A thread dedicated to not only the player, but the sound.
These are not necessarily my favorite songs(some are), but I love the way the guitar sounds in each. This thread is devoted to the summation of player, producer, and equipment:
Barracuda, Heart
Aqualung, Jethro Tull
Black Dog, Zeppelin
Mississippi Queen, Mountain
Walk All Over You, AC/DC
These are just a few redundant examples . What are some of your favorite sounds?
Within Singularity by Element is one of the coolest clean tones I've ever heard.
I have thousands of dollars worth of equipment in my guitar rack and I still cant get it to sound quite the same as that after hours of messing with it
The slidedown noise from Texas Flood near the beginning, I think, where the guitar is fretted on the high E and B strings at the fifteenth free, struck, and immediately one slides down, and the sound sort of fades out quickly. It's awesome. I pissed someone off today for doing that for a few minutes straight.
Also, the bass tone in take a walk on the wild side is great. A fretted bass and a fretless base doing the same sliding riff but an octave apart. its awesome
Glastonbury Re-visited by Cosmic Rough Riders has a lovely sounding (12 string?) intro.
March Into Trouble by The Horslips (dammit I've forgotten the term! What's it called when you lightly touch the strings rather than press all the way down to the fredboard? only works in some positions...) Anyway (HARMONICS!!????), a lovely intro of harmonics(?) only.
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Stonemaybe wrote:Glastonbury Re-visited by Cosmic Rough Riders has a lovely sounding (12 string?) intro.
March Into Trouble by The Horslips (dammit I've forgotten the term! What's it called when you lightly touch the strings rather than press all the way down to the fredboard? only works in some positions...) Anyway (HARMONICS!!????), a lovely intro of harmonics(?) only.
Probably too obvious to be mentioned, but for me the feedback/harmonic intro/riff by Steve Howe on Roundabout still sends shivers down my spine whenever I hear it.
(of course, not being a player of guitar, I am unsure if feedback/harmonics is how that is played, but I find it awesome anyway)
And it's been just as good the five times I've seen it played live than it is on Fragile.
David Gilmour's "thick" sound, like on "Let's Get Metaphysical" and "Sorrow".
Page's Leslie sound on "Black Dog".
Eddie's "brown" sound.
Andy Summers' breathy harmonics on "Almost There".
Glen Tipton's nasty weight on "The Sentinel".
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Almost anything Adrian Belew gets from his guitar is weird and great. "Twang Bar King" and "Lone Rhino" are some neat solo stuff. And there are some absolute gems in his King Crimson stuff, like "Sheltering Sky" (shivers), and of course Robert Fripp's sounds on "Thrak" and his solo Frippertronics stuff is haunting.
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Menolly wrote:Probably too obvious to be mentioned, but for me the feedback/harmonic intro/riff by Steve Howe on Roundabout still sends shivers down my spine whenever I hear it.
(of course, not being a player of guitar, I am unsure if feedback/harmonics is how that is played, but I find it awesome anyway)
And it's been just as good the five times I've seen it played live than it is on Fragile.
Howe's part has the harmonics in it, but no feedback. If I had to venture a guess, I'd say the part you hear as feedback is Rick Wakeman's synth part.
Dandelion don't tell no lies
Dandelion will make you wise
Tell me if she laughs or cries
Blow away dandelion
I'm afraid there's no denying
I'm just a dandelion
a fate I don't deserve.
This can include bass right? Frank Beard's intro (and Gibbons crazy guitar) and funky progression in ZZTop's "Just Got Paid". And the sound Neil Young's half-destroyed amp makes in "My, My, Hey, Hey" (the King is gone, but he's not forgotten, is this the story of Johnny Rotten?).
Open Invitation by Santana has a veritable potpourri of guitar sound in it, and There's No Way Out of Here by Gilmour has some interesting -"harmonics" as well. Skynyrds They Call Me The Breeze is nice too........
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Something's got to be said for the "Money" intro too and the talk-bites (...I don't know, I was really drunk at the time...). Also the studder-step, waa-waa, almost slide-ish guitar on "Pigs". Not to mention the climax of the guitar break in The Freddie Jones Band's "In a Daydream".
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I wish that I could channel the guitar sound from Blackfoot's "Train Train". I am sure that they just cranked the hell out of a Marshall, but it is a great sound.
. What are some of your favorite sounds?
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as well. Skynyrds They Call Me The Breeze is nice too........
