Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: OD-Black_Fire on June 01, 2006, 03:58:04 AM
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You may not have heard of this very underrated guitarist. He used to be Third Eye Blinds guitarist, but was kicked out after releasing their second CD, Blue.
He's $%&#ing amazing, he has more custom tunings than anyone else and a damn guitar for each of them. He was trained by Joe Satriani when he was in high school. He first pulled away from the popular Van Halen finger tapping wannabes by making multi-layer melodic tracks using these open tunings.
Now, he has a variety of guitars, some of them have a single coil on a thick double cut body. Like tele pickups on a morphed Jackson soloist. He also uses PRS guitars when he needs something with humbuckers.
His tone, generally, is round, big, and open (Like BK's!) but most of all, bell like. Much of the "bell like" tone is from the open tunings but if you watch him play "How's it going to be" live, you can see he's using standard tuning and still has that bell-like tone. I have a link, but I'm not sure if youtube links are allowed here (Edit: I didn't find anything in the rules so...)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGvJhRgdgqQ&search=kevin%20cadogan
Listen to the song Wounded, on the album Blue. Those harmonics: !!!!
Check out The Background, Narcolepsy, all those songs. Kinda bluesy.
What would be the best humbucker to nail his tone? Stormy Monday's?
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From that clip I think I'd head for Mississippi Queens.
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They should have fired the singer- flat or what?!
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Firstly:very nice tone in my opinion
Secondly: Nice little song
Thirdly: DeanS is right about the singer lol
Finally: the tone sounds very mellow, so ye, id go for the stormy monday
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Yeah, the singer is a hit or miss. Great on the CD, great in some performances but sometimes he's way off. Most of the time, Kevin sings better than the singer XD
The band was leaving Ohio for a performance in the east, I believe, and they just left without Kevin, left him the bill for the 5 star hotel also. If this was true, it was probably sparked during a performance earlier that day when a fan in the crowed had a sign that asked for Kevin to sing a song. Kevin started to play one of the songs he wrote (probably "Further than the Stars") and Stephen (the singer) told him to stfu and gtfo.
I read in other interviews that they left on good terms but I doubt that, Kevin sued Third Eye Blind for royalties, since he pretty much made up their distinct sound for about 50% of the first two albums but lost.