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Metal was born from Laney.....sorry. 
Can Gear Make You A Better Player?
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Birmingham didn't have many amp makers gifting custom builds at that time, methinks. But did the gear make Iommi and/or Sabbath "better"? Rangemaster as well... I grew up on Master of Reality tones, but Laney amps are hard to get in my town atm.Metal was born from Laney.....sorry.
These days Sabbath are crowned as THE pioneers of Metal, but when I was a kid in the 70's it was the big 3 - Zep, Purple and Sabbath, then Lizzy and Priest etc.
The point remains that without the tech the guitar sounds different. Lord of this World on a clean amp/channel... why bother?
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Lyndon Laney was Toni Iommi's friend.
He actually played in a band with him, pre Sabbath.
Some of his first amps were built specifically for him ...with distortion as a design goal....thus metal tone....intended.
He also put that rangemaster circuit in a Laney...for him. The KLIPP circuit.
Toni has always credited Laney for his sound.
Lyndon never gets the respect that many others do....his work and innovation made players sound better... therefore they played better.
Not sure if this was known or not.
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Quite so. It's just that at the time, Sabbath were not considered the only Metal band the way they are credited with the invention of Metal today. Zep already had a couple of albums (and Beck considered their sound a rip-off of his), Purple had In Rock, and all credited Cream and Hendrix.
The tech remains important to the sound produced by it.
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I can't say I suppose...as i was not around back then. I don't consider either DP or LZ metal...but, I can see how they could be seen that way. Nothing against them, obviously, just not metal....to me. I am younger.....and less experienced.
Also...Laney made the PA for Led Zeppelin when they toured America for the first time.
It's an age thing. Look up Heavy Metal online and you often see that In Rock, Zep II and Black Sabbath were considered front-runners, but also influenced by others including Steppenwolf and Iron Butterfly.
Folk into Bathory, Darkthrone let alone Ulcerate may find it hard to see Purple as Metal.
Jim Marshall and Lyndon Laney were very influential in the sounds people made from the mid-60's on, as were the makers of Fuzz Faces.
I'm so old I remember when TubeScreamers were the latest inventive sound - and when the Boss Chorus ruled the radio in the 80's.
Folk into Bathory, Darkthrone let alone Ulcerate may find it hard to see Purple as Metal.
Jim Marshall and Lyndon Laney were very influential in the sounds people made from the mid-60's on, as were the makers of Fuzz Faces.
I'm so old I remember when TubeScreamers were the latest inventive sound - and when the Boss Chorus ruled the radio in the 80's.
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I remember that stuff too. I'm not that young!I'm so old I remember when TubeScreamers were the latest inventive sound - and when the Boss Chorus ruled the radio in the 80's.
