I remember some thread on another forum I saw once about your favorite guitar tone in any song. I was wondering what all of you would list as your faves.
I was listening to some Oasis recently, and I realized that I really love the guitar in Don't Look Back in Anger, particularly the first two little blurbs of guitar (first 12 seconds):
What is that tone, anyway?
So...how about it? What's your fave?
Originally Posted by Spudman
Does anyone read the original post?
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Marc Ribot on Tom Waits' "Jockey Full of Bourbon"
It was how he first got my attention.
ps. Good thread Eric.
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Being a Strat enthusiast, early Skynrd's Ed King's original 'Sweet Home Alabama' work...captured live in Germany here in '74. Of course, you prolly hate it, Eric, since you don't care much for Strats, especially pup positions 2 or 4. but I've tended to use them about 90-95% % of the time:
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Long before Skynrd, King got my attention in the mid 60's as a kid with this cool fuzz tone that prolly sold a ton of early fuzz boxes...that's the younger but as burly King in the upper left of this decent but out-of-sync audio, crappy quality video clip of a tv appearance:
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I would have to say my favorite tones...are mostly on my own recordings. Of course, because I made them the way I like 'em. I pick any of my old tunes, I like the sounds really well. Let's put up this one for instance:Ashes and Bones
That said, I do love for instance the Cult Electric tones by and large; ACDC's *remastered* Powerage is superb, as most of ACDC is especially via a boombox rather than HiFi systems; some of Angus Young's tones really can make my hair stand up on my hands. Black Sabbath Mob Rules has insanely good sounding guitars. Iron Maiden's Piece of Mind etc. never fail to please.
BUT if I'm pressed for one song, well, really hard to say. On the latest Spookbox demo I got pretty much exactly what I strive for in the first song intro. One really old recording of mine from the 90's where a buddy of mine plays leads has probably the best lead sounds I've heard; despite the rather lo-fi recording quality they always make them small hairs stand up. But, one single song...impossible. It depends so much on the mood. Some day it could be the rhythm guitar on Faster Pussycat's 'Where There Is A Whip' and the other day Skid Row's Monkey Business gives me the chills. Or Pearl Jam's entire 'Vitalogy' album. Oh yeah Metallica pretty much perfected the metal guitar sound on 'Garage Days'...that one has sounds to die for. But sometimes Tool's industrial buzz sounds superb too, like on 'The Pot'. Acoustics can sound nice too; I once recorded and produced a folk artist's entire CD release for whose guitar I got a terrific, wooden and natural sound I really liked. Just impossible to point out one song I'd like.
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Almost all of the last 3 albums Andy Timmons recorded have that perfect sound. Woody, clear, sparkling tones, overdriven but articulated. That's what SRV and Hendrix initiated soundwise and Timmons carries on that torch, although he's not the most well known player. I picked a live clip, because it shows best what I mean :-)
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