Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: Devon8822 on May 04, 2007, 09:13:15 PM
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Im wondering where some names came form so I can check out the songs...
I know most of the songs, but not all and some im not positive because Im impressed to see more unknown songs like... the sinner, is this named after the priest song?
Where did these come from:
Nailbomb
Irish Tour
The Mule
Emerald (Is this the thin lizzy one)
The sinner (judas Priest one?)
Slow Hand (Clapton?)
Sultans
Apache
Mothers milk (thats gotta be RHCP right?)
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Nailbomb - max cavalera (sepultura) had a side project named nailbomb
Irish Tour
The Mule - gov't mule
Emerald (Is this the thin lizzy one)
The sinner (judas Priest one?)
Slow Hand (Clapton?)
Sultans - dire straits
Apache
Mothers milk (thats gotta be RHCP right?)
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Govn't Mule? is that a song?
I checked out some Nailbomb clips, they look pretty hardcore band. from what I have seen people on the forum and tim have recommended Nailbomb pickups for like classic metal and stuff. Whats going on here?
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like i said in the other thread, most of tims pickups can do anything.. some are just more suited to a style of music than the others.
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To add to what Davey has said, Irish Tour named after Rory Gallagher's album and Apache named after Shadows track (you know, Hank Marvin). Gov't Mule is a band.
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Just bought Fireball (Deep Purple) and there's a track on there called 'The Mule'... (Probably a coincidence...)
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OK, here we go:
Stormy Monday: Early blues song by T-Bone Walker
Mule: Gov't Mule (band)
Riff Raff: AC/DC song
VHII: Van Halen album
Blackdog: Led Zeppelin song
Emerald: Thin Lizzy song
Abraxas: Santana song
Holydiver: Dio album
Cold Sweat: ?
Miracle Man: Ozzy Osboune song
Nailbomb: Metal Band
Warpig: Black Sabbath song
Painkiller: Judas Priest song
Apache: Shadows song
The Sultan's: Dire Straits song (Sultan's of Swing)
Mother's Milk: RHCP song
Irish Tour: Rory Gallagher's tour
Slow Hand: Clapton's nickname
Trilogy Suite: Yngwie Malmsteen Song
The Sinner: Judas Priest Song
Country Boy: ?
Yardbird: Band (the Yardbirds)
Brown Sugar: Rolling Stones song
The Boss: Bruce Springsteen's nickname
Piledriver: Status Quo album
Mississippi Queen: song by Mountain
Ahh, do I really have nothing better to do? :lol:
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Cold Sweat is a song by thin lizzy yu silly wabbit
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Country Boy = Albert Lee high speed 'signature' Country song with devastatingly dextrous intro and outro.
Cold Sweat = John Sykes ( Whitesnake / Thin Lizzy 80's era ).
:D
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Stormy Monday: Early blues song by T-Bone Walker
Very true, but I believe the pickup is inspired by the Allman Brothers Band version from At Fillmore East. :D
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OK, here we go:
Holydiver: Dio album
Vivian (Speedy) Vampbell, being the guitarist in question
Rob...
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we should put a guide with similar voiced pickups to help choosing a BK pickup by it's specs, output and voicing
like this:
Holydiver (1st version): dimarzio super distortion
Holydiver (2nd version): duncan jb/bk rebel yell
Holydiver (3rd version): thicker jb
Cold Sweat: duncan custom
Miracle Man: emg 81 (bridge)/emg 85 (neck)
Nailbomb: suhr ssh+ ? (i must try the new suhr doug aldrich signature pickups)
Warpig: mighty mite motherbucker/gibson iommi meets duncan invader ?
Painkiller: gibson 500t/duncan distortion/prs hfs treble
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THere's more than two version of the Holy Diver? :?:
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we should put a guide with similar voiced pickups to help choosing a BK pickup by it's specs, output and voicing
I totally agree that other manufacturers' pickups are a useful reference point for us here in the forum. Many of us have tried JBs, 498Ts, EMG-81s etc so it gives you a rough idea what to expect.
But I hope you're not suggesting that BKP should have an "official" guide describing their pickups by reference to someone else's? It would imply Bare Knuckle is a kind of "second division" manufacturer, when in fact the products are - and have to be - more than good enough to stand on their own merits.
You'd never find Duncan comparing their pickups to DiMarzio, or vice versa. They each act as if the other doesn't exist.
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we should put a guide with similar voiced pickups to help choosing a BK pickup by it's specs, output and voicing
like this:
Holydiver (1st version): dimarzio super distortion
Holydiver (2nd version): duncan jb/bk rebel yell
Holydiver (3rd version): thicker jb
Cold Sweat: duncan custom
Miracle Man: emg 81 (bridge)/emg 85 (neck)
Nailbomb: suhr ssh+ ? (i must try the new suhr doug aldrich signature pickups)
Warpig: mighty mite motherbucker/gibson iommi meets duncan invader ?
Painkiller: gibson 500t/duncan distortion/prs hfs treble
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I agree with philly. Refferences are fine for discussion here but BK are there own brand. No such guide should exist.
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not officialy, of course
but most people that register on forum have no idea about how which pickup sounds, cause most soundclips are recorded by us, and most of us don't have experience and resources for pro recordings that would capture the real great sound of our pickups
i've read this forum for six months before i made my choice
if you can't try it live and don't have any kind of parameter you can't make a choice only by "great heavy ultra responsive pickup" kind of reviews
i'm not saying to put it like copies or something, just citing something to help us to create an idea of how the pickups would sound
everybody knows a jb, super distortion, 498t or emg 81
why citing famous bands tones if you can't talk about their pickups?
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not officialy, of course
but most people that register on forum have no idea about how which pickup sounds, cause most soundclips are recorded by us, and most of us don't have experience and resources for pro recordings that would capture the real great sound of our pickups
i've read this forum for six months before i made my choice
if you can't try it live and don't have any kind of parameter you can't make a choice only by "great heavy ultra responsive pickup" kind of reviews
i'm not saying to put it like copies or something, just citing something to help us to create an idea of how the pickups would sound
everybody knows a jb, super distortion, 498t or emg 81
why citing famous bands tones if you can't talk about their pickups?
Thanks Eric that list was very helpful in giving me a closer picture of what sortof sound BKP compare to.
I need to know a bit more if anyone can tell me something about the nailbomb? What is its ideal genre? What do people se it for mostly? thanks
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we should put a guide with similar voiced pickups to help choosing a BK pickup by it's specs, output and voicing
I totally agree that other manufacturers' pickups are a useful reference point for us here in the forum. Many of us have tried JBs, 498Ts, EMG-81s etc so it gives you a rough idea what to expect.
But I hope you're not suggesting that BKP should have an "official" guide describing their pickups by reference to someone else's? It would imply Bare Knuckle is a kind of "second division" manufacturer, when in fact the products are - and have to be - more than good enough to stand on their own merits.
You'd never find Duncan comparing their pickups to DiMarzio, or vice versa. They each act as if the other doesn't exist.
I agree too.
the names are pretty good on their own, i think... give you a pretty good idea.
maybe in the descriptions (when the new website is ready) put what styles of music they're most suited to? maybe that would give the impression they aren't that versatile, though...
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everybody knows a jb, super distortion, 498t or emg 81
Um... I don't. Seriously. I had a 498t in my SG, but that's it...
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If such a table was created - that is, where BKP's were directly compared to other brands - you would have people thinking "well, why don't I just get a {insert compared brand here} instead?", and in most cases that would be a lot cheaper...
What I'm trying to say is, why would BKP cheapen themselves by putting their name next to another product (eg, duncan, dimarzio) which in my experience, simply aren't as good?
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If such a table was created - that is, where BKP's were directly compared to other brands - you would have people thinking "well, why don't I just get a {insert compared brand here} instead?", and in most cases that would be a lot cheaper...
What I'm trying to say is, why would BKP cheapen themselves by putting their name next to another product (eg, duncan, dimarzio) which in my experience, simply aren't as good?
Good point indeed^
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I've mentioned to Tim in the past that a similar sort of EQ guide that Seymour Duncan and DiMarzio use would be handy... not comparing pickups against pickups, but simply highlighting where a pickup sits in terms of treble/mid/bass. It benefits me, for example, because really mid-heavy pickups sound cr@p through my amp because I have the mids cranked right up for extra cut so I find pickups with little mids, lots of treble and a bit of bass works best with my amp EQ.
Tim said it's something to be included on the brand-spangly new website he's working on. :)
I agree though, comparing like-for-like seems as though BKP's have been designed to copy others and that's so not true. Although it was interested seeing that the current incarnation of the Holy Diver is like a JB.