Those watershed moments for tone you discovered.

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I was thinking the other day about a couple of tracks that knocked me on my ass when I first heard them and just wondered who else has these (I'm sure a lot do haha).

Unchained - first time I heard this I literally though my speakers were broken and didn't really understand the sound, but after a couple of listens I "got it" and came to fully appreciate how amazing EVH's tone is on this and Fair Warning in general. Definitely his best recorded sound.

Cowboys From Hell - I thought it was a demo the guitars were so dry and direct, but remember thinking how almost futuristic Dime's tone was, especially on the open E chugs in the verse which have such a chewy, heavy sound.

I'm sure there's been more, but can't think of them for the moment, anyone else care to share theirs?

Mike
 
SRV a couple of months ago when I gave Texas Flood a good listen

Cost me a good deal of money in Blackface Fenders since then...
 
Few and far between.

Suffocation and Cryptopsy usually do that to me.

Guthrie Govan sometimes and that one heavy riff in End of the Line by Devildriver.
 
All things mentioned for impact of hearing for the first time, anywhere between 10 and 14 years old.

Back In Black
Queen - The Game
Hendrix - Voodoo Chile slight return
Scorpions - Lovedrive
Black Flag - Slip It In
SRV - Either Texas Flood or Couldn't Stand the Weather, can't remember.
ZZ Top - Tres Hombres
Gary Moore - Corridors of Power
Van Halen - Women and Children First
Rose Tattoo - First album
Kiss - The Elder (at 11 years old I thought it was bitchin' and still love the tone today)
Stray Cats - Built For Speed (Setzer's tone has even gotten better)
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Judas Priest - Killing Machine

and many more I'm forgetting.
 
Playing into my first half-stack at band practice/gig volumes. JCM800 83 2203 w/6650's and SD-1 in front and a 1900a cab with 75 Celestions. I remember playing it at lower volumes alone and not really liking it all that much...cranking it with adding bass and drums, ah hell yeah!
 
Sykes' Tone on "Still of the Night"
still Floors me!!
Cantrell on the "Dirt" album
Nuno on "Pornograffitti"
Priest "Screaming for Vengeance"
Zakk on "No rest for the Wicked"
Devin Townsend on "Deadhead" is
the Thickest/Fullest recorded tone,
Blows me away!!
 
David Gilmour. Legendary tone, always.

Cantrell on Facelift, JOF, Dirt... Guy's tone is just unreal. Facelift really blew me away, especially Bleed the Freak


Others that made me take notice when I was young were Slash, Dime, Chris and Mike from QR, SRV, Petrucci, Adam Jones

Sevendust (the tones on Animosity). Really unique
KSE alive/the end of Heartache. Probably the production more than anything else but metal just didn't sound that huge before Adam D IMO.
 
1983! I was a whole six years old and LOVED KISS. My older brother use to have some dudes come over and jam on their guitars. I got to play on them once in a while and that is where it all started. So, One of the guys brought this album over from a new band called Quiet Riot. They put it on the record player and all of the sudden fucking metal health comes blaring through. To this day I still love that tone.
 
I was 13 yrs old, at my buddies house and his older sister was spinning some van halen vinyl...my God, The smell of her perfume, her short-shorts and Fair Warning blaring! :rock: :rock: VH has been my favorite band since that day.

In addition,
David gilmoures guitar work
The groove (& brass) of earth wind and fire
The smoothness of steely dan
The harmonies of Michael Anthony, EVH & DLR
 
For me, growing up on Metallica, Megadeath, Pantera, etc.... hearing Killswitch Engage for the first time a few years ago was just awesome. So massive, tight, and heavy guitar tones.
 
As far as hearing guitar tones that knocked my socks off when I was young and made we want to make those sounds...

Seeing the video on MTV of Hot For Teacher, watching EVH shred walking down a library table like some kind of shredding Chuck Berry

Coming home from the record store, Metallica's newest tape in hand, popping it in and hearing Blackened for the first time...

Nuno, Mutha don't want to go to school intro, still don't know how he does it

Racer X Live Extreme, Gilbert's tone and playing are nutty
 
These were all heard before I started playing but I clearly remember being very curious
as to how exactly they were making those cool sounds, led me straight to playing........
No particular order........
Supernaut/Sabbath
Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock: Listened to the album for yrs. before seeing
the movie........
Go All The Way/Strawberrys
Alright Now/Free
Nantucket Sleighride/Mountain......Live version: This was the first time I heard Leslie West......
Eruption/ VH: I thought I heard something from another planet......
 
So many.

Extreme (Pornograffiti)
Aerosmith (Kings and Queens, Spaced, Adam's Apple)
Queen (A Night At The Opera, Queen, The Game)
Van Halen (1, WACF, Fair Warning)
Led Zeppelin (3, House of The Holy)
Blue Murder
Joni Hendrix (Electric Ladyland)

What really did it for me was Brad's solo on Kings And Queens and all of Pornograffiti. Nuno as a player floored me and still does. I can listen to that record on repeat daily and never grow tired of it.
 
For me it was learning that Michael Schenker actually used a half-opened Pignose that was miced up behind his Marshall's. I've used a Pignose ever since though I'll boost it for doing metal.
 
While there were many bands I had heard before this before this particular moment that gave me some "earth shattering" vibes like Zeppelin, Aerosmith, Nugent, Sabbath, Kiss , Van Halen, etc.

One summer morning in 1980 at a friends house in the Sepluveda Ca. (San Fernando Valley) I heard "Rush La Villa Strangiato" nicely cranked up for the very first time...

I was 16 years old... The technical musicianship, guitar tones, volume swells and insane solo(s) were too much to comprehend.

I was honestly never the same person since that moment and Alex Lifeson was god...
 
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