Lou Tencodpees
Tele-Afflicted
I have to admit I checked a few of y'all profiles to see if maybe I knew you and were talking about me. 
Worst guitar sound you have heard in person?
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GoldieLocks
Friend of Leo's
I gotta give it to Johnny Winter back around 1998 or so. It was so painful it barely approached music.
I saw him on my 18th birthday.
My ears are still ringing!
There is some kind of fascination with the treble controls with SOME Tele players. I swear some of them use vice grips so they can turn the treble control UP on the guitar and the amp. I dunno, maybe they make a pedal to boost the icepick into something MOST people can't stand. I still remember the guy telling me, I like listening to the little bells!
Jerry Garcia.
I feel that way about Albert Collins! Snuck into a small club to see him when I was 16. He was using four Quad Reverbs. Holy blown ear drums, Batman. But yeah, it was awesome.
PhoenixBill
Tele-Holic
Steve Morse and the Dixie Dregs, must’ve been 1991, in a small club in Columbia SC. I think he had 2 Ampeg V4s but I can’t be sure…anyhow, the volume was so overwhelmingly loud that it was excruciating. Nobody I was with enjoyed it.
57joonya
Tele-Afflicted
I’ve heard some really great , and some really bad bob weir tones , and I’m a big fan . I don’t get what he’s going for sometimes
4pickupguy
Doctor of Teleocity
Maybe three years ago my wife and I went a nearby club called Nicky’s to check out the venue.
The venue was pretty cool. The band was coming back for their second set. One of the two guitar players had an SG plugged into a 2-12 amp and sounded like he was playing a Maestro Z1… into another Z1,………. on everything,…..everything!! Buzz saw to the point of ring mod territory. The other guy sounded great.
The venue was pretty cool. The band was coming back for their second set. One of the two guitar players had an SG plugged into a 2-12 amp and sounded like he was playing a Maestro Z1… into another Z1,………. on everything,…..everything!! Buzz saw to the point of ring mod territory. The other guy sounded great.
ReverendRevolver
Friend of Leo's
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One of the times I saw Social D, Jonny W was handed a "fresh" guitar a few songs in. It was not tuned. Not with itself, or the band. He was tossing it to a roadie pretty quick.
I saw a local band at a festival or car show. They played after a mediocre blues band, and were followed by a decent rock band. They played cheesy trash country (this was 2003ish I think). They were called code something or another. Started playing, it was like only the treble knob worked, and they couldn't turn it down.
I said "code (whatever it was) time to getthehell outta here!" To the girl I was with, my friend, and my cousin, and we walked 4 blocks away until we were sure they were done.
Lastly, in high-school I was trying to jam with my drummer friend, but my gear was at my mom's. I tried my dad's charvel super strat into his ss crate with a blues driver.
It gave me a migraine after 1 song. It had to be the amp, as I tried the pedal and his charvel into his HRdlx and all was fine a few weeks later.
But you're taking me super far back with the Spider II.....
The guy I bought my first "real" amp off of (SS Peavey 2×12 classic chorus) bought a spider II after he sold the Peavey. He brought it to a jam session.
It had a setting called "ain't talkin" which sounded EXACTLY LIKE my dad's digitech multieffects pedal into his garbage sounding ss crate(that I just mentioned in this post) trying to sound like EVH. Mightve had one called "Mr ed" that was also terrible. At the time I just had my Peavey and a sf champ I was borrowing from my grandfather.
They both did less but sounded better at it. I had no idea why. I figured it was the chorus circuit in the one, and a really good speaker in the other.
Later in life I learned that if you plug your guitar into a toaster it sounds as good as a Spider II......
One of the times I saw Social D, Jonny W was handed a "fresh" guitar a few songs in. It was not tuned. Not with itself, or the band. He was tossing it to a roadie pretty quick.
I saw a local band at a festival or car show. They played after a mediocre blues band, and were followed by a decent rock band. They played cheesy trash country (this was 2003ish I think). They were called code something or another. Started playing, it was like only the treble knob worked, and they couldn't turn it down.
I said "code (whatever it was) time to getthehell outta here!" To the girl I was with, my friend, and my cousin, and we walked 4 blocks away until we were sure they were done.
Lastly, in high-school I was trying to jam with my drummer friend, but my gear was at my mom's. I tried my dad's charvel super strat into his ss crate with a blues driver.
It gave me a migraine after 1 song. It had to be the amp, as I tried the pedal and his charvel into his HRdlx and all was fine a few weeks later.
CC was not great tone when I saw them with Cinderella around thst time. But him sounding like an elf when he spoke is what stuck with me.
But you're taking me super far back with the Spider II.....
The guy I bought my first "real" amp off of (SS Peavey 2×12 classic chorus) bought a spider II after he sold the Peavey. He brought it to a jam session.
It had a setting called "ain't talkin" which sounded EXACTLY LIKE my dad's digitech multieffects pedal into his garbage sounding ss crate(that I just mentioned in this post) trying to sound like EVH. Mightve had one called "Mr ed" that was also terrible. At the time I just had my Peavey and a sf champ I was borrowing from my grandfather.
They both did less but sounded better at it. I had no idea why. I figured it was the chorus circuit in the one, and a really good speaker in the other.
Later in life I learned that if you plug your guitar into a toaster it sounds as good as a Spider II......
Mindthebull
Tele-Meister
Saw them a few times..
I was totally prepared to answer this, because I thought the question was 'the worst guitar sound you've heard in prison.'
I simply misread the title.
Carry on.
I simply misread the title.
Carry on.
HaWE
Tele-Holic
I once was at an outdoor concert of a band that played country music.The guitar player had a Tele-style guitar that had an extremely shrill and harsh sound and he seemed to have treble at least at 11 both on his guitar and amp - maybe his treble knobs even went up to 12.I could not stand it to listen to that kind of ear bleeding guitar sound.Because my wife and some of her friends were there to dance, I could not leave but stayed so far away from the stage as possible.My ears are rather sensitive to too much treble.
I had the same experience with a band were one of the musicians was playing an electric fiddle ...
I had the same experience with a band were one of the musicians was playing an electric fiddle ...
ponycar
Tele-Holic
I think the unfortunate truth is that some of the famous famous veteran players no longer hear a balanced spectrum of sound. If they surrender the mix to someone who can hear, it sounds bad to the guitarist, so the guitarist wants to change the sound to suit them.
I've seen so many shows that were too loud for the venue and or the balance is horrible.
I've seen so many shows that were too loud for the venue and or the balance is horrible.
radtz
Tele-Afflicted
This sounds amazing compared to that concert. TBH I always believed Kiss turned off the subs just to be sure they wouldn't be upstaged.
HaWE
Tele-Holic
We were at a music store and I was looking around in the guitar section just for fun.Next to me was a mother and her son ( maybe 12-13 years old) and she obviously wanted to buy him an electric guitar. The employee had taken a kind of Telecaster copy to demonstrate the different sounds of the guitar and several times pointed out how good this guitar could be heard in a band context - and he demonstrated that by playing on the bridge pu with extreme treble..... it was so icepicky that I had to leave the room - maybe he better should have demonstrated the use of the tone knob ......
