Pat Martino – Starbright
The music gear and equipment used by the artists, producers, engineers, and more involved in the making of the 2005 album Starbright.
Music from Starbright
Artists on Starbright
Gear Used On Starbright
Explore the instruments, equipment, software, and production tools used in the making of Pat Martino – Starbright (2005). Click more on each item to see exactly how it was used.
Guitars used by Pat Martino on Starbright
Gibson ES-335 12-String Hollowbody
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Didn’t you also play a Gibson ES-335-12 on other records in that period, like the Barry Miles’ White Heat album? Yeah, I’m not sure where I got that guitar. Looking back, I guess the 335 brought me closer to using a solidbody guitar (via a semi-solid). Physically, my muscles had to adapt to the proportions of the guitar, and the thinner body. Not long after, I got involved with Starbright (1976).
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Starbright had a lot of different sounds. It was a truly eclectic fusion album with acoustic and electric tones, distortion and clean tones, and synthesizers. Starbright had so many idiomatic suggestions in terms of material and sounds that we had to have a board meeting at Warner Brothers to figure out how to market it. They asked me, “Exactly what do you want to do?” That’s how the Joyous Lake band came about. Warner Brothers wanted a definite image to market. I was with Gibson at the time. They notified me that they had just come up with an L5-S, a solidbody L5 model, that wasn’t on the market yet. Gibson asked if I wanted to use it. And I did. That’s when I really got back into a playing solidbody guitar again.