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i was reading through this thread and read this comment and was wondering why you thought anyone here was advocating Dylan as some type of Strat shredder? I think the question at hand is What Strat was he playing in the 1980s.


I NEVER thought or interpreted anyone here claiming that Dylan was some type of Strat Shredder!
Aside from being a hardcore FAN....I was was just wondering WHY anyone would CARE about what Strat he was playing in the 80's.
When you're in the process of copping licks from a particular artist, you would search out that sort of information to get as close to their "sound" as possible. I didn't think that applied to Dylan; he had GREAT guitar players behind him!
I'm NOT denying Dylan's throne position in rock history...I totally respect it!

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Xhefri wrote:
i was reading through this thread and read this comment and was wondering why you thought anyone here was advocating Dylan as some type of Strat shredder? I think the question at hand is What Strat was he playing in the 1980s.


I NEVER thought or interpreted anyone here claiming that Dylan was some type of Strat Shredder!
Aside from being a hardcore FAN....I was was just wondering WHY anyone would CARE about what Strat he was playing in the 80's.
When you're in the process of copping licks from a particular artist, you would search out that sort of information to get as close to their "sound" as possible. I didn't think that applied to Dylan; he had GREAT guitar players behind him!
I'm NOT denying Dylan's throne position in rock history...I totally respect it!


This post gives new meaning and colour to the word "superfluous". Condemning people based on their interests is a preposterous doctrine: if everyone enjoyed and cared about similar things the world would be a sensationally boring place. Please, save your invidious and wholly asinine attacks; let this board's denizens use the manifold resources here to further their (our) strange and wonderful addictions.


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No photos, but I do remember Dylan playing a Bonnie Raitt signature Strat back in the 1990s - I guess he liked the narrower (1 9/19" wide) neck on the Raitt sig.

Fender made the Raitts in both the regular 3-color burst and that purple/blue burst (although most of them were the purple/blue burst) when they were making a regular production model. These had regular single coils; the few that were made in the CS were all the purple/blue burst and they had Lace Sensors.


Both the Artist and Custom Artist versions of the guitar came with Texas Special pickups. This model is supposed to be a modern version of Bonnie's beloved "Brown", a sunburst 1966/67 Strat which was later stripped down to a satin natural finish.

The purple/blueburst finish you're talking about is coloquially called Desert Sunset and it's a tad darker than blueburst.

The Custom Artist BR Strat was built by Todd Krause. Only 200 examples were made.

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Here's a photo of Bonnie with the original "Brown" for which the Bonnie Raitt signature model is based.

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Greetings Finn (a fellow Norwegian?), and your first post is welcomed.
About the guitar; what Dylan period have you seen him play it? A picture would be useful. I have seen Bob with several strat signatures, including Knopfler and SRV, but I can not recall seeing him with a suburst sig.


He played it in around 1980. I have a picture - but I dont know how to send it with this message?
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The first signature strat was a Clapton strat and that wasn't until the late 80's. He didn't play a signature strat. Maybe someone just signed it for him.

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Here it is.

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Bob Dylan was seen playing a Strat for the first time during a gig at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965.

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We saw Dylan as a master of the acoustic & electric guitar. It appears that he also played bass guitar as well (pictured here with a sunburst Fender Jazz Bass).

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I think he would be better served with a Telecaster; but then we would actually HEAR what he was playing. I don't think anyone would be impressed. I've seen him and he always brings an unknown ace guitarist with his band.

Basically Dylan thinks of himself as a roots-rock bluesman who has paid his dues with roadwork. And he can't sing. But he's FREAKIN' BOB DYLAN! Not Robert Zimmerman, he's got a persona to embrace. The Guy who wrote all them songs. He is a slice of Americana with Rocky Road ice cream.

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When he went in Greece for a series of concerts in the late 1980s, I saw him playing a vintage reissue 1952 butterscotch blackguard plugged into an ultralinear late 1970s silverfaced Twin Reverb, though he had already used an early 1950s black Telecaster since the mid-1960s.

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His actual main guitar is a Mexican classic series sunburst '72 thinline reissue with wide range humbuckers.

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qblue wrote:
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Here it is.


That's a Robert Cray Signature strat.

http://www.fender.com/products/search.p ... 0139100324

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That's a Robert Cray Signature strat.

http://www.fender.com/products/search.p ... 0139100324


It's a Bonnie Raitt. Pearloid pg, large CBS headstock. Robert Cray models have the smaller pre-cbs headstocks. Not saying a pg can't be changed, but that's definitely a Bonnie Raitt.

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The Bonnie Raitt Strat has 22 frets, Texas Special pickups and a vintage tremolo, while the Cray model uses a 21-fret neck, a hardtail bridge and Custom Vintage pickups.


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I am corrected. I was looking at Fender's current line. Apparently Bonnie is no longer in favor with Fender or she has become so irrelavant now, no one remembers how great of a slide guitar player she was! They don't make her guitar anymore....

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I always liked seeing Bob with a solid-body Fender. In spite of what some people may assume, he's a rather gifted guitar player; however, and to be sure, his principal talent is not playing but performing.


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I always liked seeing Bob with a solid-body Fender. In spite of what some people may assume, he's a rather gifted guitar player; however, and to be sure, his principal talent is not playing but performing.


I wonder who'd be a better English teacher, Bob Dylan or Ozzy Osborne?

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