12/31 Davis San Fran

[harrymcq]

12/31 Davis Cafe Du Nord

Sissyfuss
Roses in Bottles
Sleepyhead
If You Knew
Snowed In (with magic snow trick)
May I Say > NYE Countdown > Auld Lang Syne > May I Say (new song?)
Mardi Gras Song
Everything Must Go
I Hate Love
Summer of My Fall
I'm No Good At All
Joelle
jam
Poor Boy > It's Only Rock and Roll > Poor Boy > It's Only Rock and Roll > (with Felicia Ford)
Home Away From Home

E: Tombstone
As The Crow Flies
I Want To Get To Heaven Before I Die

[lumpy]

Some photos from the shows!

[booher]

I see Brad's got a new Gibson!

[lumpy]

I see Brad's got a new Gibson!

isn't that his old Gibson? a '54 or something?

from a recent Guitarinternational.com interview with Brad:

Conroy: Can you give us a run down of your rig?

Barr: Sure. My favorite guitar right now that I’m playing is a 1967 Guild Starfire five, which I can only compare to the Gibson 335 from the same year, but this Guild is so different and unique, it’s really a special instrument. My 1954 ES175 is still getting a lot of playing in the studio. I also have been using a 1964 Danelectro Convertible, it’s the guitar you see Jimmy Page playing on a few songs on The Song Remains the Same.

I have a J45 from 1951 that is just the sweetest sounding acoustic. It has a great mid rang and a real growl which I also use a Fishman pick-up on it. I have a Martin Ns10 nylon string guitar which is perfect for me because it isn’t so precious and is a bit clunky, but you can hear it on “Poor Boy” on the Live Acoustic album, and it really has kind of a piano type sound to it.

The amp I have been using the most is a Fender deluxe reissue which I think is a 1956 and it is a truly amazing sounding amp. Sometimes I’ll combine it with a Gibson amp that I have called the Super Medalist, which is just two twelve speakers stacked and it has crazy reverb. This is just a great combination of sound.

My pedals are basically the usual suspects like a volume pedal, Wah, boss tuner, tremolo pedal, distortion, DOD digital delay, HBE ufo pedal, holy grail reverb, and the boomerang loop pedal.

[harrymcq]

I think that was a borrowed guitar, maybe from Jeremy from Big Light?

[booher]

Here's my gear nerd side.

The 1954 ES-175 is a single cutaway hollybody with a single p90 in the neck position. It's also got the double parallelogram inlays on the fretboard.

The one I saw pictured above is, apparently, and according to the above article, a 1967 ES-335. Two humbuckers, and it's got block inlays on the fretboard (block as in, big squares), and 335s have two rounded horn cuts in the body. These guitars aren't fully hollow, but have a solid center block that helps prevent the feedback that a full hollowbody would.

The article also said he's had it for a while ("my old...")....? I've never seen him use it before and I've seen these guys about 15 times. I can tell you the amps he's run through the entire time, except for the model of the polytone he used to play....from a Mesa DC-10 that he eventually used with a marshall 4x12 cab, to seeing that Deluxe RI in person, Twin Reverbs with Davis in some photos, the Gibson Super Medalist (I saw one of these in the guitar shop that internet/youtube phenom gearmandude works in/owns in Louisville, KY, and kick myself now for not trying it out), and so on.

I also own a '67 Dano Convertible. What can I say? Brad has really, really awesome sounds/tones, I can't help but be obsessed

And between him and Jeffy Tweedy, I definitely want to own a J45 in my lifetime.

[lumpy]

love it booher! Thanks for the breakdown

[booher]

I like talking gear

I went up to Brad at the Foundation Room HoB show in Boston back in September to ask him about a few things, like how he gets his reverse sounds and all of that, and he was talking to another guy about delay. This person was asking him something about "what's a good delay because I want one...", and I interjected "do you want an analog or digital delay?..." and Brad just goes "you should probably ask him, he probably knows more than I do." It was funny, and it definitely reinforced my idea that most of your favorite musicians probably don't have that much of a clue of what they're using for gear aside from the fact that they sound good or play really well.

Also, there's an '51 ES-175 in a shop close to me...it's just like Brad's as far as I remember. I tried it out...and I want it badly. It plays and feels that nice. Too bad it's $4k