Bob's Strat goes for $1 mil+
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Me. I'm going to strip it down. Giving it a refin. Candy Purple I think. Some new hardware. Tusq nut and saddles. Some EMG's. Just to make it playable. Guitar do not deserve to deteriorate just because some slacker does not want to look after it.
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A significant guitar in music history, 'Dylan Goes Electric' was quite a turning point in the mid-1960s, for contemporary music. The folk purists were disgusted and a whole major portion of Dylan's fans hated him. But he did it, and then went on to make more music and gain audience. It took a lot of guts for Dylan to do that.
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How in the hell can a guitar owned by that whiny, nasally, no singing weirdo sell for more than a guitar owned by Clapton or Hendrix? Must have been some rich retard with no musical knowledge at all... :doh:
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I doubt it has anything to do with music. As you point out, it couldn't. There are many thousands of better musicians. Who knows how somebody grabs the public's attention, or how or why? Even outside of music you see it. I mean, look at Andy Warhol or Picasso. Most artists have more talent in their pinky toes than those guys ever had on their best days.
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That's your view, and I agree with many of your comments. As someone who is comparative to Mr. Dylan's vocal abilities I am always bemused that he became popular at all!
However, he took a step towards modernising a purist movement within musical circles and this was the guitar he took the stage with. At the time he was BIG NEWS, and after that event at Newport he risked being alienated by the very people who had venerated him.
I'm guessing it would have been as much a gamble for Dylan, as Nirvana turning around in their heyday saying their next album was going to be electronica trance music! :doh:
That's extremely untrue of Picasso. He had classical art training and could draw and paint realistically with the best of them (which is really more of a skill than a talent), but instead he decided to basically reinvent art. He is one of the most original and influential artists in history, whether you like to look at his works or not. I personally don't really care for his artwork, but I have a lot of respect for him. Here's an early Picasso for you:
With Bob Dylan, if you look at him just from a songwriting perspective, he's one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. I can't stand listening to him (his singing makes me gag), but if you look up how many famous songs performed by other bands he originally wrote, the list is kind of staggering. Everyone from Isaac Hayes to DEVO to Yes, and even Hendrix and Clapton has covered at least one of his songs (actually Clapton and Hendrix both covered several). And geez, All Along the Watchtower is a pretty iconic Hendrix song - that Dylan wrote. It might not be noticeable if you don't like him and aren't familiar with his work, but he is everywhere.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_artists_who_have_covered_Bob_Dylan_songs
With Bob Dylan, if you look at him just from a songwriting perspective, he's one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. I can't stand listening to him (his singing makes me gag), but if you look up how many famous songs performed by other bands he originally wrote, the list is kind of staggering. Everyone from Isaac Hayes to DEVO to Yes, and even Hendrix and Clapton has covered at least one of his songs (actually Clapton and Hendrix both covered several). And geez, All Along the Watchtower is a pretty iconic Hendrix song - that Dylan wrote. It might not be noticeable if you don't like him and aren't familiar with his work, but he is everywhere.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_artists_who_have_covered_Bob_Dylan_songs
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I'm more impressed with Dylan's songwriting than his performing or interpretation of his songs on recordings.
I do like some of his songs ("Like a Rolling Stone", "Positively Fourth Street", "A Hard Rain's a Gonna Fall" for starters) and he did lead, from the front foot, a generation of people throughout the 1960s who demanded change. He could have easily sung about the farm and life in general but purposely, at times, chose to take on The Establishment and called them out. His name became synonymous with the term: Protest Song.
In reference to this Thread, is the guitar worth a million dollars - or close to it? In sheer terms of the guitar, No. It's maybe worth US$25000 - which is the price thereabouts for a decent Strat of the era.
However, Dylan took the stage with this guitar and set off a chain of events that changed a section of music forever. Dylan used many guitars before this one, he probably played an electric or two shortly before he took the stage with this Strat, but this is the Strat he chose to walk on stage with. Of course he's played many guitars since and it obviously wasn't his number 1 guitar or he would not have 'left it on the plane'. So, historically, it was a tool for change. Is that worth a Million dollars? Someone thought so, it seems.
I do like some of his songs ("Like a Rolling Stone", "Positively Fourth Street", "A Hard Rain's a Gonna Fall" for starters) and he did lead, from the front foot, a generation of people throughout the 1960s who demanded change. He could have easily sung about the farm and life in general but purposely, at times, chose to take on The Establishment and called them out. His name became synonymous with the term: Protest Song.
In reference to this Thread, is the guitar worth a million dollars - or close to it? In sheer terms of the guitar, No. It's maybe worth US$25000 - which is the price thereabouts for a decent Strat of the era.
However, Dylan took the stage with this guitar and set off a chain of events that changed a section of music forever. Dylan used many guitars before this one, he probably played an electric or two shortly before he took the stage with this Strat, but this is the Strat he chose to walk on stage with. Of course he's played many guitars since and it obviously wasn't his number 1 guitar or he would not have 'left it on the plane'. So, historically, it was a tool for change. Is that worth a Million dollars? Someone thought so, it seems.
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Yeah, that was a "moment" in music history that everyone knows about, like Hendrix burning his guitar, that kind of thing. It's being sold as a piece of music history, and artefact, not a musical instrument.
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Lemme guess, she's been seen wondering around the Haight Ashbury district for 40 yrs. in a tyedyed t shirt and headband, saying "farout maaaaaan"...MikeW said:hannaugh said:
This is my Aunt. Burned out from the late 60s-early 70s and has been furious at life for abandoning the "Summer of Love" ever since.
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