Ai!!!  I definitely don't have the time right now!  As Dave said, so many tones...

That's like asking if I like purty things.  So many shapes, sizes, and demeanor's.  I love me some purty things.
 
Jesse Q. Screed

Jesse Screed
That's like asking if I like purty things.  So many shapes, sizes, and demeanor's.  I love me some purty things.
 
Jesse Q. Screed

Well, yes..like what?

 
 
Killer tone ...
 

 
 
Sheer class (and beautifully complemented by Billy Sheehan and Cozy Powell) ...
 

ritchie blackmore's tone on the live album, "Made in Japan", "highway star"
 
sounds like a sonic mugging going on....
 

 
sounds like the audio engineer was just getting the levels on everything,
and it's panned as it was on stage from the audience perspective.
 
keys on left, guitar on right, the sound really starts to come together about 2 minutes in, about the time the key solo starts.
 
you can hear blackmore tuning his guitar around 2:44....
he is still just getting settle in..
 
by 3:27, he's dialed in.
from there on out, it's brutal.
 
 
 

i guess blackmore would be my early rock influence,
and that sound is all about the brutalz.
LOL
 
 
so, this would be another completely different tone than that one,
another favorite.
 
 
 

Lots of great tones posted already. I am going to toss in one of that great single-coil clean tone that Hershel Yatovitz has on this Chris Isaak song: