Up for auction "The Wallflowers" Jakob Dylan Hand Signed 11X14 Color Photo Matted to 16X20. This item is
certified authentic by Autograph World and comes with their Certificate of
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Jakob Luke Dylan (born
December 9, 1969) is an American singer and songwriter. He rose to fame as the
lead singer and primary songwriter for the rock band the Wallflowers. Dylan has written notable hits such as "6th Avenue Heartache"
and "One Headlight", which
is listed at number 58 on Rolling Stone's list of the "100 Greatest Pop
Songs". He has won two Grammy Awards, and released two solo albums: Seeing Things in
2008 and Women + Country in
2010. Women + Country became Dylan's highest-charting album
since the Wallflowers' 1996 breakthrough Bringing Down the Horse,
peaking at number 12 on the Billboard 200. Dylan was born
on December 9, 1969, in New York City to folk singer Bob Dylan and model Sara Dylan (née Shirley Noznisky). The youngest of
five children, Dylan spent the earliest years of his life in Greenwich Village. Around the age of three, he moved with his
family to the Los Angeles area. Growing up, he listened to English rock records from his older brothers' record
collection, including the Clash, the Jam and the Buzzcocks. Dylan was particularly impressed with the Clash,
who inspired him to begin playing music himself. During
high school, Dylan played guitar in various bands; he was featured as a guitar
player on his friends' band's eponymous 1987 album, Trash Matinee.
Dylan was also in a band called the Bootheels at the time with future
Wallflowers bandmate Tobi Miller. During this time, Dylan started writing songs
and began shifting his focus from guitar playing to songwriting. Upon
graduation from high school, however, Dylan decided to move to New York City to
attend Parsons School of Design to
study art. Dylan dropped out in his first semester and moved back to Los
Angeles to pursue music. Upon moving back to Los Angeles, Dylan
and childhood friend Tobi Miller formed a new band called The Apples around
1989, along with Luther Russell on bass guitar and Aaron A. Brooks on drums. Both Russell and Brooks later
departed to start their own respective bands. Dylan and Miller then recruited
Barrie Maguire on bass, Peter Yanowitz on drums, and Rami Jaffee on keyboards to fill out the new band. The
Apples changed their name to the Wallflowers and began playing clubs in Los
Angeles. They were eventually signed to Virgin Records, and in 1991, the Wallflowers began
recording their debut album. Dylan wrote the songs and the album was recorded
live in the studio with minimal to no overdubbing. The Wallflowers' eponymous debut was
released on August 25, 1992. The
album was met with mostly positive reviews but did not do well commercially,
with a reported 40,000 copies sold. Despite low sales, the Wallflowers began
touring nationwide, mostly as an opening act for several bands including
the Spin Doctors and 10,000 Maniacs. Upon returning from a tour in 1993, the band
learned that management at Virgin had shifted, leading to the removal of Jeff Ayeroff and Jordan Harris, who had signed the
Wallflowers to the label. The new executives at Virgin were not pleased with
the Wallflowers' slow sales and the band did not feel they had a future with
the label, so they asked to be released from their contract; Virgin complied
and by the end of the year, the Wallflowers were left without a label. The band went back to playing clubs
in Los Angeles and looking for a new label. During this time, the band went
through a number of personnel changes. In 1993, Maguire was asked to leave for
undisclosed reasons. However, the band would continue playing shows with
another bass player, Jimmie Snider, until May 1993, when the band found a
permanent replacement. Greg Richling, whom Dylan went to high school with,
became the band's new bassist. Richling remained a member of the Wallflowers
for the next two decades, until he left in 2013. The band continued to play
club shows in Los Angeles through mid-1994; it was around this time when
Yanowitz left the Wallflowers to join 10,000 Maniacs, then fronted by his
girlfriend, Natalie Merchant. Shortly
after Yanowitz's departure, the Wallflowers caught the attention of Tom Whalley
and Jimmy Iovine of Interscope Records, who
signed the band in 1995.