Is it possible that Jerry Garcia is playing an F-47 in those old pic's? In the pic next to Bob Weir the maple guitar appears to have a shorter body and width, although the depth looks about the same.
Trick of the angles.
F47's never got G-shields, were
mahogany flat-backs, and
didn't exist when that '62 pic was taken.
F
40's were maple archbacks but didn't get
that kind of G-shield and didn't get 'em by the time they got
crowned headstocks.
Never got railroad tracks or triangles in the block inlays on the fretboard, either (not first gens, anyway).
'59 F40 (note "lips" headstock):
By
'62 (last year of the "lips") they got a chesterfield (which the replacement F47 inherited):
Note also that somewhat "angular" and more "pinched"-looking waist (the original "Valencia" outline), which was a tad more "graceful" on the inch-wider F50.
OK I know you probably
meant to say F40 but the details might be interesting to folks who've never seen the pics yet.
... besides which, they've been ID'd as F50's for years, and now you can see why.
:smile:
That color picture of the threesome is from a when a near riot occured in an auditorium where concert goers got bad locations, so far away they couldn't see the band; with a fence keeping them all way back. So in an act of died in the wool hippiedom from the era, the Dead quelled the riot when they announced a "free" Dead concert would re-locate to a nearby park, where the fans could get right in there to see them better. They were indeed acting as true humanitarians. (At least in the world of hippie concert going people..)
Ohh, never heard that backstory before.
I thought it was credited here a while back as a college show in the SF Bay Area but it may have simply been a different date with the same 2 guitars.
OK, here we go:
http://www.letstalkguild.com/ltg/showthread.php?185399-Bob-Weir-and-his-Guild-F50/page2
Columbia University student strike as Ralph mentioned?
The tag attached to it in my image search associated it with Festival Express but I was skeptical of that so just posted it "un-cited".
That thread details Bobby's special, though, confirmed by Hans post#3
:smile: