Best Clean Tone Ever

[Marqueax Moran]

Re: Best Clean Tone Ever

To me, Grant Green will always be the God of soulful clean tone.

 

[Imp]

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i think theres a good few nice modern tones to be had as well - i like the tones on these:

introduction - thursday
signals over the air - thursday
falling down - muse (off showbiz)

thursday have a really unusual clean tone... both pickups, stock SGs/LPs, Vox AC30s... i cant replicate it with what i have, but i love the tone...

 

[Marty Horne]

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Louie Shelton on Vallerie (Monkees) and Diamond Girl (Seals and Croft);
Brent Mason on Neon Moon (Brooks and Dunn);
Hank Marvin on "The Shadows Know" album (The Shadows)
One more vote for Hendrix's "Wind Cries Mary" and anything by Wes Montgomery.

 

[The Owl]

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Steve Khan on any of his EYEWITNESS albums, talk about FULL and THICK!!!!

 

[techonly]

Re: Best Clean Tone Ever

Jeryy Garcia, particularly on American Beauty.
Trey Anastasio (Phish) on pretty much anything of his (he's good at overdriven too).
Pat Metheny.
And countless others i can't recall.

 

[dd12939]

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don't forget Chet Atkins and Les Paul on "Chester & Lester" and "Guitar Monsters"
SMOOTH!

 

[sgstrat]

Re: Best Clean Tone Ever

And I think Knopfler may have listened to a bit of Richard Thompson! I really get a lot of the same vibe from their playing, but Knopfler seems to be a bit more bluesy while RT has the raga/folk thing going a bit more.

I've thought the same about Knopfler. No knock on him, because when you choose who to be influenced by you might as well choose some great musicians.

It's a funny thing. I love the blues and I love Richard Thompson yet I think that Thompson must be the most UN-bluesy player that I know of. I can't really detect any blues influence in his playing other than a little that "sneaks in through the back door" via his rockabilly and old rock 'n roll streaks.

 

[Mojoe01]

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I'm kinda suprised the Allman Brothers haven't come up yet, so I'm gonna have to tip my hat to ****ey Betts, on "Blue Sky."
Not sure what amp he was using, but I think we can all be pretty certain it was an original 57 Goldtop he was playin.

 

[Mojoe01]

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lol, excuse me, RICHARD Betts...

 

[Studiobuddy]

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Grant Green Is My Fav Guitarist In The World!!!!! On Green Dolphin Street Rules

 

[Maximusgordon 2.0]

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Hendrix on "Little Wing", well actually any of his clean stuff...

Then, yah, Dire Straits...

And actually one of my favorites is actually from (cough) Van Halen 3 (cough), in the song "A Year to the Day", not an excellent song or anything, but the clean playing in the beginning is excellent. Definently a different side of Ed, but very cool.

 

[BornToShred]

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I like Pat Metheny's tone.