What is it?
For me, Kyuss had it nailed on. It's absolutely perfect. Demon Cleaner, One Inch Man, Gardenia, Green Machine are all exercises in how to set up your equipment par excellence.
Witness :
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=2pMfqZGg-FA&feature=related
(WARNING: Contains Nic Olivieri with hair, and Josh Homme with some very odd looking blonde curtains. )
for super growly drop tuned badness
then yeah definitely.
Others worth mentioning;
SRV at the El Mocambo.
Hendrix-circa Woodstock or even the Fillmore East dates.
Billy Gibbons-Tre Hombres
A guitarist called Eric Gales...
A lot of Cobain's tones were immense too.
I reckon Zappa wasn't tooooooooooo bad.
Check out his 4 minute solo on 'Son of Mr Green genes'.
Jaw dropping.
Agree with Gibbons
And Cobain, yes, that's why they were so popular mainly.
Josh Hommes mastery of tone is what makes him a great guitarist, more than anything else. He's got a completely unique style, which will be copied and copied but never done as good.
Dave Pajo's sound on Spiderland
is excellent..
isn't that scott reeder rather than olivieri in that vid?
but yeah homme is the master of guitar tone
^ i still havent heard that
i really like the guitar sound
on the Avast! record.
shit, that might be why he's so hairy
yeah I know where your coming from
got some mad shit going down has ol' Joshy.
Erm
Too many too mention, so I wont
Fu Manchu
on The Action is Go record.
im a sucker for
buzz from the melvins and wata from boris
'Siamese Dream'...
...has my favourite guitar tone ever.
Neil Young - Everybody Knows This is Nowhere
good shout
It's probably my favourite 'guitar album'
</Q magazine reader>
Worship the fuzz!
Anaal Nathrakh, and Abominable Iron Sloth immediately spring to mind for pure, unadulterated nastiness.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=nqV10Z1jfnw
Sleep, Reverend Bizarre, Electric Wiz', and, as mentioned before, Kyuss for their mammoth, all-enveloping tone.
I also really like the chainsaw buzz you get with bands like Entombed and Trap Them.
As far as bass tones go Justin Broadrick is king. Silver may be the poppiest material the man's ever done, but listen to that bass, it sounds like one of King-Kong's bowel movements!
probably a thousand leaves era sonic youth
Van Halen I
Jesu live nearly disembowelled me
Loudest bass ever I think.
The Whitest Boy Alive album
i know it's probably not The Best Ever but I loves it i do.
the first track on the new melvins record
reminds me of Van Halen
Earth 2
for pure tone.
For consistently delicious tone you can't beat:
Leslie West of Mountain
Adam Jones of Tool
Wata of Boris
Angus and Malcom Young
Dave Navvaro of Janes Addiction
Joey Santiago of Pixies
James Iha of Smashing Pumpkins
Bob 1 of Devo
J. Mascis of Dino Jr.
Will Sargeant of Echo and the Bunneymen
Buzz Osbourne of Melvins and Fantomas
Robert Fripp
Johnny Marr
Snakefinger
The Spirit Caravan Guy
Starflyer 69
Ride
Ron Asheton of Stooges
Tom Verlaine
Lou Reed
Mick Ronson
Flower Travellin' Band- Satori
One of my favourite Japanese rock albums of the early 70s with a great guitar sound and some killer riffs!
Anyone else heard this?
Soundgarden
a la Jesus Christ pose.
FUCK!
Jamie Summers from the internet is a big fan, I heard
Ok, I'm downloading this now.
I hope it's good.
Flower Travellin
Band "Satori" is ok.
definitely
Siamese Dream era Smashing Pumpkins. Best example is where the guitars kick in after the intro to Today.
Also, Blue Album era Weezer guitars sound absolutely awesome.
Ira Kaplan from Yo La Tengo always has incredible sounding guitar tones. Perfect both in the noisy sections and the ambient parts.
David Gilmour
for the wins.
Also Takaakira Goto's guitar sound is worth mentioning.
Just 'ok'?
What's wrong witchu!
It really is
I was blown away by how good it is the first time I heard it!
Check out the riffage on Satori 3
Based on that track you told me to listen to
I think this album should be above 'ok'.
^ Yes, yes
and thrice yes
It is ridiculously good
with emphasis on the ridiculous. The guy's voice, the guitar, everything!
This reminds me
I saw Vanessa Feltz and her Phats and Small boyfriend at Waterloo last night.
Just thought I'd share.
how could I not include
Dimebag and Santana...FOOL
I also like Pagey's guitar tone on How The West Was Won.
Jack White always gets it right
Most of the 60s guys had great tones but that's mostly down to cranking a valve amp up really loud.
ahh yeah
there's so many fucking guitarists anyway!
My Deluxe Strat on the neck pickup
and basically ever Low song.
It's fucking amazing.
So many break samples can be taken from that section of music.
Mick Ronson
on the intro to Rebel Rebel. I can almost smell the valves.
Glen Buxton's sound throughout most of Alice Cooper's 'Love it to Death' album is incredibly tasty.
Since we're being a bit guitar geeky, does anyone know what the guitar effect is here, at 0.55 mins?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6Py-bpdrx8
I think it might be synth, but I hope it's guitar.
Completely different tack
but the acoustic tone on Kristen Hersh's The Grotto is stunning.
I love sno cat
it really does sound like it was recorded in the desert in the middle of the night
Yeah,
the quiet little piano part that closes the track slays me
depends
neverminds - bassman and mesa combo was really nice.
tools tone on sober was awesome.
i really like the crunchy small combo sound on trail of deads madonna as a punky sound too.
basswise its easier: tool on lateralus or muse guy on anything before last album.
It is pretty good
but I've heard a million 60's/70's heavy/psych albums over the years and it's just not one of my faves. They did a covers album called Anywhere with Sabbath and King Crimson covers on it which I prefer! Nice to hear people talking about 'em on here though!
A pedant writes
You mean Eric Gale
High five on Tres Hombres..that is one filthy guitar sound
What are amongst your favourites?
Which ones are your favourites?
I really like the first Captain Beyond and Sir Lord Baltimore albums but I don't know that many really. Would be good to hear about some more quality ones!
Alright!
Captain Beyond and Sir Lord Baltimore are both certainly near the top of the heap. Other classics...
Night Sun - Mournin'
Leafhound - Growers of Mushroom
Blues Creation - Demon and 11 Children
Strange - Translucent World
November - 6:e
Pentagram - First Daze Here
Mariani - s/t
Amon Duul II - Yeti
Randy Holden - Population II
Dark - Round The Edges
Speed Glue + Shinki - both albums
Hairy Chapter - Can't Get Through
CWT - The Hundredweight
the second Grand Funk Railroad album
The list goes on!
Right...
I've got some work to do!
Cheers
!
...
Arthur Lee and Brian Maclean from Love produced some fantastic guitar tones.
Neil Young's On the Beach album - whoever was on main electric guitar duties nails a very distinctive smooth guitar sound.
Grails - Any of their more recent stuff, opium den guitar tones.
DEP - Calculating Infinity has to be mentioned for the guitar sound at the end of Variations on a Cocktail dress alone.
Robert Smith's guitar on Faith may take cues from Joy Division but its such an interesting wintery sound, i love that album.
The guitarist from Deerhunter seems to have the dreamy open fret arpegiations down to a tee.
Anton from the BJM always gets a good jangly 60s reverb sound i like, "nevertheless" is a classic example.
Polvo - Thermal Treasure, makes the guitar sound so discordant and eastern like a sitar.
Dungen - this guy knows how to record!
Dead Meadow - Particularly the early stuff and the stuff on Shivering Kings is perfect heavy psych drowned in reverb.
I always find
that Alan Sparhawk of Low has a gorgeous guitar sound... especially when he used Tele's...
best bass tone:
botch - 'we are the romans'
Eddie Hazel's
in 'Maggot Brain'. Might as well end the thread now.
The chime of a Rickenbacker.
Think Ticket To Ride, Mr Tambourine Man or the little outro note things of a Hard Day's Night.
That sound is the sound that pleases my mind more than any other.
You might be right.
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Earth, in every incarnation has beautiful tone.
Although I've always tried to get the pa-as-guitar-amp trebly mess you get from bands like Big BLack,Six finger satellite and Arab on Radar
First Light
by Converge. Mmmmmm.
has to be
the rhythm guitar on 'the power of love' by huey lewis and the news. end of.
Sounds like an electro-harmonix micro-synth
with a little bit of octaver applied
mono
on 'the flames beyond.."
aye
stick yer guitar in a bass amp and away ye go :)
Kurt Cobain (NEVERMIND)
SO WHAT!! SHOT ME!
He got an amazing sound thru thrift guitarS
MOGWAI-XMAS STEPS
Just before the distortion kicks in
Boss death metal classic!
I love how
Homme has the time to flip the finger between riffs: that is rock if ever there was.
i like the tone on the first weezer album
love
less
^I'm pretty sure he used
better guitars to record
Helmet - Betty
A sound that's crushingly heavy, but incredibly beautiful too.
Heaven.
Fault and Fracture too
love that sound
Boris
'Just Abandoned Myself'
In headphones, I literally listen to that song open mouthed every time.
Suede
I love Butler's metal-inspired grooves on their first one