Lou Barlow

He can be seen playing one here

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

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 Lou playing a Gibson SG on stage with the band Sebadoh at the Reading Festival

In this music video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddKXN_L-7OY Lou uses a Squier J Mascis signature

In this performance Lou can be seen using a black telecaster with a humbucker in the neck position

Lou Barlow can be seen playing a Fender Jazzmaster in a live performance at the Reading Festival on August 26, 1994. This is documented in a video uploaded to YouTube by gkswiss, where he plays the instrument from 0:00 to 29:40. The video, titled "Sebadoh 08-26-1994 Reading Festival (Lou smashes guitars)," was transferred and uploaded by Greg Dalton-Kay (gkswiss) from a VHS copy.

In an image taken around spring 1983, Lou Barlow is seen playing a Hayman 1010 guitar in his attic with his band Deep Wound.