Gary Moore tone

[Doadman]

Since the sad death of Gary Moore I've been listening to a lot of his music and when I listened to 'Still Got The Blues' on the 'Blues Alive' CD I was reminded what godly tone he had. That song is just so awesome so it got me wondering; which bridge and neck pickups would be needed from the Bare Knuckle range to get as close as possible to this sort of lead tone and keep some of the flexibility needed to also cover the diverse styles he's played over the years, ranging from Blues to Metal. I've selected three styles of guitar for this exercise so once you get past a Les Paul it will become more of a challenge but it's as close as you could get in each case:

1) Les Paul in mahogany

2) Stratocaster, so alder body and maple neck with a rosewood board. S-S-S layout

3) Modern neck-thru, so maple neck, alder wings and rosewood board with an H-S-S layout.

[Modular1]

Well I'd start by checking out the PG blues. He was using them recently.

[Doadman]

I'd agree that the PG Blues would be a good place to start but I doubted that would retain the variety to also cope with some of his older stuff so then I started thinking of Mules or maybe Abraxas but for the other two guitar options I had no idea at all.

[Telerocker]

Les Paul: Mules, Abraxas, Crawler. Mules are great for anything but extreme metal. However Nolly has them in his Black Machine and he plays some ferocious metal.

[Doadman]

I'd forgotten about the Crawler and I'd agree that would work but I think if it was me, I'd try Abraxas bridge and Mule neck but how on would you get a tone in that general direction with the other two guitars I mentioned. I appreciate it would be impossible to get it spot on but is there anything in the Bare Knuckle arsenal that could get you in that general area given that some people might want to play some Moore stuf but own a different guitar, That's why I chose the Strat as it's such a popular guitar, though perhaps I should have made it H-S-S instead to make it a bit easier. The thru-neck is only there because I own one and I was curious if it was possible  :guitar4:

[gwEm]

i might think of trilogies for his shreddy strat tone

[Emperoff]

Gary also used EMG 85 equipped strat/charvels in the past, so may want to look into that setup in your strat to cover the Wild Frontier era.

Everything else, PG Blues.

[hunter]

I think on the studio version of still got the blues he played his old signature LP model with EMGs in it (not stock) into a SLO100. Not sure though.

[Pete24v]

Trilogies and or Sinners easily get Gary's early 80's rock/metal strat tone. I've just put them on a mexican strat (trilogies neck and middle and sinner bridge) and it's great.

The EMG in his old Heritage signature Les Paul was an 81 in the bridge, it had a 'P J Marx' pickup in the neck. Late production models had EMG 81's in both positions. Some of his 90's strat tones were EMG too, on Blues Alive there was the Fritz Bros Blues master deluxe Telecaster with 3 EMG SA's, during Still got the blues tour there was a white Squier strat with EMG SA's and also on the Dark Days tour there was a light blue Fender strat with EMG's and some Piezo saddles for acoustic sounds.

His old red/pink '61 strat had original pickups. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KhRaouhJLw

He's quoted as saying his gear for the Still Got The Blues track was his '59 Les Paul (not the Peter Green one, but the supposed stolen from Ronnie Montrose guitar) an original marshall guv'nor pedal into a re-issue blues breaker combo

[HTH AMPS]

(chopped) his gear for the Still Got The Blues track was his '59 Les Paul (the supposed stolen from Ronnie Montrose guitar)

I'd imagine Ronnie Montrose will be stepping up the campaign to get that guitar back now Gary has passed away.