What are your favorite guitar tones ever?

For anyone that loves them and might not have seen it this morning, the new Big Wreck album featuring the astoundingly great Ian Thornley is coming out 2/22/19!!
 
Endless choices for tone.
Duane Allman Dickey Betts Derek Trucks
Albert King
Snooks Eaglin (turn that Twin Reverb up)
Mark Knopfler (almost any, but Brothers in Arms live shows are great)
Bill Frisell (personal fav if I had to pick one...love when he hits his drive pedals, but love it all and his musicality above everything)
John Scofield
Allan Holdsworth
Wes
Jeff Beck
Slide (David LIndley, Leroy Parnell, Ry Cooder, Sonny Landreth, Bonnie Raitt, Lowell George, David Tronzo, Greg Leisz)
David Grissom (just heard him amp-in-room, no PA a couple of months ago...holy sh@#%balls)
Duke Levine...his solo albums are a compendium of incredible rootsy tones.
Jim Campilongo
John Abercrombie
Jim Hall
Eric Johnson
Billy Gibbons
Paul Kossoff
Derwin Perkins (Big D, plays with Jon Cleary and the Absolute Monster Gentleman from New Orleans)
Pat Metheny
 
Gilmour's 70 tones
Leslie West in the Mountain
Jeff Beck, Blow by Blow
Early EVH
Clapton, Wheels Of Fire
Gary Moore, Still Got The Blues
 
Haven't tried to match them to this point but...

Joe Don Baker (Rascal Flatts) - Life Is A Highway
Brad Paisley - Alcohol (Austin City Limits)
Noah Henson (Pillar) - Frontline
Massimo Izzizzari - Plastic Theater
 
Easily my favorite tone ever, Tony Iommi on Master of Reality. That intro on Into the Void......, heaven!!!

Also a fav is David Gilmour's tone on Live in Pompeii.
 
Rowan Robertson on Dio's Lock Up the Wolves, Marty Friedman on Rust in Peace, among a too long list I guess :)
 
Gary Moore’s 80’s tones, from the harder edged Run for Cover album to the more produced Wild Frontier, and, of course, his bluesy stuff .. oh-man do I miss that dude. :(
 
Van Halen Fair Warning Various others
White Lion Pride
U2 Various songs
Pink Floyd Various Songs
STP Various songs
Zack Wylde Various
Jerry Cantrell Various
Billy Gibbons Various
Satriani Flyin' various
Richie Kotzen Various
Michael Lee Firkins Various
Led Zepplin IV
Robin Trower Bridge of Signs
Neil Schon/Journey Various
Bad Company Various
Foreigner Various
Rush Counter Parts/Moving Pictures
Yngwie Malmsteen Rising Force
Men at Work Various
Sound Garden Various
Foghat 3rd time lucky
Giant various songs
38special second chance
Thin Lizzy jailbreak album
Dream Theater Images and Words/Various
Warren DeMartini Various
Reb Beach Various
Ted Nugent Cat Scratch Fever
Blues Saraceno various
Kansas Carry on Wayward Son
April Wine Various
Black Sabbath Dio Albums
Crosby Stills Nash Various
Neil Young Various
Steve Vai Various
Jeff Beck Because We've Ended as Lovers/People get ready
Bryan Adams Everything I do solo
Andy Timmons Various
Megadeth Rust in Peace


Sooo many more - I'm actually a fan of anything thoughtfully/tastefully done :) and it's the playing more than the tone :)
 
Wow! Some nice stuff listed. A few of my favs ... a few unorthodox choices to stand apart from the crowd!

Steve Hunter - Solo on Waiting for the Big One (Peter Gabriel)
Robben Ford's clean tone in Life Song (I matched this perfectly using a Tele and the Clean dumble model. The Tele is the key here.
Santana - Europa. The solo, the clean parts, the wah!
Scofield and Frisel - their tone intertwine on March Johnson's Bass Desire II
Brian Setzer in Caravan.
Juanes in Camisa Negra
Jimmi Page in No Quarter on The Song Remains the Same album
Prince on Kiss
Peter Frampton on his Live album - almost any track
Steve Cropper on anything he recorded.
 
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