Lou Barlow

In this picture you can see Lou playing a Gretsch Pro Jet guitar on stage

In this picture you can see Lou playing a Gibson SG on stage with the band Sebadoh at the Reading Festival

Then I finally found this Gretsch, and it was the best-sounding one I had found. I had the pickups changed. I took it to a guy who seemed kind of intrigued by what I was doing and really helped me out. He designed this nut that has just the four strings in it.

It was a cheap guitar. The guitar itself was not even in mint condition, which it certainly is not anymore — it's certainly not worth much! (laugh) It's probably the least valuable Gretsch that you can find.

I have four or five different tunings that I go to with this. They're all basically open tunings, they're folky kind of open tunings. Because it's a semi hollow-body, it gets this great resonance when I play it, so I can play a lot of feedback. I love it.

In this picture you can see a Marshall MB450H Bass amp head behind Lou on stage

In this picture you can see an Ampeg SVT Cabinet behind Lou on stage

In this picture you can see an Ampeg SVT-VR behind Lou on top of his SVT Cabinet on stage

It says in the article it says "...Lou brings a trifecta of amps that includes... a Marshall JCM 800 with a x12."

In the article it says "Lou brings a trifecta of amps that includes a Peavey Centurion Mark III head into a 1x15 cab,"

Two Seek Wahs can be seen on Lou's board at 11:50

An Electro Harmonix Hot Tubes can be seen at 11:50

A Proco Turbo Rat can be seen at 11:57

Lou can be seen talking about this as the 'only good bass distortion' at 37:10

Used during the recording of Dinoasur Jr.'s Farm. First visible at 4:48.

It can be seen in one of the pictures and in the video.

In this video Lou Barlow can be seen playing a Rickenbacker 4003. He also plays this in other Dinosaur Jr videos.

In this picture you can see Lou playing a Fender Mustang Bass on stage

In this picture you can see Lou playing a Gretsch Broadkaster bass in a Sunburst finish

In this picture you can see Lou playing a 1951 P-Bass reissue with a sunburst finish

In this picture you can see Lou playing a Gibson G3 on stage

Seen on Dinosaur jr live with this bass

In the video he is playing a Flying V Bass in what appears to be silverburst. In the description it also says he is playing one.

It says in the rig rundown "Bassist Lou Barlow played Gibson Grabber on Dinosur Jr.'s first two albums," It is also regarded as his main bass and he often plays full two hour sets with this bass alone.

Used during the recording of Dinosaur Jr.'s Farm. First visible at 0:21 in this episode of Pitchfork's In The Studio.

"J [Mascis] just got this, which is an old like, 50's, 60's compressor. It's called a Teletronix LA-2A (turns to Dinosaur Jr.) and you guys have been usin' that a bunch, right? Vocals and stuff? Yeah, so that's really an awesome piece of gear."

-John Agnello, producer for Dinosaur Jr., on the gear used for Farm

Visible in this live performance of Dinosaur Jr.'s "Sludgefeast", particularly at 0:22.

Used during the recording of Dinosaur Jr.'s Farm. Shown up close at 5:37.