Not to sound redundant, but Ive been listening to a lot of Dan, Dead & Floyd lately...
 
Skunk, Denny Dias, & Larry Carlton on The Royal Scam....  
 
Garcia & Lesh '73-'74 era (I love Jerry's wah tone in Playin'/Dark Star/Other One jams of this era)
 
Gilmour & Waters~ Ive been listening to the '71 BBC Rock Hour release a lot lately. Fat Old Sun & Echos.....  Thats the way I like Fenders to sound!

Mark Knopfler -  I dig his tone on the album Sailing to Philadelphia Great playing of course as well very tasteful.
Especially songs like Whos your baby now and Junkie Doll and *I LOVE the use of Tremelo on  
The Last Laugh not to mention Van Morrison sharing the vocals.
 - Tom
 
 
(Message edited by echo008 on November 25, 2006)

double post - sorry
 
(Message edited by Yggdrasil on November 27, 2006)

For sheer tone, the electric guitarists that come to mind are Robin Trower (he seems to manage to meld a fat bass tone with guitar), Terje Rypdal, James Mankey (Concrete Blonde),Peter Green, Mick Taylor, Sonny Landreth, Roy Buchanan,Steve Kimock,Pete Cosey (Miles mid 70s) Fripp, Santana, Hendrix.
 
Frisell,Ry Cooder & Jorma all bring great tone to whatever they do, but are so versatile & wide-ranging in their music that tone isn't the first characteristic that comes to mind.
 
(Message edited by Yggdrasil on November 27, 2006)
 
(Message edited by Yggdrasil on November 27, 2006)

I just ran across this old clip of Bill Frisell, solo on an SG. Thought it might fit in here.
 

 
Peace
Tom

For killer guitar tone, I don't think we can overlook the late, great John Cipollina.  His amazing rig can be seen here:
http://www.johncipollina.com/rock.html
(I love the line about rodent-gnawing distortion!)   It can be heard to particularly great effect on the Mona/Maiden Of The Cancer Moon/Calvary medley on Happy Trails (dubbed by no less an expert than Jerome J. Garcia as the most pyschedelic album ever recorded.)
 
Peter

 

Massive Ass Rig!!!

Also served to alert any 18 wheelers of radar traps up the road :-)
In the sixties and seventies people had to be creative to get more sound because the technology just wasn't there yet to support the sounds they were hearing in their heads!
I love it! I used two EV voice of the theater cabs with horns. They're still in my basement!
NLP
 
(Message edited by inthelows on November 27, 2006)

Also served to alert any 18 wheelers of radar traps up the road :-)
NLP
double post..hate when that happens!
 
(Message edited by inthelows on November 27, 2006)

I thought I recognized John Cipollina's SG.  Then I went back and read the prior post instead of just looking at the piccy.
 
The amp rig is pretty out there!

I remember reading John had a tri-amped rig (crossed over low - mid - high), but never saw it until now. Mighty awesome!
 
Mike

It's actually bi-amped - sort of.  He wired the SG (IIRC, he did all his own work, including the cool inlay & groovy batwing pickguards) so the neck p/up fed the 2 Standel solid state bass amps, and the bridge p/up fed the Twin Reverb & Dual Showman head w/horns.  You only need to hear one note to say that's John.
 
Peter

i was just listening to one of my new favorite guitar players, Jonathan Kreisberg, and i thought i'd mention him here, because his tone is gorgeous.
If you haven't heard him yet, you should really check him out. My favorite stuff is from a record called Nine Stories Wide with larry grenadier and bill stewart.
just a suggestion.
(edit: i saw that inthelows mentioned monk montgomery, and i didn't notice a reply. BUT, monk was the great guitarist wes's brother, and as the story goes, the recipient of leo fender's first electric)
austin
 
(Message edited by darkstar01 on November 28, 2006)

OK, how 'bout the Steve's?
Steve Howe - YES
Steve Hackett - Genesis
Steve Rothery - Marillion
 
Rothery has a sound that is a cross between Hackett and David Gilmour that I find really pleasing.
 
Ken (TEO)