Jimmy Page was doing it in the 60's and Eddie has signaled him as the source that he first saw using the technique. The point is no one had incorporated it into their playing style like Eddie had. It is as much a part of his style as plucking is to everyone else. He never claimed to be the originator of the technique, just the innovator.
one of my favorite players. this has got to be one the the most disjointed songs. the solo starts at 3:08. [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLSmwiT1jtU"]YouTube- MICHAEL SCHENKER [ ATTACK OF THE MAD AXEMAN ] LIVE.'97.[/ame]
Show me a better guitar solo than the 1st one in this thread (which is the best EVER, imo) or even a better one than all the Joe Satriani ones I have posted. You haven't done that yet... I still love you as a brother Miami Dolphins fan!
How do you feel about Joe Satriani? He is a VERY close 2nd to EVH, imo. What do you think of Surfing with the Alien, and The Mystical Potato Head Groove Thing I posted last? Just curious I like your brand of guitar too. Yngwie was at G3 with Satriani and Steve Vai wasn't he?
Much respect to legends like Hendrix, EVH, Santana, etc. But Yngwie Malmsteem is the best imo. Of course I'm also a bit biased because I'm a metalhead and I value metal guitarists over all others. [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS_IYe5JTZ4"]YouTube- Yngwie Malmsteen-Arpeggios From Hell[/ame] [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eK0rvReE-4c&feature=related"]YouTube- Far Beyond The Sun - Yngwie Malmsteen[/ame] However I personally am more of a fan of "Duo Guitarists" and nobody is better than the duo of Tipton/Downing. [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhbYnTa1N0M"]YouTube- Glenn Tipton VS KK Downing Judas Priest[/ame]
big fan of Tipton and Downing, Although Yngwie is technically very good, he leaves me cold, very little feeling in his playing if you ask me. Ulrich Roth (Uli Jon Roth) formery of Scorpions is much better. Again, just my opinion. [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3uvil5QKj0"]YouTube- Uli Jon Roth plays Sails of Charon (Guitar Lesson)[/ame]
The problem is you are asking for something that to you may not exist. What's awesome to me may be garbage to you. There are many talented guitarists out there that rival EVH's talent. As a matter of personal taste, some would say that they are better than and some would say not as good as, but Eddie innovated a style that was pretty much a gimmick, an after thought and is now considered passe to some and second level to others. Eddie reintroduced the guitar in a bombastic way when punk/new wave and disco ruled the air waves. Helping carry guitar oriented music to the 80's when rock guitar ruled once again.
Uh, why is no one mentioning the elephant in the room? The greatest guitar player of all time? Curt Cobain..... ....of course I am just kidding, I always laugh when I see those Greatest Guitar Players of all Time lists and see Cobain listed above the likes of Satch. Declaring a best guitar solo of all time is like declaring a best food of all time. It is a mater of opinion AND taste. I mean, have you ever watched Joe Pass play guitar. The dude forgot more chords than EVH will know. In the rock genre, I don't think anyone can touch Hendrix's rhythm skills, but his soloing skills were intermediate. He had a few gems, but not much was particularly innovative outside of the well trodden blues licks being used by hundreds before him and since. IMO, the good ones have a command of the instrument, tone AND musicality. That was what made Satch so great back in the day (he is of late starting to become more centered in his material, probably from not woodshedding so much). If you begin to play and try to tackle these giants' set lists, you start to see who really had these skills and who were just repackaging the same ol' blues riffs. Satch is at the top of the heap for me because he satisfies the best of all worlds -- musically intellectual, heavy riff rock, jazz inspired ideas, guitar nerd stuff, great use of the picking hand to alter his tone, linear approach to scales, his awesome use of pitch axis theory, etc....these are the kinds of things that allow him to endure and continue to put out great material. Then there is Gilmour, who originally inspired me to play. Hendrix and Vaughn still keep me inspired. Joe Pass and Wes Montgomery were amazing players. There are so many amazing guitarists in so many different genres. And, of course, one cannot dismiss Nigel Tufnel if for nothing more than his sheer volume.
Well said. Now you're talking about a plateau that none of the other players can ever expect to achieve.
I agree. It's all opinion. I personally rank Tipton and Downing at the very top. Surprised Tony Lommi hasn't been mentioned yet.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WqE_q3kFUM&feature=related"]YouTube- Jason Becker - Cacophony Solo[/ame] [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVmq2C5kLoM"]YouTube- John Petrucci Under a Glass Moon Solo[/ame] [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5t_b9xOY-I"]YouTube- John Petrucci - Lines in the Sand Guitar Solo[/ame] [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES1RypBww_g"]YouTube- Paul Gilbert - Technical Difficulties (Racer X)[/ame] [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11KaKhGAa3I&feature=related"]YouTube- Paul Gilbert Flamingo[/ame] [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPGA3vjMLgE&feature=related"]YouTube- Paul Gilbert - Scarified[/ame] [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjfUMLeKd5E"]YouTube- Finest Neo-classical Metal - Jeff Loomis, Miles of Machine[/ame]
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VohubM8Hls4"]YouTube- Dixie Dregs - The Bash (Live 1978)[/ame] [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ldgEygmBDk&feature=related"]YouTube- steve morse band, cruise control[/ame] [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpWQiGQSUyk&feature=related"]YouTube- Ritchie Blackmore - Concerto Solo[/ame]
how i've missed trading posts in music threads with pagan! great fella, horrible taste in music! bruce > dianno? dio > ozzy? keyboards in metal?! hilarious stuff! best solo ever? over the mountain by randy rhoads - the greatest guitar player next to jimi hendrix - the guy had everything - speed, technicality, creativity and above all else, feel - over the mountain starts off with 3 octaves - randy was creating tension - an over looked and under rated term that makes or breaks music - all the great songs and solo's have it - unfortunately you don't hear too much tension in music anymore - why? because overall great song writing has gone down the drain - used to be you would listen to a song and you would hear a great bridge or transition - done right and there would be tension created that would ultimately be resolved when the song went back to the hook - cheap trick were masters of bridges and transitions - just listen to anything off dream police - that's great song writing 101 - randy rhoads also knew how to write and play with tension - it wasn't just notes, it was feel although randy had them both - the solo in over the mountain ends with the bending of a single note - but he bends it just long enough off to take you off an emotional journey that was the solo - and that crescendo ends the tension i was fortunate and privileged enough to meet randy and the rest of the band at an autograph signing at the house of guitars in rochester, n.y. - he signed my record sleeve and it still is my most prized possession to this day btw, glad you're still in it to win it, alan - love to see ya play live one day [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8rPky04fbs&feature=PlayList&p=7F1509208A486B8E&index=0"]YouTube- Over the Mountain. Ozzy Osbourne.[/ame]
All I can say in reply to that is....HAIR BANDS! Good to see you on here man. Can't argue with you on Randy.
Very true and very sad. Maybe I'm just an old fogey yellin at kids over their crazy noise they call music but I can find a lot of music I like from every genration going all the way back to classical except this current generation. I don't just find myself only liking my generation and none other. It just seems that something very special and crucial to good music has been lost. There are a few bands / musicians that still seem to get it but it's getting fewer and farther between.
Another great with a seasonal piece. [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWgF1uuf4Fk"]YouTube- Al Di Meola- Carol of the Bells[/ame]
I believe the last person to have such a marriage of technicality and emotion was EVH. I'm not a huge fan of guys like Malmsteen, Vai, and Satriani but I can appreciate how well they play their respective guitars. Quite often their songs are exhausting to me. I went to an "Experience Hendrix" concert a couple years ago and Steve Vai absolutely ruined, "May This Be Love", a criminally underrated and one of my personal favorite Jimi Hendrix songs. My favorite soloes always leaned more towards the bluesy ones. Someone here mentioned "Hotel California", and while the song has been overplayed, me and a couple friends listened to it a couple months ago in a vacuum and it is, indeed, one of the more graceful and beautiful soloes ever. Joe Walsh still kicks *** if you get a chance to see him play today, he is just always a dozen steps ahead of where his fingers are going.So here are a couple of my favorites; take them or leave them. Hypnotic. [video=youtube;MG3wasf2bIw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MG3wasf2bIw[/video] Clapton when he was young, furious, and playing a Gibson (which he sounds better on). Tired of all the compressed Strats that dominate the blues world nowadays. [video=youtube;Q0o0l7ekKvk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0o0l7ekKvk[/video] Haunting. [video=youtube;ZjOD8i-8uWY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjOD8i-8uWY[/video] Here's a guy that's sank into complacency playing behind his wife in her band (an inferior musician), you can pick any version of this song and it'd be great. [video=youtube;50P67ueMWDk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50P67ueMWDk[/video] And nothing really needs to be said about this, first concert DVD I ever bought and probably one of the best to ever have been made. [video=youtube;FHrOQy-Nz-g]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHrOQy-Nz-g[/video]
I think Alex Lifeson (of RUSH) is a criminally underrated guitarist. Had a lot of good solos in their 70s/80s stuff.
No discussion of the guitar greats is complete without John Mclaughlin: [video=youtube_share;rLl6tm6Nw7k]http://youtu.be/rLl6tm6Nw7k[/video] Definitely more fusion than metal, but he's mind-blowing. And Al di Meola, who makes all so easy and musical: [video=youtube_share;W8qrNYjfyjo]http://youtu.be/W8qrNYjfyjo[/video] And here they play together with Paco de Lucia, the original Guitar Trio: [video=youtube_share;HDz6RAhP7Og]http://youtu.be/HDz6RAhP7Og[/video]