LP tones I love, but don't want.

[Todd68]

I was talking to a friend not that long ago about Les Paul players and their tones. We were talking about our own sounds too. We discussed the ways we were trying to get old wood sounds (or close to it) from our Historics. It occurred to me that there are LP tones on record that I love, but wouldn't want. For example, I love Peter Green's tone and playing but I know if I could get it, it just wouldn't work for me. I just know if someone could give me that exact setup, I'd be a mess. I'd be tweaking and adjusting things. I've heard Gary Moore crank that guitar. I like his tone with it a lot! Still, I enjoy hearing Green play with that sound. I love The Mayal stuff and Fleetwood Mac stuff. In the Tele world, I feel the same way about Roy Buchanan's sound (at least on the records I have - need to dig those out). Anyone have a similar opinion or experience?

[kungpow!]

Slashtone

[27sauce]

I feel that way about Moore and Page. I love listening to them, but if I was playing through their respective rigs, I would be changing some settings. I;m more of a Clapton, Gibbons type of guy, I guess.

[Sterling # Sound]

I feel that way about the Allman Brothers tone (not that I would know how to get those!). I love it on record though. Same with Randy Rhoads tone with his custom.

[nwobhm]

Originally Posted by Sterling # Sound

I feel that way about the Allman Brothers tone (not that I would know how to get those!). I love it on record though. Same with Randy Rhoads tone with his custom.

I'm pretty much the same, I voted for Fillmore East in the LP tone poll but really, early ZZ-TOP, is more my leaning. Even though, I don't make a point to cop that tone. When I was a kid in the early 80's, I had a distortion +, Graphic EQ and a couple years later a white 74' Custom, trying to sound like RR. These days, I just don't get into that sound anymore, I like that old overdriven tube amp, woody, Growl or whatever you want to call it.

[EasyAce]

I'm a lifelong lover of the tones obtained by Mike Bloomfield and Peter Green, if we're talking about Les Paul players (if the subject is other Gibson players I'd have to put B.B. and Albert King into the mix), but I quit trying to get anyone's tone but my own a long time ago. For whatever it was worth, I wanted to be, and to sound like, me.

[dylanR]

yes beano tone is one that doesn't suit my playing-- so i went out and bought the reissue of it lol! ironically my favorite tones are hollowbody tones like john lennon's casino-- but i play better on lesters

[GuitarToneFreak]

I've really grown to appreciate the infamous Slash-tone over the past couple months, but It wouldn't work for me.

Page - Great tone, but it just wouldn't work for what I do

Frehley - Love the man to death, but his tone is TOO much, not for me

Randy Rhoads - Killer tone, more appropriate for the type of music I play, but I wouldn't want to have it as my own.

Really, outside of Gary Moore's tone (a blues guy with one of the best rock and roll tones I've ever heard) there's never really been a tone that I would want as my own. I like to craft my own tone, I do take influence from players like the ones mentioned above, but to copy their tone would be too boring for me

[gibsonguitar1988]

I have a lot actually. And it's not so much a matter of not wanting them as it is that it's not a priority to get them or not really something I'm looking for, at least not right now.

Here are the guys that spring to mind for tones that I love but not chasing:

Eric Clapton
Jimmy Page
Gary Rossington
Joe Perry
Slash
Mike Bloomfield
Mick Taylor
Paul Kossoff
Billy Gibbons
Neal Schon

Those are just 10... Really all tones that I love and that I really admire and consider to be some of the best, but tones that I'm not chasing.

[Bes628]

I feel that way about everybody's tone, as the ultimate goal is to have you're own sound and thats really important to me. Im sure on a subconscious level, I am borrowing a little bit from everybody.

With that said, for me Jimmy Page qualifies the most out of everybody in this category. He gets amazing tones, but idk...it's not something I ever bothered trying to copy cat.

[Alvinfan]

Jørgen Ingmann is a Danish guitar hero from the 50´s and 60´s must have been one of the first Les Paul owners in Denmark :

YouTube - ‪Tovarisch - Jörgen Ingmann‬‏

YouTube - ‪Tovarisch - Jörgen Ingmann‬‏

[EasyAce]

Originally Posted by Alvinfan

Jørgen Ingmann is a Danish guitar hero from the 50´s and 60´s must have been one of the first Les Paul owners in Denmark :

YouTube - ‪Tovarisch - Jörgen Ingmann‬‏

I broke down and bought the track from Amazon after hearing this but noting the YouTube poster didn't do such a great job on getting the sound. (Wobbles in a couple of places.) Damn, I've never heard this guy other than "Apache" back in the year. He sounds as playful as his obvious idol did . . . and almost as fly with the multitracking and picking, too . . .

I remember hearing this song elsewhere when I was growing up, not his version. The title is Russian for "comrade," but this sure sounds as Jewish as it does Russian. (Codicil: My Yiddische grandpa was Russian-born.) I've been playing it on repeat for awhile, and so help me I can see my grandparents grooving to this one . . .