Your Favorite Guitar Tones EVER!

The Owl

The Owl

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I submit for starters:

Bill Connors on Return to Forever's "Hymn of the 7th Galaxy" (Les Paul Custom through Marshall half-stack w/ phaser and tone booster box of some sort).

Tony Iommi on Black Sabbath Vol 4 (SG Special w/ John Birch rewound P-90 pickups)

Allan Holdsworth on Tony Williams' "Believe It" (SG Custom through Marshall half-stack).

Eric Clapton on Cream's "Disreali Gears" (especially on "Outside Woman Blues" and "We're Going Wrong")

Robert Fripp on King Crimson's "Starless & Bible Black" (especially the title cut, "Great Deceiver" and "Fracture". Les Paul Custom through fuzz pedal, wah and Hiwatt stack).



How about yours--------------
 
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So many to choose from.

But my latest favorite has to be Robin Trower on Bridge of Sighs. Just listen to the opening bars of "Little Bit of Sympathy" and you'll hear what I mean.
 
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The Owl said:
I submit for starters:

Bill Connors on Return to Forever's "Hymn of the 7th Galaxy" (Les Paul Custom through Marshall half-stack w/ phaser and tone booster box of some sort).

Tony Iommi on Black Sabbath Vol 4 (SG Special w/ John Birch rewound P-90 pickups)

Allan Holdsworth on Tony Williams' "Believe It" (SG Custom through Marshall half-stack).

Eric Clapton on Cream's "Disreali Gears" (especially on "Outside Woman Blues" and "We're Going Wrong")

Robert Fripp on King Crimson's "Starless & Bible Black" (especially the title cut, "Great Deceiver" and "Fracture". Les Paul Custom through fuzz pedal, wah and Hiwatt stack).



How about yours--------------
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Hey Owl, welcome to the board. Those are some great players and tones you mentioned. I'll add these:

1. Larry Carlton - Anything up to "On Solid Ground".
2. Brent Mason - Anything...
3. Robben Ford - "Talk To Your Daughter"
4. Gary Moore - "Still Got The Blues"
5. Allan Holdsworth - Anything especially his clean chord voicings
6. George Lynch - Most anything
7. Brad Paisley - "Munster Rag"
8. Steve Vai - "Sex & Religion"
9. Steve Vai - "For The Love Of God"
10. Alex Lifeson - "Hemispheres"
11. Alex Lifeson - "Power Windows"
12. Alex Lifeson - "Grace Under Pressure"
 
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BS123 said:
Hey Owl, welcome to the board. Those are some great players and tones you mentioned. I'll add these:

1. Larry Carlton - Anything up to "On Solid Ground".
2. Brent Mason - Anything...
3. Robben Ford - "Talk To Your Daughter"
4. Gary Moore - "Still Got The Blues"
5. Allan Holdsworth - Anything especially his clean chord voicings
6. George Lynch - Most anything
7. Brad Paisley - "Munster Rag"
8. Steve Vai - "Sex & Religion"
9. Steve Vai - "For The Love Of God"
10. Alex Lifeson - "Hemispheres"
11. Alex Lifeson - "Power Windows"
12. Alex Lifeson - "Grace Under Pressure"
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Hoo Hooo, good to be here! Some very unique choices there for sure!!! I LOVE Robben Ford's sound too! I think when "Talk To Your Daughter" came out he just started using a Dumble Overdrive Special amp, amazing tone! Alexander Dumble is quite the headcase from what I understand :crazy:

I also love Carlos Santana's sound in general, especially when he went to Mesa Boogie's (before, he was using the Boogie's ancestor, a hot-rodded Fender Princeton)
 
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EC - Beano album

Sonny Landreth - "When You're Away"
 
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Hello Hello---
Jeff Beck on his first tour with the Jeff Beck Group [Rod Stewart, Ron Wood, Mick Waller]. He was using his beat-to-death Les Paul through 50-watt Marshalls. Never sounded as good on any of his studio cuts!
Brian.
 
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Jeff Beck when he used Les Pauls. ...Brian, you stole my post lol. J/K .....:)
 
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sorry...im gonna poison ur post w/ metal...but u asked!

Dimebag Darrell- Cowboys From Hell
Adrian Smith- Iron Maiden and Run to the Hills, those lead tones were great
Tony Iommi- Electric Funeral
Jon Schaffer- Frankenstein
 
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No VH? -are you guys on crack?

Van Halen -Meanstreets
Hendrix -Machine gun, bold as love
Leslie West -Theme from an imaginary western
Jeff Beck -Goodbye pork pie hat
Clapton -Crossroads
Ian Moss (Cold chisel) -forever now
SRV -Lenny, Riviera paradise
Steve Vai -Blue Powder
Reeves Gabrels(David bowie) -little wonder
Ry Cooder (John Hiatt) -Lipstick sunset
George Lynch -For a million years
Warren Dimartini -intro to shame shame shame
Allan holdsworth -Devil take the hindmost
Robben Ford -Politician
Eric Johnson -Desert Rose
Mark Knopfler -Tunnel of Love
Steve Lukather - Roseanna outro
Scott Henderson -Song Holy Hall (Tribal tech)
Richie Kozten -any tone off the poison record he did (serious!)
The Edge -Bullet the blue sky
Michael Landau -big bulge
****ey Betts and Duane allman -in memory of elizabeth reed (Fillmore)
Steve Hunter -live intro to Sweet Jane
Tom Morello -like a stone
Peter Green -Albatross

Love those Holdsworth and Connors tracks.
 
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Eric Clapton - The Tale of Great Ulysses, Strane Brew, I Feel Fine

Peter Fram'tone' - Frampton Comes Alive, Frampton ... and all the Humble Pie stuff was great also

Steve Marriott - All the Small Faces stuff Minus Itchicoo Park

Toni Iommi - The Wizard, Jack the Stripper/Fairies Wear Boots, Children of the Grave, Sleeping Village

Bert Jansch, John Renbourn - Bert and John + Pentangle Stuff

Martin Barre - Do I need to emntion specific albums of Jethro Tull? Just Listen to Minstrel in the Gallery and Aqualung

Wes Montgomery

Corrosion of Conformity - Deliverance ... hell most their stuff has the same tone

There's much much more ...

Oh and Owl ... those JB Magnums that he had sound much better than his SG's with the Gibsons don't you think ... you can really hear it on the Last Supper DVD ... I wonder if it's the fact that I think they're not as high output as the full sized Gibby pups
 
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Duane Allman and early ****ey Betts - pretty much everything
Peter Green - again pretty much everything
Rory Gallgaher - no reservations at all
Clapton - BluesBreaker/Cream/Blind Faith era + Derek and the Dominoes
Billy Gibbons - his early tones, everything from the first 6 albums
Warren Hayes - pretty much everything he did
Don Felder - one of these nights + hotel california with joe walsh
Knopler - the first 3 albums, especially making movies
John Fogerty - his tone in blue moon swamp + some of the CCR tunes
Bloomfield
Steve Gaines - his tone in one more from the road
Johnny Winter and ... live - (rick derringer)
 
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Slash on Appetite and UYI I&2.
James Hetfield/Kirk Hammet on MOP/AJFA/MET
David Gilmour on Wish You Were Here
Alex Lifeson on Moving Pictures
John Petrucci on Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Tony Iommi on Black Sabbath
Eddie Van Halen on VH1
Brian May on A Night at the Opera
Dime on CFH
Jerry Cantrell on Dirt
 
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Hot _Grits said:
No VH? -are you guys on crack?
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You're so right!! Here's a couple that I forgot.

Van Halen: VH1 - Fair Warning
Boston: Don't Look Back
 
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Johnny Rzeznik (Goo Goo Dolls - Superstar Car Wash/A Boy Named Goo era)
Van Halen (any of the early stuff)
Slash (Guns 'N Roses - Appetite for Destruction, UYI 1&2)
Alice In Chains (mostly everything)
Hoobastank - Self Titled
Steve Vai - Alien Love Secrets
Fuel - Sunburn

To me, great tone is: chimey cleans, a light articulate overdrive (preferably one that's "just breaking up" mmmm ;) , a modern and heavy crunch, and thick, articulate, sustaining leads. If it's articulate and it has crunch, I usually love it.
 
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O.K., here's a few:

- Peter Green - "The Supernatural" and "Drifting"
- Jimi Hendrix - "Voodoo Chile"
- Buddy Guy - Junior Wells' "Hoodoo Man Blues" and "It's My Life, Baby!" albums
- Ronnie Earl - great tone, all the time!
- Jerry Garcia - "Anthem of the Sun" album
- Michael Bloomfield - great clean L.P. tone
- David Grissom - Joe Ely's "Live at Liberty Lunch"
- "Buck Dharma" - early B.O.C., love those nasty SG tones!
 
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John Petrucci - Overture 1928
Jake E. Lee - Bark at the Moon
Zakk Wylde - No More Tears
James Hetfield/Kirk Hammet - Disposable Heroes, Orion
Alex Lifeson - Limelight
Michael Romeo - Candlelight Fantasia
Adam Jones - Eulogy
Joe Satriani - Is There Love in Space?
Larry Carlton - Spiral
Carlos Santana - Samba Para Ti
Joe Bonamassa - Blues Deluxe
 
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Stevie Ray Vaughan: pretty much anything
VanHalen: Hot for Teacher
Billy Gibbons: Tush, La Grange, I'm Bad/I'm Nationwide
Billy Corgan: Zero
Larry Carlton: Kid Charlamagne
Wes Montgomery: take your pick, it's all good
Jim Compilongo: pretty much anything
 
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Dave Gilmour - single coil lead tone
Brian May
Dan Huff - every tone on 'To Be Forgotten'
Brad Paisley
Keith Urban
Richie Kotzen - Poison album, Tele through old Marshalls
The guy who did the 'Pocket Syndrome' guitar samples CD
Gary Moore - Still Got The Blues
Zakk Wylde - No More Tears
Van Halen - Carnal Knowledge
Gordon Kennedy - solo on Independence Day
Brent Mason
John Mayer - clean lead
Ana Popovic - Comfort to the Soul
 
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dave mustaine on sweating bullets

uh, really, o don't pay attention to the song or who plays it, its the words and music itself that counts to me.
 
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