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.