Guitar Sounds You’d Never Heard Before?

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AlexCAlexC Frets: 2396
i started playing when I was ten. A nylon string. I loved music. I listened to as many different types of playing as I could. My guitar journey had started... And then every so often I d hear something that I had no idea ‘how they did that!’. Not being conversent with fx, studio trickery or pedals I really was blown away by - 
The Police - Walking On The Moon. Summers’  clangy, spacey, echoed rhythmic upstrokes. I’d never heard that before. Guitars were dirty tones in my experience.
Yes - Owner Of A Lonely Heart. Rabin’s bonkers pitch-shifted solo. What the hell? Actually - is it a pitch shift? Never, ever come across anything like that before.

What tones, pieces of playing were new to you? What altered your perspective of what a guitar was capable of?
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  • sweepysweepy Frets: 4158
    You should seriously check out Robert Fripp, David Torn etc, Guitar will never be quite the same again;)
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  • AlexCAlexC Frets: 2396
    Fist heard Fripp when I was about 13. Still trying to get a handle on his playing now!
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  • furtherfurther Frets: 88
    also Adrian Belew Robert Fripp.
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  • Back in the day: Rory Gallagher's pinch harmonics on the live "Messin' with the Kid".

    More recently: Steve Vai's pre-bending on "Gravity Storm". Obviously I knew about pre-bending, but when you realise that song was done without the whammy bar...dang!



    I'm just a Maserati in a world of Kias.
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  • Philly_QPhilly_Q Frets: 22515
    Anything by Henry Kaiser.
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  • GrangousierGrangousier Frets: 2620
    Definitely Belew - firstly when they showed a clip from the Talking Heads Remain In Light Tour on OGWT (I think it might have been the Rome footage that you can find on YouTube). "How the hell," I wondered "is he doing that?" Then seeing him live with Crimson on the Discipline tour - his ability to casually pull completely insane noises out of the guitar was astonishing (especially given it was technologically quite simple compared to his rig in later years). I still don't know how he did most of those things. All those musicians were amazing to watch, though - all those complicated sounds, but the all seemed so... relaxed. First time I saw a Chapman Stick, too. I wanted one for years, occasionally saw one in the window of Andy's, but was lucky in that before I actually dropped money on one realised it was probably a bit difficult for someone who'd never managed to play a piano with both hands at the same time. 
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  • djspecialistdjspecialist Frets: 901
    edited March 2018
    Tom Morello's wild glissando swoops and staccato stutters on the first RATM album.
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  • axisusaxisus Frets: 28280
    The first person I heard playing a ring modulator effect was Guthrie Govan, I remember thinking whaaaaaaaa??????
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  • ICBMICBM Frets: 71951
    The Edge - Sunday Bloody Sunday



    It's not that unusual a sound, but I'd never heard a guitar used with that economy and effectiveness before. And very rarely have since.

    It made me realise that you don't have to play anything complex to say something powerful.

    "Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski

    "Just because I don't care, doesn't mean I don't understand." - Homer Simpson

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  • darcymdarcym Frets: 1297
    edited March 2018
    Henry Kaiser demoing the dumble - sounds you'll never have heard before, and never will again


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  • EricTheWearyEricTheWeary Frets: 16253
    Tipton is a small fishing village in the borough of Sandwell. 
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  • DarnWeightDarnWeight Frets: 2566
    New fangled trading feedback link right here!
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  • octatonicoctatonic Frets: 33725
    There are a few that changed my perspective about what you could do with a guitar.

    Just try counting the Freak Kitchen one.
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  • RockerRocker Frets: 4942
    I realise this is a thread about new or rare guitar sounds but if you ever heard Mary Bergin play the tin (penny) whistle, you would be blown away by the sounds she could extract from that simple instrument. She plays notes that are simply "not there" for ordinary mortals. I played a tin whistle when I was younger and always thought I could drag a tune or two out of it. But it was nothing to what Mary could do with that tin whistle. Nothing has ever impressed me (musically) as much before or since. Genius.
    Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. [Albert Einstein]

    Nil Satis Nisi Optimum

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  • The verses in this have one of the coolest layered tones I've heard.



    Again layering of the sounds in this verse



    Circa Survive, again the arrangements along with the tones.




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  • ReverendReverend Frets: 4974
    Around 88-90 there are a few metal release that really pushed heavy tones in ways not heard before.
    Carcass, Bolt Thrower, Cathedral, Entombed, Napalm Death, Godlesh, Winter, Dismember and Autopsy all sounded incredible at the time. 
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