 Martin D-28 Herringbone, which Garcia took with him on the 1970 Festival Express tour on through the end of his life. The day after receiving it, Logan brought Alligator to Brian Michael at Gryphon Stringed Instruments in Palo Alto to ascertain its history. Michael opened up Alligator’ s body cavity and confirmed the neck date. It was a 1955 through and through, affirmed by the‘ 55 body date.“ The value just went up $ 20,000,” Brian declared with a laugh.
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