Author Topic: Gary Moore (Read 6083 times)

kellar · « **on:** February 09, 2008, 09:15:16 AM »

Found this while roaming around on youtube. Gary does a smashing version of Jimi's Red House. Great fender tone!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXYjEMTQRm0

Elliot · « **Reply #1 on:** February 09, 2008, 10:42:41 AM »

Awesome, that is how a strat should sound - The reason I took up the guitar, bought a Fiesta Red rosewood necked strat in the 80s and ultimately gave up in frustration was Gary Moore.

gwEm · « **Reply #2 on:** February 09, 2008, 10:47:29 AM »

i prefer his les paul tone, but that is pretty marvellous. i wonder what amps hes using.

blue · « **Reply #3 on:** February 09, 2008, 11:24:07 AM »

if you want to hear more of that magnificent strat tone rocking out, get the Scars album! not that well known, but really rather good. one of the rockier albums Gary's done since he got the blues

MrBump · « **Reply #4 on:** February 09, 2008, 12:08:29 PM »

Yeah, I think that Scars has kinda brought Gary back to where I want him to be. He frustrates the hell out of me sometimes - I first got into him back in the 80s when he brought out Wild Frontier, my fav album of all time. Then I dug back, and loved pretty much everything he made. But I never really got the blues thing - Still Got The Blues was a fantastic album, but I kinda wish that he had left it at that. Having all that talent and fire in your fingers and NOT burning up the fretboard? That's a shame!

Don't get me wrong, I LOVE the blues, and Gary plays it well. He can just do so much more...

Crazy_Joe · « **Reply #5 on:** February 09, 2008, 02:33:58 PM »

I like the playing but the tone has too much gain!

Brow · « **Reply #6 on:** February 09, 2008, 05:24:11 PM »

Quote from: Crazy_Joe

I like the playing but the tone has too much gain!

That's kinda always been his 'thing' really.

Even in his earlier Blues days, he played a rockier version of Blues stuff, but with more of a Rock tone. Nothing like the tone you'd expect a 'traditional' Blues player to use.

Crazy_Joe · « **Reply #7 on:** February 09, 2008, 05:29:25 PM »

Yeah I like his Les Paul tone, it's well nice, but the Strat seems to bring more background noise into it when it has all that gain on it. I like the core tone of it though.

horsehead · « **Reply #8 on:** February 09, 2008, 07:41:50 PM »

Les Paul...Gary Moore....and a cracking song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzpMBscDNbM

DeanS · « **Reply #9 on:** February 09, 2008, 09:01:12 PM »

Much prefer when it changes into the original- thats a cracking song!

Ted · « **Reply #10 on:** February 09, 2008, 09:32:15 PM »

Quote from: gwEm

i prefer his les paul tone, but that is pretty marvellous. i wonder what amps hes using.

Gary normally uses Marshall, exactly which model is unknown to me. I would harzard a guess it might be a jcm perhaps.

trademark Moore tone, but you can hear the tone of the Strat too. Sounds great.

But I prefer the original Hendrix version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MRUfT1I--g&feature=related

I have the DVD and sound quality is a lot better.

JamesHealey · « **Reply #11 on:** February 09, 2008, 10:22:04 PM »

it's a marshall dsl he's playing.. nothing special.

broken cord · « **Reply #12 on:** February 10, 2008, 02:40:11 AM »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18FgnFVm5k0&feature=related

I always liked Gary playing when he played with Phil Lynott myself.

Doctor X · « **Reply #13 on:** February 10, 2008, 11:10:54 AM »

Here he is playing with Albert King:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qplN4pm1MSE

PhilKing · « **Reply #14 on:** February 10, 2008, 02:25:55 PM »

Quote from: Doctor X

Here he is playing with Albert King:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qplN4pm1MSE

I was at that concert - Hammersmith Odeon 1990, he had Albert Colins there too!