1979 Doug Irwin “Tiger” guitar custom built for Jerry Garcia. This was Garcia’s primary performance guitar from 1979-1989. Of all of Garcia’s most prominent guitars, Tiger has logged the most performance hours. It is the only one of these guitars that was a primary performance instrument for an entire decade. During Garcia’s last show at Chicago’s Soldier Field on July 9, 1995 Garcia played Rosebud throughout the show until there were technical difficulties during the first encore “Black Muddy River.” Garcia switched to Tiger for the last song he would ever perform with the Grateful Dead, “Box of Rain,” making Tiger the last guitar Garcia ever played on stage.
For more information about Tiger visit The Jim Irsay Collection
The guitar was 3D scanned by Connections XR.
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