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After all these Strat vs. LP threads, I'm curious.

I'm more of a Strat guy, but I do like LP sounds. I'm also a fan of the inbetween, (ie. Superstrats, some PRS guitars). I suppose it's just that a lot of my favourite players played Strats or some variations of Strats, so all these legendary tones I've loved since I've started playing have come out of Strats.

So I was wondering: Can you LP guys recommend me some LP listening? Which LP players do you guys like?

Some of my favorite guitar tones ever were done on an LP...Jeff Beck on Truth, Eric Clapton on the Beano record, Peter Green with the Bluesbreakers, and of course BFG on every ZZ Top record ever.

John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton aka the 'beano' album
Guns N Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Free- Live
Al Dimeola- Elegant Gypsy
John Mayall and the BluesBreakers with Peter Green- A Hard Road
Fleetwood Mac- English Rose
The Allman Brothers Band Live at Fillmore east
Led Zeppelin- How the West was won, BBC Sessions, II
Mike Bloomfield amp; Al Kooper- Super sessions, Live adventures
ZZ Top- First Album


Originally Posted by OciferAfter all these Strat vs. LP threads, I'm curious.

I'm more of a Strat guy, but I do like LP sounds. I'm also a fan of the inbetween, (ie. Superstrats, some PRS guitars). I suppose it's just that a lot of my favourite players played Strats or some variations of Strats, so all these legendary tones I've loved since I've started playing have come out of Strats.

So I was wondering: Can you LP guys recommend me some LP listening? Which LP players do you guys like?

Led Zep's The Song Remains the Same (live) - it's pretty much all Les Pauls and not too much in between them and the Marshalls - very vintage sounding. For recent stuff and tone, Slash is good LP player to sample - I believe that he has a few of them: from : localhost/I have an LP and a Strat (Gamp;L) and love them both - it would be hard to choose one over the other, it just depends on you application 'cause each sounds so distinct.

Sex Pistols-Never Mind the Bollocks, alot of people didn't like them but a Lester thru a Silverfaced Twin never sounded better!!!!!!!!

Scott Gorham amp; Brian Robertson (Thin Lizzy) - Live And Dangerous, Jailbreak, Johnny The Fox, Fighting. Pretty much any Lizzy album from 1974 onwards has LPs all over it.

Paul Kossoff (Free) - Free Live, Tons Of Sobs. Free Live is quite possibly my favourite LP tone ever.

Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin) - Led Zeppelin II

Eric Clapton (John Mayall's Bluesbreakers) - Bluesbreakers (quot;Beano albumquot;)

Peter Green (Fleetwood Mac) - Greatest Hits (make sure it's the original FM with songs like Albatross, Rattlesnake Shake, Stop Messin' Round, Green Manalishi...). Also PG on John Mayall's Bluesbreakers' quot;A Hard Roadquot; album.

Dan amp; Justin Hawkins (The Darkness) - Permission To Land

Allman Brothers at Fillmore East

I wouldn't have thought of Never Mind The Bollocks, but that is great balls to the wall LP tone too!

quot;Money for Nothingquot; by Dire Straits was done with a LP through a Marshall too. My fave LP tone though has to be the solo on quot;Cheap Sunglassesquot; by ZZ Top.

I believe I've already heard a great deal of this stuff. Especially Slash. While I'll admit I really like that neck p'up tone he's got, it's not me. While I love the playing on a lot the stuff you guys mentioned (Bluesbreakers, Allman Bros, Peter Green, especially Thin Lizzy), the tones never really jumped out at me. I guess it's just not for me.

My influences on LP guitars are Slash, Joe Perry, Jimmy Page and Ace Frehley

So far, when you hang a strat low, it looks good, but when you hang a LP low, its looks even better =)

Heh, I'm not arguing with you guys that an LP sure looks sexy. Damn sexy.

Check out Gary Moore - back to the blues....
Black Crows


Originally Posted by OciferI believe I've already heard a great deal of this stuff. Especially Slash. While I'll admit I really like that neck p'up tone he's got, it's not me. While I love the playing on a lot the stuff you guys mentioned (Bluesbreakers, Allman Bros, Peter Green, especially Thin Lizzy), the tones never really jumped out at me. I guess it's just not for me.

what about this one?:
from : localhost/www.markknopfler.co.kr/bbs/zb...esc=ascamp;no=128

Hmm... I have the feeling I'm going to get flamed but...that tone Knopfler's got: to me, there's nothing bad about it, but it's nothing special, IMO.

I've done a 'full circle' like many guys who've moved through a lot of different models of guitars, and I've ended at the Gibson LP/50's neck and Fender strats with the best necks and best pickups. I don't even care too much about any other guitars, although I like superstrats, McCarties, and teles too. I could easily spend my whole life with a strat'n'paul.

I agree with all the players mentioned above, but I strive to surpass the tones of all my favorite Strat and Paul players, not just come close or match them.
Gear has gotten a lot more 'pinpointed' in recent decades, so now it's not a matter of emulating their tones, it's about soaking them in, then putting together a chain of gear that is superior. Why not? It's entirely possible to get more inspiring tone than the greats, then most importantly, try and get your creativity and chops to equal them as well.

Think of it this way.....look at your favorite players who are still alive......they usually play top notch modern gear, in order to surpass the tones they already navigated. Sometimes they do it, sometimes they don't.....sometimes their vintage gear nails it. Luckily, guitar tone is all fun'n'games.

Dig up something with a guy named Hadley Hockensmith, he played in some christian fusion group called koinonia(Laboriel, Acuña, Parks, Maxwell, Phillips, Rodgers, Almario, some of those might be known...hehe) he has the most great tone coming from some pos 70's custom lp, well in his hands it sounded absolutly great...and this is a strat guy telling you this

I will look into it, Rid. Thanks.

STYX
ZZ TOP
DEF LEP (early)
Randy Rhoads baby! Don't know which songs off the top of my head. . . sometimes he used his RR and sometimes a Flying V

my 2 current favorites right now would have to be:
Peter Green Fleetwood Mac- shrine 69
free-live (especially on the 2nd Mr. Big)
the amps these guys used had just as big of an effect as the guitar.
During shrine 69 peter used an orange or120 and matching reverb unit through 2 orange 2x12s.
And paul usually used the 50 watt plexis through those 4x12s loaded with celestion bass speakers, but I've seen video of him using orange heads and I think that was my favorite tone I've heard from him.

Thin Lizzy: Live and Dangerous
Peter Frampton : Frampton Comes Alive
Scorpions: Lonesome Crow (Michael used a Les Paul and boy can ya hear it)
Anything by John Sykes post 1982 (Lizzy, Whitesnake, Blue Murder)

Possibly my fave Les Paul tone ever tho is on the live concert quot;An evening of the bluesquot; or somethin like that..Gary Moore...live at Hammersmith...on the Still Got the Blues tour....just incredible....sings/screams/cries...his 59 into a Soldano (and some say a Marshall pedal, I don' know, to be honest)... fantastic tone, and playing. After that it was all downhill for him

Lotta good examples have been given here.

All Dissection albums
All Arch ebemy albums upto burning bridges(mike amott has great tone with an LP)