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Not Fade Away: Top 10 @$$-Kicking Gibson Guitar Gods from the Past
by Ted Drozdowski 04.29.2011
#4. Martin Barre
After stints in rock and blues bands around his native Birmingham, England, Barre replaced Mick Abrams in Jethro Tull in 1969 and has held the six-string chair ever since save for a string of shows in 2009 while he recovered from surgery. Tull’s singer/songwriter/flautist Ian Anderson and Barre have a remarkable chemistry that helped the band reach the heights of international stardom in 1971 following the release of Aqualung. It’s Barre who’s heard providing the Gibson Les Paul/Marshall charge behind the title track, “Cross-Eyed Mary” and “Locomotive Breath.”
Mark Knopfler has called Barre’s playing “magical” – as apt a description as any for the blend of jazz, rock and folk blended with tightly controlled distortion that gives Barre his distinctive electric guitar sound.
According to the biography on his web site, Barre was a Gibson fan from day one. “My dream guitar was a cherry red Gibson ES-335. It cost £175 [$250] in 1964,” he relates. “I couldn’t afford the payments, so eventually I bought the Gibson ES-330 sunburst – cheaper at £155. My dad signed the lease agreement.”
Although Tull are past their glory days by three decades, the band is active enough to keep Barre from devoting his attention to the solo career in began in the 1980s full time. His most recent album was 2003’s Stage Left. The title for this collection of 13 instrumentals refers to his longtime spot alongside Anderson on stage in Tull.
And it's only the giving that makes you what you are.
Not Fade Away: Top 10 @$$-Kicking Gibson Guitar Gods from the Past
by Ted Drozdowski 04.29.2011
#4. Martin Barre
After stints in rock and blues bands around his native Birmingham, England, Barre replaced Mick Abrams in Jethro Tull in 1969 and has held the six-string chair ever since save for a string of shows in 2009 while he recovered from surgery. Tull’s singer/songwriter/flautist Ian Anderson and Barre have a remarkable chemistry that helped the band reach the heights of international stardom in 1971 following the release of Aqualung. It’s Barre who’s heard providing the Gibson Les Paul/Marshall charge behind the title track, “Cross-Eyed Mary” and “Locomotive Breath.”
Mark Knopfler has called Barre’s playing “magical” – as apt a description as any for the blend of jazz, rock and folk blended with tightly controlled distortion that gives Barre his distinctive electric guitar sound.
According to the biography on his web site, Barre was a Gibson fan from day one. “My dream guitar was a cherry red Gibson ES-335. It cost £175 [$250] in 1964,” he relates. “I couldn’t afford the payments, so eventually I bought the Gibson ES-330 sunburst – cheaper at £155. My dad signed the lease agreement.”
Although Tull are past their glory days by three decades, the band is active enough to keep Barre from devoting his attention to the solo career in began in the 1980s full time. His most recent album was 2003’s Stage Left. The title for this collection of 13 instrumentals refers to his longtime spot alongside Anderson on stage in Tull.
And it's only the giving that makes you what you are.