In an interview with GUITAR WORLD from September 1983 Steve explains a bit about creating the harmony chords and sounds of the Pyromania album: While Def Leppard’s previous LP [High n Dry] demonstrated the guitar team’s ability to play harmonies, Pyromania shows a different approach to a popular technique. “Thin Lizzy was one of the first heavy rock bands to use guitar harmonies,” says Clark, “and many others were influenced by it. But I think it’s a bit dated now, which is one reason we didn’t want to do them on Pyromania. We did harmonies on our last album, but we didn’t want to get in a rut of being a guitar harmony band. So on the current album we do them on the chords instead, because I think that is taking the harmony thing a step further. “We wanted to get the right guitar sound for every song,” Clark continues, “so we had to do a lot of overdubbing on Pyromania, which is something we haven’t done too much of in the past. On some of the songs we laid down two tracks of Les Paul for the low end, two tracks of SG’s for the mid-range and then two tracks of Telecasters for the highs. By mixing them all together we got a full spectrum of guitar sound.” Read the full article here: steveclarkguitar/articles-and-interviews/tune-ups
Posted on: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 19:59:19 +0000