In August 1963, a yellow Telecaster emerged from Fender’s original California factory, ending up two years later in the hands of a gifted young guitarist named Michael Bloomfield — who bought it after Bob Dylan called him up to play on “Like A Rolling Stone.”
After playing his epochal licks on that song and the rest of the Highway 61 Revisited Album, Bloomfield joined Dylan onstage with that Telecaster for his world-shaking electric set at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival. Now, that guitar can be yours, if you have a mere $275,000 to spend — it’s newly listed on the online instrument broker Reverb.com via Brooklyn, New York’s Retrofret Vintage Guitars.
Bloomfield, who was the guitar player in the Paul Butterfield Blues Band at that time, and also recorded that band’s debut in ’65 with the same Tele, was a gifted disciple of Chicago blues. So he was…
