In this undated photo provided by Guernsey's, Jerry Garcia's famous Wolf guitar is shown. Garcia's custom-made guitar is truckin' to auction in New York City. Guernsey's auction house says it'll be offered Wednesday, May 31, 2017, at Brooklyn Bowl, a bowling alley, restaurant and venue for music shows. The proceeds will go to the Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law Center. (Guernsey's via AP)(AP)
NEW YORK (AP) -- A guitar that Jerry Garcia played everywhere from San Francisco's Winterland Ballroom to Egypt's Great Pyramids fetched over $1.9 million at an auction Wednesday night.
The Grateful Dead frontman's guitar -- named Wolf -- was sold at the Brooklyn Bowl, a bowling alley, restaurant and music venue. The sale price includes the buyer's premium. The proceeds are earmarked for the Montgomery, Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law Center.
Jerry Garcia's Wolf Guitar
The guitar was owned by devoted Deadhead Daniel Pritzker, a philanthropist, musician and film director who bought the instrument in 2002 for $790, 000.
I've been a fan of The Dead since I was a kid, and playing this iconic guitar over the past 15 years has been a privilege, said Pritzker. But the time is right for Wolf to do some good.
SPLC President Richard Cohen said the organization is grateful Pritzker is willing to part with this piece of music history to support the SPLC's mission fighting hate and bigotry.
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The instrument bears a devilish looking, cartoon-like image of a wolf's face -- eyes menacingly narrowed, ears pricked up, red tongue hanging out, fangs at the ready.
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Jerry Garcia‘s famous Wolf guitar sold at auction for over $1.9 million Wednesday, APreports. “Wolf” was Garcia’s go-to instrument for over two decades. The Grateful Dead singer-guitarist first wielded the instrument during a 1973 show for the Hell’s Angels in New York City.
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Brian Halligan, Chief Executive of software company HubSpot and an avid Deadheadpurchased the guitar at a Guernsey’s auction benefiting the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) at New York’s Brooklyn Bowl. Halligan’s bid was also matched with a $1.6 million donation, raising $3.2 million total for the SPLC. The $1.9 million price Halligan paid included a $300, 00 buyer’s premium.
In an e-mail to Rolling Stone, Halligan says the auction was a chance to “indulge two passions of mine at the same time: Social justice and the Grateful Dead.” The CEO praised the work of the Southern Poverty Law Center and also discussed his unique affinity for the Grateful Dead, who inspired his 2010 book with David Meerman Scott, Marketing Lessons From the Grateful Dead.
“The Grateful Dead’s business model was rattling around in my head while we were coming up with the idea for my company, HubSpot, ” Halligan says. “They were the original inbound marketers, they did social media marketing before there was social media, and they essentially invented the freemium distribution model.”
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Halligan says he’ll keep the guitar in his Boston home, but adds, “I think it is best served by being played, so I plan to do so. I plan to lend it out to the Garcia family whenever they want it.”
Wolf’s previous owner was Daniel Pritzker, a philanthropist, musician and filmmaker, who originally purchased the guitar anonymously in 2002 for $790, 000. At the time, it was the highest bid for a guitar in history. “I’ve been a fan of the Dead since I was a kid, and playing this iconic guitar over the past 15 years has been a privilege, ” Pritzker said in a statement before the auction. “But the time is right for Wolf to do some good.”
Wolf was the first of several instruments that famed luthier Doug Irwin designed for Garcia. The musician, however, made his own modification to the guitar’s unique purple heart and curly maple body, affixing a sticker of a cartoon wolf below the bridge. Wolf prominently featured in the 1977 concert film The Grateful Dead Movie, which Garcia directed. Garcia last played the guitar with the Grateful Dead at the Oakland Coliseum February 23rd, 1993.
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Officially the Grateful Dead had no leader. But from the band's origins in 1965 to his death 30 years later, Garcia was the best known member of a group which still evokes the excitement of American counterculture in the 1960s.
As well as '60s psychedelia, the group's albums show the influence of jazz, bluegrass, mainstream pop and even their early days as a jug band. But when they toured it was the lengthy jam sessions fans loved - and central to those was the Garcia guitar sound.
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Devoted Deadheads identify five classic guitars which Garcia played at different times: Alligator, Rosebud, Lightning Bolt, Tiger and Wolf. The last two were auctioned together in 2002 and made more than $1.5m (£1.2m). Now Wolf is back at the same auction house to benefit the advocacy group the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Arlan Ettinger runs Guernsey's auction house in New York which is handling this month's sale. Guernsey's specialises in the unusual. I've loved having a pioneering sale of John F Kennedy memorabilia or jazz artefacts, says Ettinger.
But selling Tiger and Wolf the first time round was a huge thrill because real fans are amazingly passionate about the Grateful Dead. It's like they've become the ultimate rock icon of '60s America and all that excitement and the passion that went with it.
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Tiger was bought in 2002 by the hugely wealthy Jim Irsay, who owns the National Football League (NFL) team the Indianapolis Colts. Wolf went for more than $700, 000 (£543, 000) to Dan Pritzker, whose family founded the Hyatt hotel chain.
Surviving members of the band such as Phil Lesh (left) and Bob Weir have played together occasionally in various combinations since splitting
They were consigned to Guernsey's by the man who made them - the luthier [guitar maker] Doug Irwin. In his will Jerry had bequeathed the guitars back to Doug but the band members challenged that legally. Times had been tough for Doug Irwin and he had at times been homeless.
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Everyone was saying they were worth maybe $25, 000 (£19, 000) or $50, 000 (£39, 000) apiece. But we built a big auction of Grateful Dead material around them and we proved they were worth a lot more. The auction was at the ultra-hip disco Studio 54 in Manhattan which made it pretty special.
So I was surprised and delighted when Dan Pritzker got back in contact to say all these years later he wants to auction Wolf again for charity. Dan is intent that every dollar of the hammer price should go to the Law Center and we've agreed to that.
Given what it sold for in 2002 and given how great a cause this is, we're hoping the Center will get more than $1.5m (£1.2m) from the sale this month.
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The Southern Poverty Law Center was founded in Alabama in 1971 to focus on civil rights. Ettinger thinks Garcia would be delighted to see it benefit from the sale of Wolf.
Southern Poverty has fought racism and hate groups and neo-Nazis through the courts. So I thought it was a noble thing for Dan Pritzker to do. It's a pure gift with no tax write-off and there's no seller's commission for us.
Dan told me he was deeply troubled by the direction our new government is taking. He wanted to take some proactive steps to do something important and good with the money the auction will raise.
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The guitar's Wolf association came about almost by accident: it wasn't something Irwin included when he made the instrument. Garcia stuck a cartoon wolf on the guitar as a joke. At one point the instrument went back to Irwin for repairs and he decided to incorporate the cartoon wolf more permanently.
Ettinger thinks only the most obsessive Deadheads can identify exactly which guitar Garcia played in each recording. But the Wolf design means you can often pick out that exact instrument at a particular concert in photographs and film footage.
There is so much interest still in Jerry and the band. There's a new Martin Scorsese six-part TV series about them: I think that will
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