

Eb is pretty much the most common tuning of hair metal, grunge, and general heavy rock of the era, though admittedly other bands did use E standard or D standard. Besides Van Halen, in the Eb club you’ve got Motörhead, Poison, Bon Jovi, Guns N Roses, Extreme, Nirvana, Stevie Ray, Green Day, Ozzy (as of ‘86), Alice In Chains, Weezer, Slayer, 90s Metallica, 80s Black Sabbath, et al. “Most famous” is subjective, of course, and I’m coming from a heavy rock perspective. I think part of the motivation was to make the action feel better to people trying out guitars in the store. At some point in the 2000s, many guitar manufacturers started using. 9s if you looked hard enough, but I lived in a small town and they weren't common. You could get Ernie Ball Super Slinky in. 9s to be terribly common in the 80s.10s were considered light by all manufacturers. Concert pitch doesn't really matter for rock music anyway as long as everyone is tune with each other. I also think that A=440 was not universally used in the 80s, European recordings were often slightly off American ones. If something was grossly off standard, it was usually due to tape speed variations. Maybe I was not listening to the right kind of music for Eb, but most of what I played was in standard.

9s in Eb is most famous bands of the 80s and 90s.Īs an old dude who was playing through the 80s and 90s, my experience was different.
