The Boston thread got me to thinking...

[YTLP]

about other distinctive guitar tones from the 70's.

One that comes to my mind is Bob Welch on "Ebony Eyes" from his French Kiss album. How did he get that super thick crunchy tone?

 

[Sunburst79]

That was a GREAT tone!!!!!:dude :dude :dude :dude

 

[SS901771]

If I remember correctly, it was a Les Paul custom through a Music Man amp.

 

[jeffhef]

70's tones...

Ok...I'm showing my age again. Shhh...43...

Alan Parsons "The System Of Doctor Tarr and Professor Feather"

Styx "Miss America"

Kansas "Carry On Wayward Son"

Deep Purple "Smoke On The Water"

Mike Oldfield "Tubular Bells" You know...the really distorted guitar part...

Alice Cooper "Billion Dollar Babies"

Foghat "Slow Ride"

Bad Company "Can't Get Enough"

Should I go on? This is my decade.

jeffhef

 

[mako]

As the author of the Boston thread, I thought I'd say that Mountain's "Mississippi Queen" comes to mind... :!

 

[jeffhef]

As the author of the Boston thread, I thought I'd say that Mountain's "Mississippi Queen" comes to mind... :!

Dude!! Massive!! Has there ever been a more heavy sounding guitar? Straight up!!

More?

Sabbath "Children Of The Grave"

BOC "Cities On Flame" or..."Godzilla"

Priest "Genocide"

Thin Lizzy "Cowboy Song"

...

 

[ohthetone]

Cheap Trick "Hot Love"

 

[Korina& Mahogany]

Heart

Barricuda & Magic Man! They set a new standard in Hard Rock tone.
Most of Kiss Alive II.
Any Long @ss solo of David Gilmore.

 

[jeffhef]

Oh yeah!!!

How bout more Heart...

Little Queen - extremely funky...but rockin'!!

Crazy On You

Straight on

I saw the original lineup in concert....

Nancy, Ann, Howard Leese, Michael Derosier, Roger Fisher...

They were incredible. Still...to this day...one of my top 5 concerts of all time. Their encore was "Rock & Roll" by LZ...and they nailed it. This was on the "Little Queen" tour. They were awesome!!

I'm REALLY showing my age now...

Oh yeah!!! Roger played a white Les Paul Custom.

jeffhef

 

[Korina& Mahogany]

I remember having the first three album set of Rush, & I was very impressed w/ the tone and playing. Some of it reminded me of EC's Creme & TI's 1st album Black Sabbath "playing style" wise, but a more modern tone.
There are a couple of great sounds/playing on 2112 as well.

 

[JRW8214@AOL.COM]

Anything by Robin Trower

 

[jeffhef]

Rush...

Didn't Alex Lifeson play mostly a 335 back then? Very cool sound. Kinda...broad and airy...for lack of a better phrase. I think he also used a Les Paul around that time. Don't know when he started using the double-neck.

I agree...Rush's first 3 albums were incredible. Actually...let's do a Rush list...:band

Bastille Day
Fly By Night
Finding My Way
Working Man
In The Mood
The entire 2112 Album
Xanadu (Ever Read the poem it was based on - Kubla Khan? Supposedly unfinished and written while tripping on Opium by Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Cygnus X-1 (pick)
Trees

Personally I liked Vapor Trails about as much as any Rush album since 2112.

And Sabbath...oh man!!! This was my band. Funny you say that about their first album. It was almost entirely recorded using a Strat. During the recording one of the PUP's went out and he switched to the SG.

Back Sabbath
Wicked World
NIB

Sabbath up until Technical Ecstasy had a massive sound. I especially like...well...the first 6 albums...

Black Sabbath
Paranoid
Master Of Reality
Vol. 4
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Sabotage

Don't even get me started on Deep Purple!!

jeffhef

 

[jeffhef]

You guys got good taste!!!

Rush
Sabbath
Trower
Mountain
Heart
Kiss

My youth...See...it wasn't wasted. But I sure was!!

Another excellent guitar tone from this period...

Kansas ala Leftoverture

jeffhef

 

[chopp3r]

mmm...yes rock!
It is so hard for me to imagine Iommi playing a strat on that stuff...I had forgotten about that entirely.
I have been playing the shit outta mississippi queen lately...
how bout some T.rex...

It just seemed like so many 70s albums have great guitar sounds... Jeff "Skunk" Baxter...reelin in the years..... fleetwood mac...very 70s sounding to me.
boc- yes
alice cooper- love it to death for sure
kansas... ahh the 70s

what are the sabbath albums tuned to btw?
Black Sabbath - standard?
Paranoid -Eb?
Master Of Reality - Eb ?
Vol. 4 - c#?
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath -C#?
Sabotage -C#?

 

[Korina& Mahogany]

I like recordings that broke new ground Tone Wise.
Whole Lotta Love.
Black Sabbath & Master of Reality, two totally different sounds.
Hendrix before that.
Van Halen I & Fair Warning.
Rhoads Blizz, Diary, & Tribute.
Judas Priest 1979 Unleashed in the East has absolutely killer tone. Can you tell I love Distortion? :dude
I of course, Love Gain:wow
There was quite a bit of hype and at the same time, supposedly high gain tone that was quite plain and not dynamic at all in the 70's.
Cheers.
:

 

[Yelly]

Elliot Randall played the solos on "Reeling in the years", not the Skunk. I always thought great playing, horrible tone.

 

[My65Pan]

"OH Well" I think it was done by the Rockets.

 

[JRW8214@AOL.COM]

"Oh Well" was done by Fleetwood Mac

 

[jeffhef]

Oh Well...

Actually...you're both right. Fleetwod Mac did it on "Then Play On". The Rockets did it on an album that's no longer available. I forget the name of the album - but I had it and it was a pretty good version. if I'm not mistaken I believe Peter Green wrote it.

The Black Crows and Jimmy Page did a pretty good version of it a coupla years ago as well.

jeffhef

 

[chopp3r]

really thats not the skunkster? wow... but I love the playing and tone anyways, how can you not like the tone?...