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* velcro-fly *
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Slaytallica":d3787 said:
You need to track down the long since out of print first (or second?) Loudness album "Devil Soldier". The tunes and playing on that disk smoke the Thunder in the East stuff. All the vocals are in Japanese except for the random "Ohh baby..."
http://www.takasaki.net/Loudness/disco/DevilSoldier/
http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/mus ... oldier.htm
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Old Loudness just kicks all kinds of ass.
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* velcro-fly *":15e9e said:Slaytallica":15e9e said:
You need to track down the long since out of print first (or second?) Loudness album "Devil Soldier". The tunes and playing on that disk smoke the Thunder in the East stuff. All the vocals are in Japanese except for the random "Ohh baby..."
http://www.takasaki.net/Loudness/disco/DevilSoldier/
http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/mus ... oldier.htm
Steve E
Yeah Steve those albums are amazing. I still have em on vinyl LPs from when I was like 14.
Juggernaut
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My old Langner preamp was Akiras at one point......
Yea that dude a killer player.
Yea that dude a killer player.
Death by Uberschall
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Good player, tone lacking to me though (notice I said "TO ME"). Sounds like any 80's "chain saw" modded/boosted/distortion pedaled Marshall.
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Core9":7ffaa said:
You say that like its a bad thing.
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hehehehe, I knew I would stir the troops with that statement.sah5150":1c20a said:
I just don't think his tone as represented in these vids is anything special. "TO ME" it had a buzzy, thin sound, especially on the leads. Once he switches to the neck pick-up it does sound much better.
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DEFINITELY a large influence on me. Total package player! His rhythms are great as well!
Gainfreak
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Core9":294fc said:Good player, tone lacking to me though (notice I said "TO ME"). Sounds like any 80's "chain saw" modded/boosted/distortion pedaled Marshall.
Id have to agree with you. Almost every live band I played with back in the 80's had that tone. Sounds like a distortion box into a marshall or in Akira's case, a preamp into a Marshall. leads sounds thin also.
But with that said, Ive always dug somne of the stuff Akira did back in the day. There were some killer riffs for sure. The only thing is that his vibrato kind of killed it for me. If he had that wide Lynch vibrato, he would have been one of my favorite players back in the day, but thats just me knitpicking.
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Gainfreak":37aae said:
Except for the nitpicking parts, you nitpicker, I agree with your agreements and ammendments.
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Shiny_Surface
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The entire Loudness discography is out there if you look, they had alot more releases than I thought 
Akira was like an encylopedia of 80's metal to me, he had a little bit of all my favorite players licks/techniques from back then rolled up into his style
Akira was like an encylopedia of 80's metal to me, he had a little bit of all my favorite players licks/techniques from back then rolled up into his style
Greazygeo
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I think his tone is awesome....I guess I'd like to hear these other bands that have that sound 
I saw them a year or so ago in a small club...he was LOUD!!!! Using a DSL and a Boss GT something or other, still had great tone.
You guys and your Mesa mud machines must have permanent ear damage
I saw them a year or so ago in a small club...he was LOUD!!!! Using a DSL and a Boss GT something or other, still had great tone. You guys and your Mesa mud machines must have permanent ear damage
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Gainfreak":59905 said:Core9":59905 said:Good player, tone lacking to me though (notice I said "TO ME"). Sounds like any 80's "chain saw" modded/boosted/distortion pedaled Marshall.
Id have to agree with you. Almost every live band I played with back in the 80's had that tone. Sounds like a distortion box into a marshall or in Akira's case, a preamp into a Marshall. leads sounds thin also.
But with that said, Ive always dug somne of the stuff Akira did back in the day. There were some killer riffs for sure. The only thing is that his vibrato kind of killed it for me. If he had that wide Lynch vibrato, he would have been one of my favorite players back in the day, but thats just me knitpicking.
I must be missing something
This tone is absolutely sick.
Just listen to it. http://youtube.com/watch?v=E0XygeMKNB8
Death by Uberschall
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Greazygeo":d73b8 said:I think his tone is awesome....
You guys and your Mesa mud machines must have permanent ear damage
There's nothing wrong with having some meat with you potatoes!!!!
I think the real problem is with you deaf people who have lost their "high end" hearing and keep turning up the Treble and Presence knobs to compensate.
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Core9":1a6d8 said:Greazygeo":1a6d8 said:I think his tone is awesome....
You guys and your Mesa mud machines must have permanent ear damage
There's nothing wrong with having some meat with you potatoes!!!!
I think the real problem is with you deaf people who have lost their "high end" hearing and keep turning up the Treble and Presence knobs to compensate.
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Core9":219c3 said:hehehehe, I knew I would stir the troops with that statement.
Consider me unstirred. I didn't even listen to the clip because with Akira, you know what your gonna get tonewise without necessitating a listen...
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Bob Savage
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Slaytallica":a4618 said:I must be missing something
This tone is absolutely sick.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=E0XygeMKNB8
I don't particularly care for that guitar tone.