Author Topic: Gary Moore style (Read 10123 times)

Jonesy · « **on:** May 25, 2006, 09:00:15 PM »

Ino the guy uses les pauls with soldanos but which pickup would be best for achieving his tone on 'over the hills and far away'?

greeny76 · « **Reply #1 on:** May 25, 2006, 09:22:09 PM »

I think Gary was using alot of "Super Strats" during that time possibly Jacksons will need to check up on that.

Although a Fairly decent overdrive/distortion would probably give you a good enough sound

As opposed to pickups I wouldn't be able to advise you on that sorry

Searcher · « **Reply #2 on:** May 25, 2006, 09:41:14 PM »

I only have his Still Got The Blues album, but if the tone is the same as that one, then Mules should get you really close.

Jonesy · « **Reply #3 on:** May 25, 2006, 10:09:32 PM »

Ye...his tone seems to have been pretty consistent over time...Mules are sounding good

Elliot · « **Reply #4 on:** May 25, 2006, 10:42:22 PM »

I saw him on that tour and I remember he played his fiesta red Fender '61 strat and some charvels - it was before he returned to Les Pauls. But I think Mules are the nearest of BKPS to GM's tone.

jt · « **Reply #5 on:** May 25, 2006, 10:50:06 PM »

:D Gary`s rock period is great & personaly i prefer it to he`s blues stuff [ even tho he doe`s the blues really well ]

Gary used a pink/red strat, loaded with single coils. he used a Ibanez tube screamer going into a valve amp. Usually a Marshall his models changed as he was allways experimenting. I`ve seen him use both Plexi`s & JCM800`s .

As for what single coils to get i can`t say as i don`t use them. As for a H/B i`d go for VHII`s, Mules, from personal experiance. hope this helps in some way

:D 8)

steve · « **Reply #6 on:** May 25, 2006, 11:14:13 PM »

Humbuckers: Mules
Single coils: I would guess trilogy may be nearer his 80's tone?

Elliot · « **Reply #7 on:** May 26, 2006, 09:31:44 AM »

I reckon Mother's Milks, Irish Tours or slow hands - I remember he was the guitar supremo on BBCs Rock School (an 80s programme on playing in a band ) and he used his 60s strat (as can be seen on the album cover - I think it was originally another Peter Green guitar) with a Boss DS1 pedal.

sgmypod · « **Reply #8 on:** May 26, 2006, 02:55:29 PM »

for HB's how about emralds

fps_dean · « **Reply #9 on:** May 30, 2006, 06:54:15 PM »

Quote from: Jonesy

Ino the guy uses les pauls with soldanos but which pickup would be best for achieving his tone on 'over the hills and far away'?

Stormy Monday or Mules. He had Peter Greens old Les Paul with original PAFs, with the magnet on the neck pickup flipped to create an out of phase sound with both pickups on together. That tone is primarily a combination of a Les Paul with PAFs through an old Marshall, in his case a JTM45.

I read that he usually uses both pickups together and uses the volume controls to get a good balance between them depending on what he's playing.

And he uses a Marshall JTM45, Soldanos may have come and gone but his tone is generally that JTM45. My '69 Major will nail the tone with the Les Paul and even comes pretty close with my Jem too. With the stock LP classic pickups though it wouldn't even come close.

Gary Moore sure has a great tone, doesn't he? Good choice. I put a set of Gibson Burstbuckers in my LP (hadn't heard of BKPs yet!) for the same reason, but they're not potted and that's getting kind of annoying now because I can't turn the gain up without feedback.

Muso · « **Reply #10 on:** May 30, 2006, 09:51:02 PM »

nailbombs do gary moore for sure, one of my fave guitarists and all his rock stuff blows his blues stuff out of the water

fps_dean · « **Reply #11 on:** May 30, 2006, 10:07:16 PM »

Quote from: Muso

nailbombs do gary moore for sure, one of my fave guitarists and all his rock stuff blows his blues stuff out of the water

I could do Gary Moore's rock stuff with Nailbombs, sure...

His rock stuff was good too but when I think of a "Gary Moore tone," I think of his tone on "The Messiah Will Come Again" which has an amazing tone (and also gets my vote for his best overall piece, guitar and songwise).

Then again on Wild Frontier, I think he was still using a strat for most of it.

5F6-A · « **Reply #12 on:** May 31, 2006, 11:15:37 AM »

My Stormy Monday loaded LP and my JTM45 clone with KT66s and mullards get pretty close!!

fps_dean · « **Reply #13 on:** June 02, 2006, 01:15:30 AM »

Quote from: 5F6-A

My Stormy Monday loaded LP and my JTM45 clone with KT66s and mullards get pretty close!!

Lol nice. That's his blues tone alright!

FELINEGUITARS · « **Reply #14 on:** June 02, 2006, 10:59:26 AM »

Gary was using a PRS as well at the time
Live he resorted to an old USA Charvel with an EMG, although he also had his Greeny Les Paul as well.

For classic Gary Moore Les Paul tone I'd agree that a Mule works well.