Bob Dylan

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

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.

"The fall tour of 2001 was an exception when he appeared with a Martin "negative". Martin had made a special HD-28 for Acoustic Guitar Magazine’s anniversary giveaway a year ago or so. It was designed like a photographic negative: the top was black and everything else, that would normally be black or dark, was made white. Dylan saw it and asked Martin to make him one, only with a duel white pick guard on both sides of the sound hole."

1997.'Time Out of Mind' front cover with a Gibson acoustic L-00

"1986 Promotional shot with a Martin 00-18 guitar..."

Bob Dylan's vocals ran through a Neve 1073, according to this article.

Among the microphones that Bob Dylan's sound engineer has used for recording Dylan's drums is a Neumann U87, as stated in this article.

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."

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

In this photo, you can see Mr. Dylan playing a Dusenberg Starplayer TV Electric Guitar from recent years.

In this photo you can see Mr. Dylan playing a Gibson ES-175 from recent years.

"Universal Amphitheater Los Angeles, California 23 March 1994 The Rhythm, Country & Blues Concert

Playing 'Tomorrow Night' with Trisha Yearwood and a black Gibson acoustic Dove guitar"

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

Dylan can be seen in this photo playing a Kent 670 Bass.

Dylan uses a Hohner Bob Dylan Signature and Marine Band 1986 Harmonicas

"Traveling Wilburys...Bob with a 1987-88 Kramer Ferrington acoustic bass KFB"

Bob Dylan is pictured playing a Gretsch Rancher Acoustic Guitar, likely from the 1950s, as detailed on Bobdylansgear.

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

Bob Dylan used the Silvertone Aristocrat Model 642 Archtop Guitar during a student talent show, as documented on Bobdylansgear. This guitar is displayed in the Dylan Room at the Hibbing Public Library.

Used during Dylan's September 27, 1997 performance at the World Eucharist Congress in Bologna, Italy. It is first visible in this video at 0:20.

Mentioned by producer Bob Johnston in this Mix Online article.

I always used three microphones on Dylan, 'cause his head spun around so much. I used a big [Neumann] U47 on him, same as I used on Johnny Cash later. I would put a baffle over the top of his guitar because he played while he sang lead vocals. I didn't use any EQ on the band, just set the mics up right to make each instrument sound the best it could. I used some EQ on Dylan's voice.

Johnston stated the same in this Sound on Sound "Classic Tracks" interview about the recording of "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands".

"What I used on his vocals — and what I used on Johnny Cash, Patti Paige, Marty Robbins and many others — was a [Neumann] U47 microphone with a power pack,” Johnston explains. "It was the old one and nothing was better. I put a baffle over the top of Dylan's guitar so he could play while he sang, and I also used some EQ on his voice, but I never tried to change his sound. All I did was change sounds in terms of the mechanics. Whatever Dylan did — from Highway 61 through Blonde On Blonde, John Wesley Harding, Nashville Skyline, Self Portrait and New Morning — happened because he himself had changed. I never knew what he was going to sound like and I never cared. He was growing.”

Used during Dylan's September 27, 1997 performance at the World Eucharist Congress in Bologna, Italy. The guitar is first visible in this video at 0:20, identifiable by its unique headstock decal.

Bob Dylan was seen playing a 1963 Gretsch Country Gentleman, model 6122, originally associated with George Harrison. This connection is detailed on Bobdylansgear, highlighting an intriguing moment in Dylan's musical journey.

Bob Dylan's sound engineer says, "Digital is fine as long as you record what you want to hear. I use Neve 1073 and Pultec EQP1A EQs, [Universal Audio] LA3 compressors, and dynamic microphones through tube preamps to get the sounds I want before they’re recorded," in this article about recording Bob Dylan.

In this picture from 1988, you can see Bob playing a Gibson SG Original with Ernie Ball Rainbow guitar strap

"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."

Featured on the fansite Bob Dylan's Gear.

2010...European tour...a James Trussart luthier custom guitar...

This is a James Trussart Steel O Matic, sugar pine body, driftwood finish chambered body, Arcane / Trussart handwound pick ups, grey stained maple neck, aluminum dots, antique silver gator engraved recessed steeltop!

Used for Dylan's vocals on Shadows in the Night, as stated by producer Al Schmitt in this May 2015 Sound on Sound interview.

“I used Capitol’s Neumann U47 on Bob’s vocals. It’s the very same microphone that was used on Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Nat King Cole. It’s a great–sounding microphone. Fortunately, because I work a lot at Capitol, I get to use it frequently, and I’ve had it on Paul McCartney and on Diana Krall and others. The mic was maybe nine or 10 inches away from Bob, with a windscreen. Pops and esses were no problem. I used the Neve 1073 mic pres in the old Neve desk at Capitol on all the mics. It has an amazing sound, with lots of punch and warmth. So Bob’s 47 went through that. The only compression I used on the entire album was on Bob’s voice, a tiny bit of an old mono Fairchild. I barely touched it, I used it mainly for the tube sound. It just added some warmth. On the desk I also mixed in some of Capitol’s live chamber number four on his voice.

The mention of a "mono" Fairchild specifies a 660.

"In 1971 George Harrison and Ravi Shankar held their famous Concert for Bangladesh at New York’s Madison Square Garden. The stage was positively bristling with MD421s, including all of the stars’ lead vocal mics (Eric Clapton, Ringo Star, George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Leon Russell and Billy Preston) Check out the video." -Martin Mitchell's Microphones.