Bob Dylan & Robert Zimmerman – Bringing It All Back Home

In this picture from "Bringing It All Back Home" sessions in 1965, you can see Bob playing this guitar with rosewood fingerboard It's quite possibile that this was one of the first Dylan's guitar when he went electric

"Before he went electric in 1965 — and drew jeers from legions of (arguably small-minded) fans in the process — Bob Dylan epitomized the hard-traveling folk troubadour, and he established this image largely on a vintage Gibson Nick Lucas model flat-top guitar. The young Dylan had played other Martin and Gibson models in the late ’50s and early ’60s, but in those final years of his acoustic era, before a “blonde on blonde” Fender Telecaster ushered in a whole new folk-rock sound, the Nick Lucas was his instrument of choice. He played this guitar in the studio and on tour from 1963 to ’66, and used it for the legendary albums Another Side of Bob Dylan and Bringing it All Back Home. And, although it didn’t appear on the covers of either of these, it is frequently seen in the many live performance tapes from the day, including broadcasts of the Newport Folk Festival in 1964 and ’65, and Dylan’s famous appearances on BBC TV in England in 1965. While, in hindsight, this Gibson Nick Lucas seems “just right” for the young Dylan, and has become an iconic folk guitar as a result, the model’s origins show that it is perhaps an unlikely choice for a scruffy young folky."

"Bob Dylan playing an electric guitar on stage for the first time at Newport Folk Festival in 1965 Photograph: Alice Ochs/Getty Images" - The Guardian

Bob Dylan plays a Fender Stratocaster electric guitar through an Ampeg amplifier while recording his album ‘Bringing It All Back Home’ on January 13-15, 1965 in Columbia's Studio A in New York City, New York Photo: Michael Ochs Archives

An M49 can be seen throughout many photos from the recording sessions of Highway 61 Revisited, including this one of Dylan. Its exact use is unknown, but this photo suggests that it was used as a vocal mic. Neither Dylan's guitar amplifier (which is facing away from the microphone) or his bass (the cable of which appears to run away from Dylan's station, far from the mic) are level with the M49. Yet, the M49's boom stand is set up in such a way that Dylan would only need to look up to sing into the mic.

The following is an excerpt from pg. 322 of Bob Dylan: All the Songs (The Story Behind Every Track) by Philippe Margotin & Jean-Michel Guesdon.

Out of the nine songs, only "Like a Rolling Stone" was produced by Tom Wilson. Aside from the arrival of Roy Halee (future producer of Simon & Garfunkel) as a new sound engineer, methods and recording equipment were nearly identical to those used for the album Bringing It All Back Home. However, a Neumann M49 mic appears in various photographs, though it is difficult to say which producer is responsible for this change—presumably Tom Wilson.

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