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Rising Force 
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 Posted: January 09 2006 at 16:11 |
 floydaholic wrote:
Probably something by Shawn Lane. All you people saying EVH and such are fools. |
dud3 ONE bi kirk hamlet!!!111!!!!11!!11111!!!!!!!!
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AngelRat
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Kirk Hamlet!? LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11 onehundredandeleven...
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xjester
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Posted: January 09 2006 at 16:27 |
John Patrucii-As I Am( the budokan one)
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Flip_Stone
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Posted: January 09 2006 at 17:50 |
Should we really care who has the fastest guitar solo?!?!? Speed doesn't equal quality. I could pick up my guitar and play some crap at lightning speed. It might be fast as hell, but it's still crap.
Thankfully prog. music isn't about speed and flash and glitz. Speedy solos are for metalheads
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SirPsycho388
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Posted: January 09 2006 at 17:57 |
Though speed definately does not measure quality, I think the speed demons are...
Steve Vai, John Petrucci, Michael Romeo, Paul Gilbert, Kerry King, Yngwie (though i think he gets sloppy)
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salmacis
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Posted: January 09 2006 at 18:02 |
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I tend to prefer 'speedy' guitar solos in the context of well written songs rather than just an excuse to play lots of complex solos, but 'Eruption' by Van Halen stands out as being perhaps THE pinnacle for me. I've not heard a solo personally that is as mindblowingly fast, memorable and impressive as this one is. Outside of that, 'Crazy Train' and 'Mr Crowley' by Ozzy with Randy Rhoads on guitar are outstanding also. I'd personally take Rhoads and Van Halen over the likes of Steve Vai, Malmsteen or Satriani anyday because they knew when not to play. I still like these 'virtuoso' albums but I feel a solo has more effect in isolation.
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salmacis
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Posted: January 09 2006 at 18:04 |
Emiaj wrote:
Michael Schenker had his moments by mid and late 70s with bands like Scorpions and UFO..have read he was an inspiration for lots of other hard rock lead guitar players |
Definitely- Schenker is perhaps Number 3 in my list of favourite all time players, below Hackett and Blackmore yet above Rhoads and Van Halen. Schenker's solo on the live 'Strangers In The Night' album version of 'Lights Out' is just a masterclass.
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xjester
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Posted: January 09 2006 at 18:07 |
akiko wrote:
Well you all know it takes 100 guitarrists to change a light bulb. One to do the changing and 99 to say they can do it faster..
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it really only takes 1.
he holds it up, and the world revolves aroud him.
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Thufir Hawat
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Posted: January 09 2006 at 18:08 |
Speedy Guitar solo ha? Well
have a listen to “Second initial”
by Setve Howe his finger move
like lightning up the fingerboard.
You can see him play it live on
The Yes 35th anniversary DVD.
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Rising Force
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Posted: January 09 2006 at 19:34 |
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Yngwie (though i think he gets sloppy) |
Doesn't every guitarist? I think he is one of the cleanest shredders out there, personally.
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West End Ken
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Posted: January 09 2006 at 21:22 |
As I was reading through was wondering when Randy Rhoads was gonna come up. I like solos in Crazy Train,Revelation Mother Earth. Blackmore-Child in Time (live). VanHalen. Schenker.
But I think if there was a speedplaying standoff ...Malmsteen would be the fastest.
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Lyrics of the week
Cast out a spell rendered for the light of day
Lost in lights array
I ventured to see,as the sound began to play
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En_Schizophren
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Posted: January 09 2006 at 21:25 |
Thats silly.
Everyone knows you can't beat Allan Holdsworth. He's just the original, one of a kind. Everything else is rubbish.
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Rising Force
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Posted: January 09 2006 at 21:32 |
En_Schizophren wrote:
Thats silly.
Everyone knows you can't beat Allan Holdsworth. He's just the original, one of a kind. Everything else is rubbish. |
Shawn Lane gives him a run for the money.
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En_Schizophren
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Posted: January 09 2006 at 22:14 |
Without Holdy Shawn Lane wouldn't exist......pun not intended.
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En_Schizophren
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Posted: January 09 2006 at 22:19 |
But speediest?
Try Devil Take the Hindmost, or City Nights, or Non-Brewed Condiment
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Toob-Wurm
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Posted: January 09 2006 at 22:28 |
Anyone heard of "Sickening," a song from Meshuggah?
The solo in the middle is deadly fast.
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En_Schizophren
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Posted: January 09 2006 at 22:37 |
I love Meshuggah, I got to see them play in October and my neck is still seized 
The solo in Glints Collide! Hyper Computer Laser Death!
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RUM26
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Posted: January 10 2006 at 00:18 |
Flip_Stone wrote:
Should we really care who has the fastest guitar solo?!?!? Speed doesn't equal quality. I could pick up my guitar and play some crap at lightning speed. It might be fast as hell, but it's still crap.
Thankfully prog. music isn't about speed and flash and glitz. Speedy solos are for metalheads
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I couldn't agree more!! but i do no some fast ones that are good, but there not lighting speed fast, otherwise it can't be good. 
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greenback
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Posted: January 10 2006 at 02:47 |
i like this speed thread!
well, malmsteen is extremely fast that's sure!
we must not forget too paco de lucia: he is extremely fast on the flamenco friday night album.
as dick heath mentioned, electrocution 250 is extreme too.
one of van halen's fastest solo is definitely on Fools and Eruption!
i invite you to listen to the solo on the farewell to kings track (rush): it is quite fast too!
an honourable mention are the solos on spastik ink's ink complete: quite comparable to malmsteen!
vinnie moore can be really fast too!
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[HEADPINS - LINE OF FIRE: THE RECORD HAVING THE MOST POWERFUL GUITAR SOUND IN THE WHOLE HISTORY OF MUSIC!>
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BiGi
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Posted: January 10 2006 at 03:02 |
About speed, Yngwie Malmsteen is amazing but, even though I like many of his songs, his solos definitely sound ALWAYS THE SAME!!! 
Coming to slightly slower but surely more inventive ones, we have John Petrucci's solos (for what concerns distorted and overdriven guitar playing) and some of Mike Oldfield's works (as regards "clean guitar" playing).
About the latter, I'm referring in particular to Taurus III (from Crises) and The Sailor's Hornpipe at the end of Tubular Bells.
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