About this design
The lyrics that form the outline of the Telecaster in this t shirt design are my favourite electric Dylan songs. We would be interested in hearing about your favourite Dylan songs.
Bob Dylan’s migration from his folky strumming of an acoustic Martin Dreadnought to his angry black and white Fender Telecaster in 1966 has been so extensively documented that there aren’t many more things to say which do not sound derivative.
A slightly less well known period of Dylan’s electric adventure, and one of my personal favourite periods was when he acquired a ramshackle ‘gypsy band’ which consisted of rock legends such as the Byrd’s Roger McGuinn, but also mystical violin player ‘Scarlet Riviera’ whom he confronted on a street and requested she join him. The group of around twenty then boarded a bus , often driven by Dylan himself, and began the crazed frenzy of a tour that was the ‘Rolling Thunder Review’ in which they explored North America and Canada, playing impromptu gigs to bemused local crowds whom had just planned to hit their local for a beer or two. Songs from the fantastic album ‘Desire’ were previewed, and amongst other notable happenings Dylan and Alan Ginsberg visited Jack Kerouac’s grave, and Dylan met Rubin Carter in jail, the boxer wrongly accused or an armed robbery, who was the subject of ‘The Hurricaine’.
Fantastically this surreal episode was caught on camera in a loosely scripted film ‘Renaldo & Clara’, a must see for any true Dylan fan.
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