Marshall 1959RR vid with Doug Aldrich

[Greazygeo]

I cant wait to get mine! This will be my first full matching stack after all these years.

June is a long way off though....

 

[MrDan666]

I cant wait to get mine! This will be my first full matching stack after all these years.

June is a long way off though....

You ordered one George?? Congrats!

 

[Jakem]

Awesome playing, horrible tone. Pretty much RR to a T !
Sounds just like Randy's tone so I guess Marshall succeeded.

kw

+1

 

[Greazygeo]

I cant wait to get mine! This will be my first full matching stack after all these years.

June is a long way off though....

You ordered one George?? Congrats!

Yes...hopefully I get one. My Marshall rep wasn't sure how many he would be alotted for our territory, so I put in for one for me. With only 100 being made, I'm hoping I can get one!

I think the amp sounded great in the ist Namm vid that was posted. People cary on about RR's tone sucking and so on...I heard him live on the Diary tour and was right in front of the stage, he sounded and played awesome. The tone on SATO, Believer etc is killer to me. Guys carry on about how great Jake's tone was and I don't get it.....mud city!!

 

[ejecta]

I didnt really dig that tone as its represented in the video. Probably because of the mic and Im geussing not being able to crank it. Probably was much better in person.

 

[Chubtone]

I think the amp sounded great in the ist Namm vid that was posted. People cary on about RR's tone sucking and so on...I heard him live on the Diary tour and was right in front of the stage, he sounded and played awesome. The tone on SATO, Believer etc is killer to me. Guys carry on about how great Jake's tone was and I don't get it.....mud city!!

How many times are we going to have to do this George? Internet guitar forum rule #1 has become:

1.) On any and all occasions, parrot how horrible you think Randy Rhoads guitar tone was. This will prove to all your internet buddies what a tone connoisseur you are now..... 26 years after the fact. Then get really quiet if anyone asks if you actually ever saw and heard Rhoads live or if you even played guitar when RR was alive.

I've said it 18 bazillion times, watch the After Hours videos and then come back and tell me how horrible Randy Rhoads guitar tone was for 1980-1981. Seriously.

 

[White_Van]

I've always thought RR's tone worked for him. But what do I know?

 

[Greazygeo]

I think the amp sounded great in the ist Namm vid that was posted. People cary on about RR's tone sucking and so on...I heard him live on the Diary tour and was right in front of the stage, he sounded and played awesome. The tone on SATO, Believer etc is killer to me. Guys carry on about how great Jake's tone was and I don't get it.....mud city!!

How many times are we going to have to do this George? Internet guitar forum rule #1 has become:

1.) On any and all occasions, parrot how horrible you think Randy Rhoads guitar tone was. This will prove to all your internet buddies what a tone connoisseur you are now..... 26 years after the fact. Then get really quiet if anyone asks if you actually ever saw and heard Rhoads live or if you even played guitar when RR was alive.

I've said it 18 bazillion times, watch the After Hours videos and then come back and tell me how horrible Randy Rhoads guitar tone was for 1980-1981. Seriously.

I know, I know...I'll go stand in the corner now I'm the only person on the planet that hates EVH's tone too...

I do feel lucky I got to see RR play...that was awesome!!

 

[Chubtone]

I know, I know...I'll go stand in the corner now I'm the only person on the planet that hates EVH's tone too...

I do feel lucky I got to see RR play...that was awesome!!

Well, I can't say I agree with you on Eddie's tone. I think his tone was perfect. But Randy's tone at the time was just so mean, so gainy and live it was just huge.

 

[Chubtone]

January 24, 1982 for me

Dude! I wanted to go to that show so bad. I lived in Chicago at the time. I didn't know you did too. I saw Rhoads at Poplar Creek August 22, 1981

Hey Don Barzini, I'm not sure if you have it or not, but here is bootleg audio from that exact show you were at:

http://www.eternalrandyrhoads.com/ZIPS/82_01_24.ZIP

 

[Odin]

I've said it 18 bazillion times, watch the After Hours videos and then come back and tell me how horrible Randy Rhoads guitar tone was for 1980-1981. Seriously.

How his tone was for 1980-1981 is totally irrelevant in today's world. Today we have the option of so many different amps that there is no reason to have bad tone in the name of nostalgia.

A sports car that was at the peak of performance standards in 1940 might have been great for the time, but in today's world it wouldn't stand a chance in a race because the improvements that have been made in every area make the older car obsolete.

A nasty, solid-state driven raspy sorta-high-gain tone might have been the best that RR could do 28 years ago, but that doesn't make it "good tone" today. If you like his tone then it's goodf for you, but I didn't like it then and I don't like it now.

 

[loudgtr]

The playing was pure wanking. Maybe Doug was having a brain fart at the time and didn't know what to come up with because that seemed pretty lame IMO. Seemed to lack imagination. Happens to everybody.

The tone wasn't as good as the earlier RR demo that the Marshall guy with ear plugs did. Maybe it's the Suhr pup in his Les Paul?

At the risk of sounding harsh, I just thought it was boring.

 

[MrDan666]

The playing was pure wanking. Maybe Doug was having a brain fart at the time and didn't know what to come up with because that seemed pretty lame IMO. Seemed to lack imagination. Happens to everybody.

The tone wasn't as good as the earlier RR demo that the Marshall guy with ear plugs did. Maybe it's the Suhr pup in his Les Paul?

At the risk of sounding harsh, I just thought it was boring.

As i said earlier, Doug himself said that when he did that it had to be turned way way down. He said in the soundbooth when he cranked it, it was awesome. The earlier RR demo with the Marshall guy like you mentioned, was in the soundbooth if im not mistaken... so im sure in the soundbooth it would sound better being cranked right up

 

[Chubtone]

How his tone was for 1980-1981 is totally irrelevant in today's world. Today we have the option of so many different amps that there is no reason to have bad tone in the name of nostalgia.

A sports car that was at the peak of performance standards in 1940 might have been great for the time, but in today's world it wouldn't stand a chance in a race because the improvements that have been made in every area make the older car obsolete.

A nasty, solid-state driven raspy sorta-high-gain tone might have been the best that RR could do 28 years ago, but that doesn't make it "good tone" today. If you like his tone then it's goodf for you, but I didn't like it then and I don't like it now.

So, uh, we disagree on Rhoads' tone yet we both like Splawn Quickrods?

Sports car freak too huh?

 

[Code001]

In regards to cars - Just because a newer car does X, Y, and Z better does not mean it's a better car.

 

[Chubtone]

Yeah, but if you want to talk lap times, the newer cars almost always spank the older cars. Lightweight has been replaced by more power, better brakes and better suspension technology. The vintage car guys will complain that the newer cars don't have the "feel" or the "vibe" or the excitement that the earlier cars have. I don't think that matters much to the newer cars driver as he's consistently lapping faster than the other guy.

What this has to do with Rhoads, I don't know, but I love sports car racing!

 

[Odin]

How his tone was for 1980-1981 is totally irrelevant in today's world. Today we have the option of so many different amps that there is no reason to have bad tone in the name of nostalgia.

A sports car that was at the peak of performance standards in 1940 might have been great for the time, but in today's world it wouldn't stand a chance in a race because the improvements that have been made in every area make the older car obsolete.

A nasty, solid-state driven raspy sorta-high-gain tone might have been the best that RR could do 28 years ago, but that doesn't make it "good tone" today. If you like his tone then it's goodf for you, but I didn't like it then and I don't like it now.

So, uh, we disagree on Rhoads' tone yet we both like Splawn Quickrods?

Sports car freak too huh?

QuickRods kick ass, as do great sports cars. Although I haven't had a sports car since 1988. It's been all pickup trucks since then.

I love RR's playing, I just never dug his tone on record, and that Marshall sounded a lot like his recorded tone to me. But the earlier vid I saw of the RR head sounded better to me, so it's probably just the video camera coloring the sound.

 

[yngzaklynch]

I cant wait to get mine! This will be my first full matching stack after all these years.

June is a long way off though....

Oh hell yes!!

 

[AmpliFIRE]

not digging that tone...but it could have been due to a crappy camcorder mic

 

[zewango]

It looks like the amp is going through a Marshall power brake.