LA Times · Jul 6, 2015
Guitar signed by Grateful Dead sold for $526,000
Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead performs Friday night in the first of three shows at Chicago’s Soldier Field.A commemorative guitar signed by the Grateful Dead sold for more than half a million dollars at the band’s final 50th anniversary show Sunday at Chicago’s Soldier Field.
Bids for the D'Angelico EX-DC guitar opened at $5,000 at the band’s first Fare Thee Well concert in Santa Clara, Calif., on June 27 (read Times pop critic Randall Roberts’ review of the show here).
Grateful Dead founding member Bob Weir played the guitar during the second show before it was signed by the band’s four living original members and the three guest performers who joined them.