What guitar tone blew you away?

[weepingminotaur]

Knopfler, forgot about him, awesome tone.

Grant Green!

 

[devastone]

 

[AdrianSD]

Was thinking about, say, Megadeth. Well I guess RIP has such average guitar tone for the most part, but the songs are simply brilliant, one of those albums that just grow on you over time and take over your musical journey. Best metal album ever. It's hard to detach the tone from the melody, the end product is all that matters, really. Marty solos, Menza enthusiasm, Mustaine creativity and tightness, they sounded fantastic as a band, really hard to replicate. Tone wise? Mmm not sure, maybe Poison Was TheCure solo? But then, all solos on RIP are masterclass because the player.
Not sure the tone can be taken out of the musical context and emphasized on its own, doesn't make much sense from a listener perspective.

 

[Ascension]

Back in the mid 90's these guys guitar tones blew me away. Pachyderm studios wall of sound but this band came very close to pulling it off live also.

 

[AdrianSD]

Want toanz? Here's toanz!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1HbF3EAt3ck
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I8Rz0Gnx1PE

 

[Securb]

Kind of funny almost every guitar player mentioned so far has made me sit up at some point and say, "wow, killer tone".

 

[Securb]

Back in the mid 90's these guys guitar tones blew me away. Pachyderm studios wall of sound but this band came very close to pulling it off live also.

Never heard this before I like it a lot. If I heard it in the '80-'90s it would probably be one of my favorite bands.

 

[Ascension]

Never heard this before I like it a lot. If I heard it in the '80-'90s it would probably be one of my favorite bands.

We were in the White metal scene at the time and talked about an opening gig with those guys at one time. They just got back together after all these years and dropped a new CD out last year. I'm envious!

 

[JMP/HBE]

 

[AdrianSD]

SRV - Mary Had A Little Lamb

 

[playas]

I forgot Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall
... actually all the tones on all of them, but specially the solo tone on part 2.

My family used to take the p**s as I sang "Dogs and cats are in the classroom
Teacher leave them kids alone."

But at 4 I was hardly too familiar with dark sarcasm.

 

[piblock]

SRV - Mary Had A Little Lamb

I'm going to get sacrilegious like you did by calling Jimmy Page's tone rubbish.

I've never gotten into SRV. I like a few songs like Pride and Joy. But even though I don't love his music in general, dude had some killer tone at times, especially live.

 

[piblock]

I forgot Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall
... actually all the tones on all of them, but specially the solo tone on part 2.

My family used to take the p**s as I sang "Dogs and cats are in the classroom
Teacher leave them kids alone."

But at 4 I was hardly too familiar with dark sarcasm.

That was supposedly a P90 Les Paul straight into th console instead of an amp. I love it too.

Now I need to start a misunderstood lyric thread. Back in the 90s, we would just drive around listening to music. That Nirvana lyric "grandma take me home" - this girl sang it as "grab a chicken bone" and I can't unhear it.

 

[GuitarDoc]

Impossible to give just one example!

Of course anything Chet Atkins in the 50s.
Steve Howe had great tone, but his technique absolutely blew me away (as did anything by Yes).
My first "blow-me-away tone" was probably Leslie West of Mountain playing "Mississippi Queen". That single P-90 tone is what did it in for me and why I use so many P-90s in my custom guitars.
Certainly Jimi Hendrix playing anything he did. Not only his tone but his style. Amazing!
Mark Knopfler, wonderful Strat "quack tone" but, again, his style!
Tom Petty's "Last Dance with Mary Jane"...love it to death.
And Joe Perry's tone in "Sweet Emotion"

 

[Sirion]

As far as hard rock tones go, this remains the grail:

 

[64 Tele]

Duane and Dickie on the live album.

 

[solspirit]

"That one guitar, just blew me away"








Seriously it would have to have been a toss-up between Blackmore's Strat and Iommi's SG

 

[solspirit]

I can't say that I haven't been blown away by UJR either.

 

[Gtrjunior]

This is just for fun.

Please post a single example of tone that just blows your mind.

A tone that you would love to just be able to plug in and get THAT sound.

It can be a live tone easily duplicated, it can be due to studio magic, it doesn't have to be attainable by just plugging in to your amp and playing, even though that's the dream.

For me, it's that main riff in Bring it on Home, starting about 1:45 in the video below.

From what I gather, it's double tracked. Probably the dragon Tele through a cheap solid state amp cranked so loud that it's about to blow the planet up and rip straight through the time space continuum. The second track may be guitar to fuzz,.then straight into the console / on to tape.

However it was done, I remember the first time I heard that riff (I was young and stupid, and probably started the album over after a minute into the song to get back to Whole Lotta Love. Then one day I just listened all the way through) and thinking "What in the holy ****balls is he doing there?!"

I used asterisks there so I don't get banned like I did on the gear page.

Jimmy Page obviously gets a whole lotta love as a guitar player, but this riff is generally overlooked when discussing his talent. He was a magician in the studio.

What guitar tone, either an entire song or just a snippet like that riff, just blew your mind?


https://youtu.be/JYmAC7EyBW4

I love that song.
I’m a huge Page and Zep fan but I never really LOVED Page’s tone.

 

[Gtrjunior]

Sooooo many. But for me, the ones I really remember were Toto I'll Supply The Love, Boston Don't Look Back, Rush The Spirit of Radio, Kiss Calling Doctor Love.

Yeah, I was pretty blown away the first time I heard Boston. Great tone. Not the tone I personally go for but great rock tone nonetheless.