Neal Schon (Stone in Love) - my favorite lead tones

One of my favorites - I always figured it was a few different guitars, LP on the main track, into a Marshall.

 

Clearly a Les Paul with a whammy on this live vid. Look at the 1-minute mark.

 

That solo at the end is one of my favorites.

While Escape has the best sound/mix IMO, my favorite Journey album was always the live one from the pre-Escape days: Captured. The vids on youtube are awful quality. If you can find this one (it's a double album) check it out. Their songs weren't prog monsters to play but they were monster players.....

 

Not a Journey fan but I learned that song for a band I was in that had a female singer. I’m a bass player though. Those bass lines are killer too. I believe they were written and recorded by Randy Jackson.

 

This is what I did not long ago with S-Gear, with that exact song: https://www.scuffhamamps.com/forum/sounds/8274-classic-neal-schon-tone
Unfortunately, I couldn't post it on soundcloud for copyright reasons, as I was using the recording as a background, but there is a link on a Dropbox for you to listen to:
www.dropbox.com/sh/2yhs1jd0yuwwvh8/AADhY...F3ZdQpXUjnO_dqa?dl=0

 

There's a video out there of Schon in his hit Journey days playing, of all things, a silver knob Peavey Mace, like Skynyrd used to use. Hmmmm...

 

My favorite as well!

 

Probably my fave Journey song. Jonathan Cain, usually on keys, was no slouch playing the guitar riff intro either.

 

Love his playing on this tune. The solo at the end gives me chills. For some reason I thought he used HiWatts during this period but I'm probably remembering wrong.

 

The only guy I know of that changes gear as often Schon is George Lynch. Pretty much every tour is done with a different rig. My fave Schon tones came pre Perry.

 

I don't have Stone in Love up ever since they made us take it down on YouTube, but here's Escape. I think I was using the Treadplate model at the time.

 

Randy Jackson played with them for the Raised on Radio album and tour, around 1986, but there is no credit to him on the Escape album, and I can't imagine why Ross Valory wouldn't have been the one to write and record Stone In Love, being that he was in the band well before and after that album.

I seem to remember reading that he used Peavey Mace amps on that tour, not sure about the album.

This is a really old thread, btw.

 

Old and not sure why it's in the modeling subforum...?

 

Well it's just what I was told.

 

We did this one when we had a female lead singer. Dgt-pinnacle-delay-clean amp. Broke a lot of strings getting that solo down. Lotsa fun

 

Speaking of, I just found an old demo my band (at the time, early 90's) made of this song. Not quite note for note, but not bad:

 

A lot better than "not bad"....what a fun tune to play - countless cover guitarists wish lead singers could hit more Perry high notes so more Schon riffs could be played....

 

Lots of killer wigs up in the videos in this thread. I dig!