As a guitar player for 15+ years, David Gilmour and John Mayer's tones are the ones that stick out the most to me. Hate if you want on Mayer, he is brilliant when it comes to tone. And Gilmour's tone on the Division Bell album alone, good God.
As a guitar player for 15+ years, David Gilmour and John Mayer's tones are the ones that stick out the most to me. Hate if you want on Mayer, he is brilliant when it comes to tone. And Gilmour's tone on the Division Bell album alone, good God.
so Mayer is akin to a brilliantly prepared and eloquently plated meal of turds then...
As a guitar player for 15+ years, David Gilmour and John Mayer's tones are the ones that stick out the most to me. Hate if you want on Mayer, he is brilliant when it comes to tone. And Gilmour's tone on the Division Bell album alone, good God.
so Mayer is akin to a brilliantly prepared and eloquently plated meal of turds then...
Hate if you want on Mayer, he is brilliant when it comes to tone.
BAN!
Total and unabashedly a SRV rip off.
He is a great acoustic player.... but still a bit of a DMB rip off.
Some other players I like from the (less is more camp):
Andy Summers (great aural landscapes.... not a great lead player... but his rhythms and electronics are next level)
Lindsey Buckingham (never understood why he never gets props... his tones on the 70s Fleetwood Mac records are brilliant... plus dude does not use a pick)
Honorable mentions: the many incarnations of Alex Lifeson and the bizareness of Robert Fripps sounds...
Malcolm Young of ACDC - Great bashing rhythm tone that isn't nearly as distorted as you might think.
Huge fan of his. I also like Marc Bolan of T. Rex. Loved the blues-influenced rhythms in his songs. Tommy Iommi is another person I ride for. But my all-time favorites are definitely Johnny Smith and Wes Montgomery.
But just yesterday I was remembering this story yesterday my man told me years ago, about how Brian May used to create his own pickups from weird junkyard parts, which created that weird muffled tone. So I just went with that one. But there's no "just one" answer.
But just yesterday I was remembering this story yesterday my man told me years ago, about how Brian May used to create his own pickups from weird junkyard parts, which created that weird muffled tone. So I just went with that one. But there's no "just one" answer
I also heard that May built his guitar out of wood from his mantle.
But just yesterday I was remembering this story yesterday my man told me years ago, about how Brian May used to create his own pickups from weird junkyard parts, which created that weird muffled tone. So I just went with that one. But there's no "just one" answer
I also heard that May built his guitar out of wood from his mantle.
Tonally I just can think of anyone as interesting as Jimmy Page. He's fluent in some many styles too. The power metal shit on Good Times, Bad Times and then smoothed out shit like Since I've Been Loving You. Get the fuck out.
Gabor Szabo and Dan Auerbach. Say what you want about the Keys, but Auerbach is the only guitarist who has caused me to nerd out about tone at a live show.
Honorable mentions: Fast Eddie Clarke, Grant Green, Gabor Szabo, Keith Richards, Mick Taylor, Eddie Hazel, James Williamson, Ron Asheton, Tony Iommi, Randy Holden, Fred Frith & David Gilmour.
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so Mayer is akin to a brilliantly prepared and eloquently plated meal of turds then...
Exactly. :shreddin_it:
I can't tell cause I'm at work, but if that's Time by JB Green & Born Again then
B/w
Exactly how raer is this ?
BAN!
Total and unabashedly a SRV rip off.
He is a great acoustic player.... but still a bit of a DMB rip off.
Some other players I like from the (less is more camp):
Andy Summers (great aural landscapes.... not a great lead player... but his rhythms and electronics are next level)
Lindsey Buckingham (never understood why he never gets props... his tones on the 70s Fleetwood Mac records are brilliant... plus dude does not use a pick)
Honorable mentions: the many incarnations of Alex Lifeson and the bizareness of Robert Fripps sounds...
:shreddin_it:
I'm down.
We should have a looping braek lasting approx 1 minute for stutteurs to record themselves :shreddin_it: to.
Huge fan of his. I also like Marc Bolan of T. Rex. Loved the blues-influenced rhythms in his songs. Tommy Iommi is another person I ride for. But my all-time favorites are definitely Johnny Smith and Wes Montgomery.
thought for sure you would be repping these cats:
But just yesterday I was remembering this story yesterday my man told me years ago, about how Brian May used to create his own pickups from weird junkyard parts, which created that weird muffled tone. So I just went with that one. But there's no "just one" answer.
I might wanna say Blackbyrd McKnight too.
I also heard that May built his guitar out of wood from his mantle.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Special
I really like the guitar sound on the Found a Child sample for Bust A Move. Is it a Les Paul?? I don't know enough about guitars.
I really like the cheesy 80s sound of the guitar solo on Michael Sembelos Maniac. I think it was done on a RockMan.
Probably some sort of Gibson ES-335
Yeah, definitely sounds like a hollowbody with both pickups on.
good call
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His rip on "One For Scotty' is unbelievable.
2. Hux Brown
3. Lyn Tait
Honorable mentions: Fast Eddie Clarke, Grant Green, Gabor Szabo, Keith Richards, Mick Taylor, Eddie Hazel, James Williamson, Ron Asheton, Tony Iommi, Randy Holden, Fred Frith & David Gilmour.
For consistent over all tone I will name 2 who have not been named yet.
Albert King and Dr Wu's least favorite guitarist, BB King.
Also Steve Cropper and Teenie Hodges.
Also the guitar tones on Guitar Slims Things I Used To Do and Ray Agee's Tin Pan Alley.
Acoustic I cosign Jansch, but (and no doubt I will unleash a firestorm here) John Fahey is boring and overrated and his tone does nothing for me. IMO.
Also I like Joseph Spence so much that I like his tone.
An acquired taste.
Also Rick Ruskin.
Also Pierre Bensusan.
Munehiro Narita was a beast in High Rise, but I can understand why he would turn a lot of people off.
He's has been exploring the sonic possibilities on a guitar since the 60's.
Btw, Keith Rowe's favourite guitar player was Jimi Hendrix....