What a lifetime honor and achievement for John!! His joining Dead & Company has been a gift that keeps on giving. He so graciously and seamlessly slid right into Jerry's 'big shoes.' He's filling them honorably, humbly and so well. I love him! Blessed to be A Creative Genius, A Master, The Man and THE KING ❣💡🌟💎👑

My dad saw the dead in the wall of sound era, when we saw Dead and Co he said if he closed his eyes he would’ve sworn Garcia was playing guitar. That’s a special memory for me, he introduced me to the dead

Jerry played Wolf at my first show although I didnt realize it at the time so it had a special place in my heart.

Wow! Great video, Justin! Thanks for the shoutout!!

I saw John Mayer with Dead and Company in his first show at MSG in NYC on Halloween Night ‘15. TOTALLY BLOWN AWAY!!!! His channelling of the late great Jerry Garcia was absolutely COSMIC! Sure it was his traditional PRS, but his melodies, vocals, and ability to “Travel” with the jams, well just astounding! I had seen GD many times in the 70’s and 80’s and Johns playing just felt “Right”. And now playing a new “Wolf”? Just amazing.

FWIW, John talks about Wolf a lot more with Dean Delray on DD's podcast, Let There Be Talk, episodes 501 and 502, and that's what the except that Justin read here is from.

I knew Bill Asher back in the mid-80’s, very cool guy. Glad to see he’s involved with this project. These Wolf guitars are playable pieces of art, gotta wonder how many of them actually see any actual road and touring time. Great post, thanks for sharing!

Yeah!! Deadhead here, Gabe is the best!!!

Thank you much for this post...great stuff..!!

I love Gabriel Bergman... he plays so cleanly, and frankly he's such a nice upstanding young man. Definitly check out his videos and subscribe to his channel. If I could, I would adopt him.

Also might be worth a mention that this isn’t the first wolf inspired guitar John has actually used. He used one for Something like Olivia live on Letterman. Not quite as faith a recreation as this one but just an interesting thing to note

Fun fact. Bill Asher's mother was Elizabeth Montgomery from Bewitched.

Let's see how it develops. Based on these shows i think the prs sounds better. Hopefully things will develop as the year progresses.

Can't wait to see the Mayer chapter end

As much as I love Jerry Garcia, I just don't see any custom guitar worth more than 5000 definitely not even 3000 in materials and I wouldn't pay it if I was rich ,unless it was for charity or something like that.i with i could charge my customers 18k for a custom brake job because I am a technician with 45 years experience 😆 🤣 😂 lol.i have much love for guitars 🎸 but I personally wouldn't pay that ,but ill buy 5 guitars with 18k and some gear, amplifiers and such.great looking guitar breathtaking 😍 lucky folks who can afford such beauty. Rip mr Garcia a originator in his own unique sound thats for 👍 sure....✌ peace

The first fret resembles the PRS Bird. Either way, his guitar sounds similar to Jerry.

It’s a beautiful guitar, that’s for sure.

My Les Paul is like that. Hit one note and sustain for days.

This project is in good hands!👍

I used to know the Irwins when I still lived in Sonoma, Doug was a super nice guy.

Man this guitar sounded so so so good.

Dead and Co are confirmed for Jazzfest 2023, the final, final tour? When will the final, final, final tour be announced?

Is Mayer your Favorite Player currently? Just curious. I’ve been playing 30 yrs, and just discovered Tom Bukovac. Holy shit. But Phish is king

Isn’t the headstock reminiscent of Ibanez Musician late 70s like Scott Murawski plays , or vise versa

but did he actually play it live with dead and co after aquiring it?

just awsome

After the D&C stuff is over, when’s he going to tour with Double Trouble? 😏

Is Bill Asher the guy making the Scarlett Fire guitars?

Chasing ghosts.

amazing

He sounds best on a strat.

Would rather see Billy strings with the Dead

I get the whole 'it was built by Irwin' and all that, but 22K? I've seen Tigers going for 15k and up! I suppose if I had the disposable income I'd at least be tempted but, I still couldn't justify it - Not with the equipment I have now. With all my inexperienced experimenting, I've come in at around 4 or 5k minus the experimentation/repairs if I had to buy it all and have the work done now and that includes a vintage twin and elite strat with some individual mods and a few nice pedals. Does it sound exactly like Jerry?... No, but the set up sounds and plays stunningly beautiful - to the point that if it did sound exactly like Jerry, I'd be a bit disappointed. Funny thing was that I didn't start out trying to play any Dead - I was trying to create a versatile rig for more of a classic hard rock/southern rock/blues thing, (humbuckers-push/push pots to split the coils-treble bleed-blaster) and ended up with something that didn't give me exactly what I wanted in that regard but, it more than filled the bill when it came to playing some Jerry - Absolutely gorgeous and purely accidental. I was fooling around one day and bought a lesson on Althea - made a few tweaks to a pedal or two and I was exquisitely blown away, almost to the point of tears. Just the natural compression I have now and the sound of the wood through the amp - So Very Lucky. I suspect that if I plugged the thing into a marshal head and my OX, I'd be just as pleasantly surprised.

Check out Eastwood guitars.

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That guitar can only be picked up in a pickup truck with a pick up between the strings

Never cared for John Mayer, the attitude and the affected constipated Stevie Ray Vaughn singing are huge turn offs, HOWEVER I lover the real Wolf guitar. I saw Jerry break it out once during the post space segment of the show, might have been fall 1989 or so

22k??? now thats 100 percent greed i mean capitalism.

This guitar died quickly 😅

Horrible guitar, I don't know why it looks so bad to my eyes, maybe the pickups ? Idk

I just found out threw this that this is the FINAL dead and company tour and I’M SO HAPPY!! I effing HATE the dead stuff and hated how much time John spent on that BS years ago instead of more of his own music. Or hey, maybe some other collabs. Regardless, this made me HAPPY! Hope he throws that ugly guitar in the garbage after.

I think it’s funny he didn’t even use this guitar this tour

Finally go away so sick of John by by

I would give a kidney for a ticket to one of these shows :( if anyone is interested, lmk

Really, jerry Garcia he couldn't play a lick to save his girlfriend life and his music if you want to call it music was horrible. Maybe I need to get my ears checked.