Welcome the Studio section of the Tony Bruno page. As you probably already know
Tony did 90 % of the guitars in the studio for the Debut Danger Danger record pictured above. The guitar sound on the record is amazing, and the way they are played is just brilliant. They're melodic but with simplicity and a lot of emotion behind them. When you hear a solo by Tony, ya can't help but feel deep down in your heart what the song is trying to say. A good example of this is the solo on Don't Walk Away. Ted's voice mixed with Tony's souldful leads make for one awesome record, It's no wonder that the debut D2 cd is my favourite record of all time. Ted Poley has said nothing but good things about Tony, and Steve West and Bruno
Ravel hold Tony in high regard, and for good reason. He's an amazing guitarist and unlike a lot of 80's guitar stars, He's not an asshole.
By now you're probably thinkin', ok, I wanna know some stuff about his playing. So
here we go.
Down below might be an example of one of the guitars used on the record, but I'm not sure. Tony uses mostly Fender Strats and Gibson Les Pauls in his arsenal of Guitars.
The guitars that Tony used to record the Rhythms on the record was a ' 71 Fender Stratocaster with stock pickups, but replace the bridge pickup with a Dimarzio Super 2 Distortion Humbucker.
The Leads were done on an ESP guitar loaded with the same Dimarzio pickup, but with a Floyd Rose Floating Tremolo on it. Tony doesn't use Floating tremolo's on rhythms because they are too unstable. and you can hear it in the harmonics and the initial hit on the strings. It loses that Wang with it floating.
Now the clean sound on the record was done by the producer Lance Quinn, and was recorded right into the board, but to get this sound you'll need a ' 57 Fender strat and some Yamaha SPX 900 Chorus added into the mix and you'll nail the tone.
As far as Amps go though, Tony uses mostly Marshall and Laney Amps on the D2 Record. But live he uses mostly Marshalls.