Which album had the best guitar tone in the shred 80s days?

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Best shred 80s guitar tone

  • Dokken under lock and key

    Votes: 27 50.9%

  • White lion Pride

    Votes: 6 11.3%

  • Winger Pull

    Votes: 3 5.7%

  • Whitesnake self titled

    Votes: 23 43.4%
  • Total voters
    53
Geo said:
Saw them for the Invasion of your privacy tour. Maybe it was the venue or a bad night, it was really bad.
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No it wasn't the venue. Ratt absolutely sucked live back in the day. It wasn't until the Detonator tour (live video above) where they finally invested in a quality sound guy.
 
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Bronco said:
No it wasn't the venue. Ratt absolutely sucked live back in the day. It wasn't until the Detonator tour (live video above) where they finally invested in a quality sound guy.
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I got lucky when I saw them on the Invasion tour that was the best show I saw them do out of the five times I saw them over the years. You’re right though , a few shows I saw from them they were really bad.
 
If we’re talking just tone and not songwriting I’d have to go with early Yngwie. A beautiful singing, articulate tone.
For something more raw, 80’s Gary Moore every day, all day.
 
The Invasion show I saw back in the day was great.

I was also pretty fucked up great too. :yes:



But yeah. Good tone or bad tone - I was buying this record :lol:
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Wore out Corridors of Power and especially this cut:



Also in heavy rotation then:



Last, the first crunchy guitar tones in this song in the intro have always been a benchmark for me

 
Mr. Willy said:
I never saw them live, but even in this poor quality live video for 91 this seems like good tone to me. Maybe it depended on the night. I know Warren is on the SLO here, not sure about Robin.
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For an old school bootleg video that sounds really good . Compared to a few of the shows I saw them do this would’ve been a good one
 
I went down a shallow rabbit hole last night listening to some of these albums with headphones. It's amusing to me to hear much less gain they are actually using compared to what I thought it was back when I first heard these tunes.
 
Mr. Willy said:
Yep! Marshall set to stun in a big, nice room with some decent mics all being wrangled by one the best to ever live. I especially love Moore’s Strat tone. No one’s is bigger or meaner!
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and a Boss DS-1
 
nigelpkay said:
Loudness - Thunder In the East
Love how crunchy and aggressive it is.

Ratt - Invasion of your Privacy
Same thing but different flavour.

Savatage - Hall of the Mountain King
Thick, heavy, aggressive, but still warm
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Yeah I shoulda added Thunder in the East to my list as well, Akira's tone on that was just badass! Not to mention he's such a great player.
 
Just realized the TS never came back to participate. :dunno:

Not sure if were bound to just his poll or what :dunno:

Oh well. We have lots of 80's tone threads over time :dunno:
 
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