Quote Originally Posted by highlander_Daz View Post
You need to listen to the late great Stuart Adamson of "big country" and the "skids" and also listen to Gary moore's album "wild frontier" for some fantastic "celtic" sounding guitar playing.
Amen! I loved Big Country! Got to see them on tour after their first album long ago. I used to try to cop that sound by adding lots of overdrive, reverb, flanger set to "warble" a little bit and then I'd hammer on a melody while trying to keep the A string droning. Not exactly a "realistic" sound but it got the feel of pipes. Oddly enough my teenage sons have a "Viking Metal" band, whatever that is, and they discovered a band that recently covered "Over the Hills and Far Away" from that Gary Moore album. They've found a ton of bands that do a sort of Celtic/metal combination. Seems like a lot of them are actually Scandinavian. Oh well, at least it provides us with some generational "crossover."