Anyone use a les paul type for hair metal?

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Aceman said:
Is this the sound you are looking for?



79 Les Paul
Distortion Bridge
Marshall VS100 on OD1
Boss DD-3 in the loop
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Hey, that VS100/OD-1 sounds good.
 
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Steve Clark's Les Pauls were in fact loaded with Duncan 59s. He said so in several interviews.
 
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I stand corrected and am going with the black one had a Dirty Fingers in the bridge with stock Gibsons, and the white was Duncan 59's
 
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I'm thinking I might try to go for the dirty fingers. John Sykes on whitesnake is almost exactly the sound I'm interested in actually haha. So I'm gonna try that first. I'm not to sure about the neck. But it's not a big I don't do much there beyond cleans and I for the most part know what I like.
 
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SFW said:
Steve Clark's Les Pauls were in fact loaded with Duncan 59s. He said so in several interviews.
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Yep, you're right. I stand corrected too, did a bit more searching and found an old interview where he said he had duncan '59s.
 
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dreadguard268 said:
I'm thinking I might try to go for the dirty fingers. John Sykes on whitesnake is almost exactly the sound I'm interested in actually haha. So I'm gonna try that first. I'm not to sure about the neck. But it's not a big I don't do much there beyond cleans and I for the most part know what I like.
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That's a great idea except for the part that he is John Sykes. And as we all know...


JOHN SYKES IS WHITESNAKE!!!!
 
Re: Anyone use a les paul type for hair metal?

dreadguard268 said:
I'm thinking I might try to go for the dirty fingers. John Sykes on whitesnake is almost exactly the sound I'm interested in actually haha. So I'm gonna try that first. I'm not to sure about the neck. But it's not a big I don't do much there beyond cleans and I for the most part know what I like.
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He used mesa boogie coliseum heads on the Whitesnake album and was rumored to have double tracked the rhythm tones . Something to think about when trying to tackle his tone
 
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JohnnyGuitarCA said:
Here's a great clip with a reissue Dirty Fingers in a Les Paul Custom. He gets some great Sykes-ish sound.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbZnbvovlx8
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That Sykes style Les Paul custom is so bada$$. I notice that guy isn't trying to tackle the fast double picked riff that comes after the intro in "you're gonna break my heart again" , I wouldn't either if I was recording myself
 
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51501984 said:
He used mesa boogie coliseum heads on the Whitesnake album and was rumored to have double tracked the rhythm tones . Something to think about when trying to tackle his tone
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that whole album is pretty over-produced.
Still damn good though :)
 
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I can get some pretty hairy ( see what I did there?) tones from my Hamer using an Antiquity/S Deco 5 set up and from my LP with a PGn/El Diablo bridge. It really does coms down to the amp, I think. Something hot, running EL34's should do the trick.
 
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I don't, but the guitarist for white lion did when I saw them live & he sounded good


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darthphineas said:
Hasn't Vivian Campbell been back to LPs for a number of years now? At least from the shots I've seen on stage.

Steve Stevens has been going with LPs a lot and I think he has a sig model with some company called Knapps ( or something like that ). He also has the Bare Knuckle Pickup signature model ( Rebel Yell ) that is a bit hit in LPs, as is the John Sykes BKP sig model ( Cold Sweat, a lot like a Gibson Dirty Fingers model ).


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Vivian Campbell was using Les Pauls when I saw Def Lepard a few years ago fwiw.

Also, the BKP Cold Sweat was made to get close to John Sykes LP/Dirty Fingers tone, but it isn't a signature model.

I use a LP with BKP Rebel Yells in Eb for my 80s rock band and it really suits the sound we're after.
 
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fwr1982 said:
i don't really think Slash/G N' R is "hair metal"
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that was my thought too.
I generally don't associate LPs with hairmetal.
The V is probably better in that. Think Robbin Crosby of RATT(JB).
...and to a certain extent, Randy Rhoads.
 
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