Members cavemanic Posted March 25, 2009 Members Share Posted March 25, 2009 apparently korn were inspired by carcass and morbid angel I know georgie emmanuel used 7 strings on the 2nd album covenant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mr R Gecko Posted March 25, 2009 Members Share Posted March 25, 2009 Max c only uses 4 strings and you cant get much better than old sepultura. You really can. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members EdgeOfDarkness Posted March 25, 2009 Author Members Share Posted March 25, 2009 You really can.lies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cobrahead1030 Posted March 25, 2009 Members Share Posted March 25, 2009 korn was the first band i know of using 7's, they definitely put them on the map, tho i know they were around before then (obviously had to be, or the guys in korn couldn't have bought them) i've always wondered who were the early metal bands to tune down to B or A on 6 strings tho Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members newholland Posted March 25, 2009 Members Share Posted March 25, 2009 big joe williams.. i think he used 9 strings.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Toshiro Posted March 25, 2009 Members Share Posted March 25, 2009 Too bad no one could afford one back then. Korn is WAY more mainstream with a much bigger impact than Morbid Angel. Too bad they couldn't hold Trey's jock strap. Sorry, but trendy bull{censored} aside, the first "band" I ever saw using 7 strings was Morbid Angel, not Korn. Whether the little teens at the mall agree is not important to me. 8i5LvR5YRcY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Digital Jams Posted March 25, 2009 Members Share Posted March 25, 2009 I think the deal was that Vai had the U7 made, and no one bought them. Later, Munky and Head found good deals on em in Bakersfield pawn shops and decided to give em a try, and they dug em. So while may players have played 7 strings, it was indeed the popularity of Korn that resurrected the Vai 7... IIRC, Ibanez had stopped making them. "The Maestro Alex Gregory" had Fender make him a 7 string strat earlier than Vai's 7 string so he could play the Caprices (he later had BC Rich make an extended scale 5 string tuned in fifths. That caught on like testicle waxing). And as mentioned, George Van Eps, Howard Alden, Lenny Breau, Bucky Pizarrelli and others had played 7 strings in a Jazz context years before. But I think Korn does deserve some credit for trying something new. Limp Biskit were Korn protoges, brought on tour with them, and I think "3 dollar bill$ y'all" was released on Korn's vanity label. Christ {censored}ing Christ half way down this train wreck to find an answer that has merit................HC/UG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Uncle_Milton Posted March 25, 2009 Members Share Posted March 25, 2009 It was Vai The universe was one of the first readily available 7 strings out there. Then bands like MA and Korn copped the sound from Vai, they admit to it. Korn made them popular amongst {censored}ty players. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JonVengeance Posted March 25, 2009 Members Share Posted March 25, 2009 Korn didn't get one until 2001, 7 years after their debut.Doesn't change the fact that more than a few kids tuned into Beavis and Butthead enough to have seen said Morbid Angel video, and the first use of a 7 in a metal video on Mtv. This is wrong. Rocky George used a white Universe 7-string in the "You Can't Bring Me Down" video from 1990. [YOUTUBE][/YOUTUBE] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Toshiro Posted March 25, 2009 Members Share Posted March 25, 2009 Forgot about that one. In my defense, as I kid I didn't even realize that was a 7(do now, but back then Rocky = RG750/770 in my mind), while it's blatant with all the low Bb in "GoE". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Exocaster Posted March 25, 2009 Members Share Posted March 25, 2009 i've always wondered who were the early metal bands to tune down to B or A on 6 strings tho I've wondered this myself. I fully endorse this question. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mr_GoodBomb Posted March 25, 2009 Members Share Posted March 25, 2009 I dont see too many jazz or rock guys playing 7's, its mainly nu-metal that got it popular...then the doom, djent and so forth.thats the main buyers of them. Well, you seem incredibly informed without any alterations to your logic needed, so I'll just be going. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Eschatologist Posted March 25, 2009 Members Share Posted March 25, 2009 When did Morbid Angel start using em? 92 or 93? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Eschatologist Posted March 25, 2009 Members Share Posted March 25, 2009 First time I saw one was in the Morbid Angel video for God of Emptiness, in 1993 or 1994. That was an Ibanez UV7BK IIRC.Here is its. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members alarumed Posted March 25, 2009 Members Share Posted March 25, 2009 Shotgun Messiah was the first band I ever saw use them. Terrible band though. Worst of the hair metal era. Nitro bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Johnny Z Posted March 25, 2009 Members Share Posted March 25, 2009 Some Jazz guitarist have been using them for over 30 years. I like my friends 10 string Bass, now thats cool! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members NITROHOLIC Posted March 25, 2009 Members Share Posted March 25, 2009 They could do it like the epi baritone. if anyone remembers like 6-7 years ago gibson made a 27 inch scale studio. i wanted one SO bad then. . . OH and also forgot about this http://www.robertconti.com/gear.html The Robert Conti Model 8-String Electric Guitar uses two additional strings in the low-end so that guitarist may play their own bass lines. The two extra strings also enrich the overall sound of the guitar even when the bass strings are not played. The Conti has a contoured maple top over a mahogany body, white binding on the body periphery, headstock and fingerboard and multi-laminated maple neck with ebony fingerboard and abalone block inlay. There is a single Bartolini Humbucker and gold hardware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dparr Posted March 25, 2009 Members Share Posted March 25, 2009 George Van Eps, (7 August 1913 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Eschatologist Posted March 25, 2009 Members Share Posted March 25, 2009 Oh man, he musta churned some some of the sickest djent with that mofo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dparr Posted March 25, 2009 Members Share Posted March 25, 2009 Oh man, he musta churned some some of the sickest djent with that mofo I bet that ole' George wishes he could have been this cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jak83 Posted March 25, 2009 Members Share Posted March 25, 2009 I might be remembering incorrectly here, but I seem to recall an interview with Munky and Head in Guitar World not long after they released their first album, discussing the acquisition of their 7-strings. The story goes that both of theirs had originally belonged to Vai, which he had originally strung with a High A string. He got rid of them, and they picked them up in a pawn shop in Cali, stuck a low string on, and numetaled their way to the bank... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members EdgeOfDarkness Posted March 25, 2009 Author Members Share Posted March 25, 2009 Well, you seem incredibly informed without any alterations to your logic needed, so I'll just be going.dont let the door hit ya in the ass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Uncle_Milton Posted March 25, 2009 Members Share Posted March 25, 2009 George Van Eps, (7 August 1913 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members starsnuffer Posted March 25, 2009 Members Share Posted March 25, 2009 I might be remembering incorrectly here, but I seem to recall an interview with Munky and Head in Guitar World not long after they released their first album, discussing the acquisition of their 7-strings. The story goes that both of theirs had originally belonged to Vai, which he had originally strung with a High A string. He got rid of them, and they picked them up in a pawn shop in Cali, stuck a low string on, and numetaled their way to the bank... Vai never used a high A string. The shop that they bought them from might have strung them that way. Nor were theirs vai's actual guitars. They were his sig model universe which was the only production 7 (out of production at the time) available to anyone. Vai's Passion and Warfare and Whitesnake's Slip of the Tongue both have the UV777 all over them and clearly use the low B. -W Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members thinkpad20 Posted March 25, 2009 Members Share Posted March 25, 2009 I've wondered this myself. I fully endorse this question. Carcass was certainly one of the earliest; tuned to B. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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