Steve Clark

For Def Leppard's "Hysteria" tour, Steve Clark played a white LP Custom with a Khaler tremolo and three pickups. He can be seen playing it in the "Pour Some Sugar On Me" video. The guitar can first be seen at :11s.

Later on the Hysteria Tour when “Love Bites” was released as a single Steve would be seen on stage with a Fender Stratocaster – which was a fairly rare thing to see with Steve being primarily a Gibson man at this point in his career.

This Stratocaster is the one that he uses in the video for the“Love Bites” single. Steve had stated in an interview in Guitarist magazine in 1988 that he had a Fender Stratocaster fitted with Bill Lawrence pick-ups. Bill Lawrence pick-ups are renowned for their excellent tonal qualities. I assume that it is this guitar he’s referring to regarding those pick-ups, but I cannot be sure. Steve’s “Love Bites” strat is a Fender with the standard SSS pick-up configuration. It also has a rosewood fingerboard and is finished in the very nice gunmetal blue colour, looking similar to one that Jimmy Page had. It’s also fitted with a Kahler “Traditional Series” 2520 fulcrum tremolo unit.

"Both Phil [Collen] and Steve use a sound system [for this tour] consisting of a Randall RG100 guitar pre-amp and T.C.1210 from TC Electronics (Expander + stereo chorus / flanger) and a T.C.2290 (digital delay)."

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In the music video for "Photograph", Steve can be seen playing his Gibson Les Paul XR-1. The guitar can first be seen at :20s in the video.

And the three effects Steve used on this tour were a Boss Chorus, Boss Delay and a Morley Pre-amp Booster.

Steve Clark with Hamer Californian Elite

Clark used a CE-2 on songs off the album "Hysteria", such as the title track, and "Love Bites"

used on High N' Dry and Pyromania album and live

Steve Clark live with Gibson Les Paul Standard.

Steve used a JCM during Def Leppard's early years...

Steve Clark used a limited production 1976 Gibson Firebird, as seen in photo 8 on Steveclarkguitar's "Steve's Hysteria Tour Guitars" page. This model features a Kahler #2200B tremolo and a distinctive red, white, and blue Firebird logo with stars and a "76" on the scratch plate, distinguishing it from vintage Firebird III designs. Notably, this guitar lacks fingerboard binding and has "Limited Edition" stamped on the back of the headstock, with a serial number starting with "00" if produced in 1976.

used on the first 3 albums

The photo from Steveclarkguitar shows Steve Clark with a black Ibanez Destroyer, highlighting its presence in his gear collection.

"Steve Clark at San Remo ’88 with Gibson Les Paul Firebrand"

During Def Leppard's Hysteria tour, Steve Clark used several Gibson guitars, including the Gibson Custom Shop Jimmy Page Signature EDS-1275. This can be seen in a rare live performance of "Die Hard The Hunter" on YouTube. His setup also featured two Les Paul Customs with Kahler tremolo units and two Cherry Red Gibson Firebird Doublenecks.

"[Interviewer:] From a guitar perspective, is it true that there are no traditional amps on Hysteria and that you and Steve Clark played all your parts through a Rockman unit, which is essentially a headphone amplifier?

[Collen:] Pretty much. I used a small Gallien-Krueger amp on the demo for “Love Bites,” which made it on to the record, and also on a bit of “Animal”—that little feedback thing in the intro is me leaning hard on the Krueger. But otherwise the sound is all Rockman. And the reason for that was there were so many layers of tracks, and the sound was so huge that if you had had a massive Marshall sound it wouldn’t have fit sonically. The guitars would have smothered the vocals and drums. They really had to fit in a specific slot. Plus, Steve and I weren’t playing straight power chords; we were doing all these inversions and partials and different things that required definition. That would have been lost with a big, overdriven-amp sound."

He used it a lot between his years with Hamer, during High N' Dry, and his Gibson years during Pyromania.

He used a lot of Hamers during High N' Dry

In a Wikimedia photo, Steve Clark is seen playing his Custom Gibson Firebird in red, highlighting his preference for this unique guitar model.

Steve Clark with Hamer Standard 1980.

Steve Clark with Hamer 18-string double neck guitar

Steve Clark is pictured with the Alvarez ARD70E Dreadnought Round Shoulders Acoustic/Electric Guitar in a photo from his official website.

Steve Clark used the Gibson Dirty Fingers Humbucker Pickup in at least two of his guitars: a Gibson Les Paul XR-1 and a black Les Paul Custom, both equipped with the pickup in the bridge position.

You can see a Kahler on Steve's black Les Paul.

Here are a few of things that he had done to some of his Gibson's: Kahler temolo units, coil top switches to divide out the pickups, GHS Boomers strings, lock in nut a the top of the arm to keep things from getting to wild, dimarzio pick ups, softer metal picks.

According to this image of one of the live setups that the late Steve Clark used in the 80s, him and Phil Collen both used Randall RG100HT rackmounted amplifiers.