new Steve Stevens

ToneDog · Post by **ToneDog** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 9:34 pm

Now THIS sounds cool. Can't wait.
http://www.magnacarta.net/stevestevens/street.html

yngwie308 · Post by **yngwie308** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 12:20 am

2kewl4shure..

Been waiting since last year.
http://forum.metroamp.com/viewtopic.php?t=13802

yngwie308

yngwie308 · Post by **yngwie308** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 1:00 am

Incredibly awesome having listened to these snippets tonight, Doug Pinnick on "Day of the Eagle", too cool.
Great nylon string work by Steve as always and this is a great work, but more rocky, then Flamenco A Go Go.
Can't wait until January 29th!
yngwie308

ToneDog · Post by **ToneDog** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 6:27 pm

http://www.myspace.com/stevestevensmemorycrash

yngwie308 · Post by **yngwie308** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 9:08 am

Steve of course has his collection of vintage Marshalls, I read he borrowed a large amount of John Suhr's vintage equipment for this record as well.
Steve has always collected vintage effects as well, so I wouldn't be suprised to see some of those on the record as well.
Hopefully Steve will attract some new fans, away from the Idol circle.

yngwie308

yngwie308 · Post by **yngwie308** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 6:12 pm

From 2006 Jump and Eyes Without A Face:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2b5ppp_WWw&feature=user
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyEhPRb9Dpo&feature=user
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCQRyjBO-1
yngwie308

JD · Post by JD » Mon Jan 21, 2008 5:54 pm

Man I love "Moonshadow". Oh wait, that was Cat Stevens.

HARLEYIII · Post by **HARLEYIII** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 2:25 pm

I cant stand most 80's stuff, but I have always liked Steve Stevens. Great player and great sound. I saw him with Billy Idol at Memphis in May a couple years ago.

rockstah · Post by **rockstah** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 5:43 pm

are u kidding me?

i loved every bit of the 80's... all of it!

the 80's had just as much importance of any other decade of the development of guitar and music... like the music or not one of the biggest developments as far as guitar playing goes came from the 80's!

Steve Stevens is what i call a guitar players guitar player. he is a result of listing to whats been going on around him. great player? yes he is. innovative? yeah sure he is. creative? completely.
hes done a great job of borrowing the vocabulary of others before him and saying something with it.
do i respect him as a player? completely.

i just had to respond to such an absolutely bizarre statement!.... to me that is

Mark

yngwie308 · Post by **yngwie308** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 12:59 am

I updated the Steve Stevens Wilkipedia site a few months back with data about his Washburn guitars:
Steve then worked with Washburn guitars custom shop to produce the Steve Stevens Signature Series.This comprised of three versions, two produced in the Chicago custom shop and a mass produced model made in Korea, the SS40. These guitars, first produced in 1993,were the SS80 and the much more rarer SS100. The technical specifications of the two American made models were identical,the differences were cosmetic with the SS100 having a white front and a black sides and back. Located on the front of the guitar was a Frankenstein's monster airbrushed graphic.The SS80 was produced in solid black with gold hardware, the SS100 having black anodized hardware. Both guitars were fitted with the treble side of the pickups angled towards the neck. These pickups were Seymor Duncan JB models, with the SS80 having gold plated polepieces.The bodies were poplar,a Schaller licenced flush mounted Floyd Rose tremelo, with an R2 nut was used.The neck was a 22 fret, one piece quarter sawn rock maple, with a walnut skunk stripe,pearl dot inlays and Dunlop 6110 fret wire.Rare first run models have an unfinished headstock on the SS80 with a Famous Monsters Washburn logo,later models have body color headstocks with both the Monsters type logo and a script logo.Steve played the 1993 NAMM show for Washburn,made the aforementioned videos with the Vince Neil Band,but when the tour started in 1993 with Van Halen, Steve had apparently left Washburn and was using Ernie Ball-Musicman guitars given to him by Eddie. Steve recently collaborated with Bare Knuckles a pickup manufacturer from England, to produce his signature model Rebel Yell pickup model. These can come with Steve's trademark rayguns etched onto the covers. Steve has a new album Memory Crash due out on January 29, 2008. Currently he uses new model Gibson ([Les Paul]) models, fitted with Tone Pros locking bridge systems.
I recently found through You Tube, this guy in Portugal, who has an SS80 with black headstock, that his friend gave him after finding it in a basement, it has the double adjustable truss rod, which is rare and the first I've seen besides mine.
Mark's comments are valid, Steve has always soaked up his influences and uses them to shape his own unique vocabulary and that's what makes him so killer. Also he is not ashamed to list his influences.
Best of luck Steve with the great new album.
yngwie308

chubs · Post by **chubs** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 8:05 am

He has his signature model Rebel Yell pickup model by Bare Knuckles of UK.

NY Chief · Post by **NY Chief** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 10:36 am

rockstah wrote:are u kidding me? i loved every bit of the 80's... all of it!

the 80's had just as much importance of any other decade of the development of guitar and music... like the music or not one of the biggest developments as far as guitar playing goes came from the 80's!

Mark

That is very definitley determined by your frame of reference. I'm sure anybody that was around to wtiness Hendrix first hand would say that was the groundbreaking time. Those who experienced Gene Vincent, Cliff Gallup, et all would probably say that was THE time. Guys who got on board when EVH hit would probably say then. I would have to say the late 60's and 70's were when the most innovative, groundbreaking great songs and tones were happening. Of course the state of the music biz and radio was much more open to diverse music then the shit ass formula crap we hear now. My 2 cents...

rockstah · Post by **rockstah** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 10:51 am

uhhh

OK. my frame of reference? hmmm I'm well aware of everything you mentioned. it appears to me that your frame of reference is possibly the one in question.
i understand what u r saying but again if u even paid attention in the 80's u would understand the point I'm making about that decade.

i don't want to get in a pissing contest as to what decade was better, thats not the point i was making. the only point i made was 80's was important and now that you mention it it was just as important as the 60's or 70's as far as the developement and maturity of the guitar.

i think u are making the mistake and letting what you like to listen to get in the way. i can appreciate and understand the elements of music without actually liking the music.

actually feel free to piss some more.

Mark

NY Chief · Post by **NY Chief** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 12:17 pm

oh yeah!?!?! Well double

You're absolutely right, Mark I do let what I like or sounds good to me color my opinion. To me it has to. Sure I appreciate the necessary talent and practice that goes into any kind of art. But there is a point where if I jsut don't like the music or worse, moves me in the wrong direction I can't give it credibility (rap for instance) I didn't mean your frame of reference specifically. Music is your business and your life. I would expect you to be more in tune, you have to.

That said I do think the music that was created was much more diverse in the 60's - 70's before corporate greed took over and every label needed their version of the flavor of the day. There's a lot of stuff I do like and appreciate from the 80's, a lot of stuff I might not like too much but appreciate and lot of stuff I consider very second rate from the 80's.

That's just one man's opinion.

NY Chief · Post by **NY Chief** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 12:17 pm

piss,...piss...piss