love this vid... glad theres a metal vid focusing on 80s guitar.. ive been playing 80s metal for 41 yrs.. got Kramer barettas(1 with 24 frets, neck pickup), 2 marshall 100 watt heads, cabs.. yeah its old school, but i get that 80s metal tone
I was there in the 80s scene. Clubs were full of people who wanted to jam. Music stores full of people trying to ape the guy that year. The crazy crap we had to do to get a good tone. Now it all sits in my floor modeler. Great time to be a beginner playing. And i hate single coils. Nice Hamer bro. Truly a classic.
Thank you for the video, Buzz. I am a recent retiree (got out early, too!), that is finally picking the guitar up again after more than 40 years. Life has its way of doing this, but I can still make the best of it. I am very familiar with the 80s music, and Van Halen was definitely a favorite, so those chord progressions will be fun to learn. And you did teach me, and I'm sure others, a thing or two about playing some dirty guitar.
I am kinda in the same boat. I have been in bands for much of my life, but I never took the time to really learn music, learn the guitar and learn other band's songs. All the music that I know is my own music that my band wrote. I still work a 10 hour day, but I have just enough spare time to finally learn some Boston, Metallica, Tesla, Dream Theater, Tyketto, Lynch, VanHalen, Queensryche and learn enough about the blues that I don't sound like a total hack. Here is to improving before our fingers stop working!
I also love this vid! The 80s were awesome (I liked the point about 91,92,93....so true).....but I loooove the finish on that guitar 🔥👀🤪.....that is so neat !
I am a bassist who dabbles lightly in guitar, grew up with all the 80's stuff into the mid 90's. So, I don't really have a lot of knowledge in the "how to" of the 80's guitar but definitely have heard these sounds and the bands you mentioned. Halfway thru this I was excitedly sharing to my son who has been getting into guitar over the past couple years, saying how great the info was and the examples of how to get various techniques and sounds done! Then you say it was more of a "throw away" video. Dude, we will be checking into your other stuff cuz I'm seriously impressed with nuggets you drop in just your "throw aways"/" table scraps"! Rock on! 🤟😃🎸👍
Just found your channel. Awesome. I'm 53 now & still plugging away. I've played an old ARIA Pro II with T tops in it since I was 17 & still have that guitar. Lots of 80's stuff has come out of that one. I recently bought a 90's reverse head black Jackson superstrat & Love it. I also bought a Krammer a few years ago. It's an Acoustic. I always thought of Krammer being electric & Van Halen. Anyway , I just Subscribed & look forward to more from you. That's a very nice looking axe you have there.
I have a Jackson Floyd Rose and just picked up a Marshall DSL40C. You may think it’s throwaway information, but I had no clue how to dial everything in. Ton of great info and some things I’ve never put together. Hope to see more throwaway info videos 🤙
This video is awesome, I'm going through a big hair metal / 80s boom at the moment with my writing and some of this has opened up a lot of pathways for me. Basic theory can only get you so far, its only through the teachings of the elders that we can expand our horizons haha. Definitely got me thinking of a few new things, thanks for this man.
I love some of the new stuff, but I can't leave the greatness of the 80's. The people that I really enjoy now are just building on what the 80's created. And I am still waiting on someone to make better guitars than we found in the late 80's and early 90's. Even Charvel, Jackson, Peavey and ESP is getting their best traction with re-issuing 80's models.
My schoolfriend had a 36 fret guitar.....it had a sparkly grey finish, with yellow lightning crackle, I thought it was so cool....but it was impossible to use the top of the neck because the frets were so tight 🤣......although, I should add I was struggling to learn "Paranoid" & " You shook me all night long" at the time, heehee....great vid !
TESLA \m/ So much guitar going on, in their songs. Especially the early ones. Great songs to learn and great fun to play. “Flight to nowhere” one of my favs. From 1989, I believe.
I never got the chance to see Richie live. I like his stuff, but I fell out of love with BonJovi many years ago. Maybe I should go back to the early albums and do some studying.
The 80’s were awesome! I wasn’t really into hair metal but I love 80’s thrash metal and punk! I had a USA made BC Rich Bich and a Gibson Les Paul studio back then and they were amazing guitars. Those were the good ol days!
Guitar with hot bridge humbucker and Floyd/Kahler, Marshall-style amp, Tubescreamer (as a lead boost) chorus for cleans and solos and a wah pedal. Boom, done
Cool video, just one niggle! The open B is in both A Major and A Minor scales and its also in the A Minor corresponding C Major scale and the relative minor of A major, the F# minor scale. All open B notes! 🤘😎🤘
I seem to sort of remember playing in the eighties but hell that decade is mostly lost in my memory LOL. But deriously it was fun. I actually played SGs in the eighties. Les Pauls were kind of uncomfortable to play. But I definately get what you are saying. I just can't remember. Musicians should know this already.
A lot of what you were talking about here I picked up on a long time ago and it still holds true to today. Man Lynch and his bands that cat has been in more band than I have had females and im no slouch. For a lot of that open playing practice I find playing Lifeson tunes will get you to understanding pretty quick but harly anyone now adays wants that jangly stuff. I have never recorded and I am only a legend in my spare bathroom but I have heard tons of guys talk about getting rid of that bottom end. I can see it but I can not live there I love that tight ass chunk. My solution was learning all the songs I can from And Justice For All. dont get me wrong I love to feel that bottom but play 3 or 4 of them songs back to back and youll yearn to cut that bottom down:) I keep finding myself going back to a more blues based sound and style akin to Mark Kendall I love that kinda blues. In September I turned the big 50 and My lovely wife saw fit to gift me a Yellow Striped series. That combined with my FM3 and I can sound like anyone I ever didnt want to. I gots the bestus wif evea. For some strange reason EWETUBE unsubbed me from your channel and I just found you back just letting you know
That is great. The And Justice stuff was the best that Metallica ever put out. I would love to re-mix that album. You are right about the bedroom sound. Make it full, make it huge and fill the space. Just know what you have to do when you do get with a band and your sound turns to mud. The knowledge is the power. That is a sweet 50th! I didn't get jack for my 50th. I didn't get the bestus wif. I was on the other side of the spectrum. Keep on rockin' my man!
I'm a huge Lynch fan - Dokken and Lynch Mob. Great tricks and tips here, but Lynch can really stretch. I have small hands, and his pinky is unnatural lol. You earned a sub here just from this video.
That guitar looks similar my 1987 Tokai VC75 (Vivian Campbell signature that never went into serious production) which was a copy of a custom Rand apparently.
@buzzzmiller Sick looking axe. Now I've got another cool guitar on my Reverb alerts list lol, especially if that green one from the thumbnail shows up.
This is a Hamer Californian. I have four of them. (Maybe five) I am not 100% sure of the original color. Most of them came in a gloss over the mahogany body. So they were an amber/yellowish. Here is a photo of mine, and some have yet to be painted. All paint is 100% by me. buzzzmiller.com/hamers.jpg
@@buzzzmiller That blue is amazing! Do you have a color code or something? I would love to paint my guitar that color!! All your guitars are spectacular you have a great eye for color and detail!
@@ScreamingEagleFTW Thank you. I mix all of my own paint, so there really isn't a color code. It is a base black, then pour the crystals over the black. When the crystals dry, paint the silver. When the silver dries, wash the crystals off. Then add whatever color to your first few layers of clear. All four of my crystal guitars are the same black and silver. Just different tints to the clear after that.
@@KevinRoadrageGarage It is a late 1992 Hamer Californian. Modified to a 14.5" to 17.5" conical radius fretboard. Giant stainless frets on an asymmetrical neck. The neck joint is beefs the mahogany body with three large tubes of carbon fiber and vinylester resin. The headstock is weighted and stiffened with three pieces of tungsten. Dimarzio Gravity Storm pickup in the bridge. (my new favorite pickup) and a Dimarzio cruiser in the neck. (both with coil splitting options.) This guitar doesn't sound like a strat. It EQs and runs like a Les Paul. It just has a different frequency and some girth down low. And, of course, one of my basic paint jobs to try and make it look pretty.
Yes! It is. I am loving it. I can't wait to see the creativity and writing of people that never put music together previously because they were never in a band, that can now complete the band in their own bedroom. Bring back the talent, the flash and the flair of the guitar god!!
Ill give you a topic Check this = "Songs that are recorded one way but played live differently" Case in point most of Metallica live just does not hit right. I am not saying it dont sound good but it does not hit correctly. Take my fav "Jump in the fire" The correct way and you hand is numb afterwards. They play tuned down a half step live anyways but take that song and they change the way they play it all together and it sounds like crap live. Another that bums me is Kiss "Tears are falling". It was recorded tuned up a half step. And they play live tuned down a half step which sounds like crap. And even worse try to find the correct way to play it anywhere
@buzzzmiller 😅😅😅 Thanx Dude ,having been completely inebriated in the 80's I missed the tech side ,but I remember thinking this is the most fantastic time in guitar history, And I do believe I was correct ! After playing Rockabilly the last few years, I'm now in the market for a super strat !
Were you an engineer or a producer at 1 time? Your knowledge is so vast and so spot on, but you're playing is not. Makes me think that you're more behind the scenes than in front.
You nailed it. I play because I need a part, not because I am good. I am also 10 times the guitar tech than I am a guitar player. But I love the instrument and I love what can be made with it. My playing is average, at best.
love this vid... glad theres a metal vid focusing on 80s guitar.. ive been playing 80s metal for 41 yrs.. got Kramer barettas(1 with 24 frets, neck pickup), 2 marshall 100 watt heads, cabs.. yeah its old school, but i get that 80s metal tone
That was a fun video. Cool guitar!
Hey, thanks. Let me know if you want a specific video topic. I'm kinda running out of ideas.
I was there in the 80s scene. Clubs were full of people who wanted to jam. Music stores full of people trying to ape the guy that year.
The crazy crap we had to do to get a good tone. Now it all sits in my floor modeler. Great time to be a beginner playing.
And i hate single coils.
Nice Hamer bro. Truly a classic.
Worth a second comment to say this is a great video and spot on with the advice!
One of the best instructors I’ve seen. Motivating me to want to play guitar 🎸
Hey, thanks. Maybe I will knock off work a bit early and make a new video tonight or tomorrow.
I had a 1987 Washburn G5V in sea foam blue. It was the best era for all genres of music.
Awww man. That is one guitar I always keep an eye out for.
Great video!!!
Hey, thanks. :D
Thank you for the video, Buzz. I am a recent retiree (got out early, too!), that is finally picking the guitar up again after more than 40 years. Life has its way of doing this, but I can still make the best of it. I am very familiar with the 80s music, and Van Halen was definitely a favorite, so those chord progressions will be fun to learn. And you did teach me, and I'm sure others, a thing or two about playing some dirty guitar.
I am kinda in the same boat. I have been in bands for much of my life, but I never took the time to really learn music, learn the guitar and learn other band's songs. All the music that I know is my own music that my band wrote.
I still work a 10 hour day, but I have just enough spare time to finally learn some Boston, Metallica, Tesla, Dream Theater, Tyketto, Lynch, VanHalen, Queensryche and learn enough about the blues that I don't sound like a total hack.
Here is to improving before our fingers stop working!
@@buzzzmiller Thanks for replying! Interesting to hear the backgrounds of different musicians, how they got to where they are.
Happy Holidays!
I also love this vid! The 80s were awesome (I liked the point about 91,92,93....so true).....but I loooove the finish on that guitar 🔥👀🤪.....that is so neat !
I am a bassist who dabbles lightly in guitar, grew up with all the 80's stuff into the mid 90's. So, I don't really have a lot of knowledge in the "how to" of the 80's guitar but definitely have heard these sounds and the bands you mentioned. Halfway thru this I was excitedly sharing to my son who has been getting into guitar over the past couple years, saying how great the info was and the examples of how to get various techniques and sounds done! Then you say it was more of a "throw away" video. Dude, we will be checking into your other stuff cuz I'm seriously impressed with nuggets you drop in just your "throw aways"/" table scraps"! Rock on! 🤟😃🎸👍
Just found your channel. Awesome. I'm 53 now & still plugging away. I've played an old ARIA Pro II with T tops in it since I was 17 & still have that guitar. Lots of 80's stuff has come out of that one. I recently bought a 90's reverse head black Jackson superstrat & Love it. I also bought a Krammer a few years ago. It's an Acoustic. I always thought of Krammer being electric & Van Halen. Anyway , I just Subscribed & look forward to more from you. That's a very nice looking axe you have there.
I have a Jackson Floyd Rose and just picked up a Marshall DSL40C. You may think it’s throwaway information, but I had no clue how to dial everything in. Ton of great info and some things I’ve never put together. Hope to see more throwaway info videos 🤙
I picked up the weirdest things from the strangest places.
If you get even one helpful tip out of one of my videos, then I hope it was worth the time.
This video is awesome, I'm going through a big hair metal / 80s boom at the moment with my writing and some of this has opened up a lot of pathways for me. Basic theory can only get you so far, its only through the teachings of the elders that we can expand our horizons haha. Definitely got me thinking of a few new things, thanks for this man.
I love some of the new stuff, but I can't leave the greatness of the 80's. The people that I really enjoy now are just building on what the 80's created. And I am still waiting on someone to make better guitars than we found in the late 80's and early 90's. Even Charvel, Jackson, Peavey and ESP is getting their best traction with re-issuing 80's models.
Great video, YT actually recommended something interesting for once
I know, right?😆
Hey Buzzz great to have you back! This was a great explanation of the music of my generation. The studio is looking good.
I found that I have a few more ideas. I will have a few new videos late this week.
My schoolfriend had a 36 fret guitar.....it had a sparkly grey finish, with yellow lightning crackle, I thought it was so cool....but it was impossible to use the top of the neck because the frets were so tight 🤣......although, I should add I was struggling to learn "Paranoid" & " You shook me all night long" at the time, heehee....great vid !
I still have a Charvel Predator in Black... great Super Strat...🎸🤓
TESLA \m/
So much guitar going on, in their songs. Especially the early ones. Great songs to learn and great fun to play. “Flight to nowhere” one of my favs. From 1989, I believe.
Being born in 1979 and growing up in the 80's and 90s I completely agree
Best influential guitarist hands down richie sambora. He was amazing back in the 80s and very entertaining to see live.
I never got the chance to see Richie live. I like his stuff, but I fell out of love with BonJovi many years ago.
Maybe I should go back to the early albums and do some studying.
Best video I’ve found on 80s tone. Great job. What kind of guitar is the one in this video?
It is a Hamer Californian.
Judas Priest is still releasing new music that would easily rival the old stuff if the nostalgia wasn’t SO strong.
The 80’s were awesome! I wasn’t really into hair metal but I love 80’s thrash metal and punk! I had a USA made BC Rich Bich and a Gibson Les Paul studio back then and they were amazing guitars. Those were the good ol days!
Guitar with hot bridge humbucker and Floyd/Kahler, Marshall-style amp, Tubescreamer (as a lead boost) chorus for cleans and solos and a wah pedal.
Boom, done
That was it. Right there. That was the formula. Bing - bam - done!
I wish you were my guitar teacher
Cool video, just one niggle! The open B is in both A Major and A Minor scales and its also in the A Minor corresponding C Major scale and the relative minor of A major, the F# minor scale. All open B notes! 🤘😎🤘
I seem to sort of remember playing in the eighties but hell that decade is mostly lost in my memory LOL.
But deriously it was fun. I actually played SGs in the eighties. Les Pauls were kind of uncomfortable to play.
But I definately get what you are saying. I just can't remember. Musicians should know this already.
:D
That's pretty funny.
Yeap I got good stuff out of this vid, cheers
A lot of what you were talking about here I picked up on a long time ago and it still holds true to today. Man Lynch and his bands that cat has been in more band than I have had females and im no slouch. For a lot of that open playing practice I find playing Lifeson tunes will get you to understanding pretty quick but harly anyone now adays wants that jangly stuff. I have never recorded and I am only a legend in my spare bathroom but I have heard tons of guys talk about getting rid of that bottom end. I can see it but I can not live there I love that tight ass chunk. My solution was learning all the songs I can from And Justice For All. dont get me wrong I love to feel that bottom but play 3 or 4 of them songs back to back and youll yearn to cut that bottom down:)
I keep finding myself going back to a more blues based sound and style akin to Mark Kendall I love that kinda blues.
In September I turned the big 50 and My lovely wife saw fit to gift me a Yellow Striped series. That combined with my FM3 and I can sound like anyone I ever didnt want to. I gots the bestus wif evea.
For some strange reason EWETUBE unsubbed me from your channel and I just found you back just letting you know
That is great. The And Justice stuff was the best that Metallica ever put out. I would love to re-mix that album.
You are right about the bedroom sound. Make it full, make it huge and fill the space. Just know what you have to do when you do get with a band and your sound turns to mud. The knowledge is the power. That is a sweet 50th! I didn't get jack for my 50th. I didn't get the bestus wif. I was on the other side of the spectrum.
Keep on rockin' my man!
I'm a huge Lynch fan - Dokken and Lynch Mob. Great tricks and tips here, but Lynch can really stretch. I have small hands, and his pinky is unnatural lol. You earned a sub here just from this video.
He and Paul Gilbert. I think they came from outer space. What is with those stretches? Right!!!
That guitar looks similar my 1987 Tokai VC75 (Vivian Campbell signature that never went into serious production) which was a copy of a custom Rand apparently.
Oh wow. I have heard the rumors of that, but never actually seen one. How friggin' cool is that??
What's the guitar you're using?
That is a Hamer Californian. 1994 model.
@buzzzmiller Sick looking axe. Now I've got another cool guitar on my Reverb alerts list lol, especially if that green one from the thumbnail shows up.
Hello, please tell me what is a guitar?What is the model?and is the guitar's original color, or have you repainted it?
This is a Hamer Californian. I have four of them. (Maybe five) I am not 100% sure of the original color. Most of them came in a gloss over the mahogany body. So they were an amber/yellowish. Here is a photo of mine, and some have yet to be painted. All paint is 100% by me.
buzzzmiller.com/hamers.jpg
Hamer Californication
@@buzzzmiller That blue is amazing! Do you have a color code or something? I would love to paint my guitar that color!! All your guitars are spectacular you have a great eye for color and detail!
@@ScreamingEagleFTW Thank you.
I mix all of my own paint, so there really isn't a color code. It is a base black, then pour the crystals over the black. When the crystals dry, paint the silver. When the silver dries, wash the crystals off. Then add whatever color to your first few layers of clear. All four of my crystal guitars are the same black and silver. Just different tints to the clear after that.
@@buzzzmiller wow thats amazing talent!
i clicked because of teh green guitar - when i saw the blue guitar i instantly reported for missinformation
:D Awesome!! Darn that fake news and bad misinformation!!
I'll use the green one on the next video, just for you.
What is the blue guitar?
@@KevinRoadrageGarage It is a late 1992 Hamer Californian. Modified to a 14.5" to 17.5" conical radius fretboard. Giant stainless frets on an asymmetrical neck. The neck joint is beefs the mahogany body with three large tubes of carbon fiber and vinylester resin. The headstock is weighted and stiffened with three pieces of tungsten. Dimarzio Gravity Storm pickup in the bridge. (my new favorite pickup) and a Dimarzio cruiser in the neck. (both with coil splitting options.) This guitar doesn't sound like a strat. It EQs and runs like a Les Paul. It just has a different frequency and some girth down low.
And, of course, one of my basic paint jobs to try and make it look pretty.
guitar is making a silent come back, ENDLESS inspiration with AI as your personal in house band member to run ideas off
Yes! It is.
I am loving it. I can't wait to see the creativity and writing of people that never put music together previously because they were never in a band, that can now complete the band in their own bedroom.
Bring back the talent, the flash and the flair of the guitar god!!
Ill give you a topic Check this = "Songs that are recorded one way but played live differently"
Case in point most of Metallica live just does not hit right. I am not saying it dont sound good but it does not hit correctly. Take my fav "Jump in the fire" The correct way and you hand is numb afterwards. They play tuned down a half step live anyways but take that song and they change the way they play it all together and it sounds like crap live. Another that bums me is Kiss "Tears are falling". It was recorded tuned up a half step. And they play live tuned down a half step which sounds like crap. And even worse try to find the correct way to play it anywhere
Who is this dude and why does he keep saying we like he was a part of that mythical cult of 80s guitarists lol
He is just a Wannabe. That is all.
@buzzzmiller 😅😅😅 Thanx Dude ,having been completely inebriated in the 80's I missed the tech side ,but I remember thinking this is the most fantastic time in guitar history, And I do believe I was correct ! After playing Rockabilly the last few years, I'm now in the market for a super strat !
Were you an engineer or a producer at 1 time? Your knowledge is so vast and so spot on, but you're playing is not. Makes me think that you're more behind the scenes than in front.
You nailed it. I play because I need a part, not because I am good. I am also 10 times the guitar tech than I am a guitar player. But I love the instrument and I love what can be made with it. My playing is average, at best.