Help with an E chord please??

[Franklins Tower]

Can anyone please tell me what this chord is E* and what postion it is played in please, likewise a G*, im trying to play the old folk song Dark Hollow as covered by The Grateful Dead..Thank you...

[luecke]

I've been playing for 8 years and have never seen an asterisk to describe a chord. Are you sure it isn’t referencing a note at the bottom of the page? Are you seeing in on sheet music, a tab book, or off the internet? I’m guessing that it is calling for a special voicing of the chord, but no matter where you play it on the neck, it should still have E, G#, and B in it. You probably can’t go too wrong with either the open position (022100) or bar chord (x79997) version of E. Try both of those and see if it sounds right.

[Franklins Tower]

Yeah ive got it on a half baked peice of old paper and ive never seen e* used before so i guess your right. It was bugging me! Like you say ive been playing it the (022100) postion and it sounds fine to me but it was bugging me and i thought i was missing something!
Thank you for you help..

[StonedSandman]

Might be an E diminshed and the * is supposed to represent the degree sign.

[Franklins Tower]

Im not sure, the paper its on is old and theres no kind of key or anything. Im not sure where it came from, ive had it around in my folder for a long time and that confused me a bit. I can still play the song as i want just a case of being curious...

[The Mick]

Normally there would be a note at the bottom of the page that refers to the asterisk...

[toast]

I'm assuming back in the day (if it was a typed up piece of paper) they didnt have degree signs. So that * would be a degree sign, making them Ediminished and Gdiminished...lemme check how to post the chords again, one sec...

[homebrewer_99]

It could also be that the person did not know the proper name for the chord and used the asterix to represent "some variation" of the G chord.

That would be my guess.

[Emy]

Maybe the e chord ,means the E7 chord..
I don't know..

[Franklins Tower]

I've been playing guitar for over 30 years and I'm not as clued up on internet tabs and such like having mainly played off proper sheet music and so on. But I came across that somewhere and it was bugging me as to what it meant. I mean the correct chord is E and nothing else so I was curious as to what that symbol meant.

Thanks for your replies everyone.