What amp created the best live tone you ever heard?

[nevusofota]

20 years ago I went to a show and a local Baltimore band by the name of Jimmie's Chicken Shack was playing. That guitar tone still haunts me to this day. I wasn't a huge fan of the music and wasn't expecting anything special in terms of guitar tone. After attending hundreds of shows since, I still have yet to hear a guitar sound as thick and ear catching as that one.

Those sounds came out of a Soldano SLO.

 

[neilli]

I remember seeing Living Colour on the Time's Up tour and Vernon Reid sounded monstrous. I guess that was all Boogie stuff back then, quad pre-amps and so on..

 

[Racerxrated]

Pretty Reckless, twice, and a Wizard of some type. I think I saw on the website it was an MCII. Amazing.

 

[Manxmusicman]

Many years ago I watched Gary Moore in Liverpool, the whole night he was excellent, great touch, great playing and his tone was simply magnificent. His last song was 'The Prophet' an instrument track. For ten minutes I was absolutely mesmerised, he playing was pure emotion and his guitar was absolutely screaming.

 

[SFW]

Porcupine Tree on the Fear of a Blank Planet tour. Camron modded Marshall and a Bad Cat.

 

[cecilbag]

When I saw ozzy playing during the joe Holmes era. I couldn't believe how thick and just amazing that guitar sounded. It's my all time tone I chase

 

[155]

mark iv, lamb of god

 

[CJrocker]

Ty tabor

 

[Starman22]

Tom Morello JCM 800 year 1997 it was the most insane tone I've ever heard. It was overdriven perfection.

I got to hear EVH in a small private gig for a Ernie Ball industry thing in 91 and that was monsterous also but the stage was so small the backline was hidden sideways to the stage so I don't know what he was playing but it was something I'll never ever ever ever forget tone wise. Oh and he was jamming with Steve Morse and Albert Lee at the time as a trio and they sounded excellent. He sounded like a top fuel dragster.

 

[McLeanAB]

Actually, mine was the clean tones Alex Lifeson got on the HOLD YOUR FIRE tour in '89 or '88 can't remember off the top of my head, which ended up being the A SHOW OF HANDS live record... specifically the clean sounds in "Prime Mover." Still SO magical to me...

 

[mentoneman]

at the risk of sounding cork snifferish
Larry Carton's dumble wdw rig headlining the sun in anaheim with robben ford and al dimeola opening.

LC's first NOTE was this gigantic endless thing that killed anything prior or since.

Landau next
Then EJ Holdsworth Lane and Gillis , with ulak tour lynch and 1st rising force tour yngwie for considerable mention

wouldn't mind hearing ian thornley's hedgehog tone live!

 

[Stradazone]

It's been all Marshalls for me..EVH 1st tour '78, Gary Moore Wild Frontier Tour '87 and Steve Stevens around '92 Namm Party

 

[firegate]

Aldrich live with Dio in 03. Strat into what I'm assuming was a Cameron Marshall.

 

[nevusofota]

Tom Morello JCM 800 year 1997 it was the most insane tone I've ever heard. It was overdriven perfection.

I got to hear EVH in a small private gig for a Ernie Ball industry thing in 91 and that was monsterous also but the stage was so small the backline was hidden sideways to the stage so I don't know what he was playing but it was something I'll never ever ever ever forget tone wise. Oh and he was jamming with Steve Morse and Albert Lee at the time as a trio and they sounded excellent. He sounded like a top fuel dragster.

Man, that small if a show with those three must have been epic!

I thought Morello only used 900's?

 

[nevusofota]

Ty tabor

He's used all kinds of gear over the years, even Line 6 rack stuff. I saw him about 15 years ago when he was using it and his tone wasn't as bad as I expected it to be.

 

[SpiderWars]

First time I saw Eric Johnson in the mid-late 90's.

 

[Racerxrated]

Tom Morello JCM 800 year 1997 it was the most insane tone I've ever heard. It was overdriven perfection.

I got to hear EVH in a small private gig for a Ernie Ball industry thing in 91 and that was monsterous also but the stage was so small the backline was hidden sideways to the stage so I don't know what he was playing but it was something I'll never ever ever ever forget tone wise. Oh and he was jamming with Steve Morse and Albert Lee at the time as a trio and they sounded excellent. He sounded like a top fuel dragster.

Man, that small if a show with those three must have been epic!

I thought Morello only used 900's?

Late 80s JCM 800 2205/2210.

 

[Racerxrated]

Ty tabor

He's used all kinds of gear over the years, even Line 6 rack stuff. I saw him about 15 years ago when he was using it and his tone wasn't as bad as I expected it to be.

He recorded the first 3 KingsX albums with the Lab series Gibson amp, L5 or L6. Then for Dogman and beyond he used an early Dual Rectifier.

 

[messenger]

Ty tabor

He's used all kinds of gear over the years, even Line 6 rack stuff. I saw him about 15 years ago when he was using it and his tone wasn't as bad as I expected it to be.

He recorded the first 3 KingsX albums with the Lab series Gibson amp, L5 or L6. Then for Dogman and beyond he used an early Dual Rectifier.

We opened for them about 10 years ago. I think he was using Randall MTS stuff. I think he had good tone

 

[atrox]

Tom Morello JCM 800 year 1997 it was the most insane tone I've ever heard. It was overdriven perfection.

I got to hear EVH in a small private gig for a Ernie Ball industry thing in 91 and that was monsterous also but the stage was so small the backline was hidden sideways to the stage so I don't know what he was playing but it was something I'll never ever ever ever forget tone wise. Oh and he was jamming with Steve Morse and Albert Lee at the time as a trio and they sounded excellent. He sounded like a top fuel dragster.

Man, that small if a show with those three must have been epic!

I thought Morello only used 900's?

Morello is known to use a 2205 i believe. Much underrated head because of the diode clipping. A friend gave me one a couple months ago and it sounds great.

For me. Gilmour at Radio City Music Hall in 2006 and a again at MSG a few months ago.