Guitarists With The Best Sound?

[Colin]

1. Eric Johnson
2. Anything from Tones or Venus Isle
3. He uses 2x Amp set up (Dry/Wet combo) with his Marshall JCM800's. Or 2x Fender Twin Reverb. His entire set up is available at his website.

add me to the EJ list although it's 3 x amp setup and vintage plexi Marshalls not JCM 800's. The twins are some times replaced with blackface deluxes because the twins are loud. I had the privilege of hanging with Eric and his crew for a day years ago. Life changing in terms of playing the guitar. Robben Ford and Larry are up there as well...

 

[ScoobySteve]

Ahhah! They are plexi's!

Amps

Thanks for the correction!

 

[banjoplayer]

Steve Morse / best example: Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming + Guitar SOlo from Abandon live / Signature guitar, Peavey 5150

Brian May / best example: maybe "God save the queen" / Red Special, booster, AC30

Mark Knopfler / various ?!?!

Slash is also in my opinion one with the best tones

 

[Keithf]

tone

George Lynch,the dokken live album
I believe he was using Randall at the time.

 

[fatoni]

well peeps already noted mastodon and i love some guthrie govan...on top of that id have to add paul waggoner from btbam and i dont know how nobody has mentioned paul gilbert

 

[dwells]

Dimebag- Walk
Marco Sfogli- theres hope
Marty Friedman -symphony of destruction lead

 

[ScoobySteve]

George Lynch,the dokken live album
I believe he was using Randall at the time.

My guitar teacher worked with George as his sound tech for the Tooth and Nail and ULAK albums, even then he switched his gear around so much, but he did mention the Randall RG100ES (Before they were originally bought out) as one of his staple amps, the model that Dimebag used too.

I know, I know it's a Solid State amp and they get their fair share of crap for not being tube driven, but this one is special. Also happens to be my first amp head.

He's back to using Randall now, and has a signature series as well.

 

[SteveB]

This Guy

YouTube - Mayones Competition - Rumpy

Actually, this kind of tone can sound great in the right context. Ever hear Steve Hackett's solo on the Genesis song "The Musical Box"? Fuzzy, discordant in places, but pure genius.

 

[SteveB]

I'd throw in:

1) Steve Rothery (Marillion) - especially the late 80s material, stratty guitar into Marshalls and Roland JC-120. Misplaced Childhood and Clutching at Straws albums in particular.

2) Nick Barrett (Pendragon) - stratty guitar into Soldano amp. Some albums: The World, The Masquerade Overture, The Window of Life, Believe.

Both of these guys are great melodic soloists (a la Gilmour) who have covered a lot of ground stylistically over their careers. I would love to put an Albert Lee in their hands for a few weeks and see what it brings out of them musically.

 

[Voo]

David Grissom: especially during the Storyville days

Dominic Cifarelli: chronicles of israfel

SRV: I don think I ever heard a bad tone from SRV

Dimebag: always had such an amazing heavy crunch

 

[Dante]

M. Suicmez - Stabwound or the solo from F.O.Discharge.
D. Gilmour - marooned or shine on you crazy diamond.
J Hetfield - the rock era and ride the lightning.
M Akerfeldt - many different works, especiallly the acoustic and blues bits.

gear: ten good fingers.

 

[JasonT]

My guitar teacher worked with George as his sound tech for the Tooth and Nail and ULAK albums, even then he switched his gear around so much, but he did mention the Randall RG100ES (Before they were originally bought out) as one of his staple amps, the model that Dimebag used too.

I know, I know it's a Solid State amp and they get their fair share of crap for not being tube driven, but this one is special. Also happens to be my first amp head.

He's back to using Randall now, and has a signature series as well.

Hahaha.

I still have the Randall RG100ES head and cabinet in the limited edition snakeskin I bought in 1987. Surprisingly good tones for a solid state head. Sits in the closet, though. An Engl will do that to a lot of amps.

 

[JasonT]

Some of my favorite rhythm tones to listen to (in no particular order):

Dave Navarro/Jane's Addiction - Strays - True Nature, Wrong Girl, etc.
Dave Navarro/The Panic Channel
Alex Lifeson/RUSH - Hemispheres; Moving Pictures - Red Barchetta, YYZ
Ra - Duality - Fallen Angels, Every Little Thing She Does is Magic, Superman
Shinedown - Leave a Whisper - In Memory, Fly From the Inside; Us and Them
Dean DeLeo/STP - Core - Crackerman, Plush, Wicked Garden
John Petrucci/Dream Theater - Scenes From A Memory, Falling Into Infinity
Wilton/DeGarmo/Queensryche - Empire
John Frusciante/RHCP - Californication

Favorite lead tones:

John Petrucci - 6 Degrees - Glass Prison; Scenes - Overture 1928
Joe Bonamassa - Bloodline - whole album but Since You're Gone stands out (killer soloing here)
Eric Johnson - Ah Via Musicom - High Landrons, Righteous
Joe Satriani - Crystal Planet - A Train of Angels, Ceremony, Crystal Planet; The Extremist
Wilton/DeGarmo/Queensryche - Empire - Jet City Woman, Best I Can, Resistance, Della Brown

That's enough for now.

 

[Gear]

I guess I'll participate in the dead-thread revival...

Too many to list but DLR-era Eddie Van Halen one of my personal favorites - Fair Warning in particular.

There's a ton of great players with great tone out there but you don't hear bad players with great tone. It's all in the touch and attack and feel of the player.

for me, here's a good example of "tone is in the hands"

YouTube - Philip Sayce - Solo Guitar 02

I should have mentioned Phil... He's a good friend of mine, and yes great tone.
Hope this doesn't get back to him

 

[JMB27]

Tones I dig?

Wes Montgomery - solos from Smokin At The Half Note
Santana - Europa, Soul Sacrifice, The Healer
Jerry Garcia - Well Matched with Merl Saunders
Derek Trucks - Soul Serenade
Billy Gibbons - I Thank You
Jeff Beck - Freeway Jam
Jimi Hendrix - most of Electric Ladyland
Buck Owens and Don Rich - pretty much all their work together
Buddy Whittington - his solo work and his work with John Mayall
Brad Paisley - bunch of his work from the past couple of years

cheers always, eh

Joel

 

[Red Titan]

Hmmm let's see.....

Eric Johnson - late 80's-early 90's era
Warren Haynes - Gov't Mule Dose CD
Steve Vai - Live from the Astoria DVD
Joe Satriani - Flying in a blue dream
Jimi Hendrix Band of Gypsies - Machine Gun (you know that one note that sustains forever )
Santana - anything
Pat Metheny - his trumpet tone
Allan Holdsworth - anything
Wes Montgomery - the Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery CD
Mike Stern - anything
Alex Masi - anything

 

[HCB]

Peter Green

Richard Thompson

Robin Trower

David Torn

Bill Frissell

Adrian Belew

Robert Fripp

Dave "Fuze" Fiuczynski

Matt Henderson

So Many..........

 

[luv]

almost insulting to all the great sounding guitarists that have ever existed to list just a few here......but.....

frusciante......great work on stadium arcadium
mayer...continuum (mayer matured)
evh.....one of the best rock sounds ever
gilmour......tone on top of tone before i knew what tone was
gibbons.....completely under rated (imho)
ben harper....awesome distorted sound when he chooses
srv.....yeah
knopfler......great out of phase strat tone / sound
cantrell......another great rock guitarist... he was A.I.C.
costello.....saw a live performance on palladia...great sound

 

[Kaloyan]

Steve Vai
Guthrie Govan
Paul Gilbert
John Petrucci
John McLaughlin
John Lee Hooker
Pat Metheny
Paco De Lucia

 

[luke2joey]

John Williams (classical guitarist)
LUKE! Very big influence
Steve Morse! Very big influence
Early recordings of Ritchie Blackmore
Last but surely surely not least: David Gilmore. The frasing, tone.....