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Does Martin Barre have another burst?

Mike Shaw

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He mentions that his current gear is ...

"What is your current guitar?

I am playing a P22 by PRS Guitars on stage; this guitar features separate outputs for the electric side and the acoustic underbridge pickup.

As a standby, I have a PRS ME Quatro.

I have also started using my 1959 Gibson Les Paul."

There is also a recent YT vid (2013)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWg9MHhV4PQ

Great to see Clive on drums again!
 

Chip's Music

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The Burst in the Aqualung video above looks like the one he played the early summer of 1970 with Mountain opening up. This was after the Benefit album and Mountain was hot on the radio with Mississippi Queen
 

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It would be great, when he would use again Hiwatt amps like during early Jethro Tull years. :dude:
 

IMMUSICRULZ

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This 1956 Gibson Les Paul in black finish was actually owned by Martin Barre. It was sold by Gruhn guitars in Nashville several years ago.

Martin Barre used a 1959 Les Paul from Benefit up till the Bursting Out live album (I believe he did away with this one, but he may own a few more LP's somewhere)...
He has also played a Gibson mandolin, a Gibson ES 335, a Telecaster, a Strat and various Paul Reed Smith guitars played through Hiwatt and Marshall amps...
Jethro Tull is one of my favorite rock bands. Their best albums, I believe, are Stand Up, Aqualung, Living in the Past, Songs From The Wood and Too Old To Rock N Roll: Too Young To Die! I really liked the album Too Old To Rock & Roll, and its storyline about an aging rock star named Ray Lomas, who gets in an accident and subsequently becomes popular again.
John Glascock was an excellent bass player for JT, and he sadly died in 1979 at age 28 after undergoing open heart surgery. He also played a Fender Precision Bass, a Music Man Stingray, and a Gibson EB bass.
Ian Anderson is an amazing flute player and guitarist. How he is able to stand on one leg and play the flute at the same time is a mystery to me. My parents are huge Jethro Tull fans, so that explains why little 20 year old me knows about the group. I also received the album Heavy Horses as a Christmas present, and also recently bought the live 2 record set Bursting Out. Great set of albums.
Their original bassist, Glenn Cornick, was also pretty good at his job, and was a hippie who had a headband and glasses. His bass playing on Bouree is very good. He died in 2014, and after he left Jethro Tull in 1970, formed a hard rock group called Paris with Bob Welch of Fleetwood Mac. Their 2 albums, Paris and Big Towne 2061 are both incredible. I highly recommend them.
I always enjoyed their songs Aqualung, Locomotive Breath and Bungle In The Jungle. Ian Anderson is actually the father in law of Andrew Lincoln from The Walking Dead.
Ian Anderson also had one of the biggest permed hairstyles back in the 70s!

The other interesting thing about Ian Anderson: He's never owned a drivers license, despite Thick As A Brick being used in Hyundai ads in 2001! Isn't that crazy?
 

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I always assumed he probably has one or two around. The band he has had for the past 15/20 years is really good. If you ever get the chance go see him.


He does have a Junior. Maybe that's his '59 Les Paul?
 

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IMMUSICRULZ

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I always assumed he probably has one or two around. The band he has had for the past 15/20 years is really good. If you ever get the chance go see him.


He does have a Junior. Maybe that's his '59 Les Paul?
Might be. Also Jethro drummer Barriemore Barlow played on Yngwie Malmsteen’s 1984 album Rising Force
 
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