Friday, March 20, 2009
Guitar Fridays: Gibson ES-335
by M A N
There are hundreds, perhaps thousands, of guitar designs in the world. But of all of them, from your run of the mill Strat copies to Prince's rare and unusual "Sign" guitar, the Gibson ES-335 is my favorite.
The 335 was designed to help reduce the feedback that was common in Gibson's larger hollow body guitars. Though it still maintains that delicious womanly hour glass shape of the hollow body models, the depth of the 335 is much shallower (known as a semi-hollow body). As you you can see in the image, there are two F holes (much like a violin) that show the hollow inside of the guitar body. This helps shape its distinctive sound.
It has a maple body with a set* mahongany neck and rosewood fingerboard. Most 335s have a fixed bridge though it isn't uncommon to see one with a Bigsby tremolo system. The Bigsby trem is the spongy predecessor to the "whammy bar" and is used to add vibrato (personally, I'm not a big fan of the Bigsby but there are many players who love it). The two humbucker pickups help give it the range it needs to go from thick, weeping solos to crunchy rhythm instantly.
What I love so much about this guitar is it's versatility. The 335 is just as comfortable on stage with smooth jazz players like Larry Carlton to throw down rockers like Dave Grohl. This guitar can do it all. Just take a look.
Going Home -- Ten Years After with Alvin Lee, live at Woodstock
All My Life -- Foo Fighters Dave Grohl is using his own custom 335 (the DG-335) in this clip. Just listen to how BIG that axe sounds! You can hunt buffalo with this guitar!
Room 335 -- Larry Carlton (Mr. 335 himself) and Steve Lukather I can't recommend their album "No Substitutions: Live in Osaka " enough.
Sweet Sixteen -- B.B. King playing the most famous 335 of all, Lucille. This particular performance has a lot of cultural significance as it was part of the concert that took place in Africa celebrating the "Rumble in the Jungle" fight between Ali and Foreman. B.B. at his best, indeed.
As a little bonus, here's B.B. live at Sing Sing prison in 1972. Yeah, that's the blues.
* There are a few ways of attaching the guitar neck to the body. A "Set" neck means it's attached to the body via a dovetail joint and adhesive. "Bolt on" means it attached with heavy screws. "Neck thru" means the single piece of wood that makes the neck extends thru the body of the guitar.
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Rogers - sorry for calling this out, but why is this guest poster writing about guitars on your blog about TV and geek culture?
Because it's GUITAR FRIDAY!!!! ;-)
Mike's a damn fine writer, whose hobby is music. I particularly like Battleship sundays over at Lawyers, Guns and Money, so I suggested Mike do similar posts along with his writing stuff.
It's a bit like Ezra Klein's occasional cooking posts -- I adore clear explanations of subjects I know nothing about. The guiter friday is rapidly becoming one of my favorite things on this blog.
Count me in as enjoying Guitar Fridays.
I saw BB King play in Cardiff ten years ago, and it's still one of the best gigs I've ever been to; as luck would have it, he's back this side of the pond later on this year.
I'm pretty sure the lead guitarist with Motown's in-house session band, the Funk Brothers, played a 335. If he stuck to using the same one, then it's probably the individual guitar that's been used on the most hit singles of all time (I have no evidence to back this up, just speculatin').
Which brings us back round to why guitars are completely appropriate for a blog that deals with movie culture: the feature documentary "Standing in the Shadows of Motown", dealing with the largely forgotten history of Motown's session musicians, should be required viewing for anyone with an interest in pop culture.
335's are amazing guitars. truly and certainly legendary.
plus, it is absolutely possible to get all geekish behind your equipment. the axe, the setup of that axe, the configuration of the amplifiers, speaker placement, stomp boxes, all of that plays in to the geek end of guitar culture.
i am currently experiencing deep gushy geek love with my line6 Variax®. i am pulling a gig as musical director for an equity waiver production of "godspell" (where my first official act was to hire myself as the guitar dude).
i'm running with my variax through a PODxt3, into a Spider III amp. with that setup i am able to produce the sound of just about any electric guitar (i'm using the 335 setting through a vox configuration like larry carlton) for "day by day"). here i am in a professional gig that in the stone age of axes and amps would have required at least 3 electrics, 2 acoustics, and a minimum of 2 amps to get the sounds and variations that i'm able to get out of 1 guitar, 1 effects panel, 1 amp.
as hardison would say "age of the geek baby."
I've found the Spider's array of tones to be a bit of a double edged sword in a gig. Even with the presets, it's fiddly to switch between different settings. Plus, and I don't know if this is an issue generally or just with mine, but there's a huge jump in volume about a third to halfway on the master volume pot.
That said, it's by far the best amp I could get my hands on at that price point, and so far it's been more robust than I'd expected for something that relies on so much electronics.
Nice post. Not to get too guitar geeky but Lucille is actually an ES-355. No f-holes, and I think more pick-up variations.
I used to own a Starcaster, which was Fender's attempt to get in on the 335 market. That was a pretty cool guitar that I wish I still had.
http://guitargeek.com/gear/img/fender_starcaster.gif
My first "professional" guitar was a Hagstrom knockoff of the 335. I still have it.
I just got the Peavey Vypyr modeling amp. I decided it needed a Celestion Blue speaker in it. That did improve it. It sounds terrific.
These modeling amplifiers nowadays sound fairly amazing. You might, if you had the ability to A/B them against the real (and expensive) amps they model, choose the real amp. But you might not. And you certainly can't pick the modeled amp out of a recording and say "this one is modeled, this one is the real thing".
Sorry, should have watched the video before I commented. He's definitely playing a 335. Maybe the old Lucille was a 335, but the only one I've seen him pay is a 355.
http://www.achievement.org/achievers/kin2/large/kin2-011.jpg
Either way, he's awesome. So are the guitars.
the difference with lucille is that she is a true stereo guitar. it requires two rca plugins and two cords to play her. they go into channels 1&2 on a sixties fender super twin reverb amp, and out into external speakers. the sound produced is a true, surround sound stereo.
of course, it helps to have BB's exquisite fingers. bb is a true gentleman. generous to a fault. and kind.
lucille was, is, and ever shall be a one of a kind, axe. as is fitting for a one of a kind player.
oh, and a p.s. to mandelay:
dude, the fiddly things you rightly complain about are done away with the addition of the podxt3, and a macbook. it gives fingertip, pinpoint control.
the best thing about it all is that i get to leave my treasured, vintage, irreplaceable axes, touchy tube amps, and other prized gear at home.
the variax isn't absolutely true on its reproductions, but its close enough that i don't have to risk my gear on knockabout gigs and leave things at the mercy of airline gorillas.
they have an acoustic model of the variax out now, it will soon be in the stable.
the time i got completely and totally sold on the possiblities of the variax setup happened when a singer i was backing was doing his version of pink floyd's "comfortably numb," for the first part i had the variax set to sound like a strat, played through the shimmery, etherial sets of a twin reverb. the vocals ended, i stomped the pod, threw a couple of switches, and stuck a slide on my pinkie. all of a sudden, i was on a paul (or maybe it was an SG) in open G, wailing the fuck away through what sounded like a marshal stack.
that my friends, is guitar life in the age of the geek.
i, for one, welcome it.
Guitar Friday!!! Yeah!
I have no experience playing this beautiful model, but it's one of my favorite guitars to listen to. One of my pro musician friends up here in the Bay Area plays a red ES-335 and it makes my heart melt when I hear it. I listened to him play it last night at a show and it made me want to sleep with him.
I straddle both worlds - a single girl looking for her next boyfriend and a jaded musician who sees right through male musicians. I'll tell you guys a secret: this guitar will get you laid more often than any other - because it's emotional. You want to impress the guys, play a Les Paul. You want to seduce a lady, play a ES-335.
It makes me think of Wicked Game by Chris Isaak:
Chris Isaak plays Wicked Game
I think it sounds like he's playing a ES-335 here but I did some research and found out he's actually playing a one-off that Gibson made for him based on a Gretsch 6120... Whatever, it's a similar tone. It's a guitar that can haunt a room like no other.
I'm surprised Dave Grohl is playing one and was surprised at its use in such a forward song. But good for him for stepping out of the box with it.
I have to say, I have gotten to the point where I look forward to Guitar Fridays. Fun stuff.
a whole geek heavy posting about the nuts and bolts of my Variax setup.
(it's your fault MAN, i figured i couldn't let this live in comments on somebody else's blog alone)
silly me.
here's the real link.
coffee, need. more. now.
(my post code is caltec, fitting that)
Yeah Mike, I play a 70s walnut 335 I bought from the road guitar player for the group that used to be Spiral Staircase ("I love You More Today Than Yesterday") Nothing sounds like it.
The Epiphone model is a nice substitute for the wallet.
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