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How about listing a few of the records that contain a guitar SOUND that just knocks you out. I'm not talking about the playing, but the sound. I think electric guitar tone has a lot to do with how we react to records. What do you all think?
Some of my favorites:
"Sultans of Swing" Knoffler is the king of clean!
"And Your Bird Can Sing" not just a great riff, but a great SOUND
"Honky Tonk Woman" Keith at his best. Just dirty enough to growl.
"Statesboro Blues" on the live Fillmore album. Duane's guitar sounds like an angry beast trying to claw its way out of a speaker cabinet.
"Running on Empty" David Lindley squeezing every drop out of the lap steel.
"We Don't Get Fooled Again" THAT is the sound of gods celebrating.
So many others....
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Hey Truman: The first one on your list is also the first one on my list  Likewise, I've always been partial to the sound of Bruce's guitar on "Lucky Town". Scott
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Boston had a great guitar sound.
Along with Eddie's virtuosity, Van Halen always has great guitar tones. And just to get Bob Young's goat {well not really} Ted Nugent's sound on "Stranglehold" and "Cat Scratch Fever" is huge!
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The rhythm guitar tones on
Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend
Are raw, in-your-face and perfect.
Of course, the lead playing is nothing to spit at either, but the rhythm guit. tones are awesome.
Oh, and anything and everything played by Brian May on Queen's records should have been the very first thing mentioned.
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Speaking of Knopfler, his collaboration with Chet Atkins, 'Neck and Neck,' is chock-full of great guitar sounds.
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A Night at the Opera - Brian May. Great tone, instantly recognizable.
I like Eric Johnson's tones too - from overdriven fuzz to the sparling chorus effect - it's all about tone with Eric.
David Lindley's lapsteel work on just about anything from Jackson Browne still gets me the most.
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and David Gilmour was SMOKING all over Pink Floyd's PULSE recordings. I think that's some of his best playing and fantastic tones..
His solo project "On an island" is peppered with great tones too.
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For electric guitar tones listen to the album Deguello by ZZ Top. It was not a big record for them but it is full of GREAT guitar tones. Billy Gibbons is a tone master.
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Okay, I almost forgot; my favorite guitar tone ever is Brinsley Schwarz: http://myspace.com/brinsleyschwarzHis leads are the way I want my guitar leads to sound. The perfect Tele tone. Now, I just need to buy a Tele, and I'm halfway there.
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I have to agree with Tom about Gilmour. His slide on Dark Side Of The Moon and their next album Wish You Were Here were the best. I saw them W/ Waters at Miami Baseball Stadium in 78' during their Animals tour. They played the complete Animals album W/the inflatible pig hovering above the crowd, and as an encore played side B of Dark Side Of The Moon. As a double encore they came back out and played side A of Wish You Were Here. They had only one other guitar player on stage as Gilmour sat in a chair and played his lap steel. I think that I still have the ticket stub somewhere.Ben
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Sticky Fingers...Can't You Hear Me Knocking is stunning. Black Crowes Southern Harmony and Musical Companion, both Rich Robinson and Marc Ford got fantastic tones on that record. Any Government Mule, Warren Haynes is a Tone Monster. And if I do say so myself there's some pretty cool sounds on the upcoming Mojo Gurus record  
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Great input, fellers.
I agree with just about everyone, particularly ZZ Top, Queen and EVH.
I have never been a fan of Tom Scholtz or his sound, but I definitely know where you are coming from. Distinctive. Good choice.
How about the Hellecasters?
And I love the sound on those old Chuck Berry records.
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Roy Buchanan great clean cut through sound on alot of his stuff,Robben Ford gets a great bluesy sound, Stevie Ray has that instantly recognizeable warm tube sound, a contemporary writer I know, Chuck Cannon is into a pure sound ...uses his hands on like 60 year old Gibsons,won't use a pick,and I've always liked Carlos Santana's sound, a Mesa set on forever sustain, Clapton and Duane on the original Layla is still pretty hard to beat.
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How about Rory Gallagher? I never heard any bad tones on any of his recorded stuff, live or studio.
And Pete Anderson on Dwight Yoakam's records, the first time I heard Guitars, Cadillacs and Hillbilly Music I had to dig in, and everything I've heard of his has been superb.
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Todd, I knew I liked you! I'd have said the same thing if you hadn't. Brian May's most amazing tone ever, IMO, is on some lesser known tracks: "Bijou" on Innuendo "A Winter's Tale" on Made in Heaven These are slow ballads with just this gorgeous SOUND in your ears. Check them out if you can. If that's too obscure for you though, just go through their greatest hits. The other guys mentioned so far are good too. Esp. on Layla and Sultans of Swing. And Jimi Hendrix on Star-Spangled Banner, I have to give that a thumbs-up too. Nobody mentioned Jimi yet? What's up with that? Linda
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