Best Guitar Sounds Ever Survey

[Gonzo]

Hey I was wondering, considering all the varied, vast musical tastes and experience we have on this forum-just for fun-if you guys would post up your all-time favorite guitar sounds ever recorded. You know what song-what artist-and what you love about it.
I have just recently shifted from a "conceptual" type of listening, where my tastes were driven by the quality of the ideas, the melodies, and the way they are executed, to a pure "sound" type of listening, where I find myself enjoying music that I would have quickly dismissed earlier because of the lack of harmonic complexity, etc. Like the Bluesbreakers for instance-I have tried to listen to the Beano album many times before and just found it very hokey. Now I'm hearing it a totally different way, and I TOTALLY get all the fuss. Maybe I'm just "maturing" lol. I'm also seeing it work in reverse, where some guitar players that used to blow me away, now I hear it and go "uhhh...kind of a crappy sound, isn't it, so thin". Anyway-if you guys feel like it- also, you may have already done a thread like this, if so somebody please point me to it.

My entries today are:

The beginning of the lead in "Machine Gun" off of Band of Gypsies. You know, the long sustained wail- WHOOOO that still gives me goosebumps every time I hear it. Damn, it gives me chills just THINKING about it. That's some voodoo right there.

Also I've been really digging BFG's tone on "Tres Hombres" ALOT recently. In fact I'm leaving right now to go try and find the dvd Slowpoke referenced earlier.

Joe Bonamassa-Live at the Albert Hall-juiciest tone I've heard recently.

Anyway, thanks for humoring me guys-this is a great forum.

[slowpokerhino]

Gotta love Duane and Dickey from the Fillmore CD. Best pure guitar tone ever recorded IMO.

BTW, you'll love the DVD Gonzo. Only wish the guitar was a little louder in the mix.

[Gonzo]

Just got back with it-it has the 1980 show, plus a 2008 show, Double Down Live! Plus I'll be checking out the Allman Bros Fillmore disc later (I know "you've never listened to THAT??!!"). Thanks for your response Rhino.

[surfnorthwest]

Man that could be a HUGE list. Here are a few of my favorites as far as great recorded guitar tone on a CD.

Eddie Van Halen - Van Halen II
Robin Trower - In City Dreams
Angus Young -Back in Black
Mark Knopfler - Brothers in Arms
Michael Schenker - Save Yourself
Richie Blackmore - Perfect Strangers
Tony Iommi - Seventh Star
Pat Travers - Crash and Burn
Lindsey Buckingham - Tusk
David Gilmour - Division Bell

[Spotted Dog]

Just a quick list of some favs:

ABB @ Fillmore
Hendrix Woodstock: Red House
Ronnie Baker Brooks: Stuck On Stupid
Stevie Ray Vaughan Live at Montreux: Dirty Pool
Bonamassa Had to Cry Today: Reconsider Baby
Derek Trucks... pick one
Trower: Bridge of Sighs

[Tnjpekar]

Gary Moore, Still got the blues
EVH 1-4
Eric Johnson, dont matter, pick any cd
Carlos Santana-supernatural
Billy Gibbons, fandango
Warren Haynes, just about any tune
Steve Vai, yankee rose, crazy from the heat
ty tabor, faith hope love
Brian May, most any cd
Satch, the extreemist
Extreem, the second cd, cant remember the name
Gilmour, the division bell
Jeff Beck, guitar shop
leslie west, mississippi Queen
more to come

wow, when you think about it, there are a ton of tones that just kick ass

[surfnorthwest]

Tnjpekar those were some real good ones. Forgot about the Gary Moore, that was a great CD. Still one of the best Plexi recorded sounds I have heard besides my own is the live recording from Mountain and Leslie West on Nantucut Slieghride, the Marshall plexi tone on this is just the best.

Here it is out of my collection...TURN IT UP and download

[Supernaught]

Best Gary Moore tone I ever heard was on the Blues Alive cd. Amazing.

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Eric Johnson needs to be shot for getting that good a guitar tone.

[Gonzo]

Tnjpekar those were some real good ones. Forgot about the Gary Moore, that was a great CD. Still one of the best Plexi recorded sounds I have heard besides my own is the live recording from Mountain and Leslie West on Nantucut Slieghride, the Marshall plexi tone on this is just the best.

Here it is out of my collection...TURN IT UP and download

HOLY CRAP-that just blew my mind-thanks Surf. That sound is HUUUUGE!

[ste_blue]

Just to add my contribution...

Slash - November Rain

[lukemc]

heres a few of mine.

Peter Green -Mr Wonderfull Album

Eric Clapton - Sleepy Time - Live Cream Volume 1.

Paul Kossoff & Andy Fraser - Live Free, kossoffs tone speaks for itself but Andy Frasers bass Tone rivals even the great Jack Bruce!

Hendrix at woodstock - Villanova Junction.

could go on forever!....

[MATHIEU]

I can't believe nobody said Clapton's tone from the Mayall "Beano" album.
Isn't that the Holy Grail of KT66 tone?

[lukemc]

yeah the beano tone IS great, i tried A few lesser known albums/Songs so people might give them a listen :D

[blue]

hi guys, just my tuppence worth ;)

he hasn't had a great sound since, but i love Kirk Hammet's lead sound on the First Metallica album, Kill 'Em All. it was a really loud, cleaner than you'd think sound with great clarity and definition.

another unusual and very distinctive tone is Prince's on Purple Rain.

[Tnjpekar]

Surf, still one of the best guitar tones ever laid down
I personally think that Leslie took the beano tone into the end of the century,
and gave us all a lesson in creamy compression that carried the guitar into the next decade.

Super, I forgot about Gary's tone on that performance.
the honk and clarity are flawless, and his playing is without
error or peer.
Dude, thanks!