Player No. 087stoner-rock
Tim Sult
Lead guitarist and a founding member of Clutch, the hard-rock band formed in 1991 in Germantown, Maryland — he has been its guitarist continuously ever since. Sult is known for a swampy, mid-forward, riff-driven tone built on Gibson SG (and occasionally Les Paul) guitars run into Marshall and Orange amplifiers, anchoring Clutch's blend of stoner rock, hard rock, and blues rock. His restrained, note-economical playing — often built on open strings and colored by a Real McCoy wah, EHX Micro POG, and analog delays — has made him a defining voice in modern stoner-rock guitar.
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