Never knew the dude in night ranger was this good!

[mooncobra]

Solo in Sister Christian. ...
Wow. Such a haunting hanging solo.
more with less wins again.

he was playing a boogie.

 

[Chester Nimitz]

 

[shredi knight]

Wasn't Jeff Watson one of the first guys (commercially speaking) to really utilize the 8 finger approach to tapping?

Yeah the 8 finger thing was all him. If someone did it prior..
No one knows.

The only other guy I remember doing it back around that time was Steve Lynch from Autograph (of "Turn Up the Radio" fame), but I think Jeff was first.

 

[Beyond Black]

Solo in Sister Christian. ...
Wow. Such a haunting hanging solo.
more with less wins again.

Remember when Gillis took over for Randy after he passed (Speak of the Devil)? I thought he did a great job and I heard he had a very short time frame in which to learn those tunes.

Funny, if you look on you tube it looks like Sharon had all the speak of the devil video stuff removed? Not surprising, right?

To this day I still love S.O.T.D.. Gillis tore shit up on that album and he had a MONSTER tone. Still one of my favorite guitar tones. He told me it was a couple of Boogies in stereo.

 

[Chester Nimitz]

George Lynch worked at Delores Rhoads studio teaching guitar with Randy before & after his death.

George auditioned for Ozzy after Randys death but was passed over for Gillis.

After Brad, George was passed over again for Jake.

GL may be one of the few whom Ozzy rejected twice.

George also made guitars on the side and sold them to students & others.

 

[charvelstrat81]

Wasn't Jeff Watson one of the first guys (commercially speaking) to really utilize the 8 finger approach to tapping?

Yeah the 8 finger thing was all him. If someone did it prior..
No one knows.

The only other guy I remember doing it back around that time was Steve Lynch from Autograph (of "Turn Up the Radio" fame), but I think Jeff was first.

STANLEY JORDAN was the very first i ever seen, this was before JEFF did it on any album.
But yeah in rock guitar JEFF was definitely the first one.

 

[charvelstrat81]

Not sure why the op didn't just link to the song(s) Jeff plays on though.

I linked the solo JEFF played on which is impressed me most.

 

[Shawn Lutz]

Jeff can play.

George Lynch is also on that album

 

[Tone Ranger]

Here's my take on Sister Christian. I posted it a while back but recently changed a few things and tightened up the solo.

 

[thiswaythatway]

Watson and Gillis were awesome. It's just a shame that most of Night Rangers tunes were commercial gayness.

 

[alan67]

Solo in Sister Christian. ...
Wow. Such a haunting hanging solo.
more with less wins again.

Just watched this again last night....trips me out. Dude could kill it on the axe, but boy does he appear a bit passed fecked up in this vid...

whoa, he kind of had a rain man thing going on there at first

 

[Purpleibby]

Something not a lot of people know about...Jeff Watson/Holdsworth duo(yes cheese to the max album cover lol I have this one on my guitar on the edge cd collection(anyone remember those? Very cool, rippin' playing here, love it!:

 

[Shawn Lutz]

I have Brads Gilrock ranch album somewhere around here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiIPsKj ... WGa46D4XrX

 

[MrDowntown]

Watson and Gillis were awesome. It's just a shame that most of Night Rangers tunes were commercial gayness.

But, IMO, that was the brilliance of the '80's scene. A lot of the songs were geared for the pop side of harder rock/metal. Folks bought the records and went To the shows, but the musicianship was there, in full force. Most of those cats could bring it.

I guess on could argue they sold out...

 

[Tone Ranger]

I have Brads Gilrock ranch album somewhere around here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiIPsKj ... WGa46D4XrX

I have Gillrock Ranch, Alligator, Lone Ranger, and Watson used to stream Around the Sun on his homepage. Those guys are my biggest influences.

 

[Findthetone1]

Watson and Gillis were awesome. It's just a shame that most of Night Rangers tunes were commercial gayness.

 

[zoom club]

I met those guys on tour when sister Christian was playing about every thirty minutes on mtv....

very cool cats, but gillis got annoyed when I kept asking for ozzy&sharon stories, lulz...

blades was a chump and the keyboard guy never spoke,... seriously, he just sat on the tour bus, stared into space

 

[lll]

Jeff Watson is on this Steve Morse Band "Southern Steel" album track:

Cut To The Chase

 

[alan67]

Watson and Gillis were awesome. It's just a shame that most of Night Rangers tunes were commercial gayness.

And when I saw them, there was more vag than you could shake a stick at........so I'm totally ok with it

 

[Beyond Black]

I met those guys on tour when sister Christian was playing about every thirty minutes on mtv....

very cool cats, but gillis got annoyed when I kept asking for ozzy&sharon stories, lulz...

blades was a chump and the keyboard guy never spoke,... seriously, he just sat on the tour bus, stared into space

I was partying with Brad and Joel a few years back, and Brad was also a little annoyed that I wanted to talk so much about "Speak of the Devil" and his tone on that album. He's a super cool dude though.