Jerry Garcia Alligator Stratocaster | Dream Factory | Fender
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- Welcome to the Dream Factory. In this episode of our Fender Custom Shop series, Austin MacNutt sits down with Steve Parish to bring you the Jerry Garcia Alligator Stratocaster, based on the original owned by the Grateful Dead guitarist. The Masterbuilt Strat features Schaller tuners, a hammered brass pickguard, Jerry's stickers, a soft "V" shaped neck and more. Watch Daniel Donato take it for a spin and learn more about Fender Custom Shop here: bit.ly/337FJ3p
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With all due respect to Jerry Garcia and Fender Custom Shop the price tag is just crazy.(20k$) This is just a guitar for rich guys that will get it just to showcase it. Do a production model with the the stickers optional in the case like you did with the Jimmy Page Mirror Telecaster. A guitar that is more accessible and that will be played by fans.
Same with the Mike McCready stratocaster they released last year.
Yeah kind of goes against what Jerry and the Dead were about eh
It's not for low level humans
@@multardthegreat4561 I hope this was sarcasm because if not you may have more money then me but I guarantee I can take my cheap squire and play circles around you dude
Yeah
I've been a DeadHead since the mid 1970s and saw probably 150 live Dead shows...and while I appreciate all the work that went into replicating this beautiful, one of a kind instrument, a 20K price tag seems a bit unreasonable. It makes it highly out of reach for those of us who would appreciate it the most. I think 7K to 8K would have been a much better price point. Fender still could have made money on it I'm sure. That aside, the tone Jerry got from that gem during the Europe '72 Tour was the Holy Grail of tone in my opinion. That guitar sounded like no other before it or since. That piece of wood had real life inside of it and Jerry made it sing, wail, cry, moan while took us all on a musical ride for the ages. He really connected with it and knew how to get everything out of it. I wish he would have played in the 1980s as well. Nobody sounded quite like Jerry, Nobody. Great to see Steve Parish again. I got a chance to meet him a couple times many years ago...👍
Tadeo Gomez was a worker at Fender Musical Instrument Manufacturing Company in Fullerton, California in the 1950s. He has become famous amongst players and collectors of electric guitars for the high quality of his work and his habit of signing his name or initials on the guitars he helped to craft.
His initials appear on famous guitars such as Eric Clapton's Brownie.
Fullerton! God’s country.
TAG was his tag right?
If I had to pick, Alligator gets my vote for best Jerry tone of all time. That clean tone (Twin/McIntosh?) - pure heaven but the slide solo on Hurts Me Too off 72 is SMOKE, CREAM and a pure slice of nice!
I agree, but I can't decide if I like the tone of his Travis Bean better. I'm not crazy about the Doug Irwin built guitars.
Wasn't Susan Trucks just playing the real one the night before last?
Edit: YES SHE WAS! She and David Hidalgo of Los Lobos played it at Berkeley. Mr Topdogger has the vid up on his channel!
I love the detail of the burn marks in the headstock, where jerry would stash a lit cigarette
If you ever feel stagnant in your playing, listen to Jerry Garcia and you’ll have inspiration for days. One of the greats.
exactly~ the ' Good Cheerful Spirit' prevails- everytime
This one needs an artist model for around $2K or less. That I would be interested in.
Exactly. I REALLY hope they end up doing this.
20k is ridiculous, I could build my own Alligator and still have 15k leftover. But if they made something more affordable, it would be hard to ignore as my next guitar purchase.
I’m glad Daniel Donato got to demo it. He’s awesome. One of the highlights was at the end when the Tech told the Master Builder “now let’s go use to to bat rocks outside.” : )
So good to hear the stories from Big Steve. ☮❤💀
Holding guitar in front of face... reminded me of reflections album cover
All great and fun, it’s a beautiful guitar. Love Jerry and all, what I don’t love is the 20k for it lol. This is one for the collection like the Terry Kath Tele. It will be purchased by most likely showcasing its beauty and not played. To me, everything should be played.
same with the Andy Summers Tribute Tele - though that was 10K at the time, I SO want Fender to do a Road Worn of that. I would purchase in a heartbeat!
I don’t either, but in the pantheon of iconic player recreation guitars, this one probably justifies it’s price more than say a Gibson Jimmy Page Signature Les Paul. This fender is so unique, and so many unique hand-made parts had to be recreated and fabricated by hand. This is a masterwork by the Fender Custom shop.
And damned if it doesn’t sound right!
Sad that it’s us small venue gig players that would really love to own something like that but, the dudes that can afford it.. they ain’t playing it. It’s gonna hang in a case on the wall and never sing it’s beautiful song. ☮️
Lol imagine Jerry hearing this is 20k. He's rolling over in the river Bobby dumped him out in lol
Hell you can get a copy of Stevie Ray's Strat online for a few hundred bucks.
Austin MacNutt one of the Master Builders with most experience and taste I know
Maybe, if I had a $20K budget....
I'd buy the Eric Johnson Thinline & keep the change!!!
Can't beat a good quality sticker
And at $20K, it only goes to those with way too much money.
Runnin back to Saskatoon to crash in my Nash thank u graham and Mr Gomez
20 grand? Somebody still trippin balls
Europe 72 was a great time for the band, and the sound was amazing at that time. The Doug Irwin designed custom Wolf guitar came after this and that was also a very legendary guitar. The reason Jerry customized guitars, and then went to custom built guitars is because he didn't like what he could buy from companies like Fender. Not sure if Fender realizes that this guitar is a monument to that fact. I guess anything to monetize and commercialize the legacy of Jerry Garcia is okay now.
Very true! The irony!
This guy
I just watched a TH-cam interview with Jerry. Pretty sure I have this right, but please correct me if I'm wrong. Wolf was co-designed by Jerry and Doug. Jerry essentially told him what he wanted, though they worked together figuring out the specifics. Later Jerry asked him to design a guitar for him and do whatever he wanted. Five years later the guitar showed up. At the time of the interview he'd just gotten it, loved it, but it changed the way he played. So he was both getting used to it and seeing what new things were possible. The time frame was just as Brett joined the band. The interview was on WMMR in Philly.
@@mikem668 Yea, that second Irwin Guitar was called Tiger. It was made of exotic tropical hardwood Cocobola, Maple, and padauk. It was named Tiger because of the Tiger inlay on the body. He played it from 1979 to 1989. In 1989 Irwin gave Garcia the next one called Rosebud. Those were one of a kind works of art.
Alligator is my favorite Jerry guitar. What it has to do with this $20k strat copy, I couldn’t tell ya.
I feel like they wanted to get a interview from Daniel too but he didn't stop playing haha
That thing is SWEET!
Can't believe, they didn't even mention that bridge?!
SO glad you got Daniel Donato back to play for this! Perfect choice! ❤️
Hes great but plays like hes never heard a lick of jerry in his life.
real cool, glad ya got big steve to talk about it. What a treat
1973 box set Spring Summer and 1972 LA
My Squier classic vibe 50s strat with some basic mods gets this early 70s dead sound verrrry well
I got the same guitar. What kind of mods did you do?
Also interested in hearing about the mods
what I don't understand (besides the $20g price tag) is that they relic'd it but left the fretboard looking brand new. Anyone looking for an affordable Alligator copy can usually find one on Reverb.
This is for rich folks who don't have that knowledge. I feel bad for buyers of this frankly, they're getting milked by Fender.
sounds great! amazing collector piece. but 20K :) come on :) Still love you fender
I got to play the real jerry alligator earlier this year. There is some kind of magic in that guitar that I NEVER EVER Have felt before and I own a vintage guitar store. It is supposedly the lightest strat in existence weighing in around 6.5 pounds even with all that brass and one piece of ash which is unheard of. But there’s something about old dehydrated wood, tons of play wear, and a touch of grey, that makes this guitar transcend all other guitars and truly plays for you
how beat up is the original?
@@RadicalR0nnie it’s in great shape, aside from forearm wear and the burn marks it looks great
@@12345b67 oh true. i’d imagine the headstock was beat up because of the modifications
Steve has a wonderful show on SiriusXM Grateful Dead channel where he takes calls and tells all the fun ,wild stories of all of the tours and traveling with Jerry and the Dead. Great Guy
Great another unaffordable guitar for us all. Bezos yacht bottom floor bathroom piece. You know, conversation piece. good job fender, thank again.
Donato is a serious player. Makes that guit sing.
Probably so but maybe not the best hired gun to simulate jerry tone with the chicken pickin'
You know what is really sad? For the money being charged for this 1955 Strat copy, you could go out and buy an ACTUAL 1955 Stratocaster.
Lol. I'll take the real thing.
Well you are not their market target for this guitar
‘55 strats go for a hell of a lot more than $20,000, unless you find one thats beat to shit and an absolute dog
Daniel Donato is the perfect dude to play that guitar! Sounds great. Wish I had $20,000
A 20k price tag?! Do we get the original guitar?! Jesus Christ!
Oh hell yeah, thought I heard some Daniel Donato in there. Way to go Cosmic Cowboy! Love it....beautiful guitar, Austin is a master.....
Well done, Austin! ❤🤘 incredible work... best wishes from Germany 😊
I love how when he plays the subtitle says “funny guitar lick”
$20k 😳 guess for that I’ll find a beat up 68 I’m sure someone with disposable income will wall hang it in his downstairs bar.
I think Fender will make a cheaper alternative like the George Harrison Stratocaster. Hopefully they’ll make more than a 1000 units tho so everybody can have a chance to beat the scalpers.
Well... at least you waited a full 4 months after Rick Turner's passing to totally disrespect him.
Nice surprise Donato in there
Nicely done Austen!. Great story Steve. Daniel nailed the Garcia style, melded with his own amazing playing!
Jerry's best tone. Dead and Co. needs Daniel Donato playing one of these instead of John Mayer playing a PRS.
Honestly I don’t see Garcia giving a thumbs up to a $20k copy of a guitar he got for free as a thank you for doing what he loved…no jealousy either…I’d rather just make my own
Luckily there will be a lot more high quality photos coming out from these replicas, which will help with making your own replica. That's my plan at least. I want an Alligator, Wolf, and Tiger of my own (and countless others from other guitar players).
@@othertonywi1son thanks Tony…I really want to learn how to fashion a bridge like that and make my own “stratoblaster” onboard boost 😀 they expanded the Strat into tele and Les Paul land
More Daniel Donato demos!!
Like most guitars its wood, wire, metal and electronics put in a specific way according to each other.
Trogly needs to buy this, please Trogly
In one way I think this is great, but in another way there's seems to be something not quite right about paying $20k for a guitar that should be for deadheads. However, if that $20k keeps craftsmen who make these things in work then that is good as the attention to detail and so on is impressive and for those who can afford it maybe it is a small investment to keep those skills alive.
Boomers love the Dead, there are lots of very wealthy Deadheads that will be delighted to buy this, keep it in its case 98% of the time and resell it a few years later for a nice profit
@@lptomtom That is a good point but, as I said, the other side to this is that these wealthy people pay for craftsmen and the very highest standard of guitar building and not only does that keep people in jobs but it keeps that craftsmanship alive. When we look back at great talents in the arts from times past they were almost always paid for by the very rich but today we all benefit from their work. So I'm glad this exists, I'm glad some can afford it, but it just seems a little "odd" to me in some respects.
I have an idea. Lets make a guitar so cool even deadhead would want to get a real job just to buy one. 😂😂😂
Shaun White is a solid guitar player.
Oh my God the bridge set up on this thing is absolutely amazing!
72 was definitely not Garcia’s peak. That’s just silly
True, but still it was a hot year for Jerry and the band, and personally I really liked the way the sound of that Strat cut through!
@@jakollee yep
The subtitle at 2:51 says "indistinct", he said "Haight-Ashbury", a neighbourhood in San-Francisco
I caught that too.
IIRC Rick Turner commented that Jer did not prefer the final version of this guitar, which is how this is setup. It was mostly due to the rosewood plate/riser under the tailpiece. His preferred config was the prior version with a simpler brass tailpiece. Note photos of the setup in the 1972 tour. Turner also commented that these pickups were not standard but rather extremely low wound, hence the always on boost circuit. The covers were painted on the inside with conductive paint and grounded, also.
Also: RIP Rick Turner.Who always had time to chat on social media with a random nobody (me) with nerdy questions about guitar construction and electronics design.
He says Haight Ashbury @2:49
Awesome guitar. I dont know how jerry would feel about it, but very cool.
he would not like it. And you knew that already.
$20,000.00?!? GFY
These high end, expensive, master built collectors instruments are fine and dandy for the collectors who have $20.,000!
Let me know when you'll be releasing the Made in Mexico version for $799 and ill consider buying one.
why would they make a made in mexico version with these features, the brass pieces (especially the cavity cover) they had to do themselves and hammer and the bridge piece was probably even more of a chore to replicate. Im also not sure if they did a repo of the alembic preamp in this thing or they overlooked it
Awesome video!!!
In my mind, that hammered brass part undoubtedly was originally fabricated from an old cracked cymbal, because like the man said. On the road and in-between shows, they'd do what they had too, use what was available to make repairs and ensure the show would go on!
That guitar has incredible tone.
Wow, Very nice Austin, great collaboration and finally a nod to Jerry, beautiful!
$20k!?! Thanks Fender for once again squashing my dreams.
I’m sure you can get a similar sound just as good with a normal Strat but with vintage style pickups installed. There’s no real magic formula, it’s mostly within the playing technique
this dude should play kvothe in the name of the wind
As soon as I heard about this guitar, I knew they would need Daniel to play it, the dude is a killer
Awsome!
amazing build, the attention to detail goes above and beyond. and Jerry's actual guitar tech!?!? man, that Steve is quite the character, I bet he has the most amazing and wildest stories to tell, I could go for a full 2 hour interview with him!!
He has a weekly show on XM where people call in and he talks about his life with Jerry and the band. It's amazing
Also his book home before daylight is great
It is expensive, but he has to match the wood grain, made the internal circuit board by hand. Makes the hammered brass by hand, and the entire guitar by scratch. Paying for the craftsmanship, if you can't appreciate it. It is expensive but so is everything handmade or high quality.
Please tell me I am wrong when i saw the price tag listed in the Premiere Guitar article was $20,000?
It's not for us regular folks. Maybe we will be lucky enough to play one in a Guitar Center or something.
In the spirit of Jerry!
Absolutely nuts
Andy mcnuts
Nope. What's crazy is this guitar is a copy of a '55 Strat. For $20k you could buy an ACTUAL '55 Strat and plug into a clean boost, boom, done.
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Are you sure that's not a crocodile?
If you want a excellent copy of his custom guitars,check out Alembic guitars .I have a 1963 SG a guitar he played on some legendary tunes. I paid $400 for it in in 1983. If you want it, 8.000
Supercool guy
Great Guitar
Great Guitar Builder
Very cool guitar. I guess you didn't talk about the mods because it's a Fender video? That's the real meat and potatoes, the other stuff, although fun to hear, is just fluff. I mean stickers? who cares and I printed them in the Mission for years. What's a '55 strat, all original go for that hasn't been stripped?
Closed captioning starts out "funky guitar lick". This isn't funk, it's rock and roll mixed with blues. People are now losing track of musical genres.
Stop calling things funky, it does not make sense. You are long haired white rockers, not Bootsy Collins.
It's gorgeous. But shame on you fender for making these so stupid expensive and rare that no true fans can touch them. Don't think Jerry would have liked that. Exactly why I don't touch fenders or Gibson's anymore. They forgot their roots, and there are great guitars out there for a fraction with way better specs. C'mon fender. Sink or swim it's up to you. When your spuires are better then your strats, there's a problem
It’s said that even $20k is still enough to cut your fingers on the fret ends. But seriously fender, can I QC for you? Every fender guitar sucks right now.
A guitar for rich old Deadheads. The trapeze bridge is the absolute dumbest mod I could imagine having been done to a Strat, suitable to an archtop, just makes me puke.
Perfect guy to demo this guitar.
You guys Made My Day!!!! All those memories come rushing back in a whirlwind!! 💥🧨💥🧨💥🎶🎶🎶
The fact that Steve can remember all he can remember…makes ya wonder if the acid really cooks your brain like the government said it did. (This is a joke, the government I mean).
Sounds and looks great! Can someone explain what he means by boosted circuit? What's modified?
Boosted circuit from my knowledge is something like a boost pedal (like a mxr micro amp or something) but in the guitar to boost the treble
@@richarddeem6169 thanks. Never heard of that. Did it use batteries?
@@f1sk8mm that I don’t know. I feel like it’s just wired in to the circuit but idk for sure
It's not the size of the wand, it's the magic of the magician !!!
been waiting for the custom shop to do something like this for YEARS. I gotta get me one of these
Do you have $20,000?
Mahavishnu opening for The Dead
God damn
Wish l couldve
20k bro rich kids run this biz now it’s awful just gross
What will it go for???
Strats are still it. I know the cycle60 yea yea, strats sound the best.
Incredible video and informations !
I put pickups that sound exactly like the Quarter Pound (Quarter Tone from Malagoli pickups), and the construction of the body wood was in a single piece of Louro Freijó handpicked by the Lutheria Peace Custom Shop in Brazil (Brazilian noble wood that is equivalent to American ASH), all Gotoh hardware and hardware. No shield, straight-on-wood pickups like Jake E. Lee's Charvel Strat that he played on Ozzy Osborne's The Ultimate Sin tour.
So to get that nice over drive tone are they using a tube screamer?
Stratoblaster (a gain boost). But probably a copy of a stratoblaster.
Austin, Did you happen to have a reject Alligator work in progress that still plays well? Love the work! I'd trade you 3d modeling services plus cash...please let me know what you think. Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world. Thanks, Jasen
Wait, he makes guitars and is called Macnutt?
Man Daniel was just killin it .
This and rocky are two of my favorite strats ever
No mention of rick turner?
If they want to demonstrate the Jerry tone with this guitar, after so much effort, why do they use the amp with so much grunge set up with so much low mids? Oh well. I wonder how many gigging guitarists will end up with one.
The Jerry tone came from his custom Alembic guitars made by Doug Irwin
@@Group_Anonymous Well, that's a weird statement. Doug Irwin only made one guitar while at Alembic that Jerry had and Jerry did not play it much and I don't think he played it on stage. The Irwin guitars which we associate with Jerry were made long after he left Alembic, starting with Wolf. Those guitars weren't the only ones that provided quintessential Jerry tone. Europe '72 was a quintessential Jerry tone and that's thanks to the modified Graham Nash strat. Some people even think that quintessential Jerry tone was the SG from the Live/DEAD days. There is no one guitar that provided it. Jerry tone comes from Jerry.
@@edwinhurwitz6792 Luthier Doug Irwin built three of his five custom guitars. When asked about that fact, Jerry replied, "There’s something about the way they feel with my touch-they’re married to each other…I’d never felt anything before or since that my hand likes better."
@@edwinhurwitz6792 At the end of 1972, Jerry stumbled onto the first guitar Doug Irwin made for Alembic, and bought it on the spot for $850. At the same time he asked Irwin to customize another for him. This was the inception of Wolf. It was made from purpleheart and curly maple with an ebony fingerboard and twenty-four frets. The first version bore a peacock inlay, and later received Irwin’s eagle logo in its place. A bloodthirsty cartoon wolf sticker Jerry placed below the tailpiece served to name the guitar and was later inlaid in the body by Irwin.
When Jerry asked Doug Irwin, immediately after receiving Wolf, to make another guitar, he told him, “don’t hold back.” He was told to make it the way he thought was best, and not worry about cost. Irwin obliged, and six years later Tiger hit the stage and became his most-played guitar. Named after the tiger inlay just below the tailpiece, the body features several layers of wood laminated together face-to-face in a configuration referred to as a "hippie sandwich." The combination of heavy woods (cocobolo, vermilion, maple), plus solid brass binding and hardware resulted in a 13.5 lb. instrument.
Jerry loved Tiger for the wealth of sounds it gave him to play with. In one interview he said, “[There’s] like twelve discreet possible voices that are all pretty different…That gives me a lot of vocabulary of basically different tones. And that’s just the electronics; the rest of it is touch. I mostly work off the middle pickup…and I can get almost any sound I want out of that.”
@@Group_Anonymous Sure, but "Jerry tone" means a lot of different things to a lot of people. You are expressing your opinion, but that doesn't mean that it applies for everyone. That's the great thing about Jerry and the Grateful Dead. They mean so many things to so many people and no one is wrong and no one person is absolutely right.
The next boring guitar(?)….
Yeah, it’s a strat…like any and every other strat. :|
Why don’t you give Gary Hoey a signature Strat he has been a loyal Fender performer forever. You give signatures to so many online punks who would stab you in the back in a heartbeat, they have no loyalty.
Gary Hoey is an awesome guitarist!
Still have my vinyl copy of Hooteroll. Who wound the pick ups? There's a lady who worked at Fender in the fifties who is renowned for her windings but I forget her name. Twenty grand makes me choke though. Maybe for Jerry's actual one, maybe, but not a copy. Try two grand for Corona made, or $899 for Mexi made. Jerry wasn't playing this strat in August 1972 at Veneta, OR. He was playing the tobacco burst strat.
I met Daniel Donato at a phish show in Alpharetta, GA last year. He was such a cool down to earth guy (even though I accidentally interrupted his conversation 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️