Posted on 10/26/2017 7:40:17 AM PDT by mairdie
A guitar played by Bob Dylan at notable concerts in 1970s is expected to sell for more than $300,000 when it goes up for auction next month.
Heritage Auctions said the 1963 Martin D-28 acoustic guitar that once belonged to the singer-songwriter will be offered up Nov. 11 in Dallas. Heritage says Dylan played the guitar through his set at George Harrison’s Concert for Bangladesh in New York City in 1971 and during his Rolling Thunder Revue tour from October 1975 to May 1976.
The guitar is being sold by Larry Cragg, who was Dylan’s guitar repairman when Cragg bought it from him in 1977. The original receipt from the purchase, which is included in the offering, notes that the guitar was bought for $500.
Though a musician himself, Cragg said he’s never played the guitar and it’s been kept in in a humidity- and temperature-controlled environment.
“It has the same bridge pins, everything is just like it was when he had it: same case and everything, just like it was 40 years ago,” said Cragg, who has a San Francisco Bay Area business renting vintage instruments and has had a long career as a guitar technician and repairman, working with the likes of Prince, Bruce Springsteen, Carlos Santana, Jefferson Airplane and Neil Young. Cragg said Dylan’s guitar is so famous that “it’s kind of past being a guitar now. It’s the kind of thing that you’d think that people would put in a glass case or in a museum somewhere.”
Mike Gutierrez, consignment director at Heritage, said it’s uncommon for such guitars to go up for sale.
“Most of these guitars are owned by the celebrities and they either don’t need to sell them or they don’t sell them,” Gutierrez said. “So they very, very rarely come on the market.”
The Fender Stratocaster that Dylan played at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival when he went electric sold for almost $1 million in 2013 at Christie’s in New York City. That guitar was sold by a New Jersey family who had kept it for nearly 50 years after Dylan left it on a private plane.
I wonder how much Jimmy Page's #1 is worth, though it is NOT original.
left that other site is my go-to source for guitar info.
I bought a 1975 D-28 in 1982 for 700. It is still my regular gig guitar. One neck set and fret job in all those years. Added a Ellipse Matrix to it about 7 years ago.
The only serious blemish is on the case where it got a bit too close to the campfire. Duh.
My wife saw the Strat @ Newport in 65. I saw the Martin @ Lowell Tech in 75.
We saw him in June of this year in Providence. It wasn’t pretty.
Or Duane Allman’s LP.
Still, the biggest offer out there is 4 million by Paul McCartney for Buddy Holly’s strat.
I’ve got a D-28VS (slotted headstock, replica of a 1931). Love it.
That’s gotta’ sound sweet now after all those years of playing. I now wish I had hung on to my acoustic from the ‘70s. Sold everything when I got out of gigging in ‘90.
One of my favorite lines in a song.
You must pick one or the other.
Though, neither of them are to be what they claim.
Me? I’d like to lay my hands on the 1947 Martin that Willie Nelson plays. Sweetest sounding guitar I’ve ever heard.
To me personally, Duane’s dark burst Les Paul, “Hot Lanta”, is the holy grail of guitars. Never heard one sound better.
Well, there’s always “Lucillle.” That will be interesting...
JP #1 is a 1959 LP one of 643 made. JP #2 is a ‘59 burst also. Both are priceless. What is his EDS1275 Dbl Neck worth.
Dylan’s Strat from Newport Jazz Fest you could say had never been played.
Duane Allman’s 59 LP was owned by Joe Perry and now Slash of GNR. I know as I had a shot to buy it in 1987 for $20K and had to pass on it from Dixie Guitars in Atlanta. Slash bought it a week later.
I would love to own that guitar. And if I did, I would play it every day!
Not true, to my knowledge both of Duane’s 59’s never left the hands of the extended Allman family and they both are now owned by his daughter Galadrielle.
The 57 Goldtop is owned by the Big House Museum in Macon.
Thanks mairdie!
PING to a FRiend that will love this thread!
Thanks for the ping! My 12-String is a Martin! :-)
I have been watching Dylan perform for a half-century. I am SURE I must have seen him play t6his particular guitar. :-)
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