MetalHeart
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Great album
mentoneman
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let it go was one of the first songs i tried to learn on my hohner strat in high school
Findthetone1
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That album started it all for me playing guitar. Once I heard "Let it Go", I was hooked.
dcburn mk.ii
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Great fucking album!
Out of all the albums I haven’t listened to in years, this one still gets playtime!
Out of all the albums I haven’t listened to in years, this one still gets playtime!
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chris lykins
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Amazing album and also sounds great. What I think of when I think of a crunchy Marshall (besides Angus)!
romanianreaper
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I was in a bar in Korea in 1990 and they had this big screen and we're playing the video for "High and Dry" and me and my buds were just in Heaven, air drumming and doing air guitar riffs.
That album has so many great songs. Listen to "Bringin on the Heartbreak" and tell me that isn't the coolest slow part in history. How did they think of those notes and chords? Just brilliant.
Like Van Halen, I got them split into two periods. I love the Hysteria album and some songs after that but my Def Leppard was those early albums. I even have a British flag shirt with the sleeves cutoff that I wore in high school. Of course now it looks like an infant size on me, lol.
That album has so many great songs. Listen to "Bringin on the Heartbreak" and tell me that isn't the coolest slow part in history. How did they think of those notes and chords? Just brilliant.
Like Van Halen, I got them split into two periods. I love the Hysteria album and some songs after that but my Def Leppard was those early albums. I even have a British flag shirt with the sleeves cutoff that I wore in high school. Of course now it looks like an infant size on me, lol.
Speeddemon
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Not just crunchy, but magically very chewy and juicy at the same time.
Interested to know if anyone knows what Steve Clarke was using gear/signal wise, aside from a Les Paul into a Marshall?
skoora
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I don’t know man…magical? Lol. It’s a just a decent, Gibson into Marshall rock tone. It’s because the music is so good that maybe it makes the tone seem stellar? I’m not saying it’s a bad tone, because it’s not, but it doesn’t stand out to me over any other rock/metal band of the time.
hammered
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Coming up on 44 yrs now . I saw them on that tour here with the awesome Blackfoot also on the bill. Pete Willis is often forgotten but he was ripping it up that night
rottingcorpse
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no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no.........
One of Glamtera's early cover songs.
One of Glamtera's early cover songs.
Speeddemon
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Well, can you name one album from, say, '78 to '82 with the same level of gain (so less than VH, probably slightly more than AC/DC basically), but with that same chewiness? And sure the songs rock well, so that helps...but for me, the tone definitely stands out.
To be fair, I think they lost most of it due to overproduction on Pyromania and Hysteria, but High N Dry is something special IMO. It sounds more organic, even though Mutt Lange was already behind the knobs of the studio.
Maybe it's just his 'magic'...I mean, AC/DC's "Highway to Hell" sure doesn't sound as raw and sort of 'prone to going off the rails' as "Powerage"... And if you compare it to some stuff from UFO or the Scorpions, it usually also has more 'hair' on the guitar tone.
For me, High N Dry holds a special place, since the guitar tone isn't dull at all...it's just...almost 'eatable' chewy, but still very woody, open and organic.
Probably most notable in Let it Go and No No No:
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chumbucket
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Wasn't High And Dry recorded using Angus and Malcolm's gear from the Back In Black sessions? I thought that was the story that Mutt Lange already had the studio booked and squeezed Def Leppard in after AC/DC wrapped up.