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Clifford Travis Bean (21 August 1947 – 10 July 2011, aged 63) was an American luthier and machinist from California. [ 1 ] In 1974, he partnered with Marc McElwee and Gary Kramer to start Travis Bean Guitars, which made high-end electric guitars and basses featuring machined aluminum necks.
Tiger is a custom-built guitar owned by Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia. Garcia commissioned luthier Doug Irwin to design and build the guitar in 1973 following delivery of Wolf, his first major Irwin-built guitar. Upon commissioning the instrument, Garcia asked Irwin to "make it the way he thought was best, and don't hold back."
Garcia's ancestors on his father's side were from Galicia in northwest Spain. His mother's ancestors were Irish and Swedish. [16] He was born in the Excelsior District of San Francisco, California, on August 1, 1942, to Jose Ramon "Joe" Garcia and Ruth Marie "Bobbie" (née Clifford) Garcia, [17] [a] who was herself born in San Francisco. [18]
According to Guitar World, a 1954 Fender Stratocaster owned by David Gilmour of Pink Floyd sold for $1.8 million at a 2019 Christie’s auction, while one owned by Jerry Garcia of the Grateful ...
On All About Jazz, Doug Collette wrote, "The openness and vulnerability within Jerry Garcia's singing voice is an often-overlooked virtue among all the others for which he's distinguished, including his ever-so-precise (acoustic and electric) guitar playing as well as his songwriting collaborations with lyricist Robert Hunter.
Jerry Garcia was an American musician. A guitarist, singer, and songwriter, he became famous as a member of the rock band the Grateful Dead, from 1965 to 1995.When not touring or recording with the Dead, Garcia was often playing music in other bands and with other musicians.
Doug Irwin is an American luthier who designed five custom guitars for Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead. [1] The guitars he built for Garcia included Eagle , [2] Wolf, [3] Tiger, [4] Wolf Jr. (headless) and Rosebud. [5] Doug also built more than 50 other guitars and basses including a bass for Pete Sears and a bass for Phil Lesh. Two other ...
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