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“Great master Bob Dylan knows to play 18 instruments, a great talent”
A collection of photographs to show the range of instruments played by Bob Dylan
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1 – Autoharp
Playing the autoharp and harmonica simultaneously, backstage at a Joan Baez concert with Mimi and Dick Farina observing the impromptu performance (1964).
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2-Bugle
Bugle.
With The Band of Merry Players – Newport, 19741105
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3-Conga
Conga
Photograph courtesy of Jerry Schatzberg.
1965
4- Cowbell
Cowbell.
Brøndby-Hallen
Copenhagen, Denmark
12 July 1981
5- Didgeridoo
Bob Dylan with his didgeridoo
Sydney, Australia
1992-03
6- Drums
Drums.
With the Traveling Wilburys, 1988.
Seen at the 20:00 minute mark of the video, ‘The True Story of the Traveling Wilburys’:
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West Houston Street, Greenwich Village, New York City, New York.
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West Houston Street, Greenwich Village, New York City, New York.
Arturo’s
“In a city where countless high-end pizza joints tout their wood-burning ovens and artisanal toppings, Arturo’s remains the same as it ever was. Worn leatherette booths in the crowded front dining rooms, long waits on weekend evenings, and jovial service separate Arturo’s from the posh spots across the street in Soho. Sidewalk seating gives you breathing space, but the tradeoff is that you can’t hear the live jazz played nightly. Here the coal-oven pizza’s the thing. Fresh mozzarella is satiny on a 16″ pizza, and the lightly charred edges of the crunchy crust are pleasantly salty.”
Photograph courtesy of John Cohen.
1970
Photograph courtesy of John Cohen.
1970
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West Houston Street, Greenwich Village, New York City, New York.
Photograph courtesy of John Cohen.
1970
Hand made drum.
Robert Zimmerman, aged 12yrs, 1953.
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Miss John’s 5th Grade Class 1952-1953:
Back row: Nancy Annes, David Rian, Bonnie Marinac, Shirley Zubich, Bill Marinac, Peggy Teske, Judy Hennessey
Front row: Griffith Thomas, Bob Zimmerman
The class was split up into three parts and made, decorated and played their rhythm objects.
7- Acoustic Guitar
Acoustic guitar.
Photograph taken in Schenectady, September 25 1961, by Joe Alper.
8- Bass Guitar
Bass guitar.
Photograph of Bob Dylan playing a Fender Telecaster jazz bass guitar, by Don Hunstein 1965.
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“1965 was same year that inventor Leo Fender — who’d revolutionized the way the world heard and played popular music with his groundbreaking electric guitar and amplifier designs in the 1940s and 1950s — sold his world-famous instrument company to CBS. It was also the year that Bob Dylan would pick up a solid-body Fender guitar and send shock-waves through pop culture with his own newly-electrified sound. In December 1965, Dylan, his sunglasses resting atop a Fender Band Master amp, ran through some runs on a well-worn Fender bass guitar for a Don Hunstein photo-shoot at the Columbia Recording Studios.”
The pictures were also used in a promotional campaign for Fender in the mid-1960s:
Bob Dylan plays a Fender Jazz bass in a mid-’60s promotional ad campaign.
“In the 1968 Fender catalog there is a photo of Bob Dylan playing a Jazz Bass. The bass is unusual in that the rear edge of the bridge cover plate is at a slant, sort of parallel to the rear edge of the bass. I’ve never seen another Jazz Bass with this shape bridge plate.”
9- Electric Guitar
Electric guitar.
Photograph from Paris, 20020429, by Duncan Hume.
10 – Harmonica
Harmonica.
Bumbershoot: Seattle’s Music & Arts Festival
Seattle Center Coliseum
Seattle, Washington
4 September 2010
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Photograph courtesy of Hilary Harris
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“…Jimi Hendrix told me that Bob Dylan gave him this harmonica when he was performing at Cafe Wha? He used it to tune his guitar when he came to visit me in my Bedford Street apartment. He kept it in the front room.” — Matthew (Mike) Quashi a.k.a. Limbo King
(photo Jerry Schatzberg)
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11- Harmonium
From the text by Dave Marsh in Douglas Gilbert’s “Forever Young” photobook:
“Ginsberg owned a small harmonium, a primitive pump organ, that he acquired in Benares, India. He didn’t know how to play it. According to Mitch Myers, in his liner notes to Ginsberg’s album,’New York Blues, Rags, Ballads, & Harmonium Songs 1971-1974’, ‘Dylan showed him the three chords needed to write a folk or blues song, insisting that it was Allen’s time to sing out rather than simply reciting his prose.’ The lesson may have taken place at the table in Albert Grossman’s kitchen, where we see the two of them with the harmonium in Gilbert’s photographs. Dylan and Ginsberg are conversing across the harmonium but it’s Dylan who’s sitting in position to play it. Dylan also encouraged Ginsberg to sing, something the poet said he wouldn’t have even thought of doing until he heard young Dylan: ‘His words were so beautiful. The first time I heard them, I wept.’”
12- Electric Keyboard
Electric keyboard.
Photograph from Newcastle, 20070412, by John Hume.
13 – Mandolin
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“On the wall of the Stagecoach Bar in Wilson, Wyoming, regular banjo player Bill Briggs with Bob Dylan on mandolin (1985).”
14- Piano
Piano
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Piano work at the 1963 sessions for the album “The Times They Are A-Changin'”.
A Don Hunstein photo.
15 – Flute
Recorder.
Bob Dylan, Peter Himmelman, and Harry Dean Stanton at the 25th Chabad Telethon.
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16- Saxophone
Saxophone.
19th October 1981, Merrillville, Indiana.
“Having spent many weekends in his final high school year visiting the city, Zimmerman knew a small coterie of Hibbing-Duluth Jews, some of
whom were also freshmen at UMinn, including Larry Keegan, one of his longest-standing friends.”
Heylin, Behind the Shades, p. 32.
“October 19, Holiday Star Theater, Merriville, IN. . . . For the last encore, ‘Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door’ is replaced by Chuck Berry’s ‘No Money Down,’ sung by Dylan’s wheelchair-bound friend Larry Keegan. Dylan plays saxophone alongside Keegan.”
Heylin, A Life in Stolen Moments, p.234.
“Kegan was a good singer and Bob got him up on stage in Merrillville, Indiana, on October 19 [1981] to sing an encore of “No Money Down.” Bob produced a saxophone – an instrument he had never been known to play in public – and barped into it a few times, bluffing that the could play, while Larry Kegan sang. The segment with Kegan went so well that the friends repeated their performance the next night at the Boston Orpheum Theater, Kegan coming on stage both nights in his wheelchair.”
Sounes, Down the Highway, p.349
17- Trumpet
18 Whistle
