1.   At the Warfield, Karan and Kimock shared stage left, deftly clearing room for each other and creating, with Weir, an exhilarating web of guitar tones.

2.   Guitar tone is almost always visceral.

3.   His glass-shattering guitar tone still announces itself with a single stroke, and his arpeggiated waves occasionally make a saccharine rock song intoxicating.

4.   The young new-metal bands play a fast, whomping, unfunky version of funk with barbed-wire guitar tone and no solos.