Favorite Guitar Sounds of All Time

[fuzzsniffvoyage]

Paul McCartney's bass tone on While My Guitar Gently Weeps.
Jeff Beck Caus we ended as lovers,
any Santana

 

[arcadeko]

New York Dolls - Jet Boy
Gang Green - Alcohol
Smashing Pumpkins - Frail and Bedazzled / Zero
Zepplin - Whole Lotta Love
Rush - Limelight

 

[WarmJetGuitar]

My Bloody Valentine - Loveless album from 1991 (Fender Jazzmaster/Jaguar)
Spacemen 3 - pretty much everything (Vox Starstream, Fender Jaguar, Tele, Rickenbacker Capri)
The Smiths - This Charming Man (Rickenbacker or Gretch)
The Velvet Underground - litteraly everything on The Velvet Underground & Nico (Gretch, Fenders, probably others)
Brian Eno - Here Comes The Warm Jets
The Beatles - Nowhere Man

BTW, "Bang Bang" was performed by Nancy Sinatra and recorded and written by Lee Hazlewood. A true genius of production and songwriting IMO. I guess the guitar sound was heavily inspired by Duane Eddy who was known as the "master of twang".

 

[IK Obi]

Carlos Santana on El Farol.

 

[c7sus]

I've always loved Jerry Garcia's tone on the Live/Dead album. I don't know what the heck happened to his taste in tone in subsequent years but I can't stand his thin, nasally guitar tone after about 1970 or so.

I like the guitar tone on the song Stop, by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, from Take Them On, On Your Own. It's one of the few in-your-face mixes I like, and the guitars really roar.

It's hard not to like the 70's vibe Sabbath-style guitars on Don't Run Our Hearts Around by Black Mountain.

And while I'm not much of an AC/DC fan, how can you not like Angus Young's SG-into-a-cranked-Marshall tone?

Oh, and Mike Bloomfield's Tele-into-a-cranked-Twin tone on The Paul Butterfield Blues Band's stuff is sublime also.

As the Dead moved into bigger venues in the 70's Jerry got away from using tube power amps because he thought they were too unstable at constant high volume. Jerry switched over to using the preamp section of a couple Blackface Twins and McIntosh 2300 amps and finally to a Phase Linear 400.

I've never thought of Jerrys' tone as nasally, more bell-like and at times drenched in reverb. I think Jerry was highly influenced by horn players and tried to emulate that kind of tone and vibe in his guitar technique and approach to soloing.

By the late 70's/early 80's Jerry had developed his circuit utilizing the Cutler-designed unity gain preamp and FX loop coming straight off the pickups.

There are some great pics here of the 70's setup the Dead were using on stage. Check out Phil's rig of Mac amps.

Dead Gear

GRATEFUL DEAD AT WINTERLAND, NEW YEAR'S 1972-73

Here's a link to the Alembic history page.

Alembic History - Long Version

Garcia on tone and technique.

WoodyTone! - Jerry Garcia’s Surprisingly Interesting Technique

Jerry's rig circa 1979.

http://www.guitargeek.com/rigview/615/

Jerry's guitars through the ages.

http://www.dozin.com/jers/guitar/history.htm

The Wolf.

http://www.dozin.com/jers/guitars/wolf/wolf.htm

Tiger

http://dozin.com/jers/guitars/tiger/info.html

Rosebud

http://www.dozin.com/jers/guitars/rosebud/rosebud.html

Stephen Cripe

http://www.dozin.com/jers/guitar/Bolt.html

 

[kip4]

Santana flora de luna
Angus young anything he plays
joe walsh's talkbox
jason mraz's acoustic
EVH flanger
jerry donohoe spanky tele tones
and so so many more

 

[c7sus]

Tony Rice, Peter Rowan, David Lindley on the JB albums, Warren Haynes, David Hidalgo, Steve Kimmock, Mike Bloomfield, Jody Stecher, Nina Gerber, PT on Quadrophrenia, Jerry G., George Harrison slide guitar, Mike Campbell, Joe Walsh, Frank Zappa, Carlos Santana...

 

[ZoSo58LP]

hmm most people are going old school here..

i grew outta my zeppelin phase a while back, but i used to love jimmy page's live tone, when he'd use both hums together
as for today though, my favorite tone for riffs comes from mr. deron miller of cky; the boss oc-2 octave pedal, plus a marshall jcm2000 with a parker is just the fattest, most awesome sound i've ever heard.

 

[miroslav]

hmm most people are going old school here..
...i grew outta my zeppelin phase a while back...

Coming from a guy who still uses ZoSo58LP as his forum handle!

..my favorite tone for riffs comes from mr. deron miller of cky; the boss oc-2 octave pedal, plus a marshall jcm2000 with a parker is just the fattest, most awesome sound i've ever heard.

I've not listened to much of CKY stuff, but what I have heard in YouTube....I never hear any actual "rifffing"...it's just heavy, layered chord stuff.
Post up a clip that demonstrates that tone you are talking about...maybe you know of a CKY/Miller video that showcases actual lead playing.

 

[rfahey86]

Kataklysm - Crippled and Broken
Rob Zombie - I Feel So Numb
Black Label Society - Stillborn
Children of Bodom - Not My Funeral
Disturbed - Any Album (Not a huge fan, but their guitar tone is awesome)

 

[thrashermaniac]

Metallica- Master Of Puppets, Ride The Lightning and ...And Justice For All distortion
Suicidal Tendencies- All of they first album
Megadeth- All 80's stuff
Testament-The Legacy and The New Order distortion
Tool-something like the guitar tone of the 10,000 Days album