Sad for us that we didn't get to see John on the tour . When I first saw the video for Still Of Night I thought WTF who are these guys LOL then I started recognizing them, I didn't know John and the rest of the band were fired. Notice that DC not only fired John but stole his blond hairstyle , I bet his was a breath of fresh air for him not having the share the spotlight with John on that 87/88 tour.
Going off memory here but Bob Rock (or it might have been Adrian not 100% sure) told a story on a podcast that he was in the room next door when Coverdale and Sykes had a huge blow up over the phone..it had something to do with Coverdale wanting Sykes to redo a solo on "here I go again" from memory. Sykes flew back from England to confront David about it and thats when he got fired... Adrian Vandenberg was it the studio recording a new solo for it when Coverdale and Sykes were arguing in another room ... here what Adrian said
I believe the story goes that Coverdale was finishing up the record and Sykes got wind that he and the other guys were being replaced, and drove down there and David stormed outta there in his car.
He doesn't play on the Saints and Sinners album , wasn't in the band at that time . He played on the US version of the Slide It In album but my ears are only hearing him throw a few licks in various songs , supposedly he overdubbed some rhythms but I don't hear any solos that sound like him
I've heard Dave Friedman say there is the jose blended in on the 87 album but I don't really hear it.. Pretty much all Bob did to get the tone is create a Wet/Dry rig for John. He just took the signal from the Boogie and ran it thru a DDL (delay) and some Modulation and ran that signal into a second cab and then miked both cabs. If you haven't run wet/dry or a stereo rig at home you need to try it....you get a MASSIVE tone at very very house friendly volumes. happy ears and happy wife = win win
Didn't Keith Olsen produce WS '87 ? Was Bob Rock working for Keith at the time ?
Are you sure it was done in the room ? The left/right split I mean ? A lot of times they do it on the desk so it only went to tape. It's cleaner that way, kind of like the difference between putting effects before the amp vs in a loop.
Yes Keith produced it (with Mike Stone) ... Mike Fraser was the studio assistant and he worked for Bob as his assistant also, so Mike contacted Bob when they just could not get a good guitar tone
The way Bob described it, it sounded like he walked into the room with the amp but who knows. I think the fact there were separate mikes makes it easier to choose what ever blend you want
I thought Sykes only used a Marshall on the solo for Is This Love. Could’ve swore I read that somewhere years ago.
yes Zakk did say this. I think there is a lot of "chinese whispers" (known as telephone in the US??) type stuff going on here..things getting lost in translation from one person to another
