AWESOME THREAD!!!!! I love this one, cuz it sure made me THINK... It was hard for me to differentiate fave "tone" from fave "playing" and fave "players"... So a very, very interesting mindfuck this one ended up being...pardon the language, but that's what it is at least to me...
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, favorite TONE!!!! Alright...in no particular order:
Spiders, by System of a Down, specifically at the 2:30 mark, which then goes into a wickedly fx'd tone at about 2:39 and repeats a couple times. Haunting, and it always makes me shiver...
Aeroplane, by the Chilis... Navarro on the 6 gun for a change (even though I love Frusciante's playing, no flames please). Every bit of it - from the sparkling single coil rhythms to the slap funk to the smoothed over solos and wah work. This is a gorgeous tone to my ears.
Diamond Eyes, Deftones. Thick, potent and wickedly rich...love it.
Randy Rhoads, Live - most popular on the
Tribute release - but I heard it back in the day live off the radio and then on bootlegs...his solo that then drives into Suicide Solution. A tone that had me go apeshit for guitar.
Frank Zappa, Watermelon In Easter Hay, the lead throughout the song (FZ) gives me goosebumps. Love it.
Those are 5 of my favorite tones. I've got more, but these were the first five that popped.
Peace,
V.
And honorable mention to
"Crawl Away" and
"Triad" by Tool, compliments of
Adam J. And dozens of sections by Saul Hudson
in his various tunes with G'n'R and VR and his solo stuff.
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