What guitar tone blew you away?

[Wattage]

Allan Holdsworth's tone always blows me away. It sounds like a synthesizer.

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He just wanted to emulate a sax

 

[Ascension]

Always loved Damons Lee Jackson Modded Plexie tones here. Just primal and RAW! Had a chance to buy one of his heads from a friend who owned a local shop here in Birmingham. Every time I hear this song I think of Topper who played the harp o this track miss ya buddy!

 

[beaubrummels]

Just whittling it down to the 'blew away' category

Jeff Beck

• The Final Piece

Jimmy Page

• the screaming lead tone on Whole Lotta Love
• Ten Years Gone (all parts)

Scorpions

• Loving You Sunday Morning

Van Halen

• Eruption
• Show Your Love

The Beatles

• the two very brief outro guitar fills on Strawberry Fields Forever
• I Want You (She's So Heavy)
• And Your Bird Can Sing
• She Said She Said
• Doctor Robert
• lead on While My Guitar Gently Weeps

George Harrison

• It Don't Come Easy (leslie part and the lead)

Eric Clapton

• Badge (leslie part)
• Stepping Out
• N.S.U. (live version is better)

Paul Kossoff

• All Right Now

Pete Townshend

• Won't Get Fooled Again
• Heaven And Hell
• Young Man Blues

hard to stop. so many more to mention. many of the others I can think were trying to copy these guys, however.

 

[Ashurbanipal]

Mm, many...

When I was a kid, I borrowed a vhs tape (remember those?) from the local library of Queen playing at the Nep Stadium in Budapest '86. Brian's solo kicked my azz. The first minute and a half is killer – masterful and tasteful control of feedback and delays, crashing chords and build-up. I wore the tape out.

 

[Securb]

I never really "got" Robert Fripp. When I was cutting my rock-'n-roll teeth on Jimi, The Beatles, Steppenwolf, etc,, King Crimson was a little weird. I didn't notice him 'til 10, 20-something years later my girlfriend turned me on to The Roches. There was this weird, strange guitar part in the music that didn't fit their style at all. It was Fripp.

Perhaps I should reinvestigate this. Or, maybe not.

This is one of my favorite Fripp solos I recently discovered. It is from John Paul Jones' solo album Thundertheif.

 

[Artie]

This is one of my favorite Fripp solos I recently discovered.

That was definitely an interesting listen. I'll have to check out more of his stuff.

As for favorite guitar tone, I almost forgot Danny Gatton's cover of "In My Room", from his 88 Elmira St. album. Sweet sweet tone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IXSXW4_b5o

 

[NegativeEase]

Robert Fripp -especially his overdrive tone on Eno records.

at 1:45

George Harrison on RIngo's "It dont come easy" rhythm and the solo

 

[elelpe]

Roy Buchanan

and Ted Green

 

[TVFV]

 

[Archer250]

This right here

People raved about Kee's tone on Out Of This World, but I honestly like Prisoners more, both in terms of production and as an album.

Likewise, Sykes sounded supermassive on 1987, but when I first heard his Blue Murder record, it blew me away.

But the tone that blew me away the most was when I was watching Stone Metal & Fire play live at a bar. (SMF is a legendary Thai band. Arguably one of the most influential since the 80s and 90s locally)

The guitarist switched from his backup Ibanez to his custom shop Fender, powered by a Duncan Pearly Gates bridge and Fat 50s for the singles. He played an open G chord through a CAE 3+SE/VHT rack setup and it made my friend and me turn our heads to look.

This was the vid, but it doesn't capture just how ****ing massive that guitar sounded in the room.

 

[TVFV]

Oh, and this too.

 

[NegativeEase]

Oh, and this too.

Thats a great one -you could almost do any Ride song

 

[NegativeEase]

Likewise, Sykes sounded supermassive on 1987, but when I first heard his Blue Murder record, it blew me away.

Plus, hes got Twinkle Toes on bass keeping it massive

 

[ErikH]

When I was really little, Detroit Rock City grabbed my attention real fast, thanks to the 45 my sister bought with Beth on the B side. I would listen to DRC over and over again. I never heard anything like that before, and I was maybe 4, almost 5. Later on, Panama and Hot for Teacher.

 

[Mincer]

Steve Howe's 'jazz tones in a rock band' (likely ES-175):

...and his Tele tone on speed...

 

[beaubrummels]

I forgot one

Chet Atkins

• almost any 45 in the 1950's he played on
• Workshop
• In Hollywood
• Neck And Neck

 

[devastone]

Guitar tone that "BLEW ME AWAY", silly question.

 

[Aceman]

Some of the obvious ones; VH1, Malmsteen, Eric Johnson - amazing players yes, but epic tones.

A couple of mid-line awesome, IMO; Neal Schon on Escape, Jabs on Love at First Sting.

But this one REALLY got under my skin. Not anything I aspire to, or a player I even dig. But I heard this and was just like DAMN - who is that?!?!?!

Starts at 15 seconds.

 

[80's_Thrash_Metal]

Gosh looking through this thread, my choices are so different than most of yours..
Here are some memorable tones I have really lusted over

Hatebreed , wide open Les Paul, with a wide open Marshall TSL.

Disciple, Les Paul, splawn head and cabinet.

Dying Fetus, esp ltd and peavey XXX at the time.

Sodom , Jackson Kelly and ENGL Fireball

Tommy Shaw,. Gibson Explorer, Marshall TSL and cab

Gary Moore still got the blues album I'm not sure on what he used for that album, but I'm guessing it was the lemondrop LP and Marshall amps because that's what I saw him with that era.

 

[playas]

Free - Alright Now
Rory Gallagher - Follow Me (particularly intro and solo tones)
Van Morrison - Cleaning Windows
The Beatles - While my Guitar Gently Weaps (lead guitar tones)
Chris Rea - Nothing to Fear
The Beatles - While my Guitar Gently Weaps
Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter & Beast of Burden

More generally, most guitar tones from Thin Lizzy, Chris Rea, Brian May, Mark Knopfler.

Btw Gary Moore said that he used a JTM-45 to record Still Got the Blues (the song), I'm pretty sure with a Les Paul. He probably recorded most, if not all of the rest of the album with it too.