Face Melting Guitar Solos

Face Melting Guitar Solos

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popeyewhite

19,622 posts

119 months

Sunday 12th January 2020
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cherryowen

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11,682 posts

203 months

Sunday 12th January 2020
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I'd completely forgotten about The Bluest Blues thumbup

Two completely different offerings tonight, both 100% solos.

Eruption (Original Recording) by EVH 1978 FFS! Years ahead of time!

Simon Dinnigan plays J.S. Bach's BWV1001 Dinnigan performs rarely, but compared to John Williams or Julian Bream, his clarity, technique, and feel is astonishing.

Rh14n

940 posts

107 months

Tuesday 14th January 2020
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popeyewhite

19,622 posts

119 months

Tuesday 14th January 2020
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Ritchie Blackmore - Beethovens Ninth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrniC87g6X0

Ritchie Blackmore (DP) - Highway Star (Live in Japan)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zKAS7XOWaQ

NDA

21,485 posts

224 months

Wednesday 15th January 2020
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popeyewhite said:
The pleasures of YouTube! So many videos - we couldn't have dreamed of such riches in the 70's.

I hadn't seen that clip before. Fantastic. He was an amazing artist - rewarding and (sometimes) frustrating.

Rod200SX

8,086 posts

175 months

Wednesday 15th January 2020
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I've got so many I could chose from, dimebag is my biggest influence with guitarists but there's an album that's slightly different that stands out to me for this thread.

Roadrunner United. Basically roadrunner records got a bunch of their artists to compose a full album, each song having parts by folk from different bands etc.

The clips on YouTube aren't great and some of the songs are pretty cheesy but these always stick in my head and the album hasn't ever left any of my play lists since it was released:

https://youtu.be/3FW0xj7QkXA
https://youtu.be/UbZUetnCbDU
https://youtu.be/rhyqQkH5zP0

The last one stands out to me as I'm a huge trivium fan and I absolutely love Corey's style of playing, & matt was the captain for that one and composed the entire song when he was 19 iirc.

techguyone

3,137 posts

141 months

Wednesday 15th January 2020
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So many good ones.

for me, this is somewhere near the top, especially as I was there when it happened and I'm contributing to the crowd noise biggrin

Steve Vai: For The Love of God - Live at Donington 1990 with Whitesnake

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jheggkyF-e8

popeyewhite

19,622 posts

119 months

Wednesday 15th January 2020
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techguyone said:
So many good ones..Steve Vai
Ooo that reminds me - Stevie's Spanking - Zappa/Vai (1982)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJxoV5O8HUU

Don1

15,936 posts

207 months

Wednesday 15th January 2020
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Pastor Of Muppets said:
Then we come to the ultimate master... Joe Satriani, so many gob smacking tracks to choose from, Surfing with the Alien,
Back to shalla-bal, Summer Song, Psycho Monkey, Crystal Planet, the list goes on and on, but the one track that stands
above most from him is the astounding, Flying in a blue dream. If you are into guitar music and never heard this,
its well worth a listen, If I had to choose the last ever guitar track I could hear it would be this masterpiece.....
https://youtu.be/SINl5JY7LhI?list=PLE88290F62F3029...
THANK YOU. All hail the Satch! biggrin

Superleg48

1,524 posts

132 months

Wednesday 15th January 2020
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This is a pretty outstanding solo comprising lots of finger taps, slides, hammer on, pull offs and generally fine playing by a highly underrated guitarist of his era.

https://youtu.be/x7i9dI1Wsrk

Solo starts at 02:15 in.

Also, this being the finest lead break ever composed in the history of music ever...

https://youtu.be/eHKG7EMxWW8

The main break starts at 04:28 .. sit back, close your eyes and enjoy.

Edited to add that this particular performance is also the finest ever delivery of this composition.

glazbagun

14,257 posts

196 months

Wednesday 15th January 2020
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My favourite Vai performance is probably this one of Tender Surrender. And by "performance", I include the smug hair-sweeps. fk you too Steve Vai. laugh

https://youtu.be/Yw74sDWPH7U

But in terms of face-melting sheer awesomeness, I think Hendrix' performance of Machine Gun with Band of Gypsies Live at the Filmore East takes it for me. I played this to death with headphones long before I ever saw a video of it and think it all looks rather too sedate considering the sonic apocalypse he's producing. Brilliant.

Put your headphones on and turn the lights off for this one:

https://vimeo.com/291146720

Edited by glazbagun on Wednesday 15th January 22:44

cherryowen

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11,682 posts

203 months

Wednesday 15th January 2020
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AIUI, this solo was scripted originally by Gary Moore but this live version by John Sykes is majestic (solo starts @ 3:15):-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsizGjgvx8I


NDA

21,485 posts

224 months

Thursday 16th January 2020
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Superleg48 said:
Also, this being the finest lead break ever composed in the history of music ever...

https://youtu.be/eHKG7EMxWW8

The main break starts at 04:28 .. sit back, close your eyes and enjoy.

Edited to add that this particular performance is also the finest ever delivery of this composition.
Lovely.

I don't understand why so many in the audience would be concentrating on filming with a phone instead of lapping up such a performance. Particularly as the resulting 'home movie' will undoubtedly be rubbish.

glazbagun

14,257 posts

196 months

Thursday 16th January 2020
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NDA said:
Superleg48 said:
Also, this being the finest lead break ever composed in the history of music ever...

https://youtu.be/eHKG7EMxWW8

The main break starts at 04:28 .. sit back, close your eyes and enjoy.

Edited to add that this particular performance is also the finest ever delivery of this composition.
Lovely.

I don't understand why so many in the audience would be concentrating on filming with a phone instead of lapping up such a performance. Particularly as the resulting 'home movie' will undoubtedly be rubbish.
Better yet to watch his version during the Pulse tour. The audience spends the whole of comfortably numb being blinded by a lazer show, then get to see the iris they've been watching all night turn into a spotlight... then look up to a glitterball they had never seen. Then the glitterball turns into a Laser-Orchid firing beams at them.

As a sonic experience i still rate Hendrix over this, but as a "the to be in that audience" moment it would be unreal- a total sensual overload:

https://youtu.be/lU-mnPX9Ex8


popeyewhite

19,622 posts

119 months

Wednesday 22nd January 2020
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Face melting, body melting (those that watch this animated version will understand)

FZ Inca Roads

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqp71DOJ3aY

Billsnemesis

817 posts

236 months

Wednesday 22nd January 2020
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I am not going to put a name on this. I suggest listening to it first eyes closed and then wondering whether Orianthi or Nita Strauss has done anything better. Then look at the name and think "who?"

Then look up the rest of the back catalogue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xn-tmeRML3o

oddball1313

1,178 posts

122 months

Thursday 23rd January 2020
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cherryowen

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11,682 posts

203 months

Thursday 23rd January 2020
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oddball1313 said:
Oh I love that!

It's why I posted it in my OP on page #1 hehe



oddball1313

1,178 posts

122 months

Friday 24th January 2020
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cherryowen said:
oddball1313 said:
Oh I love that!

It's why I posted it in my OP on page #1 hehe
I know - I figured after 4 pages it’s still rules as one of the most epic moments on a guitar ever recorded

slopes

38,748 posts

186 months

Friday 24th January 2020
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Oh i forgot to include
Mike Campbell on Running Down a Dream, apparently they cut the original short on the album because he kept going for about 6 minutes