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    Always loved Dylan and at this point in his career one would think he could afford a better mandolin.

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    He hired Peter Ostrousko to lay down the final mandolin track on the album.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jon Hall View Post
    He hired Peter Ostrousko to lay down the final mandolin track on the album.
    ... which, according to A Simple Twist of Fate, didn't make the final mix. I've never been able to hear it, anyway.
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    I thought David Mansfield was on mandolin on BOTT.

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    For posterity.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hudmister View Post
    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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    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".

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    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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    Quote Originally Posted by jaycat View Post
    Guess he traded in the Martin...
    I think the Martin belonged to the Band, probably Levon.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MikeEdgerton View Post
    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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    Robert Johnson's mother, describing blues musicians:
    "I never did have no trouble with him until he got big enough to be round with bigger boys and off from home. Then he used to follow all these harp blowers, mandoleen (sic) and guitar players."
    Lomax, Alan, The Land where The Blues Began, NY: Pantheon, 1993, p.14.

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    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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MikeEdgerton View Post
    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.
    Robert Johnson's mother, describing blues musicians:
    "I never did have no trouble with him until he got big enough to be round with bigger boys and off from home. Then he used to follow all these harp blowers, mandoleen (sic) and guitar players."
    Lomax, Alan, The Land where The Blues Began, NY: Pantheon, 1993, p.14.

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    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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Russ Donahue View Post
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hudmister View Post
    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

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    Quote Originally Posted by ollaimh View Post
    he was famously cheap about instruments
    ???
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    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!

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