MVG Rittenhouse Alligator Jerry Garcia Tribute 2024 brand new with case! - Natural

This is assembled and designed at the Miami Vintage Guitars work shop, opened since 2005 in Sunny South Florida we have created a tribute to Jerry Garcia,  the Alligator ! The first custom guitar that  of the Grateful Dead ever owned was Alligator, the 1957 Fender Stratocaster that he played from the spring of 1971 until the fall of 1973. This includes the band’s legendary first European tour in the spring of 1972, known far and wide for the triple live album release Europe ’72, a staple in the . Jerry received Alligator as a gift from Graham Nash in 1970, as a thank-you for the guitar work he contributed on Nash’s album  (1970). At the time, the guitar was mostly unmodified, but that soon changed.   t was Graham Nash who would give Garcia his first name-worthy guitar. Alligator is a customized 1957 Fender Stratocaster, and was used between 1970-1973. Technicians Frank Fuller and Rick Turner of Alembic Guitars modified the guitar regularly, so much so that they referred to it as a “Frankenstein” guitar. Their last modification came in August of 1973, though Alligator’s last live appearance came on Garcia’s birthday, August 1st, of 1973. It currently resides in the Jerry Garcia archives.