Jeff Beck has the most revolutionary tones that all other tones cop in some form or fashion. Check Live at Ronnie Scott’s. His finger picking and whammy bar combo is so novel.
They play a single note and you know who it is like Santana or Robert Fripp mentioned in the video... - Stuart Adamson (Big Country) - Tom Verlaine (Television and solo) - Richard Thompson - Roy Buchanan - John Cippolina (Quicksilver etc.) - Martin Barre (Jethro Tull, the heavy counterpart to Anderson's flute) - Link Wray - Albert King (yes, B.B. King as well...) - Dickey Betts - Robin Trower (Procol Harum and solo) - Mick Ronson - Phil Manzanera (Roxy Music etc.) - Buddy Guy - Leo Kottke (acoustic guitar hero) - Rory Gallagher - Sonny Sharrock - Chris Spedding (regardless if it is his solo stuff or one of the hundreds of albums he played on, he is unmistakable) PS - Joe, David Rhodes is the one to play on Don't Give Up on So.
Roxanne, you are so accurate about Chris Spedding. Great underrated and brilliant guitarist. Get Outta My Pagoda is one of my favourite tracks of the 70's.
@@jesuschambers Hurt may be my favourite solo album from him (Pagoda is on that too). Since we talk of tone...Silver Bullet is the striking example for me. I do not call him underrated - just look at all the stars and superstars who hired him for their albums, you can fill an own discography with those.
Marc Ribot's tone on Tom Waits' "Hoist That Rag" is one of the most glorious things I've ever heard. I think it's probably a really simple setup (Ribot's not one of those guys like the Edge, who's pedalboard looks like a space station), but whatever combination of guitar and amp he's using just sound completely badass. I think he mostly plays Fender Jaguars, not sure what else he's using. But it's just filthy sounding, like it was unearthed from somewhere 50 years ago, which fits Tom Waits' general aesthetic fairly well. Might be one of my favorite guitar solos ever.
Many of the ones that immediately came to mind when I saw the subject were mentioned by you guys. I can add Roger McGuinn, Richard Thompson and definetely Johnny Maar and not only for How Soon Is Now
John McGlaughlin (Mile Davis, Mahavishnu), Jorma Kaukonen (Jefferson Airplane mainly), Steve Hackett (Genesis mainly), James Blood Ulmer (Ornette Coleman in particular), Joe Walsh (James Gang in particular), Uli Jon Roth (early Scorpions), Brian James (the Damned), Ed Kuepper (the Saints), Rowland S Howard (the Birthday Party in particular), Bruce Gilbert (Wire), Andy Gill (Gang of Four), Matt Pike (Sleep)...to name a few more
Great list all around to be honest...Gilmour, Lifeson, May, SRV, EVH , Prince and kudos on the Page and Hendrix shoutouts. You all covered a few off my list. Good stuff guys.
Nice calls on Page on In the Evening and Lifeson on Hemispheres / Permanent Waves era. Some faves / distinct yet to come across in vid or comments: Jack White, Trey Anastacio, Bob Weir, Randy Rhodes.
Neil Young, Andy Summers, Keith Richards, Tony Iommi, Jimi Hendrix, Peter Buck and a bunch of others already mentioned in this video. Literally the first one I thought of was actually the “Money For Nothing” tone, as well as Billy Corgan on Siamese Dream. The “brown sound” in Van Halen is actually meant to refer to Alex’s drum tone (which is actually pretty distinctive itself, especially on the early albums).
My favourite guitarist of all time got to be Hendrix - he was on other planet with his playing and tone, both rhythm and lead. I also need to highlight The Hitmaker - Nile Rodgers, incredible rhythm chops and very cool funky tone - never gets boring. Other favourites are Clapton, SRV, Page, Mayer, McLaughlin, Richards, Cosey and wonderful Eddie Hazel from Funkadelic.
Wow - tough to compile indeed! An unconventional fave... Rivers Cuomos early (blue - Maladroit) power chord crunch is fantastic and surprisingly unique imo. Very full, round and crushingly heavy. Maladroit in particular. I think much of it comes from him adding the 5th to the bottom of his power chords. Other faves include Mick Ronsons buzzy Bowie tones, Vargs (Burzum) killer bees in a coke bottle black metal sound, and Garcia’s liquidy warm leads.
"Frippertronics" is a very specific thing having to do with the use of tape machines for looping sounds. I'll add Dave Edmunds to the guitarists who have been mentioned so far.
I love Clapton’s tone from the 2005 Cream reunion show era. I modded out my Strat with the Fender 50db Clapton mid-range boost kit ($35) to augment my TEXAS SPECIALS. It’s got that sizzling sound. I urge everyone to check the Cream 2005 RAH shows and the tunes I’m So Glad and White Room from that LP set
I thought it worked great on most tracks, especially more blues standard type numbers like Crossroads, I would have liked to see him bust out the old SG on White Room though.
David Gilmour, Brian May, Slash, The Edge, Carlos Santana, Lindsey Buckingham, Mark Knopfler, John Fogerty, Gary Moore, Steve Lukather, Don Felder and Eric Clapton (especially on The Beatles' "While My Guitar Gently Weeps") are standouts for me in terms of electric guitar tone.
1. Carlos Santana, you only have to hear one tone and you know it is him. Great, warm sound. 2. Steve Rothery, not far away from Gilmour in how melodic he is, slightly prefer Steve's sound 3. Eddie Van Halen, do I need to say more? 4. Paul Simon, love his acoustic guitar on the early Simon and Garfunkel. Could also have chosen Joni Mitchell, Nick Drake or Janis Ian in her seventies' heyday. 5. Scotty Moore, his old Sun records work with Elvis was almost as important as Elvis' vocals, hugely underrated.
Jimi Hendrix, Peter Green, Eddie Hazel, Mick Ronson, Billy Gibbons, Eddie Van Halen, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Malcolm & Angus, Wes Montgomery, Richard Thompson, Neil Young, Brian May, John Fahey, Andy Gill (Gang of Four), Rowland Howard (Birthday Party), Ron Asheton (& James Williamson), Josh Homme, Knopfler, Michael Schenker, Rory Gallagher, Tom Verlaine/Richard Lloyd, Marc Ribot, Blixa Bargeld, Bob Mould, J Mascis, Dick Dale, BB King, Wino (Obsessed/Saint Vitus). Page, Iommi, Gilmour.....
Hello listography, my old friend I've come to comment on you again :D No order just five names you didn't mention that I think deserve one: Steve Morse - Today mostly famous for his work in Deep Purple, which I like. But what I love is his band The Dixie Dregs. Hard to explain but 98 % instrumental music.. Progressive rock? Jazz-fusion? Some southern rock? A bit classical influences? Can be so beautiful and pure fun. Don't miss out on this band only because you prefer Blackmore in Deep Purple. This is something else! Jeff Beck - Jeff Beck doesn't want a sort of Mark Knopfler-instantly-recognisable-sound.. He want to do whatever he wants and therefore it can be hard to find what you like on his albums. I saw some hater/troll saying the appreciation for Jeff Beck was a joke. I don't think so. When Jeff Beck is really good he is pretty much untouchable. Andy Powell - Leader of band Wishbone Ash. Many albums and quite inconsistent in songwriting but daring and if it is someone I can listen to for hours on end just playing... It's Andy Powell. The band is the birth of twin-duel-guitar al'a Thin Lizzy, Judas Priest and Iron Maiden (all which I love) but this is a bit different. Not better per se just sounds so good. Hank Marvin - The Shadows! Was on the map before Beatles, Stones, The Who and sounded fantastic. Still does! Very economic and melodic sound that I think worked in the late 50's/early 60's and still does! Joe Satriani - For me he is like a mix between Eddie Van Halen and David Gilmour. Fast and daring like EVH but can play so lovely atmospheric tunes not that far from David Gilmour. I really like his solo work and Chickenfoot is all right but if you'd find the right "real band" for Joe Satriani which wasn't locked into this instrumental style but more of a classic rock band I think they could rank among the best. His solos, riffs, tone with right band and good frontman could been amazing.
Huge field to choose from. The temptation is to cite great guitarists, irrespective of whether or not they have an immediately recognizable tone. I'll try to stick to tone, but will probably fail. Billy Zoom from X. His tone has some menace to it, which fits the songs pretty well, especially early in the band's discography Andy Gill from Gang of Four. May not be tone as much as chord selection, but his playing is distinctive. Grant Green. Jazz great. Funky and bluesy. Love his sound. Verlaine and Lloyd from Television have already been mentioned. I think of them as laying the foundation for Wilco since Nels Cline joined the band. Tucker and Brownstein from Sleater-Kinney. Don't know if it's their guitar tone that is so distinctive or some other element, but I feel like their sound is immediately recognizable. John McLaughlin from Miles Davis' electric band. This guy is the foundation for Bitches Brew, and he carries the Jack Johnson album. If you haven't heard the latter, it is a great listen. So many of the blues greats, many of whom have been mentioned, but I'd like to give a shout out to some of the slide guitar greats. I particularly like Lil Ed Williams and Hound Dog Taylor. Gotta give some love to Freddie King too (not a slide guitar player, but we gotta cover all the King's). Karl Precoda and Steve Wynn on the Dream Syndicate's The Days of Wine and Roses. Droning, feedback laced guitars backing songs inspired by pulp fiction novels. One of my favorite albums. Glenn Mercer and Bill Million from the Feelies. They hit on something with their debut, Crazy Rhythms and have not deviated much from their fast paced strumming sound since then. Love their sound too.
I've always thought that the guitar sound of Ernie Isley( The Isley Brothers ) is always very recognizable and also the guitarist Steve Hillage had a very distinctive tone.
Hillage was unique, I love his work with Gong and his early solo albums. Not just his tone but his complete approach to music. I however have no use for his System 7 period.
@@roxannewalsh I'm surprised that Jason didn't mention him as Todd Rundgren was the producer of one of his best albums: L. He's another guitarist that didn't get the acclaim he should've had. I certainly have always rated him highly and the same with Chris Spedding.
@@jesuschambers Bad timing for Hillage. He made his best albums 1975 - 79 when the focus had shifted away from progressive/Canterbury/fusion etc. Those were excellent albums that showed that the genre had still a lot of potential regardless of what Yes or Genesis or other fading acts were doing but not many were listening to that stuff anymore. The addition of Don Cherry to his band was something pretty unique and it worked so perfectly.
Ritchie Blackmore in Deep Purple Mk II Santana in the '70s Neil Young when he steps on the gas, e.g. Ragged Glory, Live Rust, Weld EDIT: How could I forget Steve Howe from Yes? With his jazz phrasings and merging of riffs and staccato, his tone from The Yes Album to Tormato is sublime. Listen to those glistening runs on Starship Trooper!
I thought this was going to be highly educated rockers (like MIT engineer, Tom Scholz) or bands whose whole careers are really based on 1 album. But I like this one. My top 5: (including favorite example). 1. Slash ("Sweet Child O Mine") just magic to my ears. 2. Keith Richards ("Jumpin Jack Flash") Flash is especially impressive considering it is an acoustic guitar on the studio version. 3. David Gilmour ("Mother") Gotta agree with Kramzer that majestic solo,. 4. John Squire ("Waterfall") Another beautiful tone almost dreamy. 5. Angus Young ("Back In Black") So Powerful. As a bonus because I think he gets shit on a lot:: Billie Joe Armstrong the tones especially on Dookie are fantastic. There's too many to mention but these are the ones that come to mind.
Yeah, Mascis has an instantly recognizable tone, and never seems to get the credit he deserves. But, even when he's played on non-Dinosaur Jr. albums, you're like oh, it's J. Mascis almost immediately.
A few stick out for me: Kevin Shields, Fripp (like Joe said) ,Tony Iommi. Also like to mention Adrian Bellew and Andy Latimer of Camel.. (very under-rated)..
Billy gibbons Richie blackmore Eddie van Halen. Van Halen is my favorite band of all time. That being said gibbons is my favorite guitar tone i could listen to him play all day.
Definitely Jimi Hendrix, Eddie Van Halen, & Tom Morello. I'm shocked you guys haven't done anything on Jimi Hendrix. He's arguably the most influential guitar player/artist/songwriter ever.
¤ Tony Iommi on Black Sabbath's Vol. 4. The opening solo is out of this world. ¤ Andy Powell /Ted Turner on Wishbone Ash's Argus. ¤ B. B. King!!! ¤ and another blues tone I love is Ronnie Earl - check out Soul Searching. ¤ Dick Dale. His surf guitar shreddin' is just metal before there was metal. Really menacing. ¤ Dave Murray / Adrian Smith - The tasteful dueling guitar sounds that defined 80s metal IMHO. ¤ Ronnie Le Tekrø - One of the great hair metal guitarists. His tone and his signature speed picking licks is a match made in heaven. ¤ and its hard not to mention Randy Rhoads who's tone is pretty unique. Super dry with minimal effects so you can really hear his divine mastery of the instrument. ¤ Kurt Rosenwinkel - A great jazz contemporary, with very tasteful sound. Check out his gig with the HR Bigband. ¤ Pat Metheny - Always tasteful, and usually very recognizable. ¤ Frank Gambale - His very clean fuzz tone is my favorite of all the fusion guitarists, apart from the greatest guitarist of all time: ¤ Allan Holdsworth!
Dick Dale had a small comeback in the 1990 with a number of albums that all referred to Tribal/Native Indian themes but also contained updated versions of his older hits. They are quite impressive. As for German fusion/jazz the one with a very unique tone was Volker Kriegel.
@@prockrog5219Dale's return was related to Miserlou appearing in the Pulp Fiction movie. He had recorded a new album Tribal Thunder in 1993 already, 1994 Unknown Territory, 1996 Calling Up Thunder and finally in 2001 Spacial Disorientation. He continued touring but had massive health problems already and died in 2019. The 1994 album is the best of them with a version of (Ghost) Riders in the Sky that is worth it alone.
Schenker Schon Marino Santana Parker...lots more, like ya said.absolutely agree with the others you mentioned😁, sincerely, one of your lovely commenters✍💛
Just goes to show.. Diffrint strokes 4 Diffrint folks.. Brian May.. Come on Brian.. Stretch out sometime. Excruciatingly tedious. Richard Thompson.. Off kilter tuning but always arresting.. Neil Young when plugged in with Crazy Horse.
Two *songs* from the '60s I love for guitar tone - "Session Man" by the Kinks - such a low-rated song for a lot of fans, but to me, it's the one song that really gets me excited on Face to Face, the clear high point of the album, for the sound of those guitars. Love it love it love it. Also "And Your Bird Can Sing" by the Beatles. Casino heaven. I think Stratocasters sound like absolute crap in the hands of most players, but Gilmour, the Edge, and of course Hendrix are clear exceptions. Just to piss off Joe, but also because I love them, the shoegazers - Savill and Halstead from Slowdive, Shields and Butcher from My Bloody Valentine, Mark in particular from Ride, Julian Swales from Kitchens of Distinction (perhaps my favorite guitarist of all time for sound - oh, wait a minute, he plays a Strat too - maybe the secret to Strat is dumping a lot of effects on it), Dickinson and Futter from Catherine Wheel. Andy Summers's effects-laden Tele - mwah, love it. That's just for Jason of course. Tom Scholz's sound is simply cosmic. Love it. Les Paul heaven. Allman and Betts from the Allman Brothers Band, especially Allman. Steve Hackett for sure - either number one or just after Swales for me. Robert Fripp, especially on the closing solo on "Lizard." Finally, McGuinn and anyone else who uses a 12-string, and last but not least, the great Peter Buck - up until Pageant, of course.
Knew I forgot one - George Harrison from "Strawberry Fields" through All Things Must Pass. As for 12-string, I should have said, anyone who uses a Ric.
Yeah, there's a cut-off point for R.E.M in general. First few albums are GREAT, including Life's Rich Pageant. After that, ho-hum. It seems as Buck's guitar tone goes, the quality of the output goes. Never put it into that perspective before, but it's a legit observation, IMO. Let's not even go there on Monster.
I listened to an old Jim Capaldi solo album (Oh How We Danced) yesterday - I immediately recognised his tone on the tracks he guested on - unmistakable.
@@jesuschambers That song is why I bought the LP, it was the only one I had heard before. Koss does not play on that particular one, it has the Muscle Shoals musicians that played with Traffic at the time, including the horn section. Jimmy Johnson plays the guitar solo, another unsung studio legend.
@@corleth84 Miller worked a lot with Koss and Andy Fraser (also of Free) in the early days. They recorded many demos for the early albums (Fraser even co-wrote some songs) but were partly overdubbed later with Miller's own band (Henry McCulloch on guitar was also some remarkable player...).
santana and neil schon " batuka " " no quarter " page " fashion " by bowie but who is guitar player " fell like making love " bad company just best sounding electric guitar ever
I have to get to your video tomorrow. I agree it's an impossible task let's see how the 4 of us do. so Kramzers favorite is Mark Knopler mine is Angus Young and Randy Rhoads throw in a Stevie Ray Vaughn , Given the Dog a bone, Hells Bells, Shot down in flames Sato , Steel away Over the Mountain Texas Flood, Cross Fire, Does Kramzer like anything off Wish you were here? great choices for Peter Gabriel? I like Jimmy Page Good times Bad times, Battle of the evermore I also like Alex Lifeson Camera eye, Tom Sawyer Joe Prince! are we talking vocalist or guitar gods? if were talking vocalist yeah I understand but with the couple million guitar players why is Prince on the list if your narrowing it down to a few like Kramzer? Hey Joe you left off you know who but at least you had Eddie Van Halen nice pick. Jason nice choice Santana he's in my top 5 of players that are still alive of all players I want to say top 10. nice Brian May . what do 3 think about Keith Richards guitar tone and playing? is he in your top 5 of all time?
Lol it’s still here. As are you guys and getting lots of new subscribers which is cool. Guitar tone? I’d say Jim Martin Faith No More - would I immediately recognise him? Hell no. Is he as good as Josh Homme? Hell no. Nor Jonny Marr but he’s ace. Also Hugh Cornwell of the stranglers Paul Kossoff - Free Anyway I’m off to listen to the Smiths
Lol it’s still here. As are you guys and getting lots of new subscribers which is cool. Guitar tone? I’d say Jim Martin Faith No More - would I immediately recognise him? Hell no. Is he as good as Josh Homme? Hell no. Nor Jonny Marr but he’s ace. Also Hugh Cornwell of the stranglers Paul Kossoff - Free Anyway I’m off to listen to the Smiths
If you haven't heard it check out Fripp's playing on Brian Eno's "St. Elmo's Fire."
"Splitting Ions in the Ether"...Eno asked Fripp to imagine a Wimshurst machine for the solo.
Billy Gibbons is gravy. I can’t get enough.
Tony Iommi has a growl unlike any other.
Neil Young is visceral and raw - awesome.
dude, those were the three I was going to mention. Well done.
Jeff Beck has the most revolutionary tones that all other tones cop in some form or fashion. Check Live at Ronnie Scott’s. His finger picking and whammy bar combo is so novel.
They play a single note and you know who it is like Santana or Robert Fripp mentioned in the video...
- Stuart Adamson (Big Country)
- Tom Verlaine (Television and solo)
- Richard Thompson
- Roy Buchanan
- John Cippolina (Quicksilver etc.)
- Martin Barre (Jethro Tull, the heavy counterpart to Anderson's flute)
- Link Wray
- Albert King (yes, B.B. King as well...)
- Dickey Betts
- Robin Trower (Procol Harum and solo)
- Mick Ronson
- Phil Manzanera (Roxy Music etc.)
- Buddy Guy
- Leo Kottke (acoustic guitar hero)
- Rory Gallagher
- Sonny Sharrock
- Chris Spedding (regardless if it is his solo stuff or one of the hundreds of albums he played on, he is unmistakable)
PS - Joe, David Rhodes is the one to play on Don't Give Up on So.
Michael Hedges too for acoustic
Roxanne, you are so accurate about Chris Spedding. Great underrated and brilliant guitarist. Get Outta My Pagoda is one of my favourite tracks of the 70's.
@@jesuschambers Hurt may be my favourite solo album from him (Pagoda is on that too). Since we talk of tone...Silver Bullet is the striking example for me. I do not call him underrated - just look at all the stars and superstars who hired him for their albums, you can fill an own discography with those.
Knopfler, Keith Richards, Steve Gaines, Don Felder, Johnny Thunders, JJ Cale....off the top of my head.
Marc Ribot's tone on Tom Waits' "Hoist That Rag" is one of the most glorious things I've ever heard. I think it's probably a really simple setup (Ribot's not one of those guys like the Edge, who's pedalboard looks like a space station), but whatever combination of guitar and amp he's using just sound completely badass. I think he mostly plays Fender Jaguars, not sure what else he's using. But it's just filthy sounding, like it was unearthed from somewhere 50 years ago, which fits Tom Waits' general aesthetic fairly well. Might be one of my favorite guitar solos ever.
Yes! Amazing!
Many have been mentioned. Many haven't: Frank Zappa, Eddie Hazel, Bert Jansch, Jerry Garcia, Grant Green....
Many of the ones that immediately came to mind when I saw the subject were mentioned by you guys.
I can add Roger McGuinn, Richard Thompson and definetely Johnny Maar and not only for How Soon Is Now
Ah, and I forgot about Marc Ribot. Very recognizable tone
Joe, love your mention of Josh Homme. Killer tone and love QOTSA. His tone in Kyuss is absolutely great, too.
Mick Ronson. That is all.
John McGlaughlin (Mile Davis, Mahavishnu), Jorma Kaukonen (Jefferson Airplane mainly), Steve Hackett (Genesis mainly), James Blood Ulmer (Ornette Coleman in particular), Joe Walsh (James Gang in particular), Uli Jon Roth (early Scorpions), Brian James (the Damned), Ed Kuepper (the Saints), Rowland S Howard (the Birthday Party in particular), Bruce Gilbert (Wire), Andy Gill (Gang of Four), Matt Pike (Sleep)...to name a few more
Great list all around to be honest...Gilmour, Lifeson, May, SRV, EVH , Prince and kudos on the Page and Hendrix shoutouts. You all covered a few off my list. Good stuff guys.
Nice calls on Page on In the Evening and Lifeson on Hemispheres / Permanent Waves era. Some faves / distinct yet to come across in vid or comments: Jack White, Trey Anastacio, Bob Weir, Randy Rhodes.
Neil Young, Andy Summers, Keith Richards, Tony Iommi, Jimi Hendrix, Peter Buck and a bunch of others already mentioned in this video. Literally the first one I thought of was actually the “Money For Nothing” tone, as well as Billy Corgan on Siamese Dream.
The “brown sound” in Van Halen is actually meant to refer to Alex’s drum tone (which is actually pretty distinctive itself, especially on the early albums).
My favourite guitarist of all time got to be Hendrix - he was on other planet with his playing and tone, both rhythm and lead. I also need to highlight The Hitmaker - Nile Rodgers, incredible rhythm chops and very cool funky tone - never gets boring. Other favourites are Clapton, SRV, Page, Mayer, McLaughlin, Richards, Cosey and wonderful Eddie Hazel from Funkadelic.
Wow - tough to compile indeed!
An unconventional fave...
Rivers Cuomos early (blue - Maladroit) power chord crunch is fantastic and surprisingly unique imo. Very full, round and crushingly heavy. Maladroit in particular. I think much of it comes from him adding the 5th to the bottom of his power chords.
Other faves include Mick Ronsons buzzy Bowie tones, Vargs (Burzum) killer bees in a coke bottle black metal sound, and Garcia’s liquidy warm leads.
"Frippertronics" is a very specific thing having to do with the use of tape machines for looping sounds. I'll add Dave Edmunds to the guitarists who have been mentioned so far.
Steve Lukather has so many great tones, Larry Carlton on AJA by Steely Dan and many other Steely Dan albums, Adrian Belew, and on and on!
I love Clapton’s tone from the 2005 Cream reunion show era. I modded out my Strat with the Fender 50db Clapton mid-range boost kit ($35) to augment my TEXAS SPECIALS. It’s got that sizzling sound. I urge everyone to check the Cream 2005 RAH shows and the tunes I’m So Glad and White Room from that LP set
I thought it worked great on most tracks, especially more blues standard type numbers like Crossroads, I would have liked to see him bust out the old SG on White Room though.
David Gilmour, Brian May, Slash, The Edge, Carlos Santana, Lindsey Buckingham, Mark Knopfler, John Fogerty, Gary Moore, Steve Lukather, Don Felder and Eric Clapton (especially on The Beatles' "While My Guitar Gently Weeps") are standouts for me in terms of electric guitar tone.
Neal Schon's guitar tone on Journey's Infinity is phenomenal
Peter Green ( Fleetwood Mac)
John Fogerty (CCR)
Stephen Stills
On a song like Penthouse Pauper, Fogerty’s guitar sounds like a buzzsaw
1. Carlos Santana, you only have to hear one tone and you know it is him. Great, warm sound.
2. Steve Rothery, not far away from Gilmour in how melodic he is, slightly prefer Steve's sound
3. Eddie Van Halen, do I need to say more?
4. Paul Simon, love his acoustic guitar on the early Simon and Garfunkel. Could also have chosen Joni Mitchell, Nick Drake or Janis Ian in her seventies' heyday.
5. Scotty Moore, his old Sun records work with Elvis was almost as important as Elvis' vocals, hugely underrated.
Bob Mould- Copper Blue
Rich Robinson- Lions
Steve Hackett- Selling England By The Pound
Larry Carlton- Amelia
Adrian Belew- Discipline
You named most of my choices. I would add Adrian Belew, Michael Hampton, Steve Howe, Rodrigo Sanchez and Gabriela Quintero.
James Dean Bradfield, Martin Barre, Michael Schenker, Tony Iommi, Johnny Marr, Julianna Hatfield.
The one I can't believe was left out (which other commenters caught) was Kevin Shields!
Jimi Hendrix, Peter Green, Eddie Hazel, Mick Ronson, Billy Gibbons, Eddie Van Halen, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Malcolm & Angus, Wes Montgomery, Richard Thompson, Neil Young, Brian May, John Fahey, Andy Gill (Gang of Four), Rowland Howard (Birthday Party), Ron Asheton (& James Williamson), Josh Homme, Knopfler, Michael Schenker, Rory Gallagher, Tom Verlaine/Richard Lloyd, Marc Ribot, Blixa Bargeld, Bob Mould, J Mascis, Dick Dale, BB King, Wino (Obsessed/Saint Vitus). Page, Iommi, Gilmour.....
Hello listography, my old friend
I've come to comment on you again
:D
No order just five names you didn't mention that I think deserve one:
Steve Morse
- Today mostly famous for his work in Deep Purple, which I like. But what I love is his band The Dixie Dregs. Hard to explain but 98 % instrumental music.. Progressive rock? Jazz-fusion? Some southern rock? A bit classical influences? Can be so beautiful and pure fun. Don't miss out on this band only because you prefer Blackmore in Deep Purple. This is something else!
Jeff Beck
- Jeff Beck doesn't want a sort of Mark Knopfler-instantly-recognisable-sound.. He want to do whatever he wants and therefore it can be hard to find what you like on his albums. I saw some hater/troll saying the appreciation for Jeff Beck was a joke. I don't think so. When Jeff Beck is really good he is pretty much untouchable.
Andy Powell
- Leader of band Wishbone Ash. Many albums and quite inconsistent in songwriting but daring and if it is someone I can listen to for hours on end just playing... It's Andy Powell. The band is the birth of twin-duel-guitar al'a Thin Lizzy, Judas Priest and Iron Maiden (all which I love) but this is a bit different. Not better per se just sounds so good.
Hank Marvin
- The Shadows! Was on the map before Beatles, Stones, The Who and sounded fantastic. Still does! Very economic and melodic sound that I think worked in the late 50's/early 60's and still does!
Joe Satriani
- For me he is like a mix between Eddie Van Halen and David Gilmour. Fast and daring like EVH but can play so lovely atmospheric tunes not that far from David Gilmour. I really like his solo work and Chickenfoot is all right but if you'd find the right "real band" for Joe Satriani which wasn't locked into this instrumental style but more of a classic rock band I think they could rank among the best. His solos, riffs, tone with right band and good frontman could been amazing.
Huge field to choose from. The temptation is to cite great guitarists, irrespective of whether or not they have an immediately recognizable tone. I'll try to stick to tone, but will probably fail.
Billy Zoom from X. His tone has some menace to it, which fits the songs pretty well, especially early in the band's discography
Andy Gill from Gang of Four. May not be tone as much as chord selection, but his playing is distinctive.
Grant Green. Jazz great. Funky and bluesy. Love his sound.
Verlaine and Lloyd from Television have already been mentioned. I think of them as laying the foundation for Wilco since Nels Cline joined the band.
Tucker and Brownstein from Sleater-Kinney. Don't know if it's their guitar tone that is so distinctive or some other element, but I feel like their sound is immediately recognizable.
John McLaughlin from Miles Davis' electric band. This guy is the foundation for Bitches Brew, and he carries the Jack Johnson album. If you haven't heard the latter, it is a great listen.
So many of the blues greats, many of whom have been mentioned, but I'd like to give a shout out to some of the slide guitar greats. I particularly like Lil Ed Williams and Hound Dog Taylor. Gotta give some love to Freddie King too (not a slide guitar player, but we gotta cover all the King's).
Karl Precoda and Steve Wynn on the Dream Syndicate's The Days of Wine and Roses. Droning, feedback laced guitars backing songs inspired by pulp fiction novels. One of my favorite albums.
Glenn Mercer and Bill Million from the Feelies. They hit on something with their debut, Crazy Rhythms and have not deviated much from their fast paced strumming sound since then. Love their sound too.
Steve Rothery with Marillion. Beautiful tone on his solos.
Great call, love Rothery's solo on 'Easter'.
Michael Landau, Bill Frisell, Marc Ribot, Wayne Krantz.
I've always thought that the guitar sound of Ernie Isley( The Isley Brothers ) is always very recognizable and also the guitarist Steve Hillage had a very distinctive tone.
Hillage was unique, I love his work with Gong and his early solo albums. Not just his tone but his complete approach to music. I however have no use for his System 7 period.
@@roxannewalsh I'm surprised that Jason didn't mention him as Todd Rundgren was the producer of one of his best albums: L. He's another guitarist that didn't get the acclaim he should've had. I certainly have always rated him highly and the same with Chris Spedding.
@@jesuschambers Bad timing for Hillage. He made his best albums 1975 - 79 when the focus had shifted away from progressive/Canterbury/fusion etc. Those were excellent albums that showed that the genre had still a lot of potential regardless of what Yes or Genesis or other fading acts were doing but not many were listening to that stuff anymore. The addition of Don Cherry to his band was something pretty unique and it worked so perfectly.
Ritchie Blackmore in Deep Purple Mk II
Santana in the '70s
Neil Young when he steps on the gas, e.g. Ragged Glory, Live Rust, Weld
EDIT: How could I forget Steve Howe from Yes? With his jazz phrasings and merging of riffs and staccato, his tone from The Yes Album to Tormato is sublime. Listen to those glistening runs on Starship Trooper!
Yeah Kramz, Lifeson's Gibson hollow body years. Thumbs up.
John Squire's tones on The Stone Roses debut are pretty amazing.
I hate u by prince the guitar work is nuts. Ratatat always loved the guitar sound also!
Along with Josh Homme in both QOTSA and Kyuss, I'd throw in Ron Asheton, Tony Iommi, and Bob Mould.
I thought this was going to be highly educated rockers (like MIT engineer, Tom Scholz) or bands whose whole careers are really based on 1 album. But I like this one.
My top 5: (including favorite example).
1. Slash ("Sweet Child O Mine") just magic to my ears.
2. Keith Richards ("Jumpin Jack Flash") Flash is especially impressive considering it is an acoustic guitar on the studio version.
3. David Gilmour ("Mother") Gotta agree with Kramzer that majestic solo,.
4. John Squire ("Waterfall") Another beautiful tone almost dreamy.
5. Angus Young ("Back In Black") So Powerful.
As a bonus because I think he gets shit on a lot:: Billie Joe Armstrong the tones especially on Dookie are fantastic.
There's too many to mention but these are the ones that come to mind.
Many mentioned here and also a new generation guy like Jeff Young
On point out of the gate with Gilmour. Still watching but my 1st thought is Steve Steven's. Billy wouldn't be half the superstar without him
Definitely under appreciated. - Joe
Bob Mould - Husker Du, solo, Sugar (band)
1) Allan Holdsworth 2) John McLaughlin 3) Jeff Beck 4) Terje Rypdal 5) Tony Iommi
Jason... How about J Mascis!?! As heavy as a walk through mud in flip-flops and just as pretty.
Yeah, Mascis has an instantly recognizable tone, and never seems to get the credit he deserves. But, even when he's played on non-Dinosaur Jr. albums, you're like oh, it's J. Mascis almost immediately.
The phenomenal Rory Gallagher always had great tone.
1. Tony Iommi
2. Ritchie Blackmore
3. Michael Schenker
4. Paul Kossoff
5. Gary Moore
David Rawlings, for sure. I think Roy Buchanan had the best guitar tone I have ever heard live
Mick Ronson, Phil Manzanera, Robert Fripp & Frank Zappa
A few stick out for me: Kevin Shields, Fripp (like Joe said) ,Tony Iommi. Also like to mention Adrian Bellew and Andy Latimer of Camel.. (very under-rated)..
Don't know much about guitars, but I can identify Neil Young's playing pretty easy. Tom Morello obviously has his unique identifiable style as well.
Jason, are you able to make out which track Blake Mills is playing guitar on Bob Dylan's Rough and Rowdy Ways?
Billy gibbons
Richie blackmore
Eddie van Halen.
Van Halen is my favorite band of all time. That being said gibbons is my favorite guitar tone i could listen to him play all day.
Definitely Jimi Hendrix, Eddie Van Halen, & Tom Morello. I'm shocked you guys haven't done anything on Jimi Hendrix. He's arguably the most influential guitar player/artist/songwriter ever.
Alex Lifeson and Eddie Van Halen my favorites 🤘
¤ Tony Iommi on Black Sabbath's Vol. 4. The opening solo is out of this world.
¤ Andy Powell /Ted Turner on Wishbone Ash's Argus.
¤ B. B. King!!!
¤ and another blues tone I love is Ronnie Earl - check out Soul Searching.
¤ Dick Dale. His surf guitar shreddin' is just metal before there was metal. Really menacing.
¤ Dave Murray / Adrian Smith - The tasteful dueling guitar sounds that defined 80s metal IMHO.
¤ Ronnie Le Tekrø - One of the great hair metal guitarists. His tone and his signature speed picking licks is a match made in heaven.
¤ and its hard not to mention Randy Rhoads who's tone is pretty unique. Super dry with minimal effects so you can really hear his divine mastery of the instrument.
¤ Kurt Rosenwinkel - A great jazz contemporary, with very tasteful sound. Check out his gig with the HR Bigband.
¤ Pat Metheny - Always tasteful, and usually very recognizable.
¤ Frank Gambale - His very clean fuzz tone is my favorite of all the fusion guitarists, apart from the greatest guitarist of all time:
¤ Allan Holdsworth!
Dick Dale had a small comeback in the 1990 with a number of albums that all referred to Tribal/Native Indian themes but also contained updated versions of his older hits. They are quite impressive.
As for German fusion/jazz the one with a very unique tone was Volker Kriegel.
@@roxannewalsh Cool. Didn't know that Dick Dale had a comeback. Sounds interesting! Kriegel is new to me, so I'll be sure to check him out also!
@@prockrog5219Dale's return was related to Miserlou appearing in the Pulp Fiction movie. He had recorded a new album Tribal Thunder in 1993 already, 1994 Unknown Territory, 1996 Calling Up Thunder and finally in 2001 Spacial Disorientation. He continued touring but had massive health problems already and died in 2019. The 1994 album is the best of them with a version of (Ghost) Riders in the Sky that is worth it alone.
@@roxannewalsh Tarantino has excellent taste in music!
Luka Bloom! So good
EVH and Mark Knopfler just immediately jump out, that said, soo many great players so I just went with the 2 that came to me first, fun video!!
Kevin Shields has a great fuzzy glide guitar sound.
I'd add Ritchie Blackmore and Dickey Betts
Dean Wareham - Luna & Galaxie 500
jerry garcia, the greatest and the only one to create his own genre
The ice cream is great, I'll give you that - Kramzer
Nels cline nels cline and oh...nels cline
I consider Brian May‘s sound the best
Hendrix instantly recognizable. Fripp is very unique. Leo Kottke for acoustic guitar
Eric Clapton during Cream years and another not mentioned Johnny Marr
Schenker
Schon
Marino
Santana
Parker...lots more, like ya said.absolutely agree with the others you mentioned😁, sincerely, one of your lovely commenters✍💛
Mike Campbell from Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
Just goes to show.. Diffrint strokes 4 Diffrint folks.. Brian May.. Come on Brian.. Stretch out sometime. Excruciatingly tedious. Richard Thompson.. Off kilter tuning but always arresting.. Neil Young when plugged in with Crazy Horse.
Jeff beck
Ian moss great great Australian guitar player from cold chisel
Mick ronson
Mick Taylor
Brian Robertson thin lizzy
Graham Coxon blur
Bb King
Jeff Beck
Keith Richards
Angus Young
Mark Knopfler
Jimmy Page’s tone for sure. The greatest!
I'm not the greatest fan (particularly from '1984' onward...), but I'm surprised Eddie Van Halen wasn't mentioned - he definitely has 'a great tone'..
Hank B. Marvin-instantly recognisable
Two *songs* from the '60s I love for guitar tone - "Session Man" by the Kinks - such a low-rated song for a lot of fans, but to me, it's the one song that really gets me excited on Face to Face, the clear high point of the album, for the sound of those guitars. Love it love it love it. Also "And Your Bird Can Sing" by the Beatles. Casino heaven.
I think Stratocasters sound like absolute crap in the hands of most players, but Gilmour, the Edge, and of course Hendrix are clear exceptions.
Just to piss off Joe, but also because I love them, the shoegazers - Savill and Halstead from Slowdive, Shields and Butcher from My Bloody Valentine, Mark in particular from Ride, Julian Swales from Kitchens of Distinction (perhaps my favorite guitarist of all time for sound - oh, wait a minute, he plays a Strat too - maybe the secret to Strat is dumping a lot of effects on it), Dickinson and Futter from Catherine Wheel.
Andy Summers's effects-laden Tele - mwah, love it. That's just for Jason of course.
Tom Scholz's sound is simply cosmic. Love it. Les Paul heaven. Allman and Betts from the Allman Brothers Band, especially Allman. Steve Hackett for sure - either number one or just after Swales for me. Robert Fripp, especially on the closing solo on "Lizard."
Finally, McGuinn and anyone else who uses a 12-string, and last but not least, the great Peter Buck - up until Pageant, of course.
Knew I forgot one - George Harrison from "Strawberry Fields" through All Things Must Pass. As for 12-string, I should have said, anyone who uses a Ric.
Oh, and certainly Johnny Marr when he does jangle on early Smiths records.
Yeah, there's a cut-off point for R.E.M in general. First few albums are GREAT, including Life's Rich Pageant. After that, ho-hum. It seems as Buck's guitar tone goes, the quality of the output goes. Never put it into that perspective before, but it's a legit observation, IMO. Let's not even go there on Monster.
Steve Hackett
Steve Howe
Robert Fripp
Peter Buck
Duane Eddy
Roger McGuinn and have to add Clapton and Duane Allman
For me it's simple: Paul Kossoff w/ 'the triple factor': tone, vibrato & bending...
I listened to an old Jim Capaldi solo album (Oh How We Danced) yesterday - I immediately recognised his tone on the tracks he guested on - unmistakable.
@@roxannewalsh There's a song on that album that......you've guessed it, it's yet another one of my favourite tunes from the 70's, the wonderful: EVE.
@@jesuschambers That song is why I bought the LP, it was the only one I had heard before. Koss does not play on that particular one, it has the Muscle Shoals musicians that played with Traffic at the time, including the horn section. Jimmy Johnson plays the guitar solo, another unsung studio legend.
@@roxannewalsh .... next pick your Frankie Miller's 'The Rock' and listen to 'I Know Why The Sun Don’t Shine’ (not the 2011 remix... without Koss... )
@@corleth84 Miller worked a lot with Koss and Andy Fraser (also of Free) in the early days. They recorded many demos for the early albums (Fraser even co-wrote some songs) but were partly overdubbed later with Miller's own band (Henry McCulloch on guitar was also some remarkable player...).
michael shenker ufo
santana and neil schon " batuka " " no quarter " page " fashion " by bowie but who is guitar player " fell like making love " bad company just best sounding electric guitar ever
Neil Young. Robert Quine. Richard Lloyd
I had Tom Verlaine on my suggestions but Richard Lloyd is just as unique, he does not have a very large solo discography but it is full of of jewels.
If I'm not mistaken, it was Quine and Lloyd playing on Matthew Sweet's Girlfriend album, wasn't it? Great guitar record. (edit: and Sweet, of course)
@@burmajones803 Those two plus Lloyd Cole. And Sweet himself.
@@burmajones803 Pretty sure Quine and Lloyd also on 100% Fun
Ry Cooder
Hey....FIRST! Thanks, lunch break!
I have to get to your video tomorrow. I agree it's an impossible task let's see how the 4 of us do.
so Kramzers favorite is Mark Knopler mine is Angus Young and Randy Rhoads throw in a Stevie Ray Vaughn ,
Given the Dog a bone, Hells Bells, Shot down in flames
Sato , Steel away Over the Mountain
Texas Flood, Cross Fire,
Does Kramzer like anything off Wish you were here?
great choices for Peter Gabriel?
I like Jimmy Page
Good times Bad times, Battle of the evermore
I also like Alex Lifeson
Camera eye, Tom Sawyer
Joe Prince! are we talking vocalist or guitar gods? if were talking vocalist yeah I understand but with the couple million guitar players why is Prince on the list if your narrowing it down to a few like Kramzer?
Hey Joe you left off you know who but at least you had Eddie Van Halen nice pick.
Jason nice choice Santana he's in my top 5 of players that are still alive of all players I want to say top 10.
nice Brian May .
what do 3 think about Keith Richards guitar tone and playing? is he in your top 5 of all time?
If you don’t think prince is a guitar god you gotta watch him play as my guitar gently weeps at the rock and roll hall of fame. - Joe
Lol it’s still here. As are you guys and getting lots of new subscribers which is cool.
Guitar tone? I’d say Jim Martin Faith No More - would I immediately recognise him? Hell no. Is he as good as Josh Homme? Hell no. Nor Jonny Marr but he’s ace.
Also Hugh Cornwell of the stranglers
Paul Kossoff - Free
Anyway I’m off to listen to the Smiths
Hank Marvin
Joe Walsh!
Lol it’s still here. As are you guys and getting lots of new subscribers which is cool.
Guitar tone? I’d say Jim Martin Faith No More - would I immediately recognise him? Hell no. Is he as good as Josh Homme? Hell no. Nor Jonny Marr but he’s ace.
Also Hugh Cornwell of the stranglers
Paul Kossoff - Free
Anyway I’m off to listen to the Smiths