Your favorite band with "bad tone"

[joel3000]

Its a tie: Sex Pistols Black Flag I Love Paul Gilbert, but lets face it, he really doesnt have a great tone.

 

 

 

Recently saw a Greg Ginn play with the Texas Corrugators. His tone was aggressively bad, like he set out to make the worst guitar tone possible. Kind of sounded like a an unamplified electric playing through an amp, but with all the life sucked out of it. His playing was equally bad.

 

Some of his Black Flag stuff was really cool, but I've always wondered about how seriously he actually takes his playing. It's a fine line between genius and idiocy.

[guidedbyechoes]

IN flames

[rushtallica]

Pantera, though the sound obviously worked for Dime & co., Ginn w/ Black Flag, earlier Lamb of God, early Flotsam and Jetsam, Coroner's tone on RIP, Jethro Tull, and many oldschool punk bands.

If I could give a vote for bad vocal tone on a disc I otherwise love, it would have to be the excessively 'verbed vocals on Trouble's Psalm 23.

[guitarbilly74]

Jethro Tull.

 

 

FAIL

[rushtallica]

Actually, I don't think so. I even prefer the early Iommi sounds you don't like. IMO, the Tull tone is thin and lame, almost like the sound I got when using an old record player/8-track stereo as an amp, though I love the music.

[guitarbilly74]

IMO, the Tull tone is thin and lame, almost like the sound I got when using an old record player/8-track stereo as an amp

 

 

 

You got this tone from an 8-track???

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[HRM]

Honestly? Guns n' Roses. I love Slash and G&R, but I never understood why people always went on and on about his tone and how bad-ass it was.

[guitarbilly74]

Honestly? Guns n' Roses. I love Slash and G&R, but I never understood why people always went on and on about his tone and how bad-ass it was.

[empire_machine]

i love alice in chains, but some of the tones jerry recorded were really not that great. then again, some of his tones were good. the deftones first album adrenaline i thought was bad as well.

[rushtallica]

Their live tone sounds bigger and more lively than the recorded tone, IMO. But the stereo did have a Ross distortion to boost it though I normally used that setup with an old boombox/cassette deck running into the mic-in jack.

[fatfat]

Prong.

[chrispsullivan]

i love alice in chains, but some of the tones jerry recorded were really not that great . then again, some of his tones were good. the deftones first album adrenaline i thought was bad as well.

 

 

biggest phail ever:facepalm:

[chrispsullivan]

I kind of have a soft spot for a lot of those tones. Lithium, Milk it, Drain You. I like those tones even though I'd probably never want them.

 

 

i think it sounds like ass, but i woudnt have it any other way:thu:

[OverDriven]

Certain Sublime songs have pretty bad tone (not all of them though). I frickin love it though...wouldn't sound as good with perfect tone.

[chrispsullivan]

Certain Sublime songs have pretty bad tone (not all of them though). I frickin love it though...wouldn't sound as good with perfect tone.

 

 

its all the songs he used the ds1 on:lol:

[magdarob]

Led Zepp - although it did get better with each album

tinny/total lack of sustain/NO bottom

[DracoAran]

Type O Negative.

[andy43]

I think Pantera takes the cake on this one. Mastodon always sounded pretty awful to me also.

[Hupia]

:rawk: Sphynx pwns like nobody's business. Emissaries is pretty awesome too, but no Proscriptor on drums

You, sir, deserve some honorary horns from a fellow metal head: m/

[empire_machine]

biggest phail ever:facepalm:

 

 

im not saying all of his tones, but sometimes it sounded very buzzy/fuzzy. i love jerry's playing and he is definitely one of my favorite guitarist.

[-todgemistro-]

Jack Whites tone is considered bad by lots of people but I love it - its so raw and dirty sounding, fits the music perfectly I love really thick fuzzy sounds as well like Electric Wizard - Dopethrone :love: