38 - Owen Barry

No Guitar Is Safe

Jude Gold

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4.8 • 869 Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2016

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

OWEN BARRY just did a string of arena shows opening for the Who as guitarist for bassist extraordinaire Tal Wilkenfeld. He's also performed with Jackson Browne, his original band, Purple Melon, and others. For this interview/jam with host Jude Gold, Owen not only brought in three custom guitars and a vast pedalboard, he even brought a Dumble Overdrive Special amplifier. Wow. That's like bringing a unicorn to a kid's birthday party. Plus, as you'll hear in the first minute, he's a great guitarist.

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0:00.0	No guitar is safe.
0:07.0	Hey, welcome to episode 38 of No Guitar is Safe. Today on the show is Owen Barry, who I really wanted to bring to you for three reasons, and maybe four reasons.
0:19.5	Number one, he's a fantastic guitar player. Before we even got the mic
0:24.4	set up, he was just playing this beautiful slide stuff and I had to turn on the recorder.
0:38.3	Yeah. I'm Ah Ah Ah
0:39.3	and
0:40.3	The That's him playing through his metropolis head in a Bogner cabinet and his pedalboard.
1:09.2	The second reason I wanted him on is because Owen is just so great with gear. He builds his pedal board. The second reason I wanted him on is
1:10.9	because Owen is just so great with gear.
1:13.9	He builds his own guitars.
1:15.1	He brought in three guitars.
1:17.0	Two strats, which are just like basically
1:19.0	custom built bumper to bumper by Owen.
1:23.1	You know, he's so meticulous.
1:24.4	He cares about every little screw pickup,
1:26.9	wire resistor, everything. He's really intoulous. He cares about every little screw pickup, wire, resistor, everything.
1:29.1	He's really into it.
1:47.2	Damn, I love the way that sounds.
1:51.1	Anyhow, the third reason I wanted to bring him in,
1:55.5	and maybe you saw him out here on this foray that I'm about to describe to you,
1:59.1	but yes, for the last several months or whatever,
2:02.6	he's opened several arena shows for The Who.
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