John Norum giving a guided tour of his gear

[glennsko]

Hi, I thought I would share this with everyone. I've never been able to find any good info on what John uses aside from 2205's, and what I read on a fan site that he uses greenberg speaker woofers !

check it out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lE4dwd_4fHY" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[glennsko]

and this one too....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coU2CO42 ... re=related" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[yngwie308]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi0h6ISd ... re=channel" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
like this one too..
and these:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX_kJjLWG7s&NR=1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEgTEbxa ... re=related" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
yngwie308

[Tone Slinger]

John Norum is one of my favorite lead guitarist. He blends all of my favorite elements togather. He has great influences of Blackmore, Schenker, Roth and Moore, along with a singular melodic sense.

I remember reading an old Guitar For The Practicing Musician article where Kee Marcello, Johns replacement in Europe back in '87, was sorta slagging him (John). Kee said that John tried to play TOO fast and that his picking was off. I thought this smacked of jealousy. John played more great solo's on "The Final Countdown" alone, than Kee Marcello ever has in his whole career.

Those Marshall JCM 800 2205 models vary a bit in thier sound/circuit. The one's from sometime in late '87 to early '88 on (till the last of them were sold by '90), were very similar to the jubilee, except they (2205) had a hair more gain and clarity as compared to the Jubilee.

Schenker has gotten some pretty good tones from the 2205 model as well. I think those guy's (Schenker and Norum) have alway's used Marshall's and that the 2205 was,to them, the perfect balance of the "Old and New".

I think they compress a little open headroom out of the sound a bit too much, especially on distorted rhythms. Still, a great upper mid voiced amp for sure.

[yngwie308]

John Norum is one of my favorite lead guitarist. He blends all of my favorite elements togather. He has great influences of Blackmore, Schenker, Roth and Moore, along with a singular melodic sense.

I remember reading an old Guitar For The Practicing Musician article where Kee Marcello, Johns replacement in Europe back in '87, was sorta slagging him (John). Kee said that John tried to play TOO fast and that his picking was off. I thought this smacked of jealousy. John played more great solo's on "The Final Countdown" alone, than Kee Marcello ever has in his whole career.

Those Marshall JCM 800 2205 models vary a bit in thier sound/circuit. The one's from sometime in late '87 to early '88 on (till the last of them were sold by '90), were very similar to the jubilee, except they (2205) had a hair more gain and clarity as compared to the Jubilee.

Schenker has gotten some pretty good tones from the 2205 model as well. I think those guy's (Schenker and Norum) have alway's used Marshall's and that the 2205 was,to them, the perfect balance of the "Old and New".

I think they compress a little open headroom out of the sound a bit too much, especially on distorted rhythms. Still, a great upper mid voiced amp for sure.

Billy I totally agree about John being a hybrid player, I almost said the same thing myself, he has the note feel and vibrato of Gary Moore, yet can get shreddy when he wants to and I prefer him to Aldrich,and later years Sykes (please no flame wars!) Interestingly he loves the SDD-3000 delay and I have the triple delay SDD-3300, he is right about the great tone of these units, also using KT 88's in the 50 watt heads adds another dimension, plus he isn't afraid to use EMG's
I remember an interview in the eighties with Gary Moore, well it was one of those where they play ten records and have to guess who it is and rate the artists.
Gary was played "Final Countdown" by Europe and he said, "Spare me from Europe, their guitars sound like mine..ect.!"
I know John has always admired Gary and I see some of Schenker and Jake E. Lee as well in his playing and using 50 watters.
Kee Marcello, please.. he needs to smoke less weed for sure, he is just weird and is off for me.
I have been really listening to Blackmore lately, from the classical years , in my Tommy Bolin research and he is such a solid great player, just became more impatient and easily bored and distracted with Purple, not all their fault and then with Rainbow, continues in the same vein, I always fail to understand that.
The Deep Purple CD Live at Long Beach Arena, previously known as "On The Wings of A Russian Foxbat", shows how brilliantly Bolin meshed with the MK IV lineup in the beginning and if only he had stayed on a straighter path, he could have become even more legendary.I don't mean to jump this thread, but Bolin was the consummate well rounded player, admired by people like John McLaughlin, ect.
yngwie308