Judas Priest Tone:

gball said:
No, they don't have the punch, detail, dynamics or nuance of a Les Paul. But they are raw and aggressive and it's easy to hear why they've been adopted by so many guys playing heavier styles.
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No doubt. I could never feel comfortable with it, though it was very light. I tried the Gibson 490's, Wildwood Spec Burstbuckers, and even a Gibson 57 Classic Plus, but the magic never happened. I gave it away just to be rid of it.

But, it (the SG) made Adrian very, very happy... :-)
 
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chilipeppermaniac said:
Sorry to derail off Priest, Robert, but when I hear how one doesn't get a certain sumn out of a Lester, or an SG, or a Hamer, Yamaha etc, I have to go to the sources I know most for the fellas who used a certain AXE during a certain time and how that sound sticks with me. Just like you and Leslie West...
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Tone is subjective, of course. Just because I couldn't get my sound out of an SG, doesn't mean they are not great guitars, or sound great to others.

It took me many years to get to that point where I struck a few chords and said, "That's the sound I've been searching for," and it took a Les Paul to get me there.

Now, I don't even turn a knob. The tone is locked in.
 
It is funny how many various styles the SG and or the LP have fathered.

I mean, P90 SG's were in the hands of Carlos Santana, Robbie Krieger, SG's and LP's for Pete Townshend and not a one of them sounds the same. Somehow the player makes em sound how they want.

PAF, Mini HUM, T TOP, 490, Bill Lawrence Circuit Board SG's, all had various users as well. Frank Marino, Janice Joplin's axe men, Buck Dharma, Angus, Tipton, Terry Kath and a slew of other great rockers all used Humbucker SG's.

I just dig Terry Kath ripping into his 3 pup SG in 1969 on 25 or 6 to 4 and onward.


Kind of like a Pastrami Sandwich vs a Corned Beef. Both are tasty, but sometimes I get in the mood for a Reuben instead of a mere Corned Beef or Pastrami with Mustard HAHA.
 
Robert Herndon said:
Tone is subjective, of course. Just because I couldn't get my sound out of an SG, doesn't mean they are not great guitars, or sound great to others.

It took me many years to get to that point where I struck a few chords and said, "That's the sound I've been searching for," and it took a Les Paul to get me there.

Now, I don't even turn a knob. The tone is locked in.
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I know,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, but like I said, I sure love me some corned beef and sauerkraut
 
jjudas said:
I couldn't get enough of JP's RockaRolla and Sad Wings of Destiny when I was 14 years old. They were almost in the same league as Sabbath Bloody Sabbath and Volume. 4.
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SWoD was my first Judas Priest album. It blew my mind, opened a new universe of music. I already loved Sabbath, but these guys were more nimble and versatile, and let's face it: Halford's voice is a force of nature. Then Sin After Sin came out and I was just floored - they entered a whole other universe of heavy on that album (do I have to remind anyone about 'Dissident Aggressor'?). Strangely, it was only much later that I discovered Rock-a-Rolla, like probably after Stained Class came out. It was kind of cool to hear that missing link in their progression, to go back in time a bit, and hear how they'd evolved.
 
gball said:
SWoD was my first Judas Priest album. It blew my mind, opened a new universe of music. I already loved Sabbath, but these guys were more nimble and versatile, and let's face it: Halford's voice is a force of nature. Then Sin After Sin came out and I was just floored - they entered a whole other universe of heavy on that album (do I have to remind anyone about 'Dissident Aggressor'?). Strangely, it was only much later that I discovered Rock-a-Rolla, like probably after Stained Class came out. It was kind of cool to hear that missing link in their progression, to go back in time a bit, and hear how they'd evolved.
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I think I enjoyed Priest more than any other band growing up, but although I listened to their music, I never played their songs, so I've recently been learning their entire catalogue.
 
Robert Herndon said:
I think I enjoyed Priest more than any other band growing up, but although I listened to their music, I never played their songs, so I've recently been learning their entire catalogue.
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We played a bunch of Priest songs in the band I was in during high school, mostly from 'Killing Machine' and 'British Steel', then when 'Screaming for Vengeance' first came out we tried to learn the entire record, but we were too shitty to pull it all off at that time! But ya, Priest and Sabbath were definitely my drugs of choice in the late '70's and they served as a gateway to the first Iron Maiden album, which of course upped the ante a bit in terms of speed and precision.
 
gball said:
We played a bunch of Priest songs in the band I was in during high school, mostly from 'Killing Machine' and 'British Steel', then when 'Screaming for Vengeance' first came out we tried to learn the entire record, but we were too shitty to pull it all off at that time! But ya, Priest and Sabbath were definitely my drugs of choice in the late '70's and they served as a gateway to the first Iron Maiden album, which of course upped the ante a bit in terms of speed and precision.
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Back in the early 1980's, we were playing Motorhead, Scorpions, Triumph, and AC/DC pretty much exclusively. I had Judas Priest cassettes, and I dug them, but in our geographic area, they were not hugely popular, so we didn't play their songs.

I've been learning 3-5 JP songs a week for 3 months!!!!
 
HAHA My brothers. I was ruined young. Imagine my adolescent self once I turned 13 and found the secret to extracting KING Arthur's musical sword. Once I began listening LONG PLAY Albums and the Masters who recorded them, I was hooked. I have to think the initial buzzes came from my hearing Deep Purple's Smoke on the Water while in the barber chair at about 8-9 years old, then being turned on to Nugent's Double Live Gonzo, Alice Cooper, VH1 - Runnin with the Devil set the hook, and then the likes of Unleashed in the East, KISS, LED Zep Immigrant's Song, RUSH 2112 and like Gball says, All The World's a Stage, RUSH, Caress, Fly By Night, Pink Floyd Dark Side, Aerosmith's first albums, Styx, Stones, Sabbath and the list goes on.

So much for eating the same thing and being satisfied.
 
chilipeppermaniac said:
HAHA My brothers. I was ruined young. Imagine my adolescent self once I turned 13 and found the secret to extracting KING Arthur's musical sword. Once I began listening LONG PLAY Albums and the Masters who recorded them, I was hooked. I have to think the initial buzzes came from my hearing Deep Purple's Smoke on the Water while in the barber chair at about 8-9 years old, then being turned on to Nugent's Double Live Gonzo, Alice Cooper, VH1 - Runnin with the Devil set the hook, and then the likes of Unleashed in the East, KISS, LED Zep Immigrant's Song, RUSH 2112 and like Gball says, All The World's a Stage, RUSH, Caress, Fly By Night, Pink Floyd Dark Side, Aerosmith's first albums, Styx, Stones, Sabbath and the list goes on.

So much for eating the same thing and being satisfied.
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My "likes" are somewhat narrow. When our band wanted to do "Immigrant Song" last year, I had to learn it because I had never listened to it all the way through...
 
gball said:
SWoD was my first Judas Priest album. It blew my mind, opened a new universe of music. I already loved Sabbath, but these guys were more nimble and versatile, and let's face it: Halford's voice is a force of nature. Then Sin After Sin came out and I was just floored - they entered a whole other universe of heavy on that album (do I have to remind anyone about 'Dissident Aggressor'?). Strangely, it was only much later that I discovered Rock-a-Rolla, like probably after Stained Class came out. It was kind of cool to hear that missing link in their progression, to go back in time a bit, and hear how they'd evolved.
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I agree
 
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