Your favorite guitarist and their guitar TONE

[TechBoyJK]

5 years later my picks are now consolidated into Jones and Gilmour.

Dude, I'm so going to name my kid

Happy Gilmour Jones

 

[Saint Nick]

Wayne Krantz.

'64 Deluxe w/ Celestion Vintage 30, the stock '73 Strat or the Pensa Strat w/ Duncan rails (can't remember on which songs), a boss super overdrive, boss DDL and a microverb.

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

Tom Scholz doesn't get as much recognition as I think he deserves.

 

[videogames101]

Petrucci

Recording isn't great, but the performance is.

God I love the tone.

 

[bradley]

Tom Scholz doesn't get as much recognition as I think he deserves.

Which body organ has better tone the heart or the brain?

I love Scholz and Vai, but their tones originate from their heads. To give you an example, Hendrix's tone came from some elusive distant galaxy inside of his heart and beyond.

 

[TechBoyJK]

Petrucci

Recording isn't great, but the performance is.

God I love the tone.

Their Live in LA 2008 vids on youtube are pretty good quality and often HD. There's quite a few of them on there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFZXfKrFWF0

 

[slightlyhuman]

srv, but no one will ever get 100%. his tone came from his fingers.

 

[Zeze]

Arch Enemy

I love the Latin tones of Santana with a bit of dirty bite.

 

[TechBoyJK]

srv, but no one will ever get 100%. his tone came from his fingers.

Yea, it was less 'tone' in regards to amp/effects and settings as it was how he actually played guitar. How he picked, fretted, bended, etc. It all added up. He could have play on a $150 squire and a walmart amp and it would have sounded wonderful.

 

[bradley]

SRV had the strongest hands ever. Try to play with the same furor and intensity while using the same gauge strings... it's virtually impossible.

 

[slightlyhuman]

he used 13s

 

[bradley]

Plus he set his strings with really high action and lots of bending. I read he several times would go as high as eighteens, which is just crazy.

 

[skyking]

Spent the last hour listening to Gary Moore tracks. Nice thread.

 

[x-alki]

Neil Young.

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

Which body organ has better tone the heart or the brain?

I love Scholz and Vai, but their tones originate from their heads. To give you an example, Hendrix's tone came from some elusive distant galaxy inside of his heart and beyond.

I get what you're saying, but frankly I don't care where it came from. I just care how it sounds.

 

[3chordcharlie]

Brian May
Slash

 

[Northern Lawn]

Nobody had such a strong first impression as the frist time I heard Eddie Van Halen but lately I'm really impressed by this guy but he's an ultimate under achiever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oSQpKuY968&feature=related

 

[Scotteq]

Here's a name you may not see very often: Marty Friedman

Brings/brought lyricism to a genre hardly known for it. Decades later, 'Rust In Peace' is still one of my favorite albums, and Friedman's leads on it *still* kick ass.




and Al Di - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQXK8X94Svk Acoustic - No Tricks - Just Awesome

 

[Rudee]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVVCavjaltM&feature=my_favorites&list=FLI1X87Yb_jO5HN0H7VZXMXQ

 

[KillerBee]

Very cool BB King minor blues song - 6 minute jam and other half he explains what he is doing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3o2Po4mUQo

Well worth watching the whole series
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1053CA16DDD05579

 

[DaveSimmons]

Richard Thompson, David Gilmour, Sharon Isbin (classical), Chris Whitley, James Mankey (Concrete Blonde).

Gilmour did a bit of playing for others in the 80s/90s, like Kate Bush ("Rocket's Tail"), Bryan Ferry ("Is Your Love Strong Enough") and Berlin ("Pink and Velvet") and his solos really shine through in them.

DG with Kate Bush - skip to around 1:20 if impatient - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yeimyOsdrA

Chris Whitley
"Slihouette" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOXMtINgRag
"Cool Wooden Crosses" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqWGBXs1jds

James Mankey (Concrete Blonde)
"Everybody Knows" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaJAxdGeZ4E
"Take Me Home" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0DCLt9NwFs

Richard Thomspon
"Mingus Eyes" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBeF9uci7jk
"Vincent Black Lightning 1952" (live) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAVv8SlxKxg

 

[Triumph]

Here's a name you may not see very often: Marty Friedman

Brings/brought lyricism to a genre hardly known for it. Decades later, 'Rust In Peace' is still one of my favorite albums, and Friedman's leads on it *still* kick ass.

When anyone asks me my favorite guitarists, two names immediately come to mind, Marty Friedman is the first person I think of. RIP is one of the best metal albums ever. I wonder if young metal fans even listen to it.
(solo from Poison Was The Cure)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qzPNv49_ik&t=2m0s
(By the way, the remix release of RIP sounds TERRIBLE. Absolutely awful)

And Andy La Rocque from King Diamond. He is incredibly underrated. Very melodic, hooks out the wazoo, keeps his solos generally short and sweet, and fitting to the song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQwTcU6yaY4

 

[bradley]

Nobody had such a strong first impression as the frist time I heard Eddie Van Halen but lately I'm really impressed by this guy but he's an ultimate under achiever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oSQpKuY968&feature=related

Danny Gatton RIP would crap a brick over this kid. New fan.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiUzwyGGBpc

 

[KillerBee]

Danny Gatton RIP would crap a brick over this kid. New fan.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiUzwyGGBpc

gawwdang that dude is awesome ...thnx for posting!

 

[StrangerGuy]

Personally Gilmour wins by a long mile as far as the big name rockers are concerned in his sheer ability to express emotions with the least notes.