Is Eruption the greatest rock guitar solo of all time?

Pushin' Too Hard

not even the best Eruption

youtube.com/watch?v=JvHWl7Bx9kw

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not best but probably most legendary

Not even the best from Eddie, dawg

youtube.com/watch?v=U2R2KXNQR1M

Eruption is pure dog shit as a guitar solo. Tapping is the most boring overrated thing ever. And eruption is mostly noise anyway.
Listen to Tornado of Souls by Megadeth if you want an actual guitar solo.

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Siberian Khatru

ew steve howe is literally the worst

I have never read something so incorrect in my life

he was the worst part of yes by far
from worst to best of the classic lineup - steve, jon, rick, bill, chris
if you disagree it's because you fucking suck

Holy fuck you're an actual retard arent you

>Holy fuck you're an actual retard arent you
>Holy fuck, you're an actual retard, aren't you?

not him but jfk

who cares

Embryonic Journey by jefferson airplane is my personal fav

>not him but jfk
>Not him, but jfk.

>whooosh!
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Nice save there retard

I bet that's the sort of thing stephen says to you as you massage his macrobiotic nodules and you love it you sicko.

Funny, your Mom said the same thing last night when I pulled out just in time.

my mom called you a retard?
you're god damn right

Among other things, yes.

It is very good

Me and my friend recorded a version of it many years ago, back in maybe 2008 or something

Him on the guitar, me on the drums

...

Rust in Peace is beautiful because the riffage is amazing, but it's not all the album has, by far.
I haven't found a thrash metal album that comes close, or to some extent a metal album as a stereotypical "metal album"

If you are talking about Focus' song then yes

>many years ago, back in maybe 2008

THANK you

Go to sleep, dad

XD

Maybe in 1981.

It might have been earlier actually, maybe 2007 or even 2006

Basically it was when I was a teenager, still at school, playing music with my mates in my parents' old house

Feels like an age ago. And yes 2008 is still many years ago, it's fucking 8 years ago you cunt

Jesus fuck, it was 2006, I didn't realise it was so fucking long ago

We called it Eruption-ish because it wasn't the full song, we just sort of jammed it so my friend had an excuse to try out the solo.

So I was 15 when we recorded it, and I'm 25 now. Jesus fuck, it sort of feels like yesterday I was playing music with those guys, but it does also feel like ages ago too, and clearly it was 10 years ago which is a long fucking time.

Upload to vocaroo nigga

Who here /Intruder/Pretty Woman/?

Rust in Peace is the pinnacle of guitar playing in all it's facets. The musicianship, the technicality, the songwriting and the solos.
Marty Freidman cemented himself as one of the GOAT guitarists with this album.

That kind of shows how much of a hack Christgau is. He never even reviewed RIP, but he did review the much weaker So Far, So Good, So What?

youtube.com/watch?v=YbsYc3UNdZ4

The man can still play, but he's not learned a single new trick since Reagan's first term. You could look up concert footage from 1984 and he's playing the exact same goddamn solo.

Van Halen always struck me as a typical frat boy stoner band. You're supposed to stop listening to them once you graduate and trade in your textbooks.

That's because he's a tapper. That's his entire thing, he taps. A child could tap notes on the fretboard. There's a very low ceiling with tapping before it becomes boring and repetitive.

EVH is one of the most overrated guitarists of all time.

>Stevie Ray Vaughan
dankest guitar player imo

I wouldn't go that far. He influenced an entire generation of bands.

Excerpt from a 1980 interview:

"If Cheap Trick are the clowns of rock-and-roll, Kiss are the circus. I think the reason we've gotten big is because there aren't a lot of real bands out there right now. We don't dress up in silly costumes, we don't play punk, we make good songs. At least I think we do anyway. I haven't done anything resembling punk since I was in my garage. The critics have called us every name you can think of: tired, done-to-death, thud rock, heavy metal. Do you think anything we've done sounds like heavy metal? Of course with any successful band, you're going to have lots of imitators. I guess people have listened to our songs by now and figured out how some of my tricks like runaround harmonics and the ticking clock sound work, but I hate imitators. I loved Page and Clapton and Hendrix, but I didn't play like them, I created my own style."

Yeah but the bands Van Halen influenced were all terrible.

Best solo guitar performance: Maggot Brain

best solo in a song: Smashing Pumpkins - Soma

youtube.com/watch?v=RumHTFUV7bA&t=4m14s

there is no debate

And no, Eddie really didn't influence anything except edgy teen guitarists who want to shred sick solos all day long, breh.

Maggot Brain [Westbound, 1971]

Children, this is a funkadelic. The title piece is ten minutes of classic Hendrix-gone-heavy guitar by one Eddie Hazel--time-warped, druggy superschlock that may falter momentarily but never lapses into meaningless showoff runs. After which comes 2:45 of post-classic soul-group harmonizing--two altos against a bass man, all three driven by the funk, a rhythm so pronounced and eccentric it could make Berry Gordy twitch to death. The funk pervades the rest of the album, but not to the detriment of other peculiarities. Additional highlight: "Super Stupid." B+

Maggot Brain is sort of an encapsulation of all 70s rock guitar in one track.

Heartbreaker you fucking mongs

AFAIK he was one of the only critics back then who gave a positive rating to MB. Most of them, including Rolling Stone Magazine crapped on it.

Judas Priest--Sinner. There's loads of fantastic live versions of this--KK Downing's favorite song and man does he really get into it.

"Eddie Hazel was allegedly asked 'Play like you'd feel if you just heard that your mother died.'"

I've pretty much always heard Van Halen referred to as heavy metal regardless of what Eddie thinks he is. I guess if your idea of metal is wizards-and-Satan kind of stuff, then they're not, but most people would consider his style of playing to be metal.

Hard rock, right?

If you don't like at least ONE Van Halen album you're a fucking pleb.

broadly speaking nobody ages worse than englishmen

The line between hard rock and metal is fuzzy but I've always understood that hard rock is just power chords without much melody while metal has riffs and more distortion. Say, The Who would be typical of how hard rock sounds.

you have absolutely zero testosterone and are probably some kind of dickless blob if you don't enjoy the shit out of the first Van Halen album

gotta be cinnamon girl by neil young because, come on, where else have you heard a fantastic solo that's composed of only one note?
youtube.com/watch?v=aAdtUDaBfRA

John Frusciante's rip-off was better.

would get wasted and steal a car with/10

Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn Part 2 ending solo is the best guitar solo of all time

Light up the Sky is my personal fave Van Halen tune; it's too bad they didn't release that as a single because it's a killer driving song. Also it wasn't played live after the 79 tour.

Instead they released (bleh) Dance The Night Away as the lead single from VH II.

First time hearing Eruption, absolutely horrid. Please keep it off this board, and keep Van Halen off as well while you're at it.

>First time hearing Eruption
hey there little fella, go tell mum she's doing a bad job at parenting since she let you visit a grown up site

Hillel-era RHCP were kind of half-Stooges, half-Van Halen.

Basically, in the early 80s, chicks who took a regular bath wanted to bone Steve Perry and those who didn't wanted to bone David Lee Roth.

There we go. Butt/dadrockers can go back to Re d dit from whence they came.

If Van Halen is allowed on Cred Forums, pretty soon we'll have people making threads about Aerosmith, AC/DC, Pearl Jam, Slipknot, Creed, etc. Do you want that? 'Cause I sure don't.

Thanks dad

when i first heard eruption as a 10 year budding guitar player I was floored. I'm sorry you couldn't grasp the contextual importance that it held.

Sorry to offend you buddy but listening to mediocre dadrock doesn't make a you a bigboy.

John Frusciante also had some classic ones.

don't get the wrong idea, I'm proud of you, junior

>10 years old
Sorry to break it to you but I don't think 10 year olds grasp anything musically competent. Explains how you were amazed by tapping.

>Sorry to break it to you but I don't think 10 year olds grasp anything musically competent
My sister momentarily thought that Creed were ok when she was 10. She's quite ashamed of that.

When I first heard Eruption I was a shred babby and even then I thought it was OKAY.

And it's a bunch of taps. This is a case of something that was a product of its time but nothing noteworthy today.

>My sister momentarily thought that Creed were okay
Next tell us about how Nicleback and Justin Bieber are the worst thing ever so you can get all the upvotes

>And it's a bunch of taps. This is a case of something that was a product of its time but nothing noteworthy today

Once upon a time, Jimmy Page was also cutting edge.

>shock that succeeding generations of guitarists have improved on what guys 40 years ago did

>>shock that succeeding generations of guitarists have improved on what guys 40 years ago did
Being technical doesn't automatically make you great. I prefer challenging techniques but a simple solo can beat out a shredding solo.

How adorable, he thinks Eddie Van Halen invented tapping.

>yfw Chet Atkins, Randy Resnick, Harvey Mandel, Jimi Hendix, Barney Kessel, and a bunch of others who did it 10-20 years before him

Eruption shreds harder than both of those

Gene Simmons: "I've always deplored technical complexity in music. To me, a nice, simple A chord gets the message of the song across as effectively as playing a million notes a minute."

Glenn Tipton: "Judas Priest have always made it policy to keep solos short, neat, and relevant to the song. I've always disliked songs that are nothing but a vehicle for a solo the guitarist came up with."

"But although the leftward tilt of my politics back then was permanent, and although I figured correctly that too many young artists were getting cheated, anti-commercialism was never my line. I liked hooks and hits and DJ patter; I liked Motown and bubblegum; I preferred The Who Sell Out to Tommy. And because I'd heard a lot of jazz, I was underwhelmed by the cult of the guitar solo. So I firmly believed that rock wasn't about musicianship. It was about concept and short-fast-songs-with-a-good-beat."

god i hate him

>Glenn Tipton: "Judas Priest have always made it policy to keep solos short, neat, and relevant to the song. I've always disliked songs that are nothing but a vehicle for a solo the guitarist came up with."

Until Painkiller anyway.

Rock as it was originally conceived _was_ fast, simple, and fun. The bloated Baroque noodling of the 70s came about mostly because of Britbongs. They didn't have the connections to American roots music so they ended up mashing rock up with the European symphonic tradition.

Americans could never produce a Pink Floyd just as Britons could never produce a Kiss.

He wrote this in the 1997 Pazz & Jop poll.

"U2 have always put on too many airs for my taste--a working class band with pretensions beyond their humble origins. The rock-and-roll I grew up loving in the '50s was fast, short, and funny. Critics in their 30s who grew up with the AOR of the '70s, which was long, slow, and somber, probably see things in there that I never will, and U2 came along at the tail end of the AOR era. I'd rather have more Little Richards and fewer Jefferson Airplanes."

Though even if you looked at American bands in the '70s, they adhered to the fast, short, and funny ideal to a fairly good extent. Sure, the Eagles weren't exactly fun, but most of them. I think it would be hard to dispute that Britons took a form of music intended for kids to dance and have sex to and turned it into socialist whining.

Unless the Rolling Stones. They grasped American music styles in a way that Pink Floyd never did.

>And because I'd heard a lot of jazz, I was underwhelmed by the cult of the guitar solo

Rock musicians don't usually have formal music training. No shit they're not gonna beat Miles Davis for compositional skills.

John Frusciante does, too bad he wasted his talent on buttrock.

>Though even if you looked at American bands in the '70s, they adhered to the fast, short, and funny ideal to a fairly good extent. Sure, the Eagles weren't exactly fun, but most of them. I think it would be hard to dispute that Britons took a form of music intended for kids to dance and have sex to and turned it into socialist whining

If only Christgau had lived up to his own words and not spent the entire 1980s nutriding punk and alternative bands that were nothing but socialist whining.

>I prefer challenging techniques but a simple solo can beat out a shredding solo

I think Kirk Hammett is proof of why shredding =/= talent or good solos.

Now Judas Priest, they had to Americanize their sound to become popular here. Iron Maiden were never too big in the US except for the singles from TNOTB but Europeans idolize them.

Bullshit, Kirk is a combination of all those things. Don't pull some revisionist shit because they went to shit.

tbf the mainstream rock in the 80s was pretty bad. i wouldn't blame him for not approving of Quiet Riot.

He was ok on the first two Metallica albums, mostly when they had leftover Mustaine material to work with. MOP onward he steadily went downhill.

I don't think solos have ever been that important in thrash/speed metal anyway.

No.

And he was still good when they first went soft and he slowed his solos down. He influenced a generation.

Led Zeppelin to an extent, but they also had plenty of European-style Baroque nonsense in their music.

The fuck nigga??

I thought a bunch of those solos on the 90s albums were actually James Hetfield's playing.

"Kirk Hammett has to be the worst guitarist I ever heard. Back in the 80s, he was always appearing on magazine covers and being voted Guitarist of the Year and stuff, and I was like 'What? That guy's terrible.' He has this vibrato technique that, oh my God, it's so amateurish. And I'm afraid to say this because I might meet him someday."

-- Reb Beach

Kirk sucks as a player, but he was still right when he protested against Lars's refusal to include any solos on St. Anger. "No, no, no. We can't have solos. It's 2003, you fool. Solos aren't 'in'."

I think that was the point where Lars had completely forgotten what a good song is. Watch the St. Anger documentary. He tells James to not play melodic riffs because "They're too stock." when everyone knows if you think you heard a riff somewhere before, it's probably pretty memorable and worth reusing.

>James sitting in his pajamas with his reading glasses sipping tea and studying lyric sheets

Sad. The James Hetfield of 1985 would have had a couple shots of vodka when he sat down to write lyrics.

Van Halen had some decent songs but not a huge fan.

Magazines are more about who you know than your talent. My dad used to know some dude who would stomp his feet and rage over Keith Emerson constantly appearing on magazine covers and he'd be all like "WTF. This guy is the worst keyboardist ever. I'm going to write an angry letter to the editor. Fuck them."

MOP has some of his best work
you're a fucking tard

too bad dave ruined it by remixing remastering and retracking it and now people born after 1991 don't know what the original sounds like.

youtube.com/watch?v=ZcySh35ahsY

A lot of times WMG/SMG fags pull songs off Youtube and force you to use their "official" channel which often has the remastered version when you want to hear the original mix.

>I haven't found a thrash metal album that comes close, or to some extent a metal album as a stereotypical "metal album"

A classic but it does sound like 1990. Makes you want to pick up a Genesis controller.

RIP is better than any Metallica album but then Metallica had four great albums while Megadeth only had one.

So... confirmed for only having heard Van Halen singles?
Eddie and his bro were probably more versatile and musically proficient at age 10 than you will ever be

>leftover mustaine material
Oh you mean the one song on their first release they pretty much completely revised

>Rat Tomago
my man

Any love for John Mayall?
Honestly think this is one of the greatest solo's of all time

youtube.com/watch?v=NWfx1hSeM-c

proven fact

no