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Best sounding rock guitarist

up close and personal

two of the most memorable guitarist i've seen live are roy buchanan and matt guitar murphy( not with the blues brothers :tears: ) roy was at the el macombo in toronto,(about 1977) a bar that only holds a few hundred people. matt was in london ontario, also at a bar even smaller.( fry foggles)
 
I can't believe it took 3 pages for someone to mention Tom Scholz of Boston. He did in the 70's what Jimi Hendrix did in the 60's for the SOUND of rock guitar. This thread was supposed to be about SOUND not prowess. So for me it goes in no certain order other than the first:


Jimi Hendrix
Jimmy Page
Carlos Santana
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Chuck Berry
Robin Trower
Harvey Mandel (Canned Heat)
Leigh Stephens (Blue Cheer)
Alvin Lee (Ten Years After)
Peter Green (Fleeetwood Mac) Stop laughing! FM used to be a great Blues/Boogie band before Green left and the women arrived, oh and the hits came. That usually ruins things.....
 
A few have finally mentioned him, but let me elaborate a bit. Peter Green in the original Fleetwood Mac had it all, technique, integrity, subtlety, and most of all the most glorius sound I've ever heard an electric guitarist create. Listen to "Albatross," or "Black Magic Woman" (Peter Green wrote this song and Carlos Santana just does an imitation of Green's guitar playing on Santana's hit version), or "Rattlesnake Shake," or 'Oh Well," or any of the many blues numbers that the original (real) Fleetwood Mac did. In addition, the almost telepathic guitar interplay between him and Danny Kirwan is as good as it gets (that includes Duane Allman and Dickie Betts of the Allman Brothers or Eric Clapton and Duane Allman on Derek and the Dominoes). Check out the album "Then Play On" or the 3 CD "Live in Boston" to hear Green at his peak. It doesn't get any better than this.

bjarmson
 
Kegger said:
Who was the main guitar sound for the Early days of DIO?

That was some great rocking riffs!
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The guitarist for Dio's solo albums was...um, one of those guys with a girl's first name who joined Whitesnake after David Coverdale fired everybody who made him sound good. I mean, after the second time he did that. Either Vivian Campbell or Adrian Vandenberg.
 
Urizen said:
Best tone?

Carlos Santana
Robben Ford
SRV
EVH
Robert Carlton
Danny Gatton
Steve Vai
Mikael Akerfeldt
Arjen Lucassen
Scotty Henderson
Al DiMeola...there are so many!
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Retro, Stevie Ray was mentioned in the 3rd post of this thread :yes:

Wes Montgomery, Pat Metheny (neither are thought of as Rock guitarists, but very distinct and Identifiable), and Kirk Hammett (what a grouping :music:)
 
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WhiskeyRebel said:
The guitarist for Dio's solo albums was...um, one of those guys with a girl's first name who joined Whitesnake after David Coverdale fired everybody who made him sound good. I mean, after the second time he did that. Either Vivian Campbell or Adrian Vandenberg.
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That was Vivian Campbell. Adrian Vandenberg had his own band in those days.
 
This would be for "unique tones" more than anything. That's what I listen for in a good guitarist...

Jimi Hendrix
Frank Marino (Mahogany Rush)
Robin Trower
Carlos Santana
Duane Allman
Warren Haynes (Gov't Mule/Allman Brothers)
John Cipollina (QMS)
Peter Green (Fleetwood Mac)
Tony McPhee (Groundhogs)
Roy Buchanan
Frank Zappa
Leigh Stephens (Blue Cheer)
Randy Holden (Blue Cheer)
Jorma Kaukonen (Jefferson Airplane)
Martin Barre (Jethro Tull)
And many others...

Not big on the shredders obviously. They bore me to tears really, but that's just my humble opinion.

Different strokes...
mOOn
 
When I think great guitar sounds, I think more along the lines of TONES, and not fancy effects and all that stuff. Being a guitar player myself, I can tell you its often much harder to match tones than it is to just buy some whirling effects pedal.

Mark Knopfler (so sweet. Already mentioned several times...good work AK'ers. Best tones I've ever heard in my life at his concert. It really has a bite to it.)
David Gilmour (Smooth yet dynamic)
Jimi Hendrix (ok lots of effects enter in, but think Hey Joe, Little Wing, Wind Cries Mary, Castles made of sand, etc. Tones often imitated but never nailed down.)
George Harrison (That great woody Rickenbacker sound)
 
Only two I can think of that I haven't seen so far in this thread:

1. Alex Lifeson's later work - Early on he was very good, but didn't develop his own "sound" until Rush started to bore most people. But if you really listened to his riffs during that period, he did some really awesome things with the tone of his axe!

2. I don't recall who played lead in this band, but Heart had a wicked lead sound back when they were hot. Their solos did show prowess, but had a cool, exotic sound to them as well.
 
john_w said:
Only two I can think of that I haven't seen so far in this thread:

2. I don't recall who played lead in this band, but Heart had a wicked lead sound back when they were hot. Their solos did show prowess, but had a cool, exotic sound to them as well.
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Dont forget that producers make a lot of the sound we hear in a lot of the stuff...

Alot of work goes into the postproduction...if they make bad singers sound decent, they make decent guitar players sound excellent.
 
my guitar teacher his name was snoopy told me solo like jessica from the almond brothers
 
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Thanks guy's for the DIO deal!

A buddy turned me on to Adrian Vandenberg and I found their greatest hits disk used
one day so I picked it up and yah that guy had/has some wicked talent.

As I'm reading through the bio in the disk it talks about how David Coverdale had heard
him play and wanted him to join this new band he was forming (white snake) but Adrian
wanted to keep his solo gig going so he turned down the offer. So it got me thinking an
I grab a whistsnake disk I have and sure enough he's on there. So I guess after his band
faultered he did join whitesnake, then get canned! LOL!
 
bjarmson said:
A few have finally mentioned him, but let me elaborate a bit. Peter Green in the original Fleetwood Mac had it all, technique, integrity, subtlety, and most of all the most glorius sound I've ever heard an electric guitarist create.
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Excellent points. I've been a fan of Peter Green since the first time I heard "Oh Well" on the radio. I've never been able to listen to their pop tripe recorded after Green left the band.

If anyone has mentioned Ry Cooder I missed, so here's a nod to him.

And Sonny Landreth. Let's not forget Sonny.

Tip of the hat to the first person who mentioned Lowell George. One of the great unsung Rock guitar wizards.
 
Kegger said:
Thanks guy's for the DIO deal!

A buddy turned me on to Adrian Vandenberg and I found their greatest hits disk used
one day so I picked it up and yah that guy had/has some wicked talent.

As I'm reading through the bio in the disk it talks about how David Coverdale had heard
him play and wanted him to join this new band he was forming (white snake) but Adrian
wanted to keep his solo gig going so he turned down the offer. So it got me thinking an
I grab a whistsnake disk I have and sure enough he's on there. So I guess after his band
faultered he did join whitesnake, then get canned! LOL!
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Adrian Vandenberg's best stuff is definitely on the "Vandenberg" albums, not Whitesnake. The first two are the best IMHO, "Vandenberg" and "Headed for a storm". Theyre definitely worth seeking out if you like what you heard on the greatest hits disk. "Headed for a storm" is a little tough to find.

John
 
Yah what I heard that guy play was simply amazing!

More people need to know about him! Kinda like what this thread is doing! :thmbsp:
Adrian Vandenberg is definatly a great player.
 
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