Gary Moore

[Copperhead]

I used to have a VHS of a Gary Moore concert. Don’t know what happened to it, but bought two similar ones off ebay. One has BB as a guest on two songs, one has Albert Collins and Albert King as guests. I don’t remember any guests on the one I had before, but they are similar in content, especially in the level of intensity pure emotion of GM’s playing.

Here’s an example from YouTube, probably taken from one of the concerts I have:

And here’s his masterpiece Parisienne Walkways, although this one is from Montreux:

And I still find this amazing (jealous feelings in control), Toby Lee and Uncle Nigel with a cover:

As an aside, I hear a lot of GM in Joe Bonamassa’s playing. I know JB is on stage with lots of others (Neal Schon lately). I would have loved to see him on stage with Gary Moore.

[Dave Pickering]

Damn did that man have incredible tone!

Trivia: The guitar Gary is playing is a ’59 Les Paul originally owned by former Fleetwood Mac guitarist Peter Green. When Gary passed away, the guitar was sold to Kirk Hammett of Metallica. (Also note that the neck pickup is backwards.)

My biggest fear is when I die, my wife will sell my guitars for what I told her they cost.

[Copperhead]

Totally forgot about the Peter Green connection. And the strange wiring….Thanks for that. Fleetwood Mac’s English Rose was the first thing that turned me on to music that wasn’t the Surf, Motown, or folk (Simon and Garfunkel) that I grew up on with AM radio in Texas.

And yes, great tone, and as I was watching some of those concerts….great intonation. I know how we always talk about vibrato, but Gary would bend a note and hold it for minutes, without vibrato, and be perfect (at least to my ear) every time.
I use vibrato because I CAN’T hit the perfect note when I bend (unfortunately).

And as good a blues and rock player as he was, to me, it’s his melodic sense that I think sets him apart. Like Neal Schon’s solos fit the song and have a melody of their own, not just “widdle widdle”. Parisienne Walkways says it all about Gary’s playing.

[rightonthemark]

i’m with you on the bends.
vibrato and delay are my remedies for sloppy bends.
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rock and roll ain't pretty; that's why they picked us to play it.

[superblonde]

Copperhead wrote:

Gary would bend a note and hold it for minutes, without vibrato, and be perfect (at least to my ear) every time.

what gauge strings did he use and on which guitar, always LP?

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[Dave Pickering]

what gauge strings did he use and on which guitar, always LP?

Per the November 2019 issue of Guitar World (the “Blues Blowout” issue), Gary Moore used Dean Markley stings 0.010-0.052

My biggest fear is when I die, my wife will sell my guitars for what I told her they cost.

[Copperhead]

Don’t have more info, other than the original VHS I had, he played a much overdriven Esquire on at least one song. One of the new tapes, he plays a Tele I think, and maybe a Strat. I think I saw a video of him during his Hard Rock phase playing more of a “Metal” type guitar.

He played a Strat on the 50th Anniversary for the Strat concert, but I don’t think it was his.

[rorygfan]

And the melody influence… thanks to the internet. Never knew.

[Dave Pickering]

Here’s a good rundown of Gary Moore’s guitars and gear. The most interesting tid-bit is that Gary owned the 1952 Les Paul that Robin Trower played when he was a member of Procol Harum.

My biggest fear is when I die, my wife will sell my guitars for what I told her they cost.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 5 months ago by Dave Pickering.

[sky blue metal]

Gary was always top of his game.

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