The most intense vibrato in blues-rock, backed by hard rock firepower.
Screaming Les Paul sustain with violent vibrato and a Tube Screamer push
The gear associated with the sound. Each item opens a live Reverb search — vintage examples where they exist, modern equivalents where they don't.
Fat, sustaining Les Paul neck-pickup lead with an almost orchestral vibrato — the tone that defined blues-rock in the 1990s.
One note held for what feels like a minute, kept alive by amp feedback and vibrato alone.
The hard rock era: bright, aggressive and heavily compressed, closer to a superstrat sound.
Wide stereo chorus and long delay wrapped around a mid-heavy lead — the most 1980s tone in his catalogue.
Mahogany, maple and two humbuckers — the recipe behind most of the riffs you learned first. Heavier and darker than a bolt-on, but it pushes an amp's front end in a way nothing else quite replicates.
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