Best Guitar Sound

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David Gilmour - Comfortably Numb, Shine on You Crazy Diamond
Knopfler - Sultans of Swing
Elliot Randle - Reelin' in the Years
Michael Thompson - Scales for the lead guitarist video (wish I could find out his signal path used on the video)
Lots of stuff by SRV and Jimi
Brian May - We are the Champions, Bohemian Rhapsody
Steve Howe- from a technique approach, nobody like him
 
The best tone I've ever heard was Michael Gurley of Dada on the "Puzzle" CD.
I'm going to keep saying this until somebody actually gives this CD a good, hard listen.
From start to finish, it's the most incedible example of how to get everything right in a recording. This CD has the most delicious tones I've ever heard from a guitar, bass, and drums... period. The playing is absolutely stellar.

You guys have no idea what you're missing.

Buck
 
Any early Mountain record,as long as it had Leslie West and a Les Paul Junior..........especially "Theme To An Imaginary Western".He had the corner on the 4 "Ts" of soloing--Touch,Tone,Taste,and Timing..and the way he ended the first solo in "Theme" with a pinch harmonic...sigh....
 
I'm gonna go with Neal Schon on this one..escape album..particularly Who's Crying Now.

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I'm gonna go with Neal Schon on this one..escape album..particularly Who's Crying Now.

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I either read or heard a story by Neil about the solo to that song. It seems that the band was trying to convince him to do something less flashy. As a joke, he played the cheesiest solo he could. The band responded by exclaiming, "That's perfect!" and the solo got printed. :)
 
I'll supportminusone when he mentions Surfer Rosa from the Pixies. What an incredible guitar sound!!!

Really edgy, dirty, it growls and it speaks. the guitars on that record say more with one note than Van Halen with 100
 
Forgot about this one-- Adrian Belew on Talking Heads' "Once in a Lifetime" . There might be a synth doubling it or SOMETHING, but that sound is so frickin' cool.
 
Obviuosly you guys have not heard Steve Howe, especially on Yessongs. When its live, especially back in the 70's it's real. Lenny Kravitz, gimme a break......
 
Another great recording is from Toad the Wet Sprocket, there is an acoustic recording, called "Acoustic dance party" that is excellent. Although I do not know his name.
 
Lately I've been diggin Collective Soul. Kinda grungey, kinda tasty.
It's a nice combination and I love when the guitars split to stereo.

Leslie West- Definitely


Twist
 
another fantastic tone is the one the guitar player from the spin doctors (don't know his name) had on their brilliant cover of Jimi's "spanish castle magic"

Eddie kramer produced that track....pretty much anything Eddie produced had great guitar tone.
 
How about Elliot Easton's "Touch and go" solo?
Brian May on Killer Queen and Bohemian Rapsody.


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Nice call on Elliot Easton-- he ALWAYS had (has) unreal tone.
 
Thanks Nate, lots of players don't even think about him since
The Cars are known to alot of people as a Punk band. But he freaking ROCKS!

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Gary Rossington of Lynyrd Skynyrd on most anything, particularly live.

Slide intro on Freebird

Solos on Call me the Breeze, Three Steps, Sat Night Special, On the Hunt, etc.

Rossington has incredible tone.
 
Joey Santiago & Black Francis (Pixies) in Surfer rosa and BossaNova

John Sykes in Whitesnake's 1987

Jim Martin of Faith no More's Angel Dust & The Real Thing

Dave Fucynzski of Screaming headless Torsos

David Gilmour (anything)

George Harrison & John Lennon in Taxman

Lee Ranaldo and Thruston Moore of Sonic Youth (Anything)

IMHO

Peace...

PC
 
Rossington has incredible tone.Solos on Call me the Breeze, Three Steps, Sat Night Special, On the Hunt, etc.


i agree...all the skynyrd guitarists had incredible tone. They had to, cause if they didn't Ronnie Van Zant would have stomped a mudhole in their asses and walked it dry. lol

its really sad that leon wilkenson (one of the all time great bass players in rock) has passed away. All thats left of the original skynyrd band are billy powell (piano) and gary rossington (guitar)

kid rock has the last known studio recording of leon in the can by the way (probably be on his next album)
 
For acoustic, it's got to be "Watch the sun rise" by Big Star from "2nd". Chilton's glorious, chiming 12-string...

Electric...Roger McGuinn, Robin Guthrie (Cocteau Twins), Johnny Marr, John Squire's Gretsch (Sone Roses), Kevin Shields, J Mascis...

For the consistently worst tones in a twenty-odd year career, I give you...Bernard Sumner from New Order. I've been buying their records since 1981, and he's never had a good guitar sound!
 
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