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Direct Link To This Post 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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Direct Link To This Post 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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Direct Link To This Post 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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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 09 2006 at 22:14

Without Holdy Shawn Lane wouldn't exist......pun not intended.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 09 2006 at 21:32
Originally posted by En_Schizophren 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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Direct Link To This Post 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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Direct Link To This Post 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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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 09 2006 at 19:34
Originally posted by SirPsycho388 SirPsycho388 wrote:

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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Direct Link To This Post 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.

"I can't see through my eye lids"
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 09 2006 at 18:07
Originally posted by akiko 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..

it really only takes 1.

he holds it up, and the world revolves aroud him.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 09 2006 at 18:04

Originally posted by Emiaj 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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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 09 2006 at 18:02
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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Direct Link To This Post 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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Direct Link To This Post 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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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 09 2006 at 16:27

John Patrucii-As I Am( the budokan one)

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 09 2006 at 16:24
Kirk Hamlet!? LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11 onehundredandeleven...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 09 2006 at 16:11
Originally posted by floydaholic floydaholic wrote:

Probably something by Shawn Lane. All you people saying EVH and such are fools.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 09 2006 at 15:59
Probably something by Shawn Lane. All you people saying EVH and such are fools.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 09 2006 at 14:47
The fastest solo I've ever heard is definetly Blitzkrieg by Yngwie J. Malmsteen. The solo is all 32nd notes at 140 BPM, holy sh*t.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 19 2005 at 14:35
Not to be another one of those JP disciples but the solo in Under a Glass Moon off of Images and Words does a lot for me. It completely changed the way I aproach my guitar.
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