Biggest Most Dangerous Guitar Sound

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Biggest Most Dangerous Guitar Sound

  • Metallica

    Votes: 56 20.2%

  • Slayer

    Votes: 19 6.9%

  • Anthrax

    Votes: 7 2.5%

  • AC/DC

    Votes: 74 26.7%

  • Megadeth

    Votes: 9 3.2%

  • Pantera

    Votes: 71 25.6%

  • The Deftones

    Votes: 24 8.7%

  • Sepultura

    Votes: 17 6.1%
  • Total voters
    277
That sound it makes when you get hit in the head by a swinging guitar.
 
hmmm.... my off-beat choices:

Pete Townshend - The who - Live at Leeds ... (you cant get a harder hitting guitar like his ... damn, this album must be 30something years old now) - this is the ONLY album, where I relly get the stadium feeling


Gary Moore - We want Moore (Live) ... a guy ripping his own guts out on stage ...


R Blackmore - D.P. - Made In Japan - the sheer energy of him soloing in child in time gives all the "big-hair" guitarists a run for their money.
 
Dan Auerbach from The Black Keys
Jack White from The White Stripes.

Black and white...2 of the biggest guitar sounds around. Heck, neither has a bassist to compete so they each have the entire sonic spectrum to themselves. Can't really top that, can ya?
 
OK..when I first started to read these posts one guy in particular came to mind. Sweaty Teddy Nugent. Yeah...a lot of you younger guys probably hate him, but the reason I think of him is his early sound he used to get with Fender Showmans and 15'' cabs. His live tone was incredible. Think "double live gonzo" only way better with all the volume he use to push on stage.
A lot of the "heavy" bands you see today use all this distortion and fuzz and can't turn up passed 3 without the amp squealing like a stuck pig. You'll see 8 marshall stacks on stage and only 1 cab will be plugged in. There's something to be said for relatively clean sounding amps turned up to 10 that just kicks ass! And besides anyone can drop-tune there guitar and get a heavy tone thru a marshall or mesa. It just doesn't impress me to hear all this 60hz whump on guitars...leave some space for the bass guitar and kick drum...
 
UnkleSlam said:
I think it would be hard to top "..And Justice For All " era Metallica. They've been quoted as saying that they hate their sound on that album, but i think it was their peak.

An honorable mention goes to "Persistance Of Time" era Anthrax.
Or C.O.C,Helmet,Kyuss,Down,etc,etc,etc.It's all Good.
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You are kidding right? the guitars were the worst, tin-can, overly trebly crap I've ever heard.

The songs were good though
 
AlfredB said:
hmmm.... my off-beat choices:

Pete Townshend - The who - Live at Leeds ... (you cant get a harder hitting guitar like his ... damn, this album must be 30something years old now) - this is the ONLY album, where I relly get the stadium feeling


Gary Moore - We want Moore (Live) ... a guy ripping his own guts out on stage ...


R Blackmore - D.P. - Made In Japan - the sheer energy of him soloing in child in time gives all the "big-hair" guitarists a run for their money.
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Just before reading your post i was about to post "Townsend's tone kills". And as i get to your post Live at Leeds comes on. His amp doesn't have a gain dial to 20, but at least he doesn't suck :D
 
It is ALL in the EAR of the Listener.....And don't forget..everyone has thier off-gigs...I would love to know ANY group that sounds good for every live show they do...Hard to judge by that...Went to a FOGHAT concert..(whom was one of my faves)..was dissapointed in performance ...yet went to Gino Vannelli concert and He blew me away...didn't seem right...Black Sabbaths 1st gig in KC wasn't all that great either...but were they good? If I had held my opinion of them from first concert..then I would have missed out on some good sounds...yeah..I'm a 70's child...Hot Tuna,Jefferson Airplane,Jethro Tull, Lynard Skynard, Deep Purple,Pink Floyd,etc..I could go on and on...Talk about some kick-butt performances...These guys knew the meaning of JAM...And most of them did sound just as good live as they did on thier albums...yeah...that old am I..:eek:.. I do like most of the ones listed..but my pick was AC/DC..never saw them live though...
 
true-eurt said:
It is ALL in the EAR of the Listener.....And don't forget..everyone has thier off-gigs...I would love to know ANY group that sounds good for every live show they do...Hard to judge by that...Went to a FOGHAT concert..(whom was one of my faves)..was dissapointed in performance ...yet went to Gino Vannelli concert and He blew me away...didn't seem right...Black Sabbaths 1st gig in KC wasn't all that great either...but were they good? If I had held my opinion of them from first concert..then I would have missed out on some good sounds...yeah..I'm a 70's child...Hot Tuna,Jefferson Airplane,Jethro Tull, Lynard Skynard, Deep Purple,Pink Floyd,etc..I could go on and on...Talk about some kick-butt performances...These guys knew the meaning of JAM...And most of them did sound just as good live as they did on thier albums...yeah...that old am I..:eek:.. I do like most of the ones listed..but my pick was AC/DC..never saw them live though...
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Geeze.. I just realized how old this thread is... :D And my own age... :eek:
 
true-eurt said:
Geeze.. I just realized how old this thread is... :D And my own age... :eek:
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Ah, yes. The good ole days of concert rock. I saw Sabbatha as well at Cobo Hall in Detroit and was surprised at how quiet they were. Zeppelin was really sloppy. Yes sounded amazing. Deep Purple rocked as did J.Geils. Loudest show ever.........Johnny Winter at the Gardens in London, Ontario. My ears have never been the same. Welcome fellow geezer. Let us all raise our Bic lighters high in salute of the days of long hair, tall stacks and underpowered PA's. :D
 
When Angus plays its dangerous as fuck.....cause its straight up rock, none of this poser scoop the mids shit :rolleyes: ......and Neil Youngs sound IS about to explode because he plays through an old fender deluxe cranked like no other :p
 
Worst tone... Kirk Hammett's noodly wah-wah laden lead tones....

Even my wife thinks they suck.... his playing is nothing to write home about either....

I know... he sold lots of albums.... but his tone sucks....
 
Guitar Onslaught!!!!

I just saw the Black Label Society tour/family come through upstate New York and it rocked loud and merciless! Zakk Wylde with his beefed Marshalls and new Dunlop/MXR distortion had an awesome tone that cut like Samurai swords. He rulz!
SDMF-er always!
<smiles> dD
 
Yes..... Zakk's tone is "Very Dangerous".... It's awesome... :D
 
mettalica and justice for all. I had the cd but then my dog ate it :mad: MY favorite of that album is Eye of the beholder.....grat guitar and great into. easy but nice
 
charger said:
You'd have to drink a LOT of beer to start thinking that was a heavy guitar sound.
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Absolutely not. Angus's tone was absolutely unbelievable and rocked (to me) much harder than Metallica or Slayer or any of the above-mentioned ones. It peeled your face off. The other bands use SOOO much distortion, compressing the sound sooo much, that the tone doesn't change from volume 1 to volume 11. It's got no punch to it--no life. I think the Metallica-favored "scoop all the mids out" sound is the worst trend that ever happened to guitar tone.
 
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