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smashing_chains

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Iggy and the Stooges Tone
« on: August 11, 2008, 02:29:26 AM »
Just wondering what pickups would give the best kind of search and destroy tone. Got a Gibson SG special going through a big muff pi and into a mesa/boogie f-30.

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Re: Iggy and the Stooges Tone
« Reply #1 on: August 11, 2008, 12:24:43 PM »
I'm not familiar with the Search and Destroy tone but these days it's all P90's.
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Re: Iggy and the Stooges Tone
« Reply #2 on: August 12, 2008, 03:08:59 PM »
Definitely a Single coil of some kind, I would have thought. Whilst the tone is very grind-y, and a little swampy, there's a definite SC "edge" on most of the Stooges stuff.
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Re: Iggy and the Stooges Tone
« Reply #3 on: August 13, 2008, 06:00:41 PM »
Just what I found could be wrong but it says they used a les paul http://men.style.com/theupgrader/living/70s-guitar-solos/The-Stooges-Search-and-Destroy

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Re: Iggy and the Stooges Tone
« Reply #4 on: August 15, 2008, 03:36:40 PM »
Raw Power is a mix of that Strat and the LP custom, Search & Destroy sounds like the LP on most of the rhythm parts and the Strat on the leads.

Amps were AC30s pinned with an occasional fuzz kicked in.

For a LP of that era, you'd be looking at Emeralds. Having tried the Emeralds, I'd say they will do the job perfect.