Favorite recorded Les Paul tone?

[plonky17]

Billy Duffy from The Cult. The sounds on Electric and Sonic temple are brilliant!

Peter Green and Danny Kirwan together, particularly on Like it This Way.

Ace Frehley on KISS Alive! To me that is classic Les Paul/Marshall tone/grit/sustain.

Jimmy Page on The Song Remains the Same and BBC recordings

Eric Clapton on the Beano album.

 

[GreenBurst]

Ace Frehley on KISS Alive! To me that is classic Les Paul/Marshall tone/grit/sustain.

+1

 

[Black58]

Billy Duffy from The Cult. The sounds on Electric and Sonic temple are brilliant!

Peter Green and Danny Kirwan together, particularly on Like it This Way.

Ace Frehley on KISS Alive! To me that is classic Les Paul/Marshall tone/grit/sustain.

Jimmy Page on The Song Remains the Same and BBC recordings

Eric Clapton on the Beano album.

You've pretty much listed the soundtrack to my 30 yrs. of playin'! Fuckin' SPOOKY, man. :wah :headbange

 

[jpap]

Since I am more on the 70's wave:

Billy G. (all 70's recordings),
Thin Lizzy "Bad reputation" ('77) and "Live and Dangerous" ('78)
Gary Moore "Back on the streets"('78)
Ace Frehley (all 70's recordings)
Martin Barre (J.Tull), all 70's, mainly "Bursting out" (though he played some tunes on his Hamer sunburst there)
Gary Richrath of REO
Mike Ralphs on 70's Bad Company recordings, but check out also his sound on the 90's Bad Co live album...
Bernie Mardsen and Micky Moody on early Whitesnake albums
Gary Rossington (no further comments!)
Manny Charlton (70's Nazareth recordings)
Steve Hackett (early Genesis recordings, mainly "Selling England by the pound")
Andy Latimer (ALL Camel recordings, he uses an LP a lot...)

For later tunes, definetely Billy Duffy, especially on "the sonic temple" LP...

 

[classicrawker]

Two others I love

Ronnie Montrose, listen to his tone on the first Montrose album
Rod "The Bottle" Price of Foghat, one of the best rock/ blues slide players IMHO, listen to his slide on "Terraplane Blues" from Fool for the City or "Feel So Bad" from the Rock N Roll albums.

Picaso, it must have been a great experience working with Billy. Along with Leslie West and Paul Kossoff I alway thought the man has one of the greatest natural vibratos in rock.

Saw some fan pics of a recent show and he had a couple of Matchless combos behind him.

http://img176.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=34068_CULT_at_HOB_9-2-09_72942_edited-12_122_2lo.jpg#

Also found this site

http://www.uberproaudio.com/content/view/475/38/

Going to the Boston HOB show on the 12th..really looking forward to that one

 

[pist0lpete]

Keith Richards solo on Sympathy for the Devil, Mike Bloomfield's super sessions

quick question though about "brown sugar" by ZZ Top, are we certain that he was using Pearly Gates? I know that for certain songs he used a stratocaster- notably blue jean blues and la grange and I thought I read somewhere that brown sugar was also a strat. so...

 

[viper007]

Jimmy Page - Since I've Been Loving You
Joe Bonamassa - The Great Flood
Mark Knopfler - Brothers In Arms

+1

 

[JRW8214@AOL.COM]

Keith Richards solo on Sympathy for the Devil, Mike Bloomfield's super sessions

quick question though about "brown sugar" by ZZ Top, are we certain that he was using Pearly Gates? I know that for certain songs he used a stratocaster- notably blue jean blues and la grange and I thought I read somewhere that brown sugar was also a strat. so...

Theres no strat on First Album. He didnt start using the strat on tracks until Rio Grande Mud.

 

[pist0lpete]

Theres no strat on First Album. He didnt start using the strat on tracks until Rio Grande Mud.

thanks for the information. :salude

 

[JRW8214@AOL.COM]

no problem bud

 

[porterburst]

There's so many........


Duane Allman : Fillmore East-Mountain Jam, A&R Radio: You Don't Love Me, Eat A Peach-Blue Sky

Dickey Betts: Eat A Peach- Blue Sky, Jessica, Bougainvillea, The way Love Goes.

Paul Kossoff: Too many to name....The Stealer, All Right Now, Fire And Water.

Peter Green and Danny Kirwin: Fleetwood Mac-Boston Tea Party, Otis Spann-The Biggest Thing Since Colossus, Fleetwood Mac-Shrine 69

Mike Bloomfield: Anything form late 68-69

 

[rgs]

Add Les Dudek to the list.

 

[Axel]

Peter Green and Danny Kirwin: Fleetwood Mac-Boston Tea Party

+1! Dannys vibrato on his solo on Oh well is from an other dimension. Peter Green is (was, heh) always fabulous.

 

[zoommutt]

Don't forget Toy.

 

[mistersnappy]

Do bootlegs count? :hmm

I love Duane's Fillmore East tone but actually prefer the live stuff on some of my bootlegs-the tone seems rawer, riper and the overtones are sick.:jim

 

[Black58]

Do bootlegs count? :hmm

I love Duane's Fillmore East tone but actually prefer the live stuff on some of my bootlegs-the tone seems rawer, riper and the overtones are sick.:jim

:headbange Have you gotten any of the stuff they have over at the Hittin' The Note page? That Sept.(?) '71 show, ... whew! DEMENTED! :wow

 

[bluesape]

Dunno how Jeff Beck wasn't mentioned.....I forgot him too.

 

[LSGoCards7]

Dunno how Jeff Beck wasn't mentioned.....I forgot him too.

He's in my top 5 for LP tones.

In any order: Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Duane Allman, Eric Clapton, and Billy Gibbons

I love all of their tones!

 

[mistersnappy]

:headbange Have you gotten any of the stuff they have over at the Hittin' The Note page? That Sept.(?) '71 show, ... whew! DEMENTED! :wow

Absolutely! :salude

 

[mistersnappy]

Wanna hear some ripping, ripe tone with jazzy effortlessness? Barry Bailey of the Atlanta Rhythm Section on the songs "Spooky" and "Lets Go Get Stoned" from the album Underdog! :jim :headbange :3zone