andrewjbryson
okay lets hear it for the Gods of Tone ......
here is my list.....
CLEAN
1. Eric Johnson
2. John Mayer
3. Steve Vai
4. David Gilmour
5. Steve Ray Vaughn
OVERDRIVE
1. Joe Satriani
2. John Petrucci
3. Guthrie Govan
4. Marty Friedman
5. Jeff Beck
this is just a thing for fun and just what I thought of now, my list would probably change in a few minutes
etc.... , so lets seee what your lists look like
NorioDS
Cool idea ?
CLEAN:
1. Wes Montgomery
2. Brian May
OVERDRIVE:
1. Joe Satriani
2. Andy Timmons
3. Mark Knopfler
4. Gary Moore (His bluesy ballads mostly)
(Edit: Added Brian May, Gary Moore)
AlanRatcliffe
I don't separate them into clean or dirty. Good tone is exactly that, irrespective of gain level. Anyway many of these players would end up on both lists. Plus I'd have to add in an "ugly" tone category, as there are some players who can make some really ugly tones work incredibly well in a piece of music: Adrian Belew being a prime example.
Anyway, in no particular order other than the way they pooted forth from my brain:
Eric Johnson
David Gilmour
Steve Ray Vaughn
Peter Green
Brian May
Adrian Belew
Jeff Beck
Mark Knopfler
Billy Gibbons
Malcolm Young
Allan Holdsworth
Eddie Van Halen
John Frusciante
Frank Zappa
Jimmy Page
Robben Ford
Scott Henderson
Danny Gatton
Scotty Moore
Snowy White
Pete Townshend
Tom Morello
John Mayer
Mike Campbell
Brian Setzer
Jeff Healey
Duane Allman
Sonny Landreth
Robin Trower
Roy Buchanan
Wes Montgomery
You'll notice some... well... noticeable ommissions. Why? Well, they can play, but tonally...
Mr-M
My taste is a bit different so don't make fun of me........ ? These are MY favourite BTW, but tone is subjective after all...
CLEAN:
1. Phil Keaggy
2. John Mayer
3. Derek Trucks
4. David Gilmour
5. Mark Knopfler
OD and/or FUZZ:
1. Billy Corgan - Smashing Pumpkins - The most intense, layered, overdubbed, buzzsaw, wall of sound fuzz guitar tone, bar none, ever. Period. Listen to Siamese Dream for a lesson in modern rock album production.
2. Brian May - Queen - VOX + Treble Booster + Red Special Guitar = Incomparable OD lead perfection!
3. Stuart Garrard - Delirious - Listen to the enormously huge fuzz tone on Take off my Shoes on their DVD Now is the Time as well as the sweetness/warmth of his Gibson ES135 into Marshall JTM45 in the same song + some eerie Ebow!
4. Matt Bellamy - Muse - So much Fuzz, so many textures, so many crazy effects, so much tonal weirdness. Sublime!
5. The Edge - U2 - Gloriously warm OD + mountains of beautiful, beautiful delay. Wonderfully tasteful!
Wessel
Don't know who was Boston's guitarists,but their tone is awesome!Someone probaply already mentoined them? I Agree with Matt Bellamy from Muse,new school awesome tone!
Satriani
mmmm, I don't see how you can choose on the clean side. It's mostly down to woods, pickups, strings and amps/speakers. The fingers don't change the tone THAT much in comparison to Distortion/Overdrive. That's what my ears tell me from listening anyways. IT frustrates me that I don't seem to 'hear' what everybody's on about all the time, when I know I have an excellent ear, but perhaps it's not that tone' trained? Maybe it's my love of Transistor amps that has caused my deficiency with hearing the quality of different pickups. I Can hear slight differences, but the way people talk about these pickups is like day and night kinda differences. Perhaps through a Tube Amp. I'd hear a much bigger difference?
My list is all based on Overdrive:
1) Joe Satriani
2) Steve Lukather
3) Andy Timmons
4) Steve Vai (Before his 10 million pedals ie Passion and Warfare and before that)
5) Gary Moore (Post Thin Lizzy)
6) Brian May
7) Gin Blossoms Guitarist (whoever he is)
8) Huey Lewis & The News Guitarist
Only guy that REALLY stands out for me from a Clean perspective is Eric Johnson, and once again as much as I hate Fender and Gibson, nothing to me sounds sweeter than a Fender clean, but nothing sounds more horrid than a Fender on Distortion. Oh well, just my tastes, sue me ?
arjunmenon
Some great influences there ? My fave's, in no particluar order
Trevor Rabin
SRV
Adrian Smith
Brian Murray
Adrian Legg
Adrian Belew
John Petrucci
Guthrie Govan
Frank Gambale
Steve Morse
YJ Malmsteen
Joe Stump
Greg Howe
Vinnie Moore
Gary Moore
Michael Romeo
Steve Vai
Joe Satriani
Eric Johnson
Robert Fripp
Al DiMeola
Paco De Lucia
John McLaughlin
Zakk Wylde
Randy Rhoads
George Lynch
Richie Sambora
Alex Lifeson
Steve Lukather
Dimebag Darrell
christoph Godin
Ritchie Blackmore
Jimmy Page
Shawn Lane
Herman Li
Jimi Hendrix
Joe Bonamassa
Allan Holdsworth
Steve Howe
Mike Rutherford
Daryl Streumer
Brett Garsed
Tony MacAlpine
Paul Gilbert
Steve Hackett
EVH
Adrian Vandenburg
Eddie Ojeda
Reb Beach
Marty Friedman
Jason Becker
Nuno Bettencourt
Richie Kotzen
John 5
Alexi Laiho
Chris Broderick
Uli Jon Roth
Mathias Jabs
Michael Schenker
Rudolph Schenker
Billy McLaughlin
Kaki King
Tommy Emmanuel
Michael Hedges
Andy McGee
Justin King
Kerry King
Jaff Hanneman
Scott Gorham
Gary Rossington
Ted Nugent
Stone Gossard
Slash
Blues Saraceno
Chris De Garmo
Jeff Beck
Andy Summers
George Benson
Joe Pass
Lee Ritenour
John Scofield
Pat metheny
Scott Ian
Larry Carlton
Kenny Wayne Shepherd
Frank Zappa
Mike Keneally
Dave Weiner
Kevin Eubanks
Bill Frisell
Larry Coryell
John Mayer
Paul Kosoff
Brian May
Jerry cantrell
Phew... ?
Explorerlover
Jeez...that's quite a list....I'll just add James Hetfield's 90's guitar sound
racman
What !!! No one included Warren Hayes for pure blues tone !
IceCreamMan
Biggest travesty here is that Tom Scholtz is not mentioned anywhere, he gets very lil airtime here on GFSA and he is a legendary guitarist
Psean
An old one hey ?
Clean? Whazzat? Hehe. I think I'd say Hendrix and Gilmour for clean. I'd put them in the fuzz/dirt category too.
Warren Haynes is awesome, like Roy said. For me, especially the heavier stuff with Gov't mule. Can't mention him without adding Duane and Dickey in the Allman Brothers too.
Paul Kossof
Keef, Mick Taylor, Brian Jones (I dunno who plays what on the records but I pretty much like it all)
Tom Morello. SO Heavy! But Still relatively clean by modern heavy standards. Probably the guy who got me to start backing of the gain.
Jimmy Page
Tony Iommi
Josh Homme
Malcolm
Leslie West
Mike Ness from Social Distortion (More P-90s ? )
PJ Harvey on her first three albums, and Uh Huh Her. Gets pretty ragged in a way that I like. And it's with a Boss pedal I think ?
Neil Young
Clapton with a Les Paul
Zappa
James Williamson (Stooges)
Reverend Horton Heat
Psean
Mr T wrote:
OD and/or FUZZ:
1. Billy Corgan - Smashing Pumpkins - The most intense, layered, overdubbed, buzzsaw, wall of sound fuzz guitar tone, bar none, ever. Period. Listen to Siamese Dream for a lesson in modern rock album production.
+1
Bought a Big Muff 'cause of that record, Jimmy Cahberlain's drumming rocks on that one too ?
Psean
Ooh, and whoever the guitarists on Jailbreak and Fighting by Thin Lizzy were. Scott Gorham and...?
Squonk
Psean wrote:
Ooh, and whoever the guitarists on Jailbreak and Fighting by Thin Lizzy were. Scott Gorham and...?
Brian Robertson
Actually someone does mention Boston earlier on...
Squonk
Squonk wrote:
Psean wrote:
Ooh, and whoever the guitarists on Jailbreak and Fighting by Thin Lizzy were. Scott Gorham and...?
Brian Robertson
Those were two awesome albums....I loved that twin attack.
PeteM
So many guitarists mentioned here.
I know, I know I'm an old fart but here are some names that haven't been mentioned.
Hank Marvin
Duane Eddy
BB King
Andres Segovia
Julian Bream
Squonk
Squonk wrote:
Squonk wrote:
Psean wrote:
Ooh, and whoever the guitarists on Jailbreak and Fighting by Thin Lizzy were. Scott Gorham and...?
Brian Robertson
Those were two awesome albums....I loved that twin attack.
On 5FM or Radio 5 as it was known at that time advertised Fighting quite often. They had a snippet from 'Suicide' and 'Wild One' and some other song that was not on the Album. I had to buy it! It meant a train ride into JHB because the local record store in Florida didn't have it.
Johnny the Fox was also great Album.
IceCreamMan
Squonk wrote:
Psean wrote:
Ooh, and whoever the guitarists on Jailbreak and Fighting by Thin Lizzy were. Scott Gorham and...?
Brian Robertson
Actually someone does mention Boston earlier on...
Where, I not see it.
Brian Robertson played in motorhead too at some point
Squonk
Wessel J Geldenhuys wrote:
Don't know who was Boston's guitarists,but their tone is awesome!Someone probaply already mentoined them? I Agree with Matt Bellamy from Muse,new school awesome tone!
IceCreamMan
Squonk wrote:
Wessel J Geldenhuys wrote:
Don't know who was Boston's guitarists,but their tone is awesome!Someone probaply already mentoined them? I Agree with Matt Bellamy from Muse,new school awesome tone!
got me ? , I was reading the lists not the blurb...
used to catch train into jozi as well, go JOy music to buy albums we could not get in Kempton park's stereo heaven ?
long time ago
