It's a story 35 years in the making! Pete Sears "Dragon" bass, crafted from wood from the same tree as Jerry Garcia's "Tiger," should have had its debut at a Jefferson Starship concert in Germany. Instead, fate in the form of a riot intervened, during which the "Dragon" bass was stolen. On the 9th of May on the main stage of the BottleRock Napa festival, "Dragon" finally made it's debut with Pete and Moonalice!

Hear Pete describe how he got “Dragon” back in this interview with ABC 7 News.

It was cut from the same tree as Jerry Garcia's "Tiger!" Now, 35 years after it was stolen during a riot at a festival in Germany, Moonalice's Pete Sears has his bass back!

Here is the back story of how this came about in the words of Tom Lieber, the luthier at the Doug Irwin Custom Shop who fashioned the beautiful “Dragon” in 1976-77 under the Doug Irwin Shop name. While he was designing and building the Dragon bass, Tom also worked with Doug on the early designs of Jerry Garcia's “Tiger.”