Best Guitar Solo of the 80s?

[VitaminG]

Re: Best Guitar Solo of the 80s?

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3)Mean Streak-Y&T-Meniketti

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good call! We were just talking about Dave yesterday. He used the looking-down-the-neck perspective on the video during the solo too. Very cool.

[horns666]

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Hey G Man...do you have any of Dave Meniketti's solo stuff..I got "on the blue side"...

pretty good stuff ...he's goin' for kind of a Gary Moore hot rod blues thing...I think you'd like it...unfortunately I think it Japanese only...so check the Bay.

[voodoo5]

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Some stand out solos among many others are:

Doug Aldrich in Lion - "Hot and Heavy"
Jamie Scott in Vain - "1000 Degrees"
Paul Gilbert & Bruce Bouillet in Racer X - "Heart of a Lion"
Ronni LeTekro in T.N.T. - "Caught Between the Tigers"

A balance of technique and feel with good musical placement is what makes it memorable for me.

[VitaminG]

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no, Bill I haven't. I checked out a couple of sound samples on his website a couple of years ago, but never did get any of his solo albums

[charvelguy]

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Oh, I can't pick just one, the 80's lasted a whole decade.
So many-here's a few for my picks.

I think I can stand you forever-Toto
Cathedral-VH
Far beyond the Sun-Yngwie
You're in Love-Ratt
Stone in Love-nice pacing, phrasing & feel.
Do you wanna play-Extreme
Yankee Rose-Roth


Dokkens video for "In my Dreams" still can floor me.
Garys solo in 'Shapes' was killer
As was Dio's the 'Last in line'

[horns666]

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It pretty damn good actually G...maybe I can get a burn to ya somehow..

but John still has to install a new burner in this bastage.. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

[kremit]

Re: Best Guitar Solo of the 80s?

The best (at least from my perspective).....

Ride The Lightning - Metallica/Kirk Hammett ( I know there isn't any real technicality to this but it really is another song within the song, it builds big time and always get the goose bumps up)

Rust In Peace (album) - Megadeth - Dave Mustaine/Marty Friedman ( I've sat here for 10 minutes trying to pick a favorite solo section off this album and just cannot do it. This album in my opinion is perfection from start to finish. Some of the most pleasing-to-the-ears leads in metal throughout this album. It's the reason that still a couple of years after my band is gone I continue to be inspired to play)

[MBreinin]

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Bill, you and I both picked "Push Comes to Shove", I fucking love that solo...those tapped harmonics in the beginning, the modulating tempo..that solo is Ed at his finest!

I also wanted to add "Rebel Yell", which would be Steve Stevens at his finest, i.e. making that rack of Lexicons into a ray gun...gotta love that shit!

Mike

[donf]

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Anything off of Jethro Tull's award winning album. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

[Badseed]

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Bill, it sounds like you have some spinal cord problems, am i right? I was going numb in my right hand(sotp right there, my doc says it wasnt because o that, dirty bastards). I had spinal surgery and somewhat corrected the problem, but prevente it from going through my body. Good luck with that.


Akira-Wok n Woll cwazy rice

Jake e lee-Killer of giants,

Alex Skolick-New order

[jwoods986]

Re: Best Guitar Solo of the 80s?

The first that came to mind was Dokken - In My Dreams.

But also:
Dokken - Tooth and Nail, Alone Again, Unchain the Night
Ozzy - Crazy Train, Over the Mountain
Rush - Limelight
Yngwie - I'll see the light tonight
Vai - Big Trouble, Hot Dog and a Shake
Racer X - Blowin up the Radio

Too many to choose from!!! Arrrrgghhh.....

[jgcable]

Re: Best Guitar Solo of the 80s?

My favorite 80's solos are from Macalpine and Malmsteen but I didn't post them because they are instrumentals that actually are more solo only rather than a song with a good solo.
It seems by the posts that George Lynch is the 80's best solo favorite winner.

[Shawn Lutz]

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Well there was project M.A.R.S that had MacAlpine on it and it wasn't instrumental. That was a killer album, I think I still have a cassette of that around the house somewhere.

[charvelguy]

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Ok, if you guys post Beat it, I can post Physical by Olivia Newton-John, go ahead..flambe' away. Lukather is simply one of the most tasteful in phrasing of those days.
Boy that video was sure a snoozer. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] I think I want to buy a headband today.

[GodOfRhythm]

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James Hetfield. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

Let the flaming begin, like I give a flying fuck. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

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James Hetfield is a guitar solo?!? I've never heard of that. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]
The harmony solo he does with Kirk in Master of Puppets is cool. I think the only other solo I've ever heard him do is Nothing Else Matters, which actually is pretty good. Did he solo on anything else?

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Master Of Puppets, To Live Is To Die, 2x4,...

And all of the harmonies, etc (everything except the main solo) in all songs (except for some on the Load albums).

Btw, my post was in reply to Bill, who was convinced my main influence would have been one the guys he listed, but it wasn't.