What guitar tone blew you away?

[piblock]

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

 

[Obsessive Compulsive]

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

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[Demanic]

This is very close to my grail tone.

 

[uOpt]

Good engineering on the distorted sound:

 

[Securb]

The first time I was blown away by a guitar tone was the first time I hear Toto's Hold The Line. I was not using gain at that point and wondered how he got that sound out of his amp.

Very shortly after that, I saw Al Dimeola on Don Kershner's rock concert, and my life was changed.

 

[AdrianSD]

Metallica - Blackened
Tom Morello - Fistful of Steel
Gary Moore - Parisienne Walkways
Dime (duh!) - anything post 1990.
Brian May - Friends Will Be Friends
Wolf Hoffmann - Balls To The Wall
EVH - Hot For Teacher
Billy Gibbons - Gimme All Your Loving

Just way too many fantastic, unique tones. As for Led Zeppelin, no offence but I've always found Page's tone pretty rubbish. Great player, very average sounding guitars.

 

[gsammo79]

Billy Gibbons "Loaded" and "Vincent Price Blues" and "Gimme all Your Lovin"

 

[Clint 55]

 

[Mincer]

Generally, I like more mid-heavy tones.
- Steve Morse
- Robert Fripp
- Allan Holdsworth
- pre-1970 Blackmore

 

[75lespaul]

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.

 

[Artie]

Generally, I like more mid-heavy tones.
- Steve Morse
- Robert Fripp
- Allan Holdsworth
- pre-1970 Blackmore

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.

 

[Artie]

Oops. Forgot to mention: The guitar tone in The B-52's "Follow Your Bliss", and Carlos Santana's "Stranger in Moscow".

 

[weepingminotaur]

Steve Clark and Phil Collen, the whole Hysteria album
Dave Mustaine and Marty Friedman, pretty much all of Countdown to Extinction, but "Symphony of Destruction" in particular.
B.B. King, Live at the Regal
Jonny Greenwood, "Paranoid Android"
Nile Rodgers, just generally speaking.
Dimebag Darrell, "Five Minutes Alone"
Max Cavalera and Andreas Kisser, "Roots Bloody Roots"
Tom Morello, "Voice of the Voiceless", "Killing in the Name", and plenty more.

 

[some_dude]

Corrosion of Conformity - Stonebreaker

 

[maug2122]

Just Got Paid ZZ Top
S.A T.O. Randy Rhoads
Deja Vu Yngwie Malmsteen
Looking For Trouble Steve Vai
Devil Takes The Hindmost
Allan Holdsworth
Let It Rain Eric Clapton
Mouth For War Dimebag Darrell
Circles Joe Satriani
Hear My Train A Com'in Jimi Hendrix
Sailing Robin Trower
What Is Life George Harrison

 

[Ahpook]

There are hundreds, but since i was a wee one the cover of Paranoid on Speak of the Devil sticks out. I never liked Night Ranger, but Brad Gillis is a freaking monster on this whole live album. Paranoid sounds particularly menacing.

It's rare when a cover challenges an original especially with Tony Iommi as the original player. Phew

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmFnXxorYfc

 

[Ascension]

Gary Moore with the SLO and 59 Les Paul Blues Alive. Just breathtaking !!

 

[Ascension]

As of late this guys feel phrasing and tone has really gotten my attention.

 

[The Guitar]

This tone hit me hard when I first heard it. Knocked the Black Album tone off the pedestal.

 

[Mincer]

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.

Not for everyone..he really has his own voice and tone. His experiments with tape loops ('Frippertronics') are my favorite, although I love all eras of King Crimson.