80s guitar sound (what are the characteristics?)

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Rid said:
Hairmetal was and still is a bad joke...look at those moronic poses...don't get me started on the bad hairdo!
There where good stuff...but hairmetal was like modern days Nu-Metal....something to avoid!
I like the popstuff better from back then, but I do not miss the perfect perfect sense everything needed back then...it was something dead about it...perfect is dull, non interesting, plus most of the sounds where som compressed and expanded at the same time...it was hillarious at best;)
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:D

Uff jeg skulle ikke have sagt det om Accept. Hørte lige "Balls To The Wall".... NICERN band :D

The Hairdos rocked back then.... Dotn even compare to Nu-Crap-Metal :D
 
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Jaja whatever du gamle :D

Har du nogle gode Accept plader jeg bør købe? Og nu skal vi nok ikke spamme tråden til mere :D
 
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Niels, you are starting to sound very bitter, perhaps you need a holiday ?:laugh2:


PS. Dumb poses have been around since day one...

I LOVE the guy..but Chuck Berry's "duck walk" is absolutely ridiculous...

Hendrix basically having sex, and performing ancient summoning rituals?

The Ramones/Sex Pistols/Clash?

80s antics?

Grunge kids, new "punk" kids, and nu-metal kids have their stupid poses as well.

Stupid poses are a neccessity for a Rock & Roll guitar player :bigthumb:
 
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JeffB said:
There's a big diff between the USA type players and metal music of the 80s (LA Metal..hair metal..whatever) and the Euro/Power metal players.

The USA sound is def the superstrat with a Floyd,..JB/Distortion type pup into a Marshall 800 with 65/75 Celestions. It was usually more compressed and smooth...tones made for tapping, and often had alot of effects. E.G. Warren De martini, George Lynch, Steve Lynch, Reb Beach, etc

The European guys sound was very different...Usually a Gibson type with stock PAF type pups or DiMarzios, into an old Plexi/metalface/JMP/early 800 sometimes with older cabs with gb/bb speakers...or the 65/75s. Usually pretty dry signal, but not always... E.G. Schenker Brothers, Jabs, Smith & Murray, Vivian Campbell, Sykes, Judas Priest, Fast Eddie Clarke etc.

The guys from Tesla fit into either category. Tommy Skeoch was the floyded strat type kid (teles actually) with the high gain compressed american sound, and Frank Hannon had the European/70s fat crunchy sound. Nice contrast.

By the time the late 80s rolled around it was effects out the wazoo, and compressed tones like the ADA MP1, Rockman, and Gallien Krueger amps :blackeye: Slash kinda changed that...he started bringing back that older 70s type sound.
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That's a very good description. +1

The tones I like from the 80's came from EVH, Nuno Bettencourt (Extreme were an awful band though) and the Iron Maiden, Scorpions and Def Leppard guitarists. Not the sleazy sounding tones that came from most guitarists in that era.
 
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Rid said:
Hairmetal was and still is a bad joke...look at those moronic poses...don't get me started on the bad hairdo!
There where good stuff...but hairmetal was like modern days Nu-Metal....something to avoid!
I like the popstuff better from back then, but I do not miss the perfect perfect sense everything needed back then...it was something dead about it...perfect is dull, non interesting, plus most of the sounds where so compressed and expanded at the same time...it was hillarious at best;)
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Awww, don't drink and post.
 
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Lol Mephis Rid doesent drink....
 
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the 80's hair bands looked like such a joke.... but under all the glam side of it was some interesting well played guitar... the 90's lost some of the tech side of guitar playing in some ways... I'll be the first to say sometimes less is more but still some of the acts in the 80's really knew how to play well! People who put them down just because of their looks should get a record deal and prove us wrong...
 
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Good playing never equaled good music!!!
And it is a fact that most hairmetal was just lightweight aluminiums metal with funny hair and those pointy(some of them cool) guitars;)
Van Halen, Lynch, Gary Moore, Dann Huff, Landau and so on, and all the armies of shredders did put the bar up for technical stuff, and some of those even made good music....but the 90's is a good proof of that was too much glam and too little music!
 
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Rid said:
Good playing never equaled good music!!!
And it is a fact that most hairmetal was just lightweight aluminiums metal with funny hair and those pointy(some of them cool) guitars;)
Van Halen, Lynch, Gary Moore, Dann Huff, Landau and so on, and all the armies of shredders did put the bar up for technical stuff, and some of those even made good music....but the 90's is a good proof of that was too much glam and too little music!
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Hehe yeah sure.

The good thing is that we all have different taste. I still appreciate that you opened me up to Van Halen, Randy Rhoads and some other stuff instead of it being all Twisted Sister :D

Btw. Mephis just got owned there :fingersx: :laugh2:
 
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Rid said:
Good playing never equaled good music!!!
And it is a fact that most hairmetal was just lightweight aluminiums metal with funny hair and those pointy(some of them cool) guitars;)
Van Halen, Lynch, Gary Moore, Dann Huff, Landau and so on, and all the armies of shredders did put the bar up for technical stuff, and some of those even made good music....but the 90's is a good proof of that was too much glam and too little music!
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Most of those guys wern't great players. Picking up a few fast sounding lick is something most guitarist can do if they want to do. I learned a few fast licks after a month... and I couldn't even finger a few basic chords at that time.

There were bad 80's metal bands and good 80's metal bands. Same goes for any musical style...
Dirty looking grunge acts look funny today as much as hair metal bands. Rappers today look stupid already, think how idiotic they would look in 10 years.
 
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AH^DK said:
Hehe yeah sure.
I still appreciate that you opened me up to Van Halen, Randy Rhoads and some other stuff instead of it being all Twisted Sister :D
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We 80's teens will always steer you right! :laugh2:

We had to wade through Warrant, Twisted Sister, Poison, and Vixen to get to the good stuff like Rhoads, VH, Dan Huff (Giant), Satriani, SRV, Gary Moore, John Sykes, Joe Perry, Yngwie, and Billy Gibbons.
 
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Hey hey hey hey Warrant rocked!

Cherry Pie was a COOL single, and Uncle Toms Cabin just kicked butt :D

Btw. Gearjoneser, which south park episode is that Van Halen thing from? :)
 
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AH^DK said:
Hey hey hey hey Warrant rocked!

Cherry Pie was a COOL single, and Uncle Toms Cabin just kicked butt :D
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:YODA:

Much to learn young padawan, you have....

before you a fork in your path is...choose wisely you must...

Malmsteen, Moore, Sykes, Huff, Jabs, and others with talent true!.... Masters...powerful with the Light Side of the Force, they are.....mmmm hmmm....

Girly looking- no-talent -made for MTV- hacks like Warrant and Poison and Twisted Sister.......sigh.....choose that way if you must....but forever more, LOST you will be...in the blackness that is the Dark Side...

:END YODA:
 
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rofl

see you guys, i asked because...i want to bring the 80s back.

not like the darkness. lol

but, that good ol Van Halen type band, with just one guitar, the synth and everything.

ill be using a fender Tom Delonge strat: single invader in bridge.

i know this pup is a little too hot for this type of sound, but i guess ill EQ everything up. I will also mod the invader (pole pieces).

a little more gain than usual wouldnt be bad, i want it to sound modern too.

the 80s had awesome bands (not all) but nevertheless, some really cool music!!

i want to bring that back

Pop-but with good musicianship, and catchy riffs and solos.

SYNTHS! lol


the amp will probably be my 5150.

i guess that works?
 
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