What is your favorite guitar "tone"?

You know.. that magical combo of amp, guitar, guitar strings, and of course the players fingers. Players change their tone sometimes to our dislike and sometimes we like their new tone even more.

So what guitar tone brings a smile to your face very time you hear it?

One of my favorites-Mark Knopfler from the first Dire Straits album.
Clean, bright and totally unique due to his picking style. He mad a Strat sound like no one before him.

Got any?

 

SRV!!! Any Album! Don Rich!

 

SRV..a killer tone. His and his alone.

 

Jimi Hendrix. Love the many sounds he got. Those hands of his!

T-Bone Walker. Wow.

B. B. King. Classic, the base of so much to come.

Neil Young. That hot rod Tweed sound. And his acoustic guitar sounds. Neil found the unique beauty in each of his excellent instruments.

 

Yeah yeah and yeah. Neil Young's hot rod Tweed sound ...sounds like the end of the world!

 

One of my favorites has always been Rod Price's of Foghat. In a word....FAT. Sounds like the train coming at you. He does magic with Mesa Boogie Amps and a Gibson Les Paul.

Another Eric Johnson. Always at or near the top in voter's polls for his overall tone.

 

Marc Ford

 

David Gilmour -- Comfortably Numb.

Greatest. Tone. Ever.

 

I wouldn't ever guess this was a strat if I didn't see Louie playing it. Great vintage amp as well which looks to me to be a 59 Vibroverb. I think Steve said he has one of those.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip-LzbWs6FQ

 

It *is* all in the fingers, in the end. My favorite tone of all time is from that smooth signature lick from McCartney's "Too Many People".

 

David Gilmour

 

Yes, especially on the intro to "Hey Hey My My". That is one nasty sound...I love it. I used to blast that at 1:00 am on a Saturday morning in my apartment when the kids above me wouldn't turn down the Techno stuff.

 

David Gilmour , Jeff beck , Hendrix , Michael schenker all have great tone .

a Moment on record that ALWAYS get's me is that opening riff to "Mary janes last dance" by Tom petty , just monster REAL guitar tone in your face .

 

I assume you guys are looking for tones from known recordings, but one of my favorite tones is what I get here from my stereo Gibson 345 with the bass pickup into my 56 Tweed Princeton and the treble pickup into my 59 Tweed Champ.

That combo really has only one basic sound, but my Varitone switch creates some interesting variations. If only I could play it well enough to merit me owning it.

 

Amazing tone, great playing, terrific album.

Dickie Betts is another player whose tone i really like especially on ''In Memory Of Elisabeth Reed'' and ''Blue Sky''.

 

Beautiful playing, so clean, precise and smooth.

Thanks for posting that!

http://www.louieshelton.com/

 

Either Johnny Thunders, (50s Les Paul Jr.), or Bruce Springsteen (50s Partscaster, it is not an Esquire). It's kinda a toss up for me depending on my mood.

There are one or two other players, Billy Zoom, Mick Jones, that I think have great, don't but I don't want to muddy the waters. (No pun intended)

 

Robert Fripp's laser-like sustained guitar playing with his black Gibson Les Paul circa 1972 to 1979 (with King Crimson, Fripp & Eno, Frippertronics and otherwise).

 

Hendrix, Peter Green and Eddie Hazel.

 

Roy Orbison - Pretty Woman. Rolling Stones - Honky Tonk Woman. Plastic Ono Band - Cold Turkey.

 

David Gilmour's tone on Echoes from Pompeii kills me every time!

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

 

Billy Gibbons' tone on the first 5 ZZ Top albums. Pearly Gates into a '59 Bassman I think it was. Heavenly tone! Must be experienced in the original mixes, though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLRWme1pJfs

 

I dig that flipped humbucker sound of Peter Green and the Allman Bros Fillmore East tone is killer.

 

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