SLAYER question: What pickups were used by Kerry and Jeff on 'Reign in Blood'???????

Re: SLAYER question: What pickups were used by Kerry and Jeff on 'Reign in Blood'????

I remember being 14 and making a really half-assed version of that wrist band of his with the nails in it and wearing it to a local grocery store for a laugh.
I must have looked a right tit.
 
Re: SLAYER question: What pickups were used by Kerry and Jeff on 'Reign in Blood'????

Looks like he also used Bill Lawrence L500's in 1985 also.

http://images.search.yahoo.com/images/view;_ylt=A2KJkCIRAqNPjEsAvNKJzbkF;_ylu=X3oDMTBlMTQ4cGxyBHNlYwNzcgRzbGsDaW1n?back=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.search.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Fimages%3Fp%3Dkerry%2Bking%2B1985%26n%3D30%26ei%3Dutf-8%26fr%3Dsfp%26tab%3Dorganic%26ri%3D1&w=290&h=426&imgurl=www.metalforcesmagazine.com%2Fsite%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2011%2F06%2Fslayer1985kerrykinglivephoto.jpg&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.metalforcesmagazine.com%2Fsite%2Ffeature-slayer-mf20%2F&size=53.2+KB&name=Kerry+King&p=kerry+king+1985&oid=eb7a1ea56006dfb9c9c7db1450ee920e&fr2=&fr=sfp&tt=Kerry%2BKing&b=0&ni=100&no=1&ts=&tab=organic&sigr=11s8155u5&sigb=134e00kj1&sigi=12sqefgmv&.crumb=EL/.RJuzpTk

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Re: SLAYER question: What pickups were used by Kerry and Jeff on 'Reign in Blood'????

KK lives near me, I've run into him at Game Stop and Cosco. Last time I saw him, he was driving a stock (silver, I believe) Toyota Camry - not very metal :(

When I saw him once checking out games at Game Stop in Tyler mall, I said to him, dude you look just like Kerry King. He laughed and said, I am Kerry King, not many people look like me!! LOL

I also chatted him and his wife up outside HOB in Anaheim once. He's pretty cool. I told him I like cover some Slayer jams now and again and he said, I've been covering Slayer jams for over 20 years.



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speed2dirt said:
Looks like he also used Bill Lawrence L500's in 1985 also.

http://images.search.yahoo.com/images/view;_ylt=A2KJkCIRAqNPjEsAvNKJzbkF;_ylu=X3oDMTBlMTQ4cGxyBHNlYwNzcgRzbGsDaW1n?back=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.search.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Fimages%3Fp%3Dkerry%2Bking%2B1985%26n%3D30%26ei%3Dutf-8%26fr%3Dsfp%26tab%3Dorganic%26ri%3D1&w=290&h=426&imgurl=www.metalforcesmagazine.com%2Fsite%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2011%2F06%2Fslayer1985kerrykinglivephoto.jpg&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.metalforcesmagazine.com%2Fsite%2Ffeature-slayer-mf20%2F&size=53.2+KB&name=Kerry+King&p=kerry+king+1985&oid=eb7a1ea56006dfb9c9c7db1450ee920e&fr2=&fr=sfp&tt=Kerry%2BKing&b=0&ni=100&no=1&ts=&tab=organic&sigr=11s8155u5&sigb=134e00kj1&sigi=12sqefgmv&.crumb=EL/.RJuzpTk

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Now thats DAMM interesting!!! I wonder whats in the bridge????
 
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speed2dirt said:
Really? What city is that? I'm in La Habra and my wife's parents are in Anaheim. Chris Poland came to my house when I was selling an ENGL power amp. I think he's from Glendale though. One of my other friends saw Kirk Hammett at Disneyland. I guess So Cal is just south of (metal) heaven.

https://forum.seymourduncan.com/showthread.php?t=206936&highlight=chris+poland
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The Costco was in Corona, Tyler Mall is in Riverside.

And I sold an SG to Bruce Kulick of KISS at a Starbucks in Anaheim recently.
 
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GHUA Had a pretty heavy guitar tone (when the damn treble wasn't making your eardrums bleed) but at the cost of good songwriting or lyrics. The guitar tone probably has more to do with the "nu" type production it was given. Bleh.

I agree with whoever said DI had the fastest riffs put to tape, I think it was Slayer's more technical side. Too bad the drums clip somewhat and the guitars sound like they're recorded in a cave.

Seasons on the Abyss was almost perfect (a good balance of slower and fast songs too), but I think that record really could have benefited from the bass being more bottom heavy and giving the guitars some low-mid warmth. They're so dry you can dehydrate yourself by listening to them!

South Of Heaven was the first time they experimented with quad-tracking (two tracks per player). King said it didn't add much more that the normal way did so they didn't bother doing it again. The bass was nice and warm on that record, if the guitars had the sharpness that SOH had, they would have been pretty good. They seem boxed in and not as punchy as RIB.

Reign In Blood had an awesome heavy guitar tone (despite the songwriting not being as "smart" or progressive as the previous album) that must have been a fluke because they've never been able to capture that sort of sonic mayhem again. The lucky fluke could also be on Rick Rubin's part because he is a notoriously dry producer. Pretty much every record he's produced including the latest Slayer and Metallica albums, are like cornflakes without milk.
 
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Back then, stock pickups in a BC Rich would've been a Dimarzio Superdistortion Bridge, PAF neck. In 86 he was using BCRs, I remember him using a Warlock in the Beastie Boys No Sleep till Brooklyn video.

I had a Megadrive, and it sounded Slayerish, so he could've used that as well
 
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it's probably been said already, but i remember reading a few interviews where KK and JH have both said that they'd recorded a majority of their rhythm parts in a hallway set up with baffles with a cranked marshall at one end

and nice post beer$
 
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late to the game on this thread... God, i LOVED this band as a kid... even found a red neckthru 'bird just like KKs when i was 15, haha.

KK'sd Mbird had a Super D in the bridge, for a fact. Can't be certain if he used it for RIB, as that was right when they both got BC Rich endorsements and started playing other models ad nauseum. More importantly, they didn't switch to JCM 800 2203s til South of Heaven... they were still using the previous models, can't remember the name, they were Master Volume heads with a box that kinda looked like a plexi, but with the modern rocker switches. If you find any pics of them onstage from '86-87, you'll see them. Don't forget those old Boss 10-band EQs, they add some grit. A GE-7 will get you in the ballpark too.

In terms of the difference between JH & KK's tones, Kerry is ALL mid, Jeff is very scooped. They compliment each other nicely. Big reason the tone sucks on newer albums is that kerry plays ALL the rhythm parts himself these days and only uses his rig. Cuts down on the tonal spectrum bigtime.

I actually like the tones on Seasons, as they were both still using passive pickups on that album... KK with his BC V, Jeff with his Jackson, which had a Jackson passive pickup in it til a bit later on. ESP/EMG didnt make their album debut til Divine, which sounds just as awful to me now as the day it came out.

(if you wanna get technical, ESP/EMGs made their debut on Decade of Aggression, which was the Seasons tour. Downhill ever since, IMHO...)
 
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TattooedCarrot said:
KK lives near me, I've run into him at Game Stop and Cosco. Last time I saw him, he was driving a stock (silver, I believe) Toyota Camry - not very metal :(

When I saw him once checking out games at Game Stop in Tyler mall, I said to him, dude you look just like Kerry King. He laughed and said, I am Kerry King, not many people look like me!! LOL

I also chatted him and his wife up outside HOB in Anaheim once. He's pretty cool. I told him I like cover some Slayer jams now and again and he said, I've been covering Slayer jams for over 20 years.



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I've bought snakes from KK over on Kingsnake.com. He produces some of the nicest Jaguar Carpets out there. I've spoken to him a bit about the snakes and all over e-mail and once on the phone. He's a really laid back guy really. He was happy I didn't just want to talk music and he was as excited to chat snakes with a guy as we would be to chat gear with someone.

On a different but funny note, my youngest brother was in Florida several years ago for a Reptile show. He was with my parents and at dinner in the hotel lobby and went to use the rest room. He was wearing a Pantera shirt, and the guy next to him goes 'Pssst, hey kid!'. Josh, my brother, was kinda just annoyed and freaked out. Didn't realize it was VINNIE PAUL until after wards lol. This had to be right after RTS came out. Said he looked and there was a large crowd at the bar and a lot of roudyness lol. I raz him every day for that!
 
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I would say they both used Super D's on RIB cause Kerry to my knowledge used his red Mockingbird & possibly the Warlock he used on that tour & Jeff used Bich's i have the tour programe & it looks like it in every picture.
 
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Beer$ said:
The lucky fluke could also be on Rick Rubin's part because he is a notoriously dry producer. Pretty much every record he's produced including the latest Slayer and Metallica albums, are like cornflakes without milk.
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The last Slayer album could have been their second best if the guitar tone was "wetter". They just sounded so sterile, and I'm sure everyone will blame the EMGs for that, and not the producer. :banghead:

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Ha, it looks like I said almost the exact same thing two months ago in this thread. Oops.


dominus said:
To me, World Painted Blood is a great album, but the guitars sound *dry*.
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Blame the producer all you want, the fact remains their guitar tone has been ****ing horrible since Divine Intervention onwards.
 
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I got into Slayer just as South Of Heaven came out. I quickly bought RIB to check it out too, and I just don't understand why RIB is pointed to as one of the "top" thrash albums. Sure, there's a few great tracks like AOD, the title track, and Epidemic, but the performances on all tracks feel rushed/ not tight. And some of the material is just sub-par blasts of noise, like Piece By Piece, Necrophobic and Reborn, for examples. Basically, a lot of noise, and I understand the shock-value at the time of release has a lot to do with the initial popularity.

anyways, SOH is their best in my opinion, with SITA a close second, then some scattered good tracks on RIB and DI. And from DI and forward, I did not dig how Arraya converted to shouting only 98% of the time - guess he felt he had to measure up to Mr. Anselmo and the 'new heaver' metal emerging at the time.
 
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kingswebe said:
I got into Slayer just as South Of Heaven came out. I quickly bought RIB to check it out too, and I just don't understand why RIB is pointed to as one of the "top" thrash albums. Sure, there's a few great tracks like AOD, the title track, and Epidemic, but the performances on all tracks feel rushed/ not tight. And some of the material is just sub-par blasts of noise, like Piece By Piece, Necrophobic and Reborn, for examples. Basically, a lot of noise, and I understand the shock-value at the time of release has a lot to do with the initial popularity.

anyways, SOH is their best in my opinion, with SITA a close second, then some scattered good tracks on RIB and DI. And from DI and forward, I did not dig how Arraya converted to shouting only 98% of the time - guess he felt he had to measure up to Mr. Anselmo and the 'new heaver' metal emerging at the time.
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I agree with some of your points, like Araya shouting all the time, and the fact SoH is their best album. But your assessment of RiB is wrong. It's perfect from start to finish. I actually think AoD is the weakest song on there, its only famous because of the lyrics.
 
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Varg said:
I actually think AoD is the weakest song on there, its only famous because of the lyrics.
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Nah, the switching off soloing between King and Hanneman is awesome.
 
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