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In another photo from the Bootleg series, Dylan is seated at what appears to be an Italian restaurant playing an off-brand Precision Bass copy while a young John Sebastian plays guitar.ĭylan played some fairly odd guitars, including a 1966 Fender Kingman acoustic guitar. In another publicity photo Dylan is seen with a 1965 Fender Jazzmaster.
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In a poster for the Bootleg Series Volume XII, we see Bob playing a Fender XII. Possibly from the same photo shoot we also see him with a 1960's Fender Jazz bass, and a 1962 Fender Jaguar. Some black and white photos from the session at the Colombia recording studio A, show Bob playing the Strat. (Other accounts say, that he was just yelling, "Cut, cut" in an effort to make Bob and The Band to stop playing.) His image as the darling of the Folk Crowd instantly became tarnished when he took the stage with an early 1960's sunburst Fender Stratocaster to play Like A Rolling Stone.įolk singer Pete Seeger became so angry it is said that he wanted to cut the electric lines going to the stage. During the 1960's,ĭylan gravitated to the electric guitar in 1965. In a 1974 concert to benefit the nation of Chile a country in the midst of a revolution at the time.ĭylan owned and is photographed here with a Martin 00-21. One was custom made by Gibson and it had a double pickguard.īob Dylan was also fond of Martin 0-18’s and 000-18’s and can be seen playing both. Bob had ordered the custom shop to build them, perhaps because he was so fond of the Nick Lucas guitar, which by the way was based on the LG-1 body with a 13 fret neck.ĭylan borrowed a Martin 0-45 from Joan Baez, who he was dating at the time for a performance at the 1964 Newport Folk Festival.ĭylan also owned several Gibson J-200 guitars that were played in concert. In 2006 a photographer was touring Gibson's Montana facilities when he spied two Gibson LG-1 with tags that had Dylan's name on them. The original Nick Lucas models from that era had trapeze tailpieces. It was originally sunburst, but when Dylan got it, the guitar had been refinished blonde and the bridge had been replaced with one off a Guild guitar. This guitar was lost or stolen.Īfter losing the J-50, in 1963 Dylan purchased an early 1930’s Gibson Nick Lucas Special from a shop in New York City called Fretted Instruments. This guitar had a teardrop pickguard and is featured on the cover of “Bob Dylan”. It must have been a model made after WWII because it does not have the Only A Gibson Is Good Enough banner. His next guitar was a late 1940’s Gibson J-50N. The newer Washburn Tanglewood model was made in Asia. The Washburn 5250 was made in the USA by the Tonk Brothers, who made banjos and stringed instruments in the 1930's. Martin Luther King, Dylan showed up with another Washburn guitar. Then the strings were secured to a trapeze tailpiece. The strings went over a wooden bridge, that was held in place by the strings. In 1963 Dylan showed up at the Newport Folk Festival with a Washburn model 5250. This guitar had a slightly arched top, with a round sound-hole. When he was a young man, Bob also made use of a 1950's Gretsch Ranger. This one look like it has been through the mill. In pictures and videos of his early concerts Dylan is usually seen playing a small body guitar. Guthrie played "00" and small bodied guitars. He was probably inspired by his hero and mentor Woody Guthrie. It is currently on display at the Hibbing, Minnesota public library.ĭylan's first decent guitar was a 1949 Martin 00-17 all mahogany guitar. He played this in a high school talent show. The next guitar he is said to have owned was a Silvertone Aristocrat 642 Archtop. This was not the Oscar Schmidt made Stella model, since the company had been acquired by Harmony Guitars of Chicago in 1939. I've been a Dylan fan since I was a kid in the mid 1960's, so I thought it would be interesting to take a look at the guitars that Bob Dylan has used throughout his career.īob Dylan in High School with Stella guitarīob Dylan’s first guitar was probably a cheap Silvertone Stella. However, he played and owned a variety of very interesting guitars. Dylan was all about the music and lyrics. He even borrowed guitars on the spur of the moment at major concerts back in the day. ' 63 Dylan -Washburn - North Country Bluesīob Dylan was probably not interested in what guitar he played. When manager/impresario Albert Grossman took him on as a client, it seemed like Dylan became famous overnight. But most of Bob's songs were pure genius. No worries, as those songs were public domain at the time. Some of his music and some of the lyrics were taken from older folk songs. In the mid 1960’s Bob Dylan wrote many wonderful songs with poetic lyrics which were sometimes very bizarre. Maybe if I wrote lyrics like that I would have won a Noble prize? Bob Dylan did!