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A couple of sites with all kinds of info about the equipment used by the Dead here and here

A very nice looking guitar! Once again, I presume it will play well and sound great.

Martin has just pointed me in the direction of this cool retro guitar site – Selmer and Hofner guitars, mainly. He had a Futurama like the one in the picture. Very nice! I never had a Futurama, though we lusted after either one of those or a Watkins Rapier. I had what I thought was a no name guitar which had been resprayed in metallic blue paint. I didn’t have an amp so the older brother of a friend (Hi, Bry!) took the jack socket apart and modded the cartridge on my dansette record player into a guitar amp. I later suspected that the guitar was actually a Hagstrom or Danelectro – ah, if only I had it now – I seem to remember I paid a fiver for it second hand – I think I was in the third form (the infamous class 3B) at Hartlepool Grammar School – maybe 1966? I vaguely seem to remember that I either bought it off Steve Bowman, or sold it to him. (Must have been a bit later than that – I’m sure Bry wasn’t 11 years old when I first met him! – probably ’67/’68)