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Adrian playing a deluxe kinda trips me out...
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No way, man! That's Original Gangsta Adrian Smith style right there!Originally Posted by Luke Duke
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Adrian's minis sounded kick ass. I've got to get an LP with a set of those.
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My favorite Adrian Smith tones are definitely the ones with that Deluxe. Especially on his solos.
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P.S. Bruce Dickinson played that Deluxe for a song or two during some live shows.
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The stock pickups that came with the Les Paul Classic were very hot, ceramic pickups that sounded a bit harsh and not smooth like that video. It's definitely not a PAF Pro in the neck since it has regular pole pieces. It's possible, but he probably changed them.
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It has a Super Distortion in the bridge. He almost never uses the neck pickup.
Also, the DiMarzio site says Dave Murray uses the Super Distortion (in his signature Strat) and the 36th Anniversary PAF neck AND bridge, so it could be those in the LP.
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Smith's deluxe has a superdistortion in the bridge.
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It does NOW. Go back and watch some earler videos.
I don't know when he routed it out and put the Super D in there, but I guess the Mini's weren't cutting it LOL!
FWIW, I've never had an axe with minis, I'm not opposed to trying one, but we just haven't crossed pathes. I think the look a little funny, I'm too used to the look of full sized humbuckers.
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It already had a super D in the Live at the Rainbow video, recorded in late 1980.
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I have no clue on the pickups, but I had to comment. He's my favourite Maiden guitarist of the 3. I just love the smooth legato, and bluesy stuff that he puts into his solos. His playing just rocks.
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Me too, my brother was a huge Maiden fan and I took him to see them back during the Powerslave tour. I like seeing Dave with a Les Paul and the tones were very nice indeed.
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One of the things I love about Dave Murray is the fact that he had one of the most badass rock guitars ever. Beautiful '50's Strat. ****in' classic. Then you look and there are two beastly humbuckers with rings! One of the few sig models I would love to own. (And the funny thing is that the Wayne Kramer is one of the only other ones, and it has the exact opposite pickup configuration, with the bucker in the middle.)
Adrian's Deluxe already had the full-sized bridge bucker for the Live at the Rainbow show, which was just barely 1980.
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a super D and some noiseless singles should get you in the general area
but nailing maiden stuff is no easy task, those guys are superhuman
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Adrian tried a few pups in his GT before settling on the Super D and the original mini. There are pics of it with cream Dimarzio P90s.
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I used to go and watch Adrian playing at my local pub with his band Urchin in 1979-1980. The last time I saw Urchin was August 1980. They had actually split by then but reformed to play a party for the barmaid's birthday. My band played first!
Whilst in Urchin Adrian always played the goldtop Deluxe. I think it was his only guitar, and it still had both mini humbuckers. As ItsaBass says it appears to have a full size bridge humbucker in the Live At The Rainbow show, which I believe dates from 1981.
Jeff, I suspect the cream Dimarzios you mention were DLX-1s. They were cream-coloured high output humbuckers with double rows of hex polepieces designed as direct replacements for mini hums / P90s. I put a pair of those in my own Deluxe in the early eighties.
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This is pretty cool.
http://www.seymourduncan.com/blog/ba...n-and-seymour/
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IME, the key to Maiden stuff is that it needs to be at least two guitars and a dominant and melodic bass...and they are usually playing almost exactly the same rhythms, just different notes. Add to that the fact that the bass is usually tripling the riff. And very rarely are full chords played. It's mostly single line or two-note parts. It's an extremely choral sound, almost like a brass band. And if any part of it is missing, it sounds bizarre. It sounds awful practicing it alone; it can make you seem like you aren't getting it. But once you do it in a band, it's not as hard as it seems.
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Another perfect example of a band where the whole is greater than the sum of it's parts.
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He should also bring out the Lado guitars he used on the Powerslave tour.
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