Barrie Cadogan plays his 1962 Gibson ES-330

AlexO

I could listen to Barrie talk and play guitar all day. Watched him at Night & Day with Little Barrie years ago and was like I need 330 after that gig, years later I got one but could funnily enough still never got mine to sound like his....

xchrisv

We had a lot of fun filming that. When you hear how many great and varied tones he gets out of a signal chain that consists of one cheap cable, an amplifier most of us would turn our noses up at and a lively room, it puts a lot of things into perspective. I love his playing – every time he picks up a guitar it sounds like something from a classic record. 

springhead

Think the youtube link died when you edited it, which apparently is a thing. 

AlexO

springhead said:

Think the youtube link died when you edited it, which apparently is a thing. 

any better now?

springhead

Sorted, thank you!

MagicPigDetective

Great player, I've seen him twice at Festival 6, once with his own band Little Barrie playing a Jazzmaster, and last year with TheThe. Don't recall seeing this 330, he had something similar in black.

badlydrawnbanjo

Watched this earlier. Barrie’s right up
there with the best for me. 

IvisonGuitars

Superb!

Koa

Lovely organic tone, don’t know what I mean by that other than it’s so great to see a demo of sorts not drowned in RAWK distortion.......great player, interesting guy...who doesn’t love the Meters!

Danielsguitars

Bloody loved that, great player

guitars4you

Love the character of a good ES330 - I'm a P90 fan anyway - Thanks for the posting o this clip - Enjoyed it

Fez

Great video thanks for sharing.

pmg

Great player.  The video with a Les Paul is great too

AlexO

pmg said:

Great player.  The video with a Les Paul is great too

This is the clip.  I guess this is what Les Paul's were supposed to sound like.

scarry67

Lovely stuff. But has triggered unfortunate desire for Bigsby-equipped semi. Oh well. 

Sassafras

A testament to the humble Epi Valve Jnr.

HarrySeven

Sorry...hate to be the lone voice of dissent, but I just don't get it.

1979

Did this guy record the the music to Better Call Saul? 

Voxman

Sassafras said:

A testament to the humble Epi Valve Jnr.

Very much a 'Marmite' amp - it's one of those that folk either love or hate, but I really enjoyed Barry's vids and playing and the sounds he was getting.  I've played a few Epi valve amps - the junior played through a 2x12 cab as he had, the Epi Junior combo,  and a 2x12 blues custom 15/30 combo. The Junior through the 2x12 was good fun and not dis-similar to a Vox AC4 head and 1x12 cab that I had on loan for a while - but the combo with its little speaker was just too raspy with no bottom end. I really liked the 2x12  blues custom 15/30 though which was a way better amp.

IvisonGuitars

1979 said:

Did this guy record the the music to Better Call Saul? 

Yes, I think his band Little Barrie did some of the soundtrack.

jumping@shadows

I worked with Barrie for awhile, and he’s indeed a special dude- wonderful human and gifted guitarist.