Gear Talk - Doug Aldrich (The Dead Daisies, Dio, Whitesnake)

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5 ай бұрын

From his snotty guitar playing to his blonde hair, Doug Aldrich is definitely one of the guitar legends of rock. Even greats like Dio, Burning Rain or Whitesnake, as well as companies like Blackstar, couldn't resist his full, unmistakable tone.
At the concert of his current band "The Dead Daisies" in Vienna in December 2023, we therefore had no choice but to pay him a short visit and ask him a few questions...
From his first encounters with the guitar to his rise to the Doug we know and love today, he gave us a little insight into his life as a former fanboy, musician and guitar lover.
Rock on, Doug! 🤘🎸
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@robertspreitzer8126 5 ай бұрын

The dude just doesn’t age one of my all time favorite guitar players. Loved his very first band LION.

@RayC234 5 ай бұрын

I don't give two shits what amp he uses Doug Aldrich is a cool dude and one hell of a bad ass fucking guitar player.

@Juaniguitarra86 5 ай бұрын

Doug is always such a cool dude! And MONSTER player, of course!

@peterkerr9822 5 ай бұрын

Loving that Custom 😮❤

@jake.e.wanabee5333 5 ай бұрын

Legend in his own right. The man can meticulously replicate Viv Campbell, John Sykes & still make it his own, and with Dead Daisies, his own compositions that rock. thanks Doug

@peterkerr9822 5 ай бұрын

Killer tone as always Doug😊🎸🤘

@bobomud 5 ай бұрын

Got to love Doug!

@bigdaddymojo2005 2 ай бұрын

BADASS!!!!!!!! He is desperatley unsung....one of the BEST...in the TOP 10 guitarists of all time for me...Incredible TONE...a TRUE BADASS!

@gitarman666 5 ай бұрын

Always nice to see real tube amps and stomps, nothing beats them live, my axefx3 are just pretty lights in the rack, but to be fare the effects are pretty good and routing options are nice

@xprophet9 Ай бұрын

Dial that bad boy in with mission speakers and you’ll never think about tubes again 😎❤️

@rareform6747 5 ай бұрын

I play the AMPS then Guitar . Aldrich Always Never Let Us Down ! One of my Drummers gave me Tinnitus 66 years old ..

@angusorvid8840 5 ай бұрын

Great player! On the subject of Les Pauls, they sound great, play great, but I can't handle the weight, so hats off to Doug Aldrich for being able to play one of these things concert after concert. I always leaned more towards the lighter Les Pauls, SGs, PRS, and strats. The Les Paul works great for Doug's style.

@TheLochs 5 ай бұрын

I actually have a 70's Strat that is heavier than my Les Paul. Its a tank, but it sounds great. I love Les Pauls but they are uncomfortable for me.

@angusorvid8840 5 ай бұрын

Fender went nuts in the 70s and made a number of strats out of pure maple which is nuts in my book. A part of what makes some Les Pauls heavy is the maple top, and sometimes maple necks. Mahogany is a funny wood in that it's not always heavy and doesn't always need chambering for weight relief. I would rather have an unchambered piece of lighter mahogany. Also, I'm not crazy about what a maple top adds. I would rather just use a brighter pickup in a mahogany ax like a Duncan JB or Custom rather than have a slap of maple on top. @@TheLochs

@2113rush 5 ай бұрын

I still have a Marshall JCM 800 50 Watt 2204 that I bought new in 1983. Great distortion with a Boss SD-1 in front. Played hundreds of gigs with it. But.. it’s a one trick pony. If you need a great switchable clean channel live you can’t do it it with that amp. You have to have basically have a clean rig and a dirty rig that you switch with an A/B pedal. Pain in the butt. 60 Cycle hums and other nonsense. I love the the new amps like my Landry LS100 G. I don’t get paid to promote them but it’s a fantastic amp. Hand built by Bill Landry and it does everything perfectly. Killer dirty with no distortion pedals and killer clean channel with effects loop. I wish the Marshall had the same features.

@lukerangdan8557 5 ай бұрын

Doug the Beast

@fasteagle9959 5 ай бұрын

Doug did the Jimmy Church bumper. 🔥

@TVoltG 5 ай бұрын

So many people are pissed about him playing Blackstars. 😂

@sergiiantonov565 5 ай бұрын

This is how business works…

@jasonlewis5350 5 ай бұрын

Yes, and not only are they pissed, they’re all exceedingly more knowledgeable about amplification and live sound than Doug the professional musician. You gotta love the inter webs.

@TVoltG 5 ай бұрын

@@jasonlewis5350 exactly

@TVoltG 5 ай бұрын

@@sergiiantonov565 oh I know. When I was in the "Business", I learned that everyone wants to tear you down.

@jasonlewis5350 5 ай бұрын

@@TVoltG ain’t that the truth.

@KowankoMusic 5 ай бұрын

I didn't quite get how he's routing his signal to the TalkBox *and* to the amp simultaneously via the Boss tuner. Did anyone else comprehend that?

@JudgeFredd 5 ай бұрын

@GerryBlue 5 ай бұрын

So what of Blackstar are made in China? They sound great, and Marshall are not British owned anymore

@heavymetal6910 5 ай бұрын

Blackstar my ass !! Doug's tone is cranked marshall

@CSorglos 5 ай бұрын

I was in Pratteln, Switzerland, in 2023 for their show. Doug often turned to look at his Blackstar amp, and I do mean often, and man did he look - let's say - confused. I think something wasn't working. Guess what: it was Blackstar! ;-)

@jimjim7008 5 ай бұрын

I don't know but Doug sounds much better with his Gibson Les Paul standard gold top. That custom sounds way dark not his style at all. Always great hearing Doug talk you never get bored

@philipdesailles5286 5 ай бұрын

Should try Friedman Amplifier's

@MrJackrockerman 5 ай бұрын

He clearly not comfortable with the interviewer.. when Doug tell about his pedal Magic Box..the interviewer make laugh of it.. 💆 it just not nice.. and don't interrupt the musician when they give their opinion about pedals they have.. Because they are professional.. they know what tools suitable and works for their music..

@jake.e.wanabee5333 5 ай бұрын

Not sure where you are from, but I don't think this particular Austrian/German interviewer is aware of courtesy, or even the awareness to allow freedom in the person being interviewed to divulge from the topic at hand or to speak freely without interruption. After all, Doug is the person with the experience, knowledge and gold records. The fat sausage eating interviewer is just that. Doug plays guitar with legends like DIO and Whitesnake🤘🤘, Fat balding interviewer, with no real skills just eats Bratwurst🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭

@jesterraj 5 ай бұрын

He was a marshall user.why the change?

@dalenicholas1984 5 ай бұрын

Marshall are losing big names on a weekly basis it seems. Marshall have dropped the ball and been using cheaper foreign sourced components in their flagship amplifiers....JCM800X and the 1959/1987 SLP models as well I believe. Fitting Vietnamese made transformers and such. Nothing inherently wrong with cheaper foreign built parts, but don't try and fool customers by using the same component codes as the UK made parts and then keep the sale price at premium.

@jesterraj 5 ай бұрын

@@dalenicholas1984 money hungry board memebers.....no workin class musican for the musiicians no more

@Stefan- 5 ай бұрын

@@dalenicholas1984 I dont know the details or anything but if these parts are perhaps made to the same specfications with the same material it doesnt matter what country they are made in really. The newest Marshall product i own is a JMP1 preamp though which is around 30 years old and all my Marshall products are made in England so i do get that they are expected to be made purely in England but thats not how it works in general these days when it comes to electronics and i know that since i have worked in electronics since the 80´s. Sometimes there are also no possible suppliers in the country anymore, i dont think Marshall ever made the transformers themselves and that of course goes for most components and where these components are made has changed through the decades and you have to source them where you can find them and also at a reasoanble price to be able to sell the final product.

@dalenicholas1984 5 ай бұрын

@@Stefan- Agree with everything you said. What I have issue with, is Marshall claiming that the JCM800X is a faithful recreation of the original JCM800 with the addition of a fx loop, then changing out the Dagnall transformers for cheap Asian built transformers and not changing the cost of the amplifier to reflect this change. The Asian transformers are built differently and also quite noisy. Having said this, I recently purchased a Marshall SC20H and love it, all the 800 grunt in a manageable package.

@EdBenji 5 ай бұрын

Should have stuck to his Marshall's!

@jake.e.wanabee5333 5 ай бұрын

He's moving to Marshmallow's🤣😂

@captainbeyond7469 5 ай бұрын

Doug better lay off the hot dogs he’s getting a gut on him. lol 😂

@Nghilifa 5 ай бұрын

You noticed that too eh? 😂

@captainbeyond7469 5 ай бұрын

@@Nghilifa lol 😂

@jake.e.wanabee5333 5 ай бұрын

The fat balding interviewer with no comedic strain in his body is trying to lure Doug from Blackstar to Bratwurst🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭😂🤣😂🤣. I hear it pays well in calories🤣😂🤣😂

@kevinandrigo6415 5 ай бұрын

What is he, 60? Give the dude a break.. on tour all the time, eating greasy european pub food.. he could look a hell of a lot worse :P

@hadleymanmusic 5 ай бұрын

U play real good and yiur band sounds like. " different "

@srh361 5 ай бұрын

Can't believe he's with Blackstar, they may sound good ( not great) but their cheaply made in China.

@Dave-fh4jw 5 ай бұрын

“ how did you find Blackstar?” Basically, when they decided to pay me a shit load of money to talk about them and play them, that’s when I found them and I’m gonna keep finding them until that runs out. He probably doesn’t even have one at home lol. 😂 this rant was bought to you by the word them. 😂

@IAmSteveMarks 5 ай бұрын

Laughable.

@scarreefty 5 ай бұрын

An all made inside and out Chinese marshall still goin to sound better than almost anything their just that good .. insane player but maybe Go back to Marshall 🎉

@garyslash7552 5 ай бұрын

Having left Marshall, he should have gone back to the amp Engl made for him some time in the past (, which now has become the Artist Edition) instead of playing this humming and hissing piece of ... made in China

@CSorglos 5 ай бұрын

Korea ;-)

@garettoverstreet 5 ай бұрын

I just sent an email enquiring if they still had a UK line, & they responded no, just CHINA.😢

@jessetate9701 5 ай бұрын

Blackstar rocks! Plus JJN rocks them same with brother Gus G

@sahlomonic 5 ай бұрын

We found the ignorant boomer

@sahlomonic 5 ай бұрын

Every amp hums and hisses - and it increases with gain. If they don't it's because of a noise gate in the signal chain or the amp is turned off

@wutw.4677 5 ай бұрын

I wish he changed his guitar from Gibson to other as well. He has been using it for a long time.

@midnightroses2879 5 ай бұрын

he plays and promotes Blackstar when it makes money! He normally plays vintage Marshall, he doesn't care as long as it makes money then everything is fine! If you get the most for nothing then that's all a bonus, right? All those KZfaq Rig Rundown videos of all those so-called Heroes are all nonsense. If you buy an EVH guitar you won't be able to play like Eddie (RIP) and even if you practice 24 hours a day, forget about it! Doug is a great guitarist, but those videos are all complete nonsense! .

@Stefan- 5 ай бұрын

Artists has always done this pretty much maybe even since before The Beatles got their deal with Vox fairly early on, equipment costs a lot of money and touring can put quite a strain on it and most artist make fairly little money as well actually so they of course have to try and do more with less money. I of course agree that the equipment doesnt make the playing, a great guitarplayer can make almost any amp sing while a not so great might not make even the best amp sound decent, these are tools of the trade and you are not magically a great carpenter if a you have a great hammer.