Sweet

Sweet balanced pop hooks with a surprisingly heavy guitar tone, Andy Scott's Gibson ES-335 delivering a warm, semi-hollow crunch through a Marshall stack that gave tracks like "Ballroom Blitz" their explosive energy. The ES-335's natural resonance added an openness to Scott's power chords that a solid-body couldn't replicate, while his Fender Telecaster work on cleaner passages provided the brittle, percussive contrast that kept arrangements dynamic. Sweet's gear choices placed them at the heavier end of glam, closer to hard rock than pop, with a guitar tone that was always thicker than the radio-friendly melodies suggested.