Haven't thought of that band in a long time. Saw them live once in a small club in Santa Ana (I think) opening for Heavy Bones.I'll take the first few Trouble albums. Always thought of them as benchmark marshall tones.
Those two early albums do have some great Marshall tones on them and quite like AC/DC........Early Def Leppard does it for me as far as the Marshall rock tone goes.
I'd say it's just a slightly improved ac/dc tone really. The difference is probably just the pickups they used.
Looks like a couple Marshalls back there:
AC/DC live in Paris 1979, has to be in the running.
For sure. His first solo album, Atomic Playboys, has some killer Marshall tones as well. (That's Thommy Price from Billy Idol on the drums.)Steve Stevens' Plexis on the Rebel Yell album are damn near perfect.
Hard to beat that opening tone on Mean Street. There's some studio sweetening to be sure, but that underlying foundation is such a beautiful Marshall tone.