Non-metal bands that have great tone/sound?

[Vhyle]

The tone on the Dirty Boogie album by the Brian Setzer Orchestra sounds incredible. Just the right amount of bite.

Also, Alex Lifeson often uses awesome tones.

European Mantra's Peta Lukacs (sp?) has fantastic tones, especially on their FAQ Alive album. And he plays an Ibby 7-string to boot.

Tool, and the 10000 Days album. Yummy.

 

[Vhyle]

Almost forgot - Opeth's Damnation album. Those cleans, holy balls.

Hey, you said non-metal, so it counts!

 

[Enter Paradox]

Non metal ? Aww most of them in my library are metal or rock - but anyway here are some came across at this instant (a lot more actually)

The Flower Kings - Banks of Eden
Kaipa - Vittjar (lead tones of Per... drooling)

 

[Murmel]

Not guitar, but holy shit that bass tone.

 

[wankerness]

Yeah, Jamiroquai's bassist sounds incredible. That song Canned Heat (the one in Napoleon Dynamite) is another of my favorites when I want to hear really great bass sound. Him and the dude from Mudvayne (on LD 50 in particular) are the best examples of Warwick tone, it's so distinctive and great. I need to buy one of those someday.

 

[liquid_]

I believe this thread is missing some King's X

 

[JamminJAP]

I believe this thread is missing some King's X

WOW!!! you beat me to it!!!!

 

[Idontpersonally]

 

[Joose]

Fair To Midland:

 

[Nile]

Blackfoot, Mountain, Graveyard.

 

[timbucktu123]

I agree about Circa Survive. Love them and their tone.
Coheed & Cambria as well. Claudio and Travis dial in some wicked rock tones.
Brad Paisley
Keith Urban
John Mayer
Muse
Senses Fail
All Time Low would be a personal favorite for pop-punk, Alex uses a Dual Rec, and Jack, a Stilleto... I actually used Alex's live settings for channel 2 on the 3rd channel of my old roadster for a long time.

i gotta agree with all time low their tone is just nice and thick

 

[ZachK]

Prince
King Crimson
Clutch
Blue Oyster Cult
David Bowie

Put my favourites in bold.

 

[TheDepthsWillRise]

Really dug the tones/vibe on some of the more recent Thrice stuff. Dead Letter Circus has some really cool tones too.

 

[OneLazyAssMotherFucker]

Bush-Glycerine
I've Always liked the playing in this song and have found I can never remember the lyrics but always have the guitar playing in the back of my mind when I'm thinking.

 

[decypher]

Marillion, Steve Rothery's tone is amazing, perfect vibrato.

 

[noUser01]

I really dig Rise Against's guitar tones, especially off of Appeal To Reason.

 

[xethicx]

I am a fan of good tone no matter where it is.

Metallica on the black album specifically had some of the heaviest most unreal tone ever conceived. The guitar tone on that album makes E standard sound MASSIVE.

SRV - the man had possibly one of the best guitar tones in the history of music period, everything was exactly where it should be. The man used 58-13's in blood E flat.... E FLAT with those strings and yet he would bend the hell out of them. Just incredible.

I am a huge fan of 90s era skate punk as well and that was when I first heard the Mesa rectifier and then promptly spent all my savings on one shortly after. A lot of 90s skate punk bands had terrific tone, like NUFAN, Good Riddance, Millencolin, NOFX etc. Mostly because they were all using metal amps heh.

I saw a post above that talked about Smashing pumpkins. On Siamese dream specifically I thought the tone was so unique and innovative. Not so much before or after that record but that record was pretty amazing.

There's a lot of hard rock bands that while crappy and musically not so good have great tone. Nickelback for example, HUGE tone, Godsmack is the same. While I cant stand either band, they and other bands in the genre have some great tone.

While on the subject of bands I dislike but have great tone, Pink Floyd comes to mind, his lead tone is absolutely incredible.

I could go on about great tone all day.

 

[Doug N]

I believe this thread is missing some King's X

HeHasTheJazzHands beat you to it in post 37. I knew there was no way King's X was overlooked.

 

[M3CHK1LLA]

finding some good music/bands ive never heard before...

...keep it coming.

 

[Vhyle]

I believe this thread is missing some King's X

Oh shit, forgot all about this one.

Ty Tabor's setup in this album is ungodly. It sounds so massive.