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At The Back => Time Out => Topic started by: Crazy_Joe on September 28, 2008, 09:30:31 PM
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Post your most favourite solos of all time!
Here's one which is simply awesome:
Whitesnake - Fool For Your Loving (Steve Vai on lead guitar!)
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=IjuDJtCXGqM
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RxxjbzR5LQ
Shawn's solo in this probably my favourite of all time.
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i've always thought my favourite solo is brian tatler's in 'am i evil?'
i haven't thought about it for a while, but i have no reason to change my mind:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbgv587ooNM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbgv587ooNM) (solo starts about 5m20)
when i was starting out, i thought i'd never be able to to play this solo... reckon i can have a decent stab at it soon :)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWAohdmCl4o
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John Sykes solo in "Crying In The Rain" (Whitesnake 87) - I can never tire of it's majestic perfection.
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I doubt there's youtube clips for these...
But:
Rory Gallagher's on the Irish Tour 74 (album) version of Tattoo'd Lady. I saw him play this song 5-6 times, and I have many other live versions of it, but I never heard him top this one...
Jimmy Page's on the original Song Remains The Same soundtrack album version of No Quarter. The remastered one might sound better, but it's been hacked and shortened...
Jimi Hendrix's on the "Concerts" version of Stone Free (not sure you can still get this album), the short solo on the studio version is reputedly Jeff Beck's favourite recorded guitar solo (or was 25 years ago anyway!), but this live version has that plus this solo improvisation where you cannot hear him stop or pause to "think" about what to play next...
gulp, all my favourite solos were recorded in 1974 or earlier... :lol:
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I like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vJUvecTTR0&feature=related Paul Gilbert is awesome. :)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H76LUCBIUg
No question.
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I'll have to agree to differ with you Joe - never liked what Vai did to Whitesnake
Edited because I'm dumb and put the wrong name - sorry Sambo
Brian May - Brighton Rock
Uli Roth - Sails of Charon
George Lynch - In My Dreams
Michael Schenker - Into the Arena, Attack of the Mad Axeman, On and On, Let Sleeping Dogs Lie, Rock Bottom (live)
Mark Kendall (Great White) - Rock Me , House of Broken Love, Angel Song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYXHdFUAqK4 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYXHdFUAqK4)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xax-2Ytr9Z0&feature=related[/url)
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^Ahem!? :lol: :wink:
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^Ahem!? :lol: :wink:
Damn,
I wanted to point out that Sam never said a word (for once) :)
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^ :lol:
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too many good ones to pick... :(
indecisive? me?
:lol:
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More Schenker - looking sober and together
Messes up a bit but what great playing ability
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xax-2Ytr9Z0
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H76LUCBIUg
No question.
People seem to rave about this guy, but for me, aside from being in maybe the worst big name death metal band - who seem to really wish they were a power metal band :lol: - he's just a giuy who knows harmonic minor box shapes and can play them fast, interspersed with licks he's pinched off Yngwie.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H76LUCBIUg
No question.
People seem to rave about this guy, but for me, aside from being in maybe the worst big name death metal band - who seem to really wish they were a power metal band :lol: - he's just a giuy who knows harmonic minor box shapes and can play them fast, interspersed with licks he's pinched off Yngwie.
Whatever, I really don't care who he's influenced by, or how silly his band's name is, or how simple the thought behind the solo is. It's an absolutely BRILLIANT solo.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H76LUCBIUg
No question.
People seem to rave about this guy, but for me, aside from being in maybe the worst big name death metal band - who seem to really wish they were a power metal band :lol: - he's just a giuy who knows harmonic minor box shapes and can play them fast, interspersed with licks he's pinched off Yngwie.
Whatever, I really don't care who he's influenced by, or how silly his band's name is, or how simple the thought behind the solo is. It's an absolutely BRILLIANT solo.
And I think it's balls, opinions laddo :wink:
I didn;t say anything about his band's name, either.
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the worst big name death metal band - who seem to really wish they were a power metal band :lol: -
Urgh. Not too fussed either way by the solo or the band, but that sentence is just the epitome of everything I hate about the pigeon-holing of music.
It just makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H76LUCBIUg
No question.
People seem to rave about this guy, but for me, aside from being in maybe the worst big name death metal band - who seem to really wish they were a power metal band :lol: - he's just a giuy who knows harmonic minor box shapes and can play them fast, interspersed with licks he's pinched off Yngwie.
Whatever, I really don't care who he's influenced by, or how silly his band's name is, or how simple the thought behind the solo is. It's an absolutely BRILLIANT solo.
I liked the clarity of tone that he had and some of what he was playing, although got a bit messy in places , and its a cool looking guitar
But his voice :!: not something I could listen to at all
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Uli Roth - Sails of Charon
I really must learn that song...
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the worst big name death metal band - who seem to really wish they were a power metal band :lol: -
Urgh. Not too fussed either way by the solo or the band, but that sentence is just the epitome of everything I hate about the pigeon-holing of music.
It just makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.
Well, if I explain what I mean. Firstly, I just think they're a terrible death metal band. Boring as hell and clinical and just completely, well, uninteresting and certainly the worst I can think of out of the more popular (big name) acts. Now, the "wish they were power metal" bit, they aproach everything in very PM arrangements and have all the widdly widdly posturing and posing that most PM bands do, finding excuses in songs to wedge massive solos in where they're jarring to the song as a whole, the Fermented Offal Discharge one being a fine example, they just generally sound like a power metal band covering death metal songs to me. Folk can like that if they want, that's fine and dandy, but to me it just comes accross as totally devoid of any emotion and frankly bores me to tears. Which is why I hate power metal (generally anyway, I don't want to be COMPLETELY black and white in case one day a PM band I like appears) like Roo hates teles.
I want music to be gritty and emotionally charged and a bit rough (unless, to be fair, I'm listening to Autechre :lol:), they're the polar opposite and that's why I think they're baws.
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Metal without solos is so boring. I don't care what genre you want to put them under i think they are a great heavy band and nobody else sounds like them, which is a big achievement for metal.
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I don't really mind necrophagist much, its just not really my kinda music anymore. I feel most metal is quite devoid of the passion that i like in blues-rock music. Just my opinion.
Also, i find sweep picking to be one of the most boring things you can do on a guitar, its just being flashy. (Although this might just be my justification for not being able to get my head around it!).
There are some really good metal bands out there i just feel that Nercophagist aren't one of them, i think thats what nfe is trying to get across.
Oh, and solos, agree with Rory Gallaghers Tattoo'd Lady on Irish Tour, one of my all time favourite albums.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H76LUCBIUg
No question.
People seem to rave about this guy, but for me, aside from being in maybe the worst big name death metal band - who seem to really wish they were a power metal band :lol: - he's just a giuy who knows harmonic minor box shapes and can play them fast, interspersed with licks he's pinched off Yngwie.
Whatever, I really don't care who he's influenced by, or how silly his band's name is, or how simple the thought behind the solo is. It's an absolutely BRILLIANT solo.
I liked the clarity of tone that he had and some of what he was playing, although got a bit messy in places , and its a cool looking guitar
But his voice :!: not something I could listen to at all
Jah, not my kind of music either, just love that solo. Tis a very bad video to show it properly, sounds great on recording though!
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Also, i find sweep picking to be one of the most boring things you can do on a guitar, its just being flashy. (Although this might just be my justification for not being able to get my head around it!).
+1 I practiced it for a bit, and found that it is just a little bit of different thought. Found it so unfulfilling though
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Also, i find sweep picking to be one of the most boring things you can do on a guitar, its just being flashy. (Although this might just be my justification for not being able to get my head around it!).
+1 I practiced it for a bit, and found that it is just a little bit of different thought. Found it so unfulfilling though
Becker manages to make them sound extraordinarily diverse and expressive. Sweeps are just arpeggios, and arpeggios can be used brilliantly.
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Metal without solos is so boring. I don't care what genre you want to put them under i think they are a great heavy band and nobody else sounds like them, which is a big achievement for metal.
There's a time and a place for solos, I'm certainly not saying there isn't, I just thinks it's hella boring when a band is quite obviously just finding a way of crowbarring a solo into every song just for the sake of the guitarist getting to show off. As for no one sounding lie them, there's certainly plenty in a very similar vein. Plenty massively more tecnhical too, if thats what makes them exciting for some folk. :)
Also, i find sweep picking to be one of the most boring things you can do on a guitar, its just being flashy. (Although this might just be my justification for not being able to get my head around it!).
+1 I practiced it for a bit, and found that it is just a little bit of different thought. Found it so unfulfilling though
Becker manages to make them sound extraordinarily diverse and expressive. Sweeps are just arpeggios, and arpeggios can be used brilliantly.
That's absolutely true, but I think amongst people who use sweep picking very heavily the ratio of people who use it as a musical device to people who use it because it's a flashy technique for the sake of it is skewed quite some way to the latter. Sadly. When it's used well then yes, it can be marvelous.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H78F7M-LATw
Love this, just wish it was on the studio version.
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I have to agree the Tattoo'd Lady is a fine example of Rory Gallaghers playing, but for me it was "Walk on Hot Coals" of the Irish Tour of '74 that I would pick. I still have the 33 1/3 double album that I bought in 1974 after first hearing about Rory, I was a young-gun keyboard player back then , but Rory's guitar work blew me away. The purchase of that album in 1974 inspired no less than 20 of my freinds who are total Die-Hard Rory fans today.
I enjoy alot of John Sykes work with Whitesnake and his solo work as well, and I think Uli John Roth's Sails of Charon is a beautiful display of guitar playing. However, I often work on Gary Moore's - Parisienne Walkways and am totally inspired buy his level of playing ond tone.
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I have to agree the Tattoo'd Lady is a fine example of Rory Gallaghers playing, but for me it was "Walk on Hot Coals" of the Irish Tour of '74 that I would pick. I still have the 33 1/3 double album that I bought in 1974 after first hearing about Rory, I was a young-gun keyboard player back then , but Rory's guitar work blew me away. The purchase of that album in 1974 inspired no less than 20 of my freinds who are total Die-Hard Rory fans today.
Walk on Hot Coals was a close second for me, i just feel that there is a definitive solo in Tattoo'd lady, that WOHC lacks, because its so long and improv, but amazing all the same.
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The full-length version of Return to Serenity, by Testament has one of the all-time epic solos. It's searing, soulful, technical - just a fantastic piece, and for me one of the definitive lessons in structuring a solo. I think it's one of Skolnick's best performances, and I love it!
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=i_QaZiVQt_c - solo kicks in at 3.20.
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The full-length version of Return to Serenity, by Testament has one of the all-time epic solos. It's searing, soulful, technical - just a fantastic piece, and for me one of the definitive lessons in structuring a solo. I think it's one of Skolnick's best performances, and I love it!
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=i_QaZiVQt_c - solo kicks in at 3.20.
That was AWESOME.
*gets to learning it*
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The full-length version of Return to Serenity, by Testament has one of the all-time epic solos. It's searing, soulful, technical - just a fantastic piece, and for me one of the definitive lessons in structuring a solo. I think it's one of Skolnick's best performances, and I love it!
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=i_QaZiVQt_c - solo kicks in at 3.20.
That was AWESOME.
*gets to learning it*
Hehehe, I've been trying to learn it for the best part of 5 or 6 years. Still ain't got it, but then I'm not all that good!
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The full-length version of Return to Serenity, by Testament has one of the all-time epic solos. It's searing, soulful, technical - just a fantastic piece, and for me one of the definitive lessons in structuring a solo. I think it's one of Skolnick's best performances, and I love it!
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=i_QaZiVQt_c - solo kicks in at 3.20.
yeah, that one kicks ass. one of my other faves in thrash is tornado of souls (megadeth/marty friedman).
will i get laughed out of court if i say lukather (specifically the solos on the toto songs hold the line and rosanna)?
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The full-length version of Return to Serenity, by Testament has one of the all-time epic solos. It's searing, soulful, technical - just a fantastic piece, and for me one of the definitive lessons in structuring a solo. I think it's one of Skolnick's best performances, and I love it!
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=i_QaZiVQt_c - solo kicks in at 3.20.
That was AWESOME.
*gets to learning it*
That was awesome.
*Resolves to give up playing guitar. Again.*
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will i lose all credibility if i mention winger? you've got my back on that one, don't you philly? :lol:
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will i lose all credibility if i mention winger? you've got my back on that one, don't you philly? :lol:
Good goddamn, yes, Dave! Reb is the man! One of 'em, anyway. :lol:
Let's throw Neal Schon into the mix too at this point. I can't think of one particular solo but there are so many great ones!
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agreed on both points. :)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfagvcwjLyE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfagvcwjLyE)
More of a guilty pleasure than anything else
Kiss in their early days (1975)
Always loved the solo Ace did in this song (Kind of grew up listening to it) , and yes he was doing two handed tapping before Van Halen broke onto the scene.
Love this clip too
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtajRXdTlv0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtajRXdTlv0)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfagvcwjLyE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfagvcwjLyE)
More of a guilty pleasure than anything else
Kiss in their early days (1975)
Always loved the solo Ace did in this song (Kind of grew up listening to it) , and yes he was doing two handed tapping before Van Halen broke onto the scene.
Love this clip too
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtajRXdTlv0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtajRXdTlv0)
Those vids were awesome Jonathon!
Makes me want to see Kiss again.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfagvcwjLyE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfagvcwjLyE)
More of a guilty pleasure than anything else
Kiss in their early days (1975)
Always loved the solo Ace did in this song (Kind of grew up listening to it) , and yes he was doing two handed tapping before Van Halen broke onto the scene.
How tall/skinny is Ace? He looks like Jack Skellington in that clip! :D
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I have to agree the Tattoo'd Lady is a fine example of Rory Gallaghers playing, but for me it was "Walk on Hot Coals" of the Irish Tour of '74 that I would pick. I still have the 33 1/3 double album that I bought in 1974 after first hearing about Rory, I was a young-gun keyboard player back then , but Rory's guitar work blew me away. The purchase of that album in 1974 inspired no less than 20 of my freinds who are total Die-Hard Rory fans today.
Walk on Hot Coals was a close second for me, i just feel that there is a definitive solo in Tattoo'd lady, that WOHC lacks, because its so long and improv, but amazing all the same.
Yep, in fact the whole album comes a close second :D
I first bought it in 79/80, I Wonder Who, Tattoo'd Lady, and A Million Miles Away were the ones I wore out the grooves on.
The reason I picked Tattoo'd Lady was because of the melodic "cascading" bit over the A - C#m - G#m - B section in the first solo. It sent utter shivers down my spine (and still does if I haven't listened to it for a while). And then everytime I saw him play it after that... he, er, "fell short" of my hopes!! I suspect he liked the IT 74 version as well, and was always trying to reach or better it.
Another "bit" that caused/causes similar feelings is a little section of Ritchie Blackmore's Highway Star solo on Made In Japan - nowadays I'm almost certain that it was an RB "throwaway" lick to give him some breathing space, but wow... shivers down the spine.
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...and on that note
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YuQMIeK28U
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Metal without solos is so boring. I don't care what genre you want to put them under i think they are a great heavy band and nobody else sounds like them, which is a big achievement for metal.
Stoner metal
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Ahh i've been caught out, sort of. I like stoner metal, but that also has a lot of soloage in it unless you mean extreme shite like Electric Wizard, i can't listen to that though. But bands like Down and The Sword love a bit of soloage in their music.
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Metal without solos is so boring. I don't care what genre you want to put them under i think they are a great heavy band and nobody else sounds like them, which is a big achievement for metal.
Don't think there were any solos on the first 2 Mnemic albums, and I think that's some of the best metal ever written.
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Metal without solos is so boring. I don't care what genre you want to put them under i think they are a great heavy band and nobody else sounds like them, which is a big achievement for metal.
Stoner metal
Like Clutch and Orange Goblin and Down and Sleep and Fu Manchu and QOTSA and Bongzilla and Weedeater and all those other bands with loads of solos?
Ahh i've been caught out, sort of. I like stoner metal, but that also has a lot of soloage in it unless you mean extreme shitee like Electric Wizard, i can't listen to that though. But bands like Down and The Sword love a bit of soloage in their music.
Electric Wizard have solos. In more or less every song. And aren't really extreme :? They're just a modern Sabbath. Who I will finally see in December, provided they don't cancel AGAIN.
Do you more mean things like Sunn 0)))? That would make more sense, although I don't think of drone as at all metal, it has a lot more to do with noise and dark ambient. Ohh, genre-tastic.
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Judas Priest - "Beyond the Realms of Death"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVTDl8oiJBs (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVTDl8oiJBs)
Ozzy Osbourne - "Revelation (Mother Earth)"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxcQ9Rs487o (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxcQ9Rs487o)
There are dozens of other great candidates by the likes of Michael Schenker, Queensryche, GnR, Opeth, Iron Maiden and so on, but these are the first two that always occur in my mind when someone asks what my favourite solo is. Gary Moore has ripped some great solos in his time as well.
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I'm afraid no amount of explaining will help on this. Statements like this:
They just generally sound like a power metal band covering death metal songs to me.
...have always, and will always strike me as nonsensical. The idea that there is some sort of objective checklist of features which defines what sub-genre a band is really irritates me.
And specifically the "trying to be a [insert ridiculous sub-genre here] band" part of the original comment. I know you've already tried to explain that, but it seems what you really meant was "they share some characteristics with another band or band(s), whilst not sounding exactly the same as said band(s)". But for some reason, you've slapped some genres on to the argument and turned that into something negative. As if the fact that they happen to straddle 2 of your neat sub-genres somehow shows that they've attempted and failed to be one 'kind' of band, and so are in fact another 'kind' of band.
Do you see what I mean? :lol:
I really don't 'get' the whole thing.
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See if Crass were to decide to reform and be a funk band. I imagine it'd be the same result, a bunch of folk who really only know how to do one type of music trying to be something else, I just imagine it would always sound jarring, try hard and well, a bit insincere. That's what I find if I listen to Necrophagist.
That's as best as I can communicate what I mean. Oddly enough, I've said the exact same thing on extreme metal forums "A death metal band trying to be power metal" and folk have got exactly what I mean - and often agreed - straight off the bat :lol:
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Metal without solos is so boring. I don't care what genre you want to put them under i think they are a great heavy band and nobody else sounds like them, which is a big achievement for metal.
Stoner metal
Like Clutch and Orange Goblin and Down and Sleep and Fu Manchu and QOTSA and Bongzilla and Weedeater and all those other bands with loads of solos?
Ahh i've been caught out, sort of. I like stoner metal, but that also has a lot of soloage in it unless you mean extreme shiteee like Electric Wizard, i can't listen to that though. But bands like Down and The Sword love a bit of soloage in their music.
Electric Wizard have solos. In more or less every song. And aren't really extreme :? They're just a modern Sabbath. Who I will finally see in December, provided they don't cancel AGAIN.
Do you more mean things like Sunn 0)))? That would make more sense, although I don't think of drone as at all metal, it has a lot more to do with noise and dark ambient. Ohh, genre-tastic.
Well obviously Down have SOME solos but alot of their stuff (latest stuff mainly) has no solos. Pure riffage
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I quite liked Downs second album. The only one of theirs i had.
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I still love the Under a Glass Moon solo a LOT.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=fJVQP108eM4
4:50 he kicks it in
though the guitar is quiet in this one...
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=qbFnm5fkB_s louder, but no video! damn
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See if Crass were to decide to reform and be a funk band. I imagine it'd be the same result, a bunch of folk who really only know how to do one type of music trying to be something else, I just imagine it would always sound jarring, try hard and well, a bit insincere. That's what I find if I listen to Necrophagist.
That makes much more sense to me. :)
That's as best as I can communicate what I mean. Oddly enough, I've said the exact same thing on extreme metal forums "A death metal band trying to be power metal" and folk have got exactly what I mean - and often agreed - straight off the bat :lol:
Nothing odd about that- metalheads are obsessed with compartmentalising genres!
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I still love the Under a Glass Moon solo a LOT.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=fJVQP108eM4
4:50 he kicks it in
though the guitar is quiet in this one...
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=qbFnm5fkB_s louder, but no video! damn
I've allways felt it was a little random :p
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The randomness is part of why it's cool though. Besides, he has to play like that to minimise casualties ;)
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Favourite solo for me changes from time to time. Currently it is Zappa's solo on Muffin Man.
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Favourite solo for me changes from time to time. Currently it is Zappa's solo on Muffin Man.
Awesome song.
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More MSG - this time into the Arena (1981)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGY0KEGVK6Q (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGY0KEGVK6Q)
Lots of solos but the one that gets me every time starts at just after 4.25 - makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up
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More MSG - this time into the Arena (1981)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGY0KEGVK6Q (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGY0KEGVK6Q)
Lots of solos but the one that gets me every time starts at just after 4.25 - makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up
I can't play the video in work, but if it's the solo I'm thinking of it's an absolute classic. Not just a guitar solo, it's a proper piece of music in its own right.
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its a great solo indeed, but my favourite schenker solo is rock bottom:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qP_OqOJ8ug (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qP_OqOJ8ug)
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its a great solo indeed, but my favourite schenker solo is rock bottom:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qP_OqOJ8ug (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qP_OqOJ8ug)
The strangers in the night version is truly epic - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sG6qoTMLrjQ
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+1, Strangers in the Night is a great live album.
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I'm quite into Guthrie Govan at the moment:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsCKpRzfMzU (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsCKpRzfMzU)
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I'm quite into Guthrie Govan at the moment:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsCKpRzfMzU (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsCKpRzfMzU)
Hell yeah!
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Whilst I admire much of the above ( especially Schenker's " Rock Bottom " from the 'Strangers In The Night' album ) - I am going to have to cite an old geezer's obvious choice - which is Dave Gilmour's live version of the second solo from the song " Comfortably Numb". Specifically the extended version he played ( and recorded ) during the 'Pulse' tour.
For me it is not because there is anything technically fast or fearsome about it ; but that it is emotionally epic - and he slowly but surely guides the listener along the melodic / emotive trail like an old master ( which he is ). :)
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Two epic solo's from the Dutchman Chris Koerts.
He always played on that great old Black Beaty.
Earth and Fire - Memories (2:35)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-W2sMWXy_4Y
Earth and Fire - Maybe tomorrow, maybe tonight (1:22)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Akn3sPnKB-o
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Shawn Lane's solo on Illusions. Short, but so incredibly musical. Plus has an absolutely insane picking lick thrown in.
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Good choice there, Nolly.
One I'd like to throw in is Opus Pocus by Jason Becker. It's the kind of thing where if you studied the theory behind it you'd go "there's no way this can sound natural and melodic" but Jason did it. Shawn Lane to an even higher degree of course.
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For me i always get goosebumps listening to the first solo on La Villa Strangiato from Rush's Hemispheres album for the exact same reasons that Fourth Feline mentions for Comfortably Numb - its an emotional trip of expertly built tension and release rather than a technical display. And then there's always the unruly triumph of Page's lead work in Zep's Heartbreaker...
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Whilst I admire much of the above ( especially Schenker's " Rock Bottom " from the 'Strangers In The Night' album ) - I am going to have to cite an old geezer's obvious choice - which is Dave Gilmour's live version of the second solo from the song " Comfortably Numb". Specifically the extended version he played ( and recorded ) during the 'Pulse' tour.
For me it is not because there is anything technically fast or fearsome about it ; but that it is emotionally epic - and he slowly but surely guides the listener along the melodic / emotive trail like an old master ( which he is ). :)
So glad someone mentioned that! That solo still makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck. Purely emotional. :D
Gilmour is the ultimate example of how clever note selection and timing can make a solo so powerful. It always kind of bothers me how these "epic solo" debates are always dominated by metal bands. I just don't see it. I find what SRV did in "Lenny" much more emotional. Oh well, to each his own. :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YIHvK5WN7I
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How can sweep picking itself bore people? Its just a technique!
It is the same as saying "I don't like arpeggios", which is rather odd, and I think that 'not liking' sweep picking is equally odd... would one enjoy it if the same notes were played with string skipping or some other technique?
If you were to play the left hand part of a great deal piano music written in the 19th Century (which, imo, is some of the most amazing music ever) on a guitar, you'd have ridiculous amounts of sweep picking.
Its just a comment which has confused me for a while.
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Can I put a keyboard solo on here- Billy Preston playing "Isn't It A Pity" on the Concert for George concert soundtrack.