killers solos that flew under the radar

[84Strat]

 

[mentoneman]

quingwew was like crack back in the dizzy

here's one that used to make me put the guitar down--i didn't even know where to begin when this came on-so fast and precise, but with chest thumping arrogance and authority!

i loved when he ventured out of the autopilot harmonic minor/phrygian runs, and tossed in some bluesy phrase or major scale, or played over changes instead of taurus pedal/drone Em key tones.

 

[MisterBulbous]

I'll throw in Vandenburg's "Burning Heart". I was a young guitar kid at the time, but that one really caught me.

great call--totally unsung..and not no aldo nova! although i think aldo and adje and yngwie all shared that tiger jacket back in the day

here's one of my faves from adje

2:36 in
his lead tone was cutting and honky in a cool way, but his crunch could have used more "sykesian sauce"
the singer reminds me of tygers of pan tang-

not to mention Adrian's bow-tie....a little randy-like.

 

[mentoneman]

do have to confess to suckling at the musical teat of dimartini back in the doyyyy

and let's face it--no one seduced their hot pink bass more amorously than "don" juan crocier

(for some reason i equate vitto "squidward" bratta with a ny hot dog vendor--hairy wrists and unibrow maybe?? and that makes me think of carlos "corn tortila teeth" cavazo, because they both had dreadful hair and LA coverband tone..i can smell the old spilled beer and expired urinal cakes now....

 

[snowdog]

I'm going to throw Dave Meniketti...Open Fire LIVE!!!
Totatlly RIPS!!!!!

No Doubt...definitive versions of a few of their greats on there. Safe/Sad to say their whole career went under the radar of most.

 

[threadkiller]

know of any notable tracks that should have received more recognition?

this album sorta got lost in the nirvana shuffle, and by this time don dokken was like the most hated pouty lipped drop chin look through your bangs hair metal 80s poster child, but almost every song on this one has BLAZING on it

two ripping guitarist that just throw down on every song as if to say "take that!"

if only the singing had more gonads to it...it's like racer x with air supply vocals

Never heard this one before but it kicks ass

 

[mentoneman]

Solo at 1:27

brah as much as uli ripped and was the neoclassical shred architect

if his solo takes the song into 9 on a 10 scale

His singing brings it down to -12 to the 40th power!

I honestly laugh out loud when I hear him sing---its part barney the dinosaur with a splash of crusty the clown

if jaques cousteau sang "swing low sweet chariot" after downing an economy jug of listerine and huffing a full can of oven cleaner it would have infinitely more vocal merit and fly off the shelves lickity split compared to a best of uli sings cd

 

[stratotone]

I honestly laugh out loud when I hear him sing---its part barney the dinosaur with a splash of crusty the clown

if jaques cousteau sang "swing low sweet chariot" after downing an economy jug of listerine and huffing a full can of oven cleaner it would have infinitely more vocal merit and fly off the shelves lickity split compared to a best of uli sings cd

I have had a SHITTY day and just read this. Thanks for making me laugh Pat... you should write for a living.

Pete

 

[mentoneman]

I honestly laugh out loud when I hear him sing---its part barney the dinosaur with a splash of crusty the clown

if jaques cousteau sang "swing low sweet chariot" after downing an economy jug of listerine and huffing a full can of oven cleaner it would have infinitely more vocal merit and fly off the shelves lickity split compared to a best of uli sings cd

I have had a SHITTY day and just read this. Thanks for making me laugh Pat... you should write for a living.

Pete

i do my best to toss out a zinger for my rig talk brotatoes every now and again!

trust me sometimes i make myself laugh at the insanity that issues from my stupidity--but i never laugh harder than when me and zachman are cracking jokes on the phone--that guy is OUTRAGEOUS!!!! Kagey is a riot as well!

nice to know i helped lift the clouds a bit for yah

 

[twenty4_7spy]

Steve Vai seems to have lost some audience lately, but his playing is more cosmic than ever:

 

[mentoneman]

Steve Vai seems to have lost some audience lately, but his playing is more cosmic than ever:

am i seeing things or is that a fender combo behind vai?

there is hope...
now then, bondo the monkey grip, ditch the sorcerer coat, and dump the whammy bar and wah....

 

[university81]

the solo licks/bridge part in this song around 2:30 always get me

and the solos in stryper's all for one

live version:

 

[marshallmel]

 

[Red_Label]

quingwew was like crack back in the dizzy

here's one that used to make me put the guitar down--i didn't even know where to begin when this came on-so fast and precise, but with chest thumping arrogance and authority!

i loved when he ventured out of the autopilot harmonic minor/phrygian runs, and tossed in some bluesy phrase or major scale, or played over changes instead of taurus pedal/drone Em key tones.

Mmmm... the golden age of Yngwie. More than any other tune on the first Rising Force album, Ships are Burned made my jaw drop and wonder "what the hell was that???". I remember when I first learned it note-for-note, I was so stoked. And off the Marching Out album "Soldier Without Faith" made me feel the same way. Gonna have to dig into my song library RFN and play those two songs in honor of this thread.

 

[mentoneman]

know of any notable tracks that should have received more recognition?

this album sorta got lost in the nirvana shuffle, and by this time don dokken was like the most hated pouty lipped drop chin look through your bangs hair metal 80s poster child, but almost every song on this one has BLAZING on it

two ripping guitarist that just throw down on every song as if to say "take that!"

if only the singing had more gonads to it...it's like racer x with air supply vocals

Never heard this one before but it kicks ass

doesn't it though?

you can imagine the attitude of the guitarists making that one...gotta follow in lynch's footsteps, it has to burn....and may be the most successful example of filling a big dog's shoes ever. every solo on that lp was unique and exciting. check out the others on the tube.
by contrast when campbell and vandenburg, two heroes in their own right, followed sykes in whitesnake, the results were lackluster.

vai kissed the dead pony in alcatrazz and whitesnake, but his eatum and smile with roth was pretty cool. there i said it. but at first i thought it was way too whammy wah fruity compared to eddie, pandering his silliness yet again. and he dressed like a gay urban cowboy lugging around that ridiculously impractical multineck pink heart guitar. he must sashay down rodeo drive with a canary yellow feather boa and cradling a sweater wearing chihuahua on his days off, looking for diamond encrusted genie shoes and ultra small cutoff jeans.

i just want to grab him by the shoulders and yell "be a man!"

live however that band killed.

 

[mentoneman]

quingwew was like crack back in the dizzy

here's one that used to make me put the guitar down--i didn't even know where to begin when this came on-so fast and precise, but with chest thumping arrogance and authority!

i loved when he ventured out of the autopilot harmonic minor/phrygian runs, and tossed in some bluesy phrase or major scale, or played over changes instead of taurus pedal/drone Em key tones.

Mmmm... the golden age of Yngwie. More than any other tune on the first Rising Force album, Ships are Burned made my jaw drop and wonder "what the hell was that???". I remember when I first learned it note-for-note, I was so stoked. And off the Marching Out album "Soldier Without Faith" made me feel the same way. Gonna have to dig into my song library RFN and play those two songs in honor of this thread.

especially at that time, this stuff was alien. it went from vh beautiful girls and unchained being the rock benchmarks, which made you want to pick up chicks at the beach or fight after football games,

to this gothic metal that made you want to pillage hairy norse women and bite turkey legs. but there was always a classical musical beauty to yngwie's stuff which made it palatable, versus the slayers and gwars and king diamonds of the day that dove into negativity and made you want to shower

 

[dav2321]

not metal but at one time these guys were the biggest band around, very tasty solo at 2:44

 

[Mark Day]

I always loved Lukather, but this solo was always one of my favorites. Too bad about the over use of flanger on this record.
This solo and all the little solo breaks he does is just awesome, lots of strange feel. On fire Luke!

Cool thread Pat!

 

[Red_Label]

especially at that time, this stuff was alien. it went from vh beautiful girls and unchained being the rock benchmarks, which made you want to pick up chicks at the beach or fight after football games,

to this gothic metal that made you want to pillage hairy norse women and bite turkey legs. but there was always a classical musical beauty to yngwie's stuff which made it palatable, versus the slayers and gwars and king diamonds of the day that dove into negativity and made you want to shower

Amen to that. I had Kind Diamond, Candlemass, Sanctuary, etc albums back in the day and they were just more novelties to me than anything else. Some of Yngwie's stuff and a lot of other great players from the day always seemed much "HEAVIER" to me than that black metal crap anyways. Savatage, Metal Church, Malice, Warrior, etc were what I wanted to listen to when I wanted to hear heavy stuff that got my blood pumping. Guess I just didn't have enough burning rage in my system or something to get into black/death metal.

 

[Gainzilla]

Ive always loved practically everything that this kid ever did

This guy is hard to beat as well

Both of these cats were standouts when they hit the scene but for some reason flew under most peoples radar. IMHO, two of the tastiest players of that era...