Best tone

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AlChuck said:
A few more I forgot earlier:
  • Steve Hunter
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You gotta have Dick Wagner with Steve Hunter...And I agree!Some of the best tone/playing of their era!

Ray Gomez..Very "Beckish" very good player..really nice fluid tone

Also Brian May...He has to be in any conversation about tone!




Don
 
allround:
Brian May
David Gilmour (especially solo of "Comfortably Numb")
Snowy White (solo and rhythm of "Bird of Paradise")
Tom Scholz
Richie Blackmore ("Mistreated")

metal preference:
Warren DeMartini ("Wanted Man", intro of "Shame, shame, shame" )
Rit
Tom Kaufman (Primal Fear's 1st record)
Kevin Heybourne (Angelwitch)
Michael Weikatt and Roland Grapow (Helloween)
Jon Schaeffer (Iced Earth)
 
Gilmour's solo on Comfortably Numb has got to be one of the tastiest solos and best tones of all time.... It just grabs you by the balls and doesn't let go....

:p
 
Best:
Lord Edward of the Van Halens, Eric Johnson, SRV, Larry Carlton (his honky/mid-range Dumble amp/strat era tone), Angus/Malcolm Young, Rainbow-era Blackmore, Iron Maiden, early Scorpions.

Worst:
Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Gilmour (three of my favorite players BTW).

Best tone I've heard Live:
Slayer.

Also Van Halen and Larry Carlton.
 
To me, tone is all about context. Sometimes a crappy or weird tone is just what a song needs.

EVH
Jimi's tone on "Voodoo CHile (Slight Return)" is stunning.
Eric Johnson tone is great, though his playing is mechanical
Mark Knopler's clean tone on "Sultans of Swing"

Aaron
http://www.voodoovibe.com
 
johny greenwood from radiohead (Ok Computer)

and jón þor (jónsi) birgisson from Sigur Ros
 
Every one listed on the "Worst of" thread...

Aaron Cheney said:
To me, tone is all about context. Sometimes a crappy or weird tone is just what a song needs.
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That about sums it up.
 
Brian May
Can't believe I forgot to list that one. Love that guys tones.
 
I know I'm gonna catch hell for this one, but here goes....

John Denver
Believe it or not, I have him on my playlist along with Godsmack, and Linkin Park.
Rocky Mountian High has a great acoustic tone. At least for it's time it did.
 
Finally..... I have found someone else on this board brave enough to admit liking John Denver. I have always thought he was a great song-writer and a wonderful vocalist. Any artist that can write a song like "Annie's Song", that is a beautiful, enduring song with no verse, no chorus, and doesn't even rhyme is tops in my book. Never really thought much about his guitar tone though....

Aaron
http://www.voodoovibe.com
 
I have always like Denver. Great singer, great song writer. A true artist. BTW...didn't always have great tone....just on some of them.
...others were not so great..
But doesn't make them bad songs.
 
John Denver was the first concert I ever went to - it was great, the guy really performed with emotion. I guess I've always been a closet John Denver fan. Even that corny little County Boy song gets me tappin my foot :)

Did he write his own material or was he one of those performers that had a professional song writer behind the scene.
 
He wrote most of his own stuff. However, being the kinda guy he was, if a friend came to him who was down on his luck, he would put his friends songs on his next album so they could make a little money. I never got to see him live, sorry to say.
 
Alex Lifeson.
2112 use to make me bang my head against the floor. Still to this day the best Rush album.
 
I was wondering if any of the guitar players ever heard Roy Buchanon...
 
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