You may not have heard of this very underrated guitarist. He used to be Third Eye Blinds guitarist, but was kicked out after releasing their second CD, Blue.
He's $%&#ing amazing, he has more custom tunings than anyone else and a damn guitar for each of them. He was trained by Joe Satriani when he was in high school. He first pulled away from the popular Van Halen finger tapping wannabes by making multi-layer melodic tracks using these open tunings.
Now, he has a variety of guitars, some of them have a single coil on a thick double cut body. Like tele pickups on a morphed Jackson soloist. He also uses PRS guitars when he needs something with humbuckers.
His tone, generally, is round, big, and open (Like BK's!) but most of all, bell like. Much of the "bell like" tone is from the open tunings but if you watch him play "How's it going to be" live, you can see he's using standard tuning and still has that bell-like tone. I have a link, but I'm not sure if youtube links are allowed here (Edit: I didn't find anything in the rules so...)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGvJhRgdgqQ&search=kevin%20cadoganListen to the song Wounded, on the album Blue. Those harmonics: !!!!
Check out The Background, Narcolepsy, all those songs. Kinda bluesy.
What would be the best humbucker to nail his tone? Stormy Monday's?
