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What guitar does Jerry Garcia play?

Jerry Garcia was seen playing Doug Irwin's custom Wolf and Tiger guitars, and said he mostly worked off Tiger's middle single-coil pickup. His final touring rig ran a Groove Tubes Trio preamp into a McIntosh MC-2300 power amp, with a Mu-Tron III, an MXR Phase 100 and Boss pedals.

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What guitar did Jerry Garcia play?

Custom guitars by Doug Irwin: Eagle, bought in 1972, then Wolf, his main stage guitar for a few years, and Tiger, delivered in 1979 and played for much of the rest of his career with DiMarzio pickups in an HHS layout.

What amp did Jerry Garcia use?

A McIntosh MC-2300 power amp, which he favored from 1973. His 1992 to 1995 touring rig fed it from a three-channel Groove Tubes Trio preamp.

What pedals did Jerry Garcia use?

His final rig had a Mu-Tron III envelope filter from around 1976, a script-logo MXR Phase 100, Boss OD-1 and OD-2 overdrives each paired with a GE-7 EQ, and a Boss OC-2 octave, in a vertical rack-mounted pedalboard.

What acoustic guitars did Jerry Garcia play?

A 1939 Gibson Super 400N archtop he used in the studio and on video, and a custom Alvarez-Yairi labeled Custom Made for J. Garcia.

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Jerry Garcia (1942 to 1995) was the lead guitarist and voice of the Grateful Dead and the Jerry Garcia Band. This legacy guide covers his Doug Irwin custom guitars Wolf and Tiger, his archtops and acoustics, and the McIntosh-powered rig and pedals he toured with until 1995, from guitar press coverage of his instruments.

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