OM-28 PERRY BECHTEL AND HD-28 MARTIN GUITARS

...'George Harrison borrowed the Perry Bechtel OM-28 for a televised Dylan tribute Concert at Madison Square Garden ... Bob played his leather-stained herringbone.'
from Dick Boak's MARTIN GUITAR MASTERPIECES book      
 Artist & Public Relations, Limited Editions, Exhibitions and Archives
      C. F. Martin & Co. (The Martin Guitar Company)
   Web: www.martinguitar.com         or:   www.dickboak.com

OM-28 PERRY BECHTEL MARTIN GUITAR

...'In 1993, a PERRY BECHTEL Commemorative OM-28 was conceived to pay tribute to the man who is credited with the development of the 14-fret neck on Martin guitars...

...For several years, Cesar Díaz was Bob's guitar technician and amplifier specialist. Cesar was also a great player and joined in with Bob's band for a time, during which he often visited Martin to stock up on plenty of strings and to acquire a variety of stock and custom guitars for the tour. A few HD-28s and an OM-28 Perry Bechtel were purchased.'
 from Dick Boak's MARTIN GUITAR MASTERPIECES book      
 Artist & Public Relations, Limited Editions, Exhibitions and Archives
      C. F. Martin & Co. (The Martin Guitar Company)
   Web: www.martinguitar.com         or:   www.dickboak.com

MARTIN CUSTOM DREADNOUGHT GUITAR WITH BOB'S SIGNATURE

A custom 14-fret slotted head Dreadnought Martin guitar with ''Tex Fletcher'' style letters commissioned by Cesar Díaz (Bob’s guitar technician in the nineties) for Bob Dylan

'through a good bit of custom experimentation, it became clear that Dylan liked the full-sized Dreadnoughts with full-thickness necks and bright Engelmann spruce tops. In reverence to Jimmie Rodgers, Bob had a particular appreciation for slotted headstocks.
There is a ''Tex Fletcher'' Dreadnought in the Martin Museum with thin block lettering on the fingerboard. Cesar conveyed to me that Bob liked that style of lettering, so I drafted a special ''Bob Dylan'' fingerboard that was subsequently inlaid by David Nichols of Custom Pearl Inlay. The fingerboard  found its place on a Custom Dreadnought that Cesar delivered to Bob, but by the time it was completed , Cesar's role in the band was changing. Eventually, Cesar stopped working with Dylan altogether and there was some question whether  the Custom Dreadnought remained in the corral of Dylan instruments.'
 from Dick Boak's MARTIN GUITAR MASTERPIECES book       guitar's picture by John Sterling Ruth
 Artist & Public Relations, Limited Editions, Exhibitions and Archives
      C. F. Martin & Co. (The Martin Guitar Company)

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MARTIN 00-18

1986 Promotional shot with a Martin 00-18 guitar...

The People Speak HOWARD ZINN's A People's History of the USA

January 2009.

Performance of Woody Guthrie's "Do Re Mi" with Ry Cooder & Van Dyke Parks from the "The People Speak" Project, with a Gibson Country Western.

Hank Williams' Martin D-28 Guitar

This Old Guitar - Hank Williams Martin D-28


A one hour radio program of an interview with Neil Young on CD called Companion contains extensive insight into Prairie Wind's recording, as well as, much other interesting stuff. In the interview by JODY DENBERG, Neil is asked about the Martin guitar that belonged to Hank Williams.
NEIL YOUNG: Yeah. I bought it from, uh, uh, off a friend of mine Grant Boatwright (sp?) put me together with, uh, this fellow Tut Taylor (sp?) he had an old, uh, collection of guitars. And, uh, I went down there and there it was, and he took it out of the back and brought it out and I bought it. I couldn't believe that I could buy it. That I, you know, but I did. And now I have it. And, you know, I've got it for a while and I'm taking care of it.


JODY DENBERG: But you're generous with it. You've lent it to some of your friends?


NEIL YOUNG: You know, Bob Dylan was using my bus. He, he didn't have his own tour bus yet. And he was just getting into using buses, and, uh, so I let him use mine and, uh, when I gave it to him I, I told him that, uh, Hank was in the back and that if he wanted to use Hank, that Hank would be there for him. And so I don't know what he did with it, but he had it with him for a long time. And I don't know what he wrote or what he did, but I know, you know, something must have happened back there.

1993 Fender Stratocaster

1993 Fender Stratocaster owned by Bob Dylan. One of the very first aluminum Strat's. Dave Stewart owns one exactly like this one. Original shipping documents to Dylan's guitar tech, Cesar Diaz. OHSC.


This picture and its legend appears like this at  http://www.abalonevintage.com

SUNBURST GIBSON J-200

France 1992...with a Gibson J-200...this is not the same guitar pictured on the 'Nashville Skyline' album...you can tell the difference between the Nashville 'moustache' bridge with pearl inlays and the empty one...