Bob Dylan

Early sixties with a natural Gibson J-50 with rosewood soundboard.

Dylan Room, Hibbing Public Library. The guitar Bob played in a student talent show.

In the Bob Dylan autobiography "Chronicles," Dylan says, "First thing I did was go trade in my electric guitar, which would have been useless for me, for a double-O Martin acoustic. The man at the store traded me even and I left carrying the guitar in its case. I would play this guitar for the next couple of years or so."

Bob Dylan has played an SJ 200, according to this article, by Premier Guitar, which says, "After years of design and development overseen by the artist’s personal guidance, The Bob Dylan Autographed SJ-200 Collector’s Edition is an exact replica of Bob’s personal highly-customized SJ-200."

"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

In this photo, Bob Dylan can be seen playing a blonde Fender Telecaster.

Bob Dylan can be seen playing a Gibson Hummingbird in this photo.

In this interview with writer and Martin Guitars employee Dick Boak, he says, "Well, to my knowledge, Dylan’s first guitar from his early days, when he showed up in New York City, was a 1949 00-17."

In this interview, long-time Martin Guitar employee Dick Boak says, "In Newport with Joan Baez [Dylan] used her 0-45 – her famous Martin guitar."

Dick Boak, lone-time Martin employee, says, in this interview, "For MTV Unplugged, [Bob Dylan] did a performance with a D-28. He performed at Bangladesh with Leon Russell with a D-28."

According to this article, Bob Dylan had a Martin 00-21.

In this interview, with Martin Guitar employee Dick Boak, it says, "On his duet with Johnny Cash – that was a pretty famous performance – he played a 000-18 on “Girl From the North Country.”"

In this photo, Dylan is playing a Fender Electric XII 12-String.

Lists at point 16 a few artists who have used the J-180.

'Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan, Neil Diamond, Cat Stevens, Roger Daltrey and even Madonna have played an Everly Brothers J-180 live.'

This link has a picture,

http://bobdylansgear.blogspot.co.uk/2011/02/gibson-j-180_21.html

In this picture you can see Bob Dylan playing his sunburst Fender Jazzmaster @ Forest Hills on 28 August 1965

In this picture from a 2004 gig, you can see Bob playing his sunburst Telecaster Thinline

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

Back in 1988, the "Never Ending Tour" began and this SG Original was one of the first guitars that were used during this tour

In this picture you can see Bob Dylan playing that guitar during Tom Petty's gig on 1st March 1990

"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."

According to Gibsons website "Dylan has reverted to playing a sunburst J-45 since the mid-1990s. Dylan first owned a J-45 in 1962 and the sound of a J-45 is all over Dylan’s early albums."

I sold this guitar to Dylan right before his show at the Fox Theater in Atlanta in 1981. I was working at Metro Music Centre. Dylan's guitar tech called the store and asked me to bring our best acoustic electric down to the show. I picked out the Tanglewood, and Dylan tried it out right before going on. He strummed a couple of chords and bought it on the spot. He used it that night. It appears on the cover of "Bob Dylan Real Live" from 1984.

Bob Dylan played the Epiphone Casino on his epic 40-date tour with The Band in 1974. The photo is an still from that tour.

Bob Dylan played a white National Glenwood - now housed in the Hard Rock cafe London [https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/ca/90/36/ca903673be9d9257a277b51e2fc0f57d.jpg] - just once that was ever photographed or taped. He started using it during the second iteration of the Rolling Thunder Review and can be seen in the clip playing it for an amped up version of 'Shelter From The Storm' broadcast on the Hard Rain TV Special that aired in 1976. It's also one of the few instances I know of him playing slide guitar in concert. The recording can also be heard on the accompanying Hard Rain live album.

The URL provided shows a reverb listing of Bob Dylan's 1962 Fender Stratocaster refinished in gold sparkle that he used during the early 90's.

Bob used this guitar during his time with the travelling wilburys, as you can see in the photograph.

In this photo from February 19th, 1985 you can see Mr. Dylan playing a modified Fender Mustang, and it looks like a shark is painted over the Fender logo.