What guitar screams 80s hair metal to you?

[JS122615]

What kind of guitar screams 80s hair metal or what do you think is best for it? I've always loved Warren Demartinis but I also love the kramers!

[z1n]

For me its a 1hum pointy! Pull the volume and put a kill switch! Full throttle baby lol

[Force]

A bright coloured Warlock with reverse headstock is hard to top but as long as it has a pointy head, has abnoxious colours/graphics & a floyd/kahler it's an 80s axe to me.

[BenoA]

Any pointy guitar with a whammy bar and with a flashy color!

[Supahstrat]

Neon or some audacious pattern like snakeskin

whammy bar

extra points for pointy headstock and pointy ... points

[neilli]

This:

[Mudlark]

Any Bengal.

[Number Of The Priest]

Obnoxious colored superstrats, or graphic finishes.

A bright coloured Warlock

Were Warlocks used by 80s hair bands? The shape, like many of the extreme BC Rich shapes, always seemed more sinister, like it was well suited to black metal.

[shreddermon]

Motley Crue, for one.

[pianoguyy]

Were Warlocks used by 80s hair bands? The shape, like many of the extreme BC Rich shapes, always seemed more sinister, like it was well suited to black metal.

Warlocks weren't as "gloom and doom" back then. They came were slighly rounder and came in a large array of fruity colors.




With the ultimate 80's cliché - Warlocks were featured in the Talk Dirty to Me video.

[pianoguyy]

I don't think there is any "one" cliche glam guitar shape. But the day glo colors are definitely required. That, or a design of some sort - like a zebra or tiger (pink zebra?), or the Nagel.

[Vass]

Warlocks weren't as "gloom and doom" back then. They came were slighly rounder and came in a large array of fruity colors.




With the ultimate 80's cliché - Warlocks were featured in the Talk Dirty to Me video.

Bobby Dall's green warlock bass springs to mind for sure.

ETA- found this thread from 2003- some good proto-trolling, before people understood how trolling worked. Seems quaint now.

https://www.talkbass.com/threads/poi...anybody.76528/

[kamanda]

Anything super-straty ... I'm a fan of maple and single hum! And the colours...oh the colours...

[Nightbat]

When I saw this one the first time I had hopes we'd be returning to the 80's:




C'mon, think Vinnie Vincent looking like the stereotype Hard Rock Poof, the over processed guitar solos, the exaggerated vocals

[DAMPDX]

Strats

Iron Maiden