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Good tone:
How could no one have mentioned David Gilmour? The only person besides Hendrix to make a Strat sound good...
Also:
Kurt Cobain (on Bleach and most of Incesticide)
Joey Santiago
Adam Jones (Tool)
Will Sergeant (Echo and the Bunnymen)
Robert Smith
Johnny Greenwood
Dimebag Darrell
Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree)
The Edge
Slash
Tony Iommi
Ian MacKaye with Fugazi
Most Korn up to Untouchables
Graham Coxon (Blur)
Of course all of SY
Bad tone:
I hate to admit it, but I really don't like Johnny Marr's tone on most of The Smiths' songs...I really don't like 100% clean tones unless they have some sort of modulation effect on them.
Most 80s pop/rock-the compressor is NOT your friend unless you're trying to get a sustaining lead tone with the neck pickup a la American Woman.
Anyone playing open or 6-string barre chords using the bridge pickup on a Telecaster-too bright/shrill
The general sound of EMG pickups-sterile cleans, muddy distortion
Keith Richards. There, I said it.
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