Bob Dylan & the Hawks 1965 Carnegie Hall, New York City Concert Poster Graded 9.2 (AOR-1.104). ...

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A MASTER AT HIS PEAK IN THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS VENUE

Bob Dylan & the Hawks 1965 Carnegie Hall, New York City Concert Poster Graded 9.2 (AOR-1.104). An original cardboard window card advertising Bob Dylan performing at the prestigious Carnegie Hall in New York City on Friday evening, October 1, 1965. It's a poster that has it all... the greatest single songwriter of the 20th century, at the most respected concert hall in America if not the world, with the greatest album of his career, Highway 61 Revisited, out for just a month, from the distinguished archive of Charlie Rothschild, and for the first time ever, CGC-authenticated, graded, slabbed and preserved forever.

On the poster, Dylan is shown playing just an acoustic guitar. But all rock historians know that for the second half of these legendary 1965 concerts, Dylan would come back on stage with five men dressed in suits carrying amplified equipment. They would plug in, count off a song and blow the hair back of anyone sitting close and not expecting it. Sheer, powerful rock 'n' roll that changed the course of popular music in the mid-60's. England's revered Mojo magazine once voted this months-long trek the greatest tour in rock 'n' roll history.

Almost all copies of Dylan's '65-'66 tour blank concert posters have significant scuffing or damage to the large black photographic areas. This gem is beautifully free of that affliction. It was given a 9.2 Near Mint Minus grade by CGC, the Certified Guarantee Company. The only reason it's not graded higher is because CGC's standards for grading psychedelic paper posters don't translate smoothly to cardboard window cards. But you can look through the plastic holder and see for yourself that there's virtually no damage to this gem. Measures 13 1/2" x 21 3/4". From the Archives of Charlie Rothschild. COA from Heritage Auctions.

More Information: A little background on the music. Dylan was single-handedly changing the course of popular music in 1965-66 by retaining his solo-acoustic roots for the first half of each show, but then blowing the audience away with loud, raucous rock & roll in the second half, often greeted with boos by folk purists. His backing band for the electric half consisted of Robbie Robertson on electric guitar, Rick Danko on bass, Richard Manuel on piano, Garth Hudson on organ and Levon Helm on drums. They had sometimes been known as Levon & the Hawks, after their Arkansas-born drummer, but now they were just called the Hawks.

To promote and advertise this tour in America, "tour blank" posters were devised consisting mostly of the photo of Dylan and a blank white space down below. The home office would then strip in localized information for each stop on the tour, in very small quantities. It's possible only a couple of dozen were made for this stop, or perhaps a few dozen. One thing's for sure: Almost all of them were thrown away after the show, because very few from any stop on the tour have survived.

It was an interesting choice of Dylan photos used on this window card. They chose to not show The Hawks because that might turn off folkies, plus they only appeared in half of the show. So they used an acoustic-guitar picture of Bob, famously taken by Daniel Kramer. And then down in the lower right corner, the poster printer's credit was also printed in advance: "Murray Poster Printing Co." with their NYC address.

Bob Dylan has always been an evergreen in the concert-poster hobby. There's simply nobody in rock-music history that's more respected, admired, covered, imitated and yes, more feared than Dylan. Rolling Stone magazine once called him "the rock star that other rock stars stare at backstage." And George Harrison once opined that in 100 years, the Beatles' individual names will be forgotten but everybody will still know Dylan's.

Charlie Rothschild is a music manager with a career that spanned decades. In his early career, Charlie booked musical acts at Gerde's Folk City in Greenwich Village, most notably Bob Dylan in September 1961, Dylan's first paid gig in New York City. He went on to work for renowned manager Albert Grossman (Dylan, Peter, Paul & Mary, Janis Joplin). As a manager, touring manager and concert promoter himself, Charlie worked alongside folk and rock 'n' roll greats Bob Dylan, the Velvet Underground, Gordon Lightfoot, Judy Collins, Peter, Paul & Mary, Allen Ginsberg, Ian & Sylvia, The Clancy Brothers, Odetta, The Fugs and Pearls Before Swine, among others. Charlie also ran the storied 1960's New York City music venue Balloon Farm, before going out on his own in 1972.


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