One of the Most Iconic Strats Ever? | Jerry Garcia's Alligator Stratocaster!

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@Nate_has_Dogs 4 ай бұрын

I know Jerry is always associated with wolf, but for me, Jerry is middle pickup strat all day long. Love it Ben, great job.

@tompoynton 4 ай бұрын

Travis Bean 76/77 era for me is best Jerry

@Cantsmilewithoutyou 4 ай бұрын

One of Bens best videos. His enthusiasm is infectious. Can we have more guitar history with Ben? So good.

@iainjohnston9833 4 ай бұрын

Clearly the right man for the job 🙂 - great to hear from a genuine fan. Great - full vid!

@rowbags3017 4 ай бұрын

It's great to see Ben playing electric! 😎

@notsearchingforguitarstoday 4 ай бұрын

What a wonderful video this is. Thank you to Ben and everyone who let him do it!

@madgebishop5409 4 ай бұрын

one of the most enjoyable videos you guys have put out!

@ShaiEizenman 4 ай бұрын

Awesome video, it's great to hear Ben on an electric guitar, such a great player! Also I really liked the recommendations for the albums during the explanation about the gear, this is a great addition to your videos so keep it up 😎

@VAmystic 4 ай бұрын

Saw the Dead in July 71 in NYC which encompassed much of the Europe 72 content and it is a masterpiece !

@batholith51 4 ай бұрын

Joyous fun! Thankyou! Superb playing. That Ben guy has the Mojo going on......

@veldennoyes8613 3 ай бұрын

Ben, all the rest of us Dead Heads have been gunning for this vid for a while so so glad you made it!

@StephenFarthing 4 ай бұрын

I saw the Dead at Bickershaw in 1972 when Garcia played the original alligator. The best gig ever, it transformed my playing and listening. Whilst everyone worships Garcia, the rest of the band were also brilliant. Phil Lesh and Bobby Weir especially ! Thanks for reviewing this Ben, whilst I’ll never be able to afford the reissue I wonder if you might review the PRS Dead Set strat as used by John Mayer? That’s a fifth of the cost! Great playing, as the sayings go “Far out man, keep on trucking “

@liorauf 4 ай бұрын

WOW! Great video and playing!

@StevenAMckayAuthor 4 ай бұрын

As an extreme metal fan (and Jethro Tull!) I have to say - Ben is easily the best guitar player on Andertons. I love watching him play, he's so good!

@LonePigsyAndCub 4 ай бұрын

My name is Pigsy and I'm a Jerryholic. 😛 Nice to see Jerry getting some respect at Anderton's. Good job!

@slunkm.4890 Ай бұрын

Dude you are definitely nailing some Jerry licks great playing

@andrewbullard3274 4 ай бұрын

I never thought I could love Ben more! As a bluegrass playing mega dead head as well I salute you sir!

@Pierrico 4 ай бұрын

Absolutely brilliant man. More of this!

@mylogify 4 ай бұрын

Nice playing, it's a proof I love old school pickups.

@BretNor 4 ай бұрын

Very nice. I think you should do more electric vids.

@mrtelechi 4 ай бұрын

Superb video, and as for the tone and Bens playing, outstanding. I learnt stuff too 😄

@The-11 4 ай бұрын

Greetings from Marin county where the music and scene are still well and alive ! Having been around Alligator and seeing it played a few feet from me (Thanks To Andy!) these custom shops look the part. He took Alligator apart and it's all '55 Strat. If you need help getting a Blaster to England Ben, Alembic is a short drive from me.

@tmjvtxtmjvtx 4 ай бұрын

Love Jerry...thanks for the great content

@drewcunningham2 Ай бұрын

Fantastic playing mate!!! - Jerry is also my all-time favourite players - I was fortunate enough to see the GD many times from the early 80s up until 94. Wish I had enough spare cake on hand to pick up one of these gems - perhaps I will have to dip into the old retirement fund?????

@firespoon 4 ай бұрын

Love it!! More Ben!

@cmh6122 4 ай бұрын

Well done good sir. Been impressed with your range with acoustics from the beginning, Never been a deadhead, but have heard enough to be stunned at how well you captured his essence.

@mmiller6873 4 ай бұрын

Having seen the Dead and Jerry from 89 - 95, I will say that the sounds of the Dead bring back so many wonderful memories. Now I want the Alligator strat in my collection :)

@catpope 4 ай бұрын

Great video - Great demos!

@andrewboyd2023 4 ай бұрын

Wow, what a player you are, I’ve been playing this instrument for nearly 50 years and I will need to keep playing for another 50 to get close to you. Thank you and Andersons for this.

@justynregini8532 4 ай бұрын

I do not really usually like aged guitars, custom shop or otherwise, but this one is amazing! Great playing from Ben as well.

@_uncredited 4 ай бұрын

That price tag really pops my monocle. Fender is really leaning into their 'sucker born every minute' strategy.

@WhyAlwaysMeMario 4 ай бұрын

Relax...not every instrument needs to be priced to your own budget limitations. It's just a guitar...breathe.

@_uncredited 4 ай бұрын

@@WhyAlwaysMeMario Can't talk. Still spitting tea.

@davedavem 4 ай бұрын

Awesome, Ben! Keep making Andertons let you do videos like this! :D

@TheStratpicker 4 ай бұрын

Excellent video and won’t be able to look at Ben in the same light again - many layers to his onion. This reminded me so much of a jam session I played bass on, Franklin’s Tower was called up, and after a quick run down from one of the two excellent singer/guitarists who knew it, off we went. At the end of the track, we all kind of looked at each other with a smugness that I don’t recall since - simple, but a great jam track.

@richmills1 4 ай бұрын

Lovely playing!

@ericfarrell1625 4 ай бұрын

Great playing!

@jamesjordan4586 4 ай бұрын

Great stuff !

@mwaythos 4 ай бұрын

That was an absolute joy!

@clintharris8519 4 ай бұрын

God ... would love that guitar ... and to be able to play it like Ben!

@DeltaJazzUK 4 ай бұрын

That was some pretty hot playing. I'd say Ben just took the Anderton's title!

@calcariachimera 4 ай бұрын

I love the guitar and It also made me cry.......when I looked up the price

@RackhirTheRed 4 ай бұрын

I wouldn't go so far as to say I'm a Deadhead but I do absolutely love the band and their history. Fantastic guitar and video. Thanks Ben!

@zeppelinboys 3 ай бұрын

sweet guitar! great opening jam! LOVE Jerry!!

@Russell_Optics 4 ай бұрын

Ben, your enthusiasm is so obvious with that guitar in your hands I love it ! I always liked Jerry's lead licks even though I wasn't a big Grateful Dead fan. Very clean and articulate, with a smooth/subtle tone. I had a few friends that were "DeadHeads" so their music was always available. Nice guitar, but out of my budget for sure.

@TheDrunkenScoundrel 3 ай бұрын

Tis is gonna piss some people off: I am not a huge Deadhead, but I have been chasing certain Jerry tones since I started playing. This is one, China Cat is another. Closest I have heard 'without breaking the bank' is the bridge p'up on my G&L ASAT Classic I got from Musician's Friend on "Stupid Deal of the Day" for $350 played through a small amp with a spring tank. Just discovered it last week. Still in love.

@sauciesauce876 Ай бұрын

Watched a lot of the blindfold challenges but, this my first comment on an Andertons video. loved it and hope to see GD/Jam content!

@AllanGildea 4 ай бұрын

Nice playing!

@darrellminx5459 Ай бұрын

Garcia+middle pickup is always magic.

@paul_grimsley 4 ай бұрын

Ben, you're great with acoustics but its really good to see you playing electric and Garcia was just brilliant. Glad you're a deadhead too. I'd love to see more on the Alembic and Rick Turner story. Good man, thank you.

@andretib4614 2 ай бұрын

Wanted to make this suggestion for a long time, and now you have a deadhead on staff, so... I wish you would do "Sound like the Grateful Dead" videos. Lots of material there, different eras with different sounds. You carry D'Angelico, which makes the Bob Weir signature guitars. Signature aside, the Weir Bedford is a super versatile tone monster, and both Bob and Jerry played all kinds of guitars, used all kinds of effects over the years. Plenty of material for several videos there. Deadheads will love it, and many of them are musicians...

@ClayAllred 4 ай бұрын

YEEESS!! I love seeing Dead stuff on here, even if it's unobtainable.

@covblaze42 3 ай бұрын

Wow. Thanks Ben. Huge Deadhead here........ Seems like there's not too many of us in the UK. I think in a way you have to be a fan of Jerry and the band to get the point of this guitar. Yes it's way too expensive for what it is, but it's kind of not important....... Someone is helping to keep the band "alive", and if just seeing this guitar introduces one person to the band, its legacy and it's fabulous music, that's OK with me.

@jasonwallerart 4 ай бұрын

Ben is so good and lovely 😍 keep on keeping on x

@jamespitman3357 3 ай бұрын

Wow great intro 👏

@MAX96MENDES 4 ай бұрын

That price is shocking. Must be because of the decal-stickers. Do I get a discount if I buy it without the stickers ?

@GrumpyOldGit60 4 ай бұрын

The price! WOT!!!

@anthonycashero7605 4 ай бұрын

The guitar is a winner. Great review.

@frankswildyears2217 4 ай бұрын

Love It. Epic playing. I personally find many of GDs best gig sin 1973.

@richardgilyead7640 4 ай бұрын

Lovely playing. Jerry started out playing acoustic and banjo and carried on with this in many of his side projects like Old And In the Way and the Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band. The acoustic Dead tracks are also some of the finest. I wonder if that's why Ben is able to capture Jerry's playing style so well? I would love to hear him play "Ripple".

@ShiningHourPop 4 ай бұрын

Our Ben’s Electric. I bet Ben was dead grateful to make this video.😊

@daynmitchell7543 4 ай бұрын

I don't really care for the dead. But I've always loved Jerry's tone.

@desvonbladet 4 ай бұрын

While, by contrast, I love the Dead but Jerry's tone got progressively shriller and worse (to my ears) as the years went by; the alligator strat was perhaps (to my ears) his best tone

@daynmitchell7543 4 ай бұрын

@b.schmidt3701 I think it’s a lot to do with the culture around the band haha

@daynmitchell7543 3 ай бұрын

@b.schmidt3701 we have a huge local jam band scene around here. And all the rock and metal bands struggle to get gigs. Cause everyone wants to here that jam band crap haha

@karl-wilhelmschreitz8549 4 ай бұрын

to have such a knowledge and history in guitar under the belt at tbat age really frightens me and I would like to congratulate you for that. I just mentioned what a great player you are. I am 68 years old and a guitar player. I do not want to sound arrogant, - but I think I know about this. So please keep on your good work. And I hope that Andertons brings you to the forefront more than they have yet. I hope my english wors make sense as a thoroughbred german since birth.

@dadtimejamtime 4 ай бұрын

Ben’s gone electric! ⚡️

@DiedrichKnickerbocker1783 4 ай бұрын

I personally blame Bob Dylan.

@flashtuinmanman 4 ай бұрын

Judas!

@danielbevan9024 4 ай бұрын

Bloody cracking intro

@cptntwang 4 ай бұрын

I saw that guitar in action on the dark star orchestra tour.

@astroblaster1581 3 ай бұрын

We need u to play this guitar at least once a week. Job well done

@MrMh722 4 ай бұрын

What a player

@DomsGuitarGear 4 ай бұрын

I knew this was gonna be a good vid when Ben was ripping over Franklins Tower. He couldn’t sit down during the jam!🤘🏼

@unitednihilists 4 ай бұрын

Dude! Save some guitar for the rest of us! Ooof, that opening solo😮

@fergusbrown3199 4 ай бұрын

My American friend Susan hung out with the band around Haight-Ashbury in '67-'68. jealous?

@risteardohaodha23 4 ай бұрын

Give that man that guitar!

@mylogify 4 ай бұрын

For only 20000 Euro

@karl-wilhelmschreitz8549 4 ай бұрын

Ben would be great in every band. Solo acoustic and electric.

@TK-fk4po 4 ай бұрын

Dang. Great playing! How much for that thing??

@davroshalfbeard8368 4 ай бұрын

Ben electric 🤩awesome man.

@darrellminx5459 Ай бұрын

Loved his sound on live dead as well. I think that was an SG anyone know?

@justinpaquette224 4 ай бұрын

What kind of pickups is in it?

@douglasennis7291 4 ай бұрын

You could always get the PRS Silver Sky Dead modded version would do ya good.

@pepmasters-999 4 ай бұрын

Never connected with the Grateful Dead, so no appeal for me, but it is fun seeing someone who is a fan getting a kick out of it.

@IronPig_75 4 ай бұрын

If I was stupid rich I'd buy it. It's a very cool recreation. But for the classic Jerry Tone, you can get there for pretty cheap these days on a decent Strat or similar guitar.

@tonynoon8693 4 ай бұрын

Man, Jerry had some great guitars. When he died, I dreamed that he gave me Wolf. :) LOL

@morganbartfield5457 4 ай бұрын

everyone should frankenstein a guitar at least once. its liberating.

@coopedup2 4 ай бұрын

If I buy this guitar, will I be able to play this good?

@peglegpeete9122 4 ай бұрын

What is the black triangle between the bridge pickup and the knobs? a hole??

@StevenAMckayAuthor 4 ай бұрын

I don't see any hole? Just a different material for the controls to be mounted on?

@stevenblakeakahashburns 4 ай бұрын

Why the wire between jack plate and bridge plate?

@TheRealDavidFarmer 4 ай бұрын

I believe that is the boost circuit.

@glenproctor1999 4 ай бұрын

Great tones! Don't go check the price, your heart won't stand it! It is a special guitar though. I wonder if they'll sell the boost circuit separate?

@Zero_thehero 3 ай бұрын

Do his other guitars like the tiger!

@JayTheLane 3 ай бұрын

Captain free video 😂

@tompoynton 4 ай бұрын

Roll away the dew!

@desvonbladet 4 ай бұрын

Eighteen grand? Perhaps just a little bit rich for my blood, but it does sound fantastic

@kingstumble 4 ай бұрын

How much? Is that all? I'll take two.

@vansongs 4 ай бұрын

Sound guy was always pushing for better 'cid too.

@waynegram8907 4 ай бұрын

So the body is a 57 and the neck is a 63?

@denmar355 4 ай бұрын

For those with more money than sense I guess. $18k is strictly collector land.

@fishypaw 4 ай бұрын

£18,000 ... Wow! I've seen genuine 1960's strats sell for less. I'm sure there is a doctor, or lawyer, guitar enthusiast/collector out there that will pay the asking price for this ... and then put it in a display cabinet, and never play it. Each to their own I guess, but definitely not for me, even if I had the money to spare. If I wanted one of these, I'd get more pleasure out of building my own version, for a fraction of the price.

@mylogify 4 ай бұрын

The Original was 250 Usd and this one is 20000 Euro. Nice.

@mylogify 4 ай бұрын

The guitar's parts looks like the old furniture you wanted to get rid of in the 90's.

@wheatoncloud 4 ай бұрын

I had a hard run....

@gwugluud 4 ай бұрын

I started off on such a “wrong foot” with The Grateful Dead as a preteen kid in the later 60s, when I started really getting into rock. As barely post-toddler, I LIKED The Beatles and I LIKED The Animals, but it wasn’t on a “this is a huge part of my life” basis, lol, but one day I became a huge fan of it. My uncle had a new dozen or 20 albums every time we visited my grandparents, and we’d blast them and my uncle would be telling me all this stuff about them. Okay, I was blown away with the really heavy rock which was starting to appear. Hendrix, Fresh Cream, Blue Cheer’s 1st LP, etc were just kicking my ass in the most fascinating way. All right, next time over there, I’m scoping out the newest batch of my uncle’s records, when I see an album cover with neon colors, skulls,etc, and it’s by a group called “The Grateful Dead”. Oh, man, a group whose covers look so wild and so psychedelic, and have such a kick-ass band name, they’d have to be TWICE as heavy as Hendrix or Cream! I stuck it on the record player and braced myself for the wildest rock ride I’ve ever had. The first song sounded like Jim Nabors. The second song sounded like Ferlin Husky. Etc etc Oh, the LP blew my mind, alright, but not at all in the way I was expecting. Why would a band bother having such a wild, very far out name and have such wild album covers, if they only do soft, normal-sounding music?? It sounded like the kind of stuff my parents listened to. I have harbored a very deep hatred for The Grateful Dead ever since. I’m sorry, but it doesn’t get more ridiculously lame or boring than The Grateful Dead.