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Wolf (serial no. D. Irwin 001)
1973
Doug Irwin
"Wolf" was Jerry Garcia's main guitar with the Grateful Dead from 1973 to 1979, a period when he was expanding his "astral" country and blues sound. He commissioned it in late 1972 after playing a guitar that luthier Doug Irwin had made for the manufacturer Alembic. The instrument's cutting-edge active electronics gave Garcia a wide variety of tonal options; he described it as "twelve guitars in one." "Wolf" was also the first guitar on which Garcia experimented with Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) implementation in the 1980s, a feature included on Irwin's "Rosebud," another guitar that he custom built for Garcia. |