Does Les Paul tone get any better than this?

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Is the lead ride in "Spooky" by the Atlanta Rythym Section the best les paul tone ever recorded?

I would have to say "yes".
 
The ABB has layed down some killer les paul tones, and lead guitar/slide guitar chops second to none...
The guitar tone on "live at Fillmore East" is the best I have heard on a live recording. The guitar tones on "Brothers and Sisters" is good but not as good as the guitar tone on "spooky". I think I have heard everything the Allmans have recorded.

I haven't heard a better tone than Barry Bailey (ARS) layed down on "spooky"....yet. (and I've heard alot of les paul recordings)
It's perfect.

I've heard better chops (although that lead ride is killer) but never better tone.
It's in a class of it's own IMO.
 
I haven't heard "Spooky" in so long that I can't remember a guitar lead ride, just a sax ride.

I do remember the guitar that is doing the rhythm vamping throughout the song, though, and I have always loved that sound.
 
Zaphod B said:
I haven't heard "Spooky" in so long that I can't remember a guitar lead ride, just a sax ride.

I do remember the guitar that is doing the rhythm vamping throughout the song, though, and I have always loved that sound.
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I haven't heard that (Atlanta Rhythm Section) recording of "Spooky" since my eight track tape of it died.
 
While it certainly is not lacking, I find it to be largely unremarkable.

Is that as good as Les Pauls get? :p

Just kidding....


I was searching my memory banks for what I remember as the best tone I've ever heard and Guthrie Govan came to mind, he's got some great tone in my opinion.

Here's a great video of him live in the studio and his tone kills here too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yPEewaalik&mode=related&search=
 
By the way, the lick at 1:03 is perhaps the coolest lick ever played.
 
I hadn't listened to it since the late 70's either.
I have a ARS CD and listened to it a few times.

I remembered the tone was good...but damn...It's really good!:cool:

I really miss great pickin' and tone like that.
There aren't alot of bands nowdays in the caliber of Atlanta Rythym Section, Allman bros, or Little Feat.

Well, I haven't heard any...they may just not be able to get a record deal and exposer now days.
I don't know if there is an audience for it now.


Anyway...it's a great solo with killer tone!
 
Zaphod B said:
Found the audio on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mePlc9RIUXk

sho 'nuff, there's that lead guitar.

I was thinking of the original version by, ummmmm Spooky Tooth?
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Classics Four, which by the way also did Traces(faded photographs...). Three of ARS's original members split off the Classics Four to become ARS. They have great sound. I was invited this year to become a new member of Dennis Yost's "Classics Four" touring with the Lettermen all over hell and back, so I got a leg up on the Classics Four/Atlanta Rythm Section thing. Turned down the gig, but four of my mates are on board for a tour of the Phillipines and Malaysia.
 
Zaphod B said:
Personally, I think that Page's sound, when without the benefit of effects, is tinny, thin, and shitty.
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I think in most of the live Zepplin recordings and videos, you have a point-it is a tinny, thin sound.
However, when he was in the studio doing those early Zep tunes and layering the guitars like crazy, his productions had a great sound in the mix.

Kind of hard to imagine he was the same guy on all those Tom Jones singles....;)
 
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