What are your top 5 "Grail" tones?

Re: What are your top 5 "Grail" tones?

Gilmour-The Wall. All of it. Cleans, delayed rhythms, leads, everything.
Iommi-Vol 4. PARTICULARLY Supernaut.
Hendrix-Axis Bold as Love. Little wing and Castles Made of Sand.
Van Halen-Fair Warning. Unchained and Mean Street.
Blackmore-Burn. Song specifically, but the whole album is great too. Same with everything off Long Live Rock and Roll.
And.... I'm really digging the tone on Ghost's Majesty lately.
 
Re: What are your top 5 "Grail" tones?

As for axemen:

Brian May
Young brothers
James Hetfield
Scott Ian
Dime

As for gear used:

different SD humbuckers into a 50W JCM800 / JCM900 / Silver
Peavey 5150/6505
Engl Powerball
Korg G1
AMT preamps
 
Re: What are your top 5 "Grail" tones?

Ill try to keep it as close to 5 as I can.. haha

Gary Richrath - Hi Infidelity. GREAT playing and tone throughout..

Come take me now by Saigon Kick.. I LOVE the tone in the solo

Heavy Chains by Loudness (Akira Takasaki) From watching the vid of this song is when I learned about switching to neck pup for leads.. He went back and forth several times..

Comfortably Numb -Gilmour

EVH's old tone-Somebody get me a Doctor and pretty much everything else up to 1984

John Syke's Whitesnake stuff.. I love the solo in Here I Go Again, even though I think Vandenberg played that one.


honorable mentions:
Warren Di Martini
Candlebox
Schon - Stone in Love is a Fav..


I love No More Tears too! more the ripping solo than the tone..
 
What are your top 5 "Grail" tones?

What are your top 5 "Grail" tones?

EVH-Live Without a Net
Angus-Live at Donington
Ace-all of alive
Steve Stevens-Top Gun
Elliot Easton-Tonight she comes
 
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Re: What are your top 5 "Grail" tones?

Wow! Some great listings here to check out.

I gotta give a shout out to a tone I've been chasing. I can't quite nail this tone. I've heard it on many recordings but this particular one stands out.

The B-52's - Follow Your Bliss.

 
Re: What are your top 5 "Grail" tones?

Brian May (the tone on the albums from Sheer Heart Attack to Jazz are perfect).

Glenn Tipton/KK Downing on the Stained Class album. Warm, thick, loud, and just very pleasing to listen to.

Jerry Cantrell - especially on Facelift. Both the rhythm and lead tone. I really really really like the lead sound he got with a single coil neck pickup. Very clear and bell like yet aggressive enough to fit the music.

Tony Iommi - I have two favorite album tones from him. Vol 4 is what heavy metal should sound like, and The Mob Rules for his more high gain very midrange heavy sound.

Jimmy Page on Physical Grafitti. The Rover is possibly my favorite Zeppelin sound, and *that* is what rock guitar should sound like IMO.

Honorable mentions:

- Not a guitar, but Jon Lord's overdriven organ. That sounds heavy as hell.
- Lemmy/Fast Eddie Clarke together on the Overkill album. The title track just sounds like a band with a powerful sound being driven over the top. It just sounds like everything is raw and on the edge of exploding. I like it a lot.
- Hank Shermann/Michael Denner on Don't Break The Oath. A very pleasant honk to provide some warmth to a bright yet heavy sound.
- Malcolm/Angus Young on Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap - somewhat clean guitars that get their grit from sheer volume and aggressive playing.
 
Re: What are your top 5 "Grail" tones?

Gem Archer from Oasis: "A Bell Wii Ring"
Keith Richards: "Can't You Hear Me Knocking "
Warren DiMartini: "Wanted Man"
Malcolm Young: "It's A Long Way To The Top..."
Keith Merrow: "Pillars Of Re-Ceation"
 
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Gary Richrath - REO Speedwagon - "9 Lives" album (in specific: Meet me on the mountain)

Tom Scholz - Boston - all the Boston albums (in specific: Cool the engines)

Joe Perry - Aerosmith - "Get Your Wings" album (in specific: Woman of the world)

Tommy Iommi - Black Sabbath - "Mob Rules" album (in specific Turn up the night)

Neal Schon - Journey - "Escape" album (in specific Lay it down)

Honorables and forever in awe go to JP, Gilmour, Jimi, EVH and BFG.
 
Re: What are your top 5 "Grail" tones?

Beautiful Girls - Van Halen of course, t's hard to pick a single song to exemplify the brown sound, but VHII is raw without being as fizzy as VH1 or as saturated as Fair Warning.

ACDC the entire Highway to Hell album

John Sykes on the 87 Whitesnake album

Hendrix - Wind Cries Mary, basically the definitive stratocaster tone to me

Jerry Cantrell - We Die Young. Pretty much the first two Alice in Chains albums had such a thick monster tone. JB in an Les Paul?

Honorable mention for Yngwie Malmsteen: Icarus Dream Suite Opus 4. Nobody make a strat sound like Yngwie.
 
Re: What are your top 5 "Grail" tones?

Sykes, Whitesnake and Blue Murder tones.

EJ: everything on Ah Via Musicom

Tom Scholz

Terry Kath

Kerry Livgren/Rich Williams: all of their work with Kansas.

Ask me me again tomorrow, and I'll probably list 5 more.
 
Re: What are your top 5 "Grail" tones?

Dire Straits Singlehanded sailor...sweetest strat sound

Chris Rea On the Beach...also some great strat sounds.

Marty Stuart Now that's country...B Bender Tele goodies

Jeff Beck Seasons....just friggin great playing and sounds.

Hadley Hockensmith with Koinonia Frontline....love it!
 
Re: What are your top 5 "Grail" tones?

Exodus - Blacklist
Metallica - Creeping Death
Annihilator - The Rush
Running Wild - Dragonmen
Megadeth - Skin 'o my teeth
 
Re: What are your top 5 "Grail" tones?

Hard to pick just 5...


Black Sabbath - Live in '75 bootleg
Jimi Mother F*cking Hendrix.
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger and Superunknown
Alice in Chains - Dirt
Melvins - Stoner Witch


Edit (lol):

Sleep - Holy Mountain
Metallica - Metallica (previous records had better songs, but the black album had their best guitar tones)
Corrosion of Conformity - In the Arms of God
 
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