Best Guitar Solo in a song

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This is awesome, most of you have probally already seen it. For those who havnt.

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Rhapsody is one of the worst attempts at a band I've ever heard. I'm tired of all of you StepMania nerds thinking it's good music just because the damn stepfile is good. I told this to dAnceguy and I'll tell it to you all.

Led Zeppelin+Dungeons & Dragons=Not at all no.

Dragonforce is a little bit better than Rhapsody, but I doubt any of you would have heard of the band had you not played StepMania.

As for guitar solo, I stand by my previous song (Baroque and Roll). I approve of any song by Yngwie that DOES NOT have lyrics to it, any song by Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, John Petrucci, etc.

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The best guitar solo is the entire song of "Cliffs of Dover" by Eric Johnson. That song is amazing. Also, Crazy Train is pretty awesome too.

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Cliffs of Dover by Eric Johnson. Also Crazy train by Ozzy Osbourne is awesome.
Randy Rhoads is awesome.

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Led Zepplin? What the ****, you don't know what you're talking about. I don't give a **** about the Stepmania files. I like the music. They are one of the bands with the most musical talent I've ever seen. And I'm not talking about the lyrics here. I'm talking about real composition talent, arragements, solos, riffs, etc. Luca is a great musician and Alex Strapoli has this awesome talent of mixing classical music and power metal. Now shut up before you say something stupid again.

P.S. I've discovered Dragonforce on the MXTabs Musician forums in the You Send It thread (which is now locked because of legal issues I guess).

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Yeah umm, I guess these aren't quite guitar solos, but The solos all over in salieri strikes back and the return of salieri. Absolutely amazing.

Also, the solos in Get ready 2 rokk (guitar hero) are amazing.

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There are too many was to look at this.
on the Acoustic i like layla by eric clapton or speedball by Black label Society
on the electric everything from Metallica (such as the 2 Master of Puppets solos), to arpreggios from hell by Yngwie to sweet child of mine.
Anything by Rage against the machine is pretty sick (Tom morello is an fx god), eruption and most other solos on Van halens first 2 albums are great. Stream of consciousness by dream theatre and paradigm shift by liquid tension experiment are 2 other great solos. Thats all i can think of for now.

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Joe Satriani is > Eric Johnson, although I like Cliffs of Dover. Van Halen, Slash, Jimmy Page, Hendrix, Angus Young, Randy Rhodes, Stevie Ray Vaughn ar atop the Guitar God list.

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Rise up by Drowning Pool

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The same theme is in all of their songs. ALL of them. You might as well pick your favorite out of the whole bunch and listen to it on repeat because that's all Rhapsody is good for. If you want composition and "mixing abilities", then techno is probably more of your style. Power metal and classical music? Baroque & Roll is more that than Emerald Sword, Hell.

You're not talking about the lyrics, huh? Well when singers write songs, that's their motivation for the song. Same when the guitarists write their riffs and solos and such. If one thing doesn't match with another, then the song is ruined. The sound in Rhapsody matches with the lyrics completely, however, the lyrics are just too ****ty to hold it's promise with the rest of the music. If you're going to talk about how a song's solo is so cool, the lyrics had better be DAMN good, or atleast be sung well. Rhapsody is lacking in both areas. Yngwie lacks that as well, whenever he puts lyrics in his songs. When a song is instrumental, you can focus on the INSTRUMENTS. The lyrics are meant to be heard. That's what's wrong with their music.

As for telling me to shut up before I say something stupid, don't tell me what the **** to do, I'll say what I damn well please. You're in no position to tell me what to do, especially when this thread is based on peoples OPINIONS.

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Mindfields, you might want to stop being an elitist, because you aren't elite.

ps genres are not set in stone, and can be debated. Stop acting like you made the one decision to rule them all.
pps I entirely know what verruckter is talking about.
ppps I've never had a problem with Rhapsody's lyrics.
pppps you're telling verruckter what to do
ppppps why do I really care so much about an opinion, even if it is miguided (I'm talking about yuo, not verruckter)

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What, you think I'm elitist because I don't think he should be one to tell me to shut the Hell up? That's more of a job for a teacher or parent, not some 14-18 year old wise ass over the internet. I know he's no noob, and I know he's been around, and I don't care if I'm better than him, but when you go around telling people what to do, it makes you a CONTROL FREAK. I never ****ing said I was elite. Maybe you misinterpreted my last paragraph on my last reply, but I was not being elitist at all.

PS Looking back on it, you don't ****ing know me. I've never even ****ing TALKED to you, on or off this forum. So don't ****ing call me an elitist.

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So I guess you have heard all of Rhapsody's songs? I don't think you know what you're saying. Of course all songs sound a bit the same. It's like that for every band on the friggin planet (unless they chagne lineup). No bands, no matter how original and talented they are have completely different sounds for every song. Even John Pettruci or Yngwie Malmsteem (which are by the way excellent musicians). Before you say" Yeah but Rhapsody is like all the same song but with different titles" or something like that, listen to a couple of them on different albums.

Do you have any idea what Power metal is about? I don't think so.

And wtf, lyrics make a song good? Since when?

If by "OPINION" you mean blatanly bashing other people musical tastes (which also are OPINIONS) with no constructism whatsoever, then no this is not an OPNIONS thread.

P.S. Sorry for being agressive, I'm always a bit like that :P

EDIT: I love techno too. My brother is a DJ, he makes techno (well, House) and I hear techno all the time.

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Firstly, being an elitist isn't necessarily such a horrible thing.
Secondly, the singer of Rhapsody doesn't write the songs. He simply gives his best performance.

Now, that's what's important. I was with you up until this. I disagreed with your take on Rhapsody's quality, but I understood.

Someone can be a poor lyric writer and write great songs. The message is conveyed partly within the song and even partly within the vocals. But there are times when the meaning behind the piece of music is shown equally well through a combination of the instrumental arrangement and the singer's performance. Does that mean lyrics are throwaway? Of course not. It's a mix; it's a fine line. I stand by Rhapsody's quality of music.

And they're fantastic live.

EDIT: Smeg, two posts were written while I was typing this.

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Actions speak a lot louder than a block of text, and you're telling him what to do a lot more than I am to you.