It’s the Amp! You Too Can Sound Like Angus

Posted by admin in Monday, July 12th 2010

To follow up on the “amp as an instrument” post: I stumbled upon this here vid of Anthrax’s Scott Ian playing through Angus Young’s rig this year. I will leave it to your discerning ears to agree or disagree, but to me it sounds “like” Angus.

Getting AC/DC Tones for Black Robot

Posted by admin in Monday, May 24th 2010

Topics: 65 Amps, AC/DC, Bakos amps, Boss/Roland, Colorsound, Fender, Humbuckers, Les Paul, Marshall, Vox pedals

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More Volume, Less Volume Knob…
What is Black Robot? If you guessed a Japanese comic book, you’d be…wrong. It’s an LA-based band, a new one but made up of veteran players who wanted to make classic-sounding rock. And they did, thanks in large part to producer Dave Cobb.
Dave is a kung fu master of old-school tones, [...]

What To Learn from the New Angus SG

Posted by admin in Monday, November 23rd 2009

Topics: AC/DC, Celestion speakers, Marshall, SG, Seymour Duncan

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New ‘Signature’ Pickup…
You may be aware that Gibson recently announced two new signature Angus Young Gibson SGs. One is a custom shop model – the Angus Young SG Standard – and the other is a Gibson production model that has the same name minus the Standard. We can learn about what kind of tone Angus [...]

Hells Bells! A New Angus Pickup…Sort Of

Posted by admin in Tuesday, October 13th 2009

Topics: AC/DC, Gibson, Seymour Duncan

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If you follow all things Seymour Duncan, you will have seen a couple weeks ago that the company announced that Seymour himself has been working on Angus Young’s guitars. Here’s what was said:
“We’ve been working behind the scenes with Angus Young for the past year. His tech, Takumi Suetsugu, contacted Seymour Duncan about dialing in [...]

Is the Pinky the Least-Toneful Finger?

Posted by admin in Friday, July 31st 2009

Topics: AC/DC, Edward Van Halen, Fingering, George Lynch, Joe Bonamassa, Reb Beach, Robben Ford

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Do Some Players Think So?

I’ve always used my left-hand pinky while at the same time being acutely aware that many of the great players don’t – or not much. I’m talking riffing and soloing, not chording, obviously.

Bon Scott: The Early Days

Posted by admin in Friday, December 5th 2008

Topics: AC/DC

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Maybe if you’re a big-time AC/DC fan you know how Bon Scott hooked up with the Young boys — or, rather, how he almost didn’t. If you don’t, there’s an interesting article in an Adelaide, Australia newspaper written about Bon’s pursuit of fame and fortune in rock and roll.
What makes it interesting is it’s written [...]