Friday, 11. May 2007
Topic: MUSIK - on May 11, 2007 at 12:05:00 PM CEST
Top dollar for Dead's skeletons
Grateful fans bid on road manager's memorabilia to tune of $1.1 million. Grateful Dead fans, who have a tough time letting go, were grateful for the chance to shell out big bucks Tuesday in San Francisco for what less enlightened people would call, well, junk.
It wasn't junk, said fans of the defunct rock group. Not hardly.
The stuff on the auction block might look like empty speaker boxes, corroded guitar strings and funky old steamer trunks, but it constituted the genuine and authentic castoffs of the great Jerry Garcia.
So the bidding started high, and it went higher.
One of the empty speaker boxes sold for $1,680. Other empty boxes sold for $1,200 and $900. In the 1970s, they had held speakers in the band's enormous Wall of Sound concert loudspeaker system, but the speakers themselves were long gone.
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