Lets talk 80's Hair metal guitars!!!

[gingataff]

Shobet, I love the Hamers. Are they Chaparrals?

Or are they Centauras?  :)

Indeed they are Centauras, and you can pick 'em up cheap if you can find them. The diablos, californians  and chaperrals are harder to come by and fetch a bit more money.

I blame Priest and Living Colour for my love of Hamers.

I know a shop selling a USA made Diablo in clear amber finish for about 300 quid. They don't ship outside of Japan though.

[HTH AMPS]

I saw them (Living Colour) support Anthrax in 1988 two nights on the trot at The Hammersith Odeon. They were great and he was the first shredder I had seen live at the time. I was about 5 rows in one night. Anthrax though were out of this world for me at that time!

I saw Anthrax/Living Colour on the same tour in Newcastle - my first gig  8)

[FELINEGUITARS]

I guess the 2nd wave of bands like Poison, Warrant, Bulletboys, Britny Fox, Every Mothers Nightmare, Danger Danger, Enuf Znuff, White Lion, Skid Row , Vain etc were considered Hair Metal

At the risk of being pedantic, White Lion and Poison are the only two there that are second wave, all the rest are third wave...it's usually done on the release date of their debut album

1981-4; First wave, bands like Motley Crue, WASP. Innovators of the style.

1985-7: Second wave, Poison, White Lion. Most had formed in the first wave era and were influenced by them rather than pioneering the style themselves.

1988 + : Third and final wave, most only got a few releases out before being crushed by Grunge. Imitated the imitators, and by and large sucked a whole lot of c--k while they did it. Britny Fox is an abomination.

OT: 80's guitars:

Yes - I would say spot on

And there were good bands and poor ones in each era, but the record companies ended up signing anything in Lycra  with big hair in the end rather than being selective, which is why grunge seemed so refreshing to many when it kicked in

I quite liked some Britney Fox although they were poor Cinderella imitators with a touch of slade.

Heck I even really liked Warrant

One WASP album worth checking out if you want something a bit more serious than their early stuff is an album called The Crimson Idol- a concept album and clearly showing The Who as influences.

[shobet]

I blame Priest and Living Colour for my love of Hamers.

Now there's a band!  :D

But I remember Vernon Reid more for his green/white/pink muliticolour ESP with EMGs and a little hologram sticker between the pickups.  I spent ages trying to find those stickers!  Went to a great gig at the Marquee where I was standing right at the front hanging on to Vernon's monitors (sounds painful!) for the whole show.

I saw them support Anthrax in 1988 two nights on the trot at The Hammersith Odeon. They were great and he was the first shredder I had seen live at the time. I was about 5 rows in one night. Anthrax though were out of this world for me at that time!

Ooh I was there for one of the nights. If my memory serves me right it was the State of Euphoria tour?

[shobet]

Shobet, I love the Hamers. Are they Chaparrals?

Or are they Centauras?  :)

Indeed they are Centauras, and you can pick 'em up cheap if you can find them. The diablos, californians  and chaperrals are harder to come by and fetch a bit more money.

I blame Priest and Living Colour for my love of Hamers.

I know a shop selling a USA made Diablo in clear amber finish for about 300 quid. They don't ship outside of Japan though.

Boomerang inlays?

[Philly Q]

One WASP album worth checking out if you want something a bit more serious than their early stuff is an album called The Crimson Idol- a concept album and clearly showing The Who as influences.

Yeah, the "concept" is ridiculous (like most concept abums), but there are some great songs on it.  I think when's he's on form Blackie is an amazing singer - but it gets obscured by the OTT image.

[Copperhead]

Wolfgang anyone?

[gingataff]

Shobet, I love the Hamers. Are they Chaparrals?

Or are they Centauras?  :)

Indeed they are Centauras, and you can pick 'em up cheap if you can find them. The diablos, californians  and chaperrals are harder to come by and fetch a bit more money.

I blame Priest and Living Colour for my love of Hamers.

I know a shop selling a USA made Diablo in clear amber finish for about 300 quid. They don't ship outside of Japan though.

Boomerang inlays?

Dots I think.

[gingataff]

One WASP album worth checking out if you want something a bit more serious than their early stuff is an album called The Crimson Idol- a concept album and clearly showing The Who as influences.

Yeah, the "concept" is ridiculous (like most concept abums), but there are some great songs on it.  I think when's he's on form Blackie is an amazing singer - but it gets obscured by the OTT image.

I love WASP, I prefer the more 'fun' songs but some of the darker ones are great too. One of my favourite WASP albims is Helldorado but I don't think anyone else likes it. 8)

[phlip]

I saw Anthrax/Living Colour on the same tour in Newcastle - my first gig  8)

Me too but you saying that was your first gig is making me feel old :0\

[Johnny Mac]

I saw them (Living Colour) support Anthrax in 1988 two nights on the trot at The Hammersith Odeon. They were great and he was the first shredder I had seen live at the time. I was about 5 rows in one night. Anthrax though were out of this world for me at that time!

I saw Anthrax/Living Colour on the same tour in Newcastle - my first gig  8)

That was my first Metal gig too! I remember walking out after the first night, speechless, like I had just been visited by a higher authority! How the hell did they play their guitars, drum so fast and hard?  :lol: I went the next night too and my ears were ringing for days after that. The ticket price was around 8 quid a night. Would have been around 90p a pint too. Happy days!  :D

I remember seeing Britny Fox on telly and I thought the singer had throat cancer or some shite. Can't say I liked them or Warrant. Motley Crue were good. You should have seen the amount of uber bitches at their gig at Wembley Arena in 1989! Great night, we had Skid Row and White Lion on the same bill and a guest appearance by Billy Idol with MC for the encore! 20 quid off a tout I payed for that.  :D

On topic, Vernon reid had the multi coloured ESP. Scott Ian, ok they were thrash but had use of the same gear of the day, had an ESP with NOT past the 12 fret mark on the fret board but no frets higher than 12. Dan Spitz used RR Jackson V. Its got the same mid boost pre-amp as a model 6 Charvel. Which is why i bought one



When I were a lad.... I've become one of them!

[AndyR]

Good grief! You're making me feel really old...

Wot a bunch of youngsters... "Anthrax/Living Colour", even as first or first metal gig :lol:

I know there's older than me here but I tend to regard all the bands mentioned on this thread (those that I've heard of!) as young upstarts :lol: (from my perspective, even Guns and Roses is one of they "modern hair-spray bands" who copy the old stuff, they're ok but don't quite cut it - and then I get quite surprised to see how old they are now :lol:)

I have sneaking feeling that I've seen Cinderella - might that have been supporting Judas Priest at the Hammy Odeon? - but my recollection is along the lines of "WTF is this nob? Where's the bar?" (it was very crowded when I got there...).

However, Living Colour, from wot I saw on the tv, I did like :D

For the original topic though - I can't add much, except I do have nice metal guitar http://bareknucklepickups.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=13964.0, does that help? :D

[Afghan Dave]

I saw them (Living Colour) support Anthrax in 1988 two nights on the trot at The Hammersith Odeon. They were great and he was the first shredder I had seen live at the time. I was about 5 rows in one night. Anthrax though were out of this world for me at that time!

I saw Anthrax/Living Colour on the same tour in Newcastle - my first gig  8)

That was my first Metal gig too! I remember walking out after the first night, speechless, like I had just been visited by a higher authority! How the hell did they play their guitars, drum so fast and hard?  :lol: I went the next night too and my ears were ringing for days after that. The ticket price was around 8 quid a night. Would have been around 90p a pint too. Happy days!  :D

I remember seeing Britny Fox on telly and I thought the singer had throat cancer or some shitee. Can't say I liked them or Warrant. Motley Crue were good. You should have seen the amount of uber bitches at their gig at Wembley Arena in 1989! Great night, we had Skid Row and White Lion on the same bill and a guest appearance by Billy Idol with MC for the encore! 20 quid off a tout I payed for that.  :D

On topic, Vernon reid had the multi coloured ESP. Scott Ian, ok they were thrash but had use of the same gear of the day, had an ESP with NOT past the 12 fret mark on the fret board but no frets higher than 12. Dan Spitz used RR Jackson V. Its got the same mid boost pre-amp as a model 6 Charvel. Which is why i bought one



When I were a lad.... I've become one of them!

We've spent years going to the same gigs mate! - I was at all of those plus Donnington 90.. :lol:

[AndyR]

^ I noticed that as well - there's a bunch of you that have been going to the same tours, gigs even :D

Seems kinda reassuring :D

[Philly Q]

Good grief! You're making me feel really old...

Wot a bunch of youngsters... "Anthrax/Living Colour", even as first or first metal gig :lol:

Don't feel too bad Andy, my first gig was Hawkwind  :lol: ! 

(Not in their heyday though, it was '79 - I'm not that old!)