View Full Version : Dylan With Mandolin in Hand
Russ Donahue
Oct-31-2018, 4:15pm
Check out the fantastic picture located towards the very end of this great preview:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/30/arts/music/bob-dylan-more-blood-more-tracks-bootleg-series.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=Music
Hudmister
Oct-31-2018, 4:47pm
Always loved Dylan and at this point in his career one would think he could afford a better mandolin.
Jon Hall
Oct-31-2018, 5:47pm
He hired Peter Ostrousko to lay down the final mandolin track on the album.
Paul Kotapish
Oct-31-2018, 6:11pm
He hired Peter Ostrousko to lay down the final mandolin track on the album.
... which, according to A Simple Twist of Fate (https://www.amazon.com/Simple-Twist-Fate-Making-Tracks/dp/0306814137), didn't make the final mix. I've never been able to hear it, anyway.
I thought David Mansfield was on mandolin on BOTT.
MikeEdgerton
Oct-31-2018, 8:08pm
For posterity.
jaycat
Oct-31-2018, 8:47pm
Always loved Dylan and at this point in his career one would think he could afford a better mandolin.
Guess he traded in the Martin...
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barney 59
Oct-31-2018, 9:06pm
In the mid 80's there was a Martin 2-30 for sale at a music shop near me. I looked at it one day and the next day called and said that I wanted it. The owner replied "sorry Bob Dylan just bought it".
Mark Gunter
Nov-01-2018, 8:00am
Great photo of Bob, one of my favorites. No telling how many mandolins Bob may own judging from his lyrics here.
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MikeEdgerton
Nov-01-2018, 9:23am
Guess he traded in the Martin...
I think the Martin belonged to the Band, probably Levon.
Ranald
Nov-01-2018, 11:51am
I think the Martin belonged to the Band, probably Levon.
Or Richard Manuel or Rick Danko. Here's Rick Danko rehearsing with the band (no doubt someone will tell us what kind of mandolin he was playing):
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MikeEdgerton
Nov-01-2018, 3:26pm
That one looks to be German or some other European origin.
Levon was playing Martin mandolins for a few years. Also and F style oval hole Gibson. I'm guessing they owned more than one. I saw him on TV one night playing the Martin. Nobody has taken a shot at the one Dylan is holding (except Hudmeister I see). I suspect I know what it is.
By the way, I'm not sure he's rehearsing.
Ranald
Nov-01-2018, 3:38pm
By the way, I'm not sure he's rehearsing.
I think you're right about that, Mike. I copied from the commentary that I found under the photo, but the same thought occurred to me after I'd posted it.
Timbofood
Nov-01-2018, 5:48pm
There is also the (EM-300?) two point Jethro Burns Gibson on the “Rock of Ages” album by “The Band”.
Looks like any one of a hundred “Epiphone” deep body “A” styles of the last twenty-thirty odd years.
OneChordTrick
Nov-02-2018, 2:42am
Check out the fantastic picture located towards the very end of this great preview:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/30/arts/music/bob-dylan-more-blood-more-tracks-bootleg-series.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=Music
Thanks for the heads up on, downloaded the sampler this morning and halfway through. So far the verdict is that it's brilliant
ollaimh
Nov-04-2018, 12:33pm
Always loved Dylan and at this point in his career one would think he could afford a better mandolin.
he was famously cheap about instruments
jaycat
Nov-04-2018, 6:02pm
he was famously cheap about instruments
??? (https://www.groundguitar.com/bob-dylan-gear/)
barney 59
Nov-04-2018, 8:46pm
Cheap with instruments? Dylan over the years has had an incredible number of vintage and non - vintage accustic guitars. Some fancy, some plain ,some off the shelf and some custom built. Then there are the electrics mostly Strats but there have been others I saw a picture of him with a Dusenberg....anyone ever seen him perform with a mandolin? Mandolins might not be that important to him but he's had some killer guitars!