How Guitar Solos Dominated the '80s

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[@waysinwaves]

Here are some notes on the score for this one! But in case you missed it, here’s a timelapse of the scoring process from the previous episode, featuring the Zappa cue: kzbin.infoqSa0cq6CNxc?si=HWKqdg0R1iMqAHvG - 9:52 this is one of my favourite cues I’ve done, it’s been a minute since I’ve played in a metal band, there’s something so fun about playing really fast, stupid, sometimes atonal riffs that are way too rhythmically dense… Slayer was always a band on the fringes of my taste when I first got into metal, it was cool to find so much more to love revisiting them for inspiration for this cue. - 10:50 In grade 6 I heard my first Satriani tune “Devil’s Slide” and that still the kinda tone that I associate with him, even though I realize he’s more well known for the Surfing era tone. Tried to combine the two a bit here, the playing is more in line with Devil’s Slide though. - 13:45 this is Bach’s Prelude and Fugue in D Major, BWV 850, which I played for my grade 10 RCM piano exam back in high school, lol. It was a nice excuse to bring this out, plop on it on a harpsichord, and double it with a shred tone. Nobody show this to my piano teacher… And then the sweeping section is heavily inspired by Limb from Limb by Protest the Hero - 18:25 - man I’ve had to play this song at so many weddings, lol - 20:38 - at first I was unsure of what to do for this section, particularly in trying to encapsulate Hair Metal as a genre, but as soon as I did the IV - iv chord progression cliche on acoustic guit, I knew EXACTLY what to do from there. - 21:50 even though this cue is really just me transcribing the tune, it was fun to learn the bass intro solo, it’s sooo tasty, never appreciated that enough. Also thank you to the Fractal FM3 for the Sweet Child of Mine preset, lolol. That plus the neck pickup on my les Paul made approximating Slash’s tone easier than I thought it would be (the tory of the amp he used for this record is interesting, it was basically a one of a kind thing that got stolen after the record was done) Thanks for watching! :)

[@Dorderhan]

Great job man, we notice you

[@audiofunkdialect]

That’s metal history. This is just a more general history.

[@henryglennon3864]

Let's also not forget that one solo that Nigel Tufnell once played by bowing his guitar with a violin. It may be the pinnacle of 80's metal.

[@chloemchll3774]

I hear they are getting back together!

[@StGroovy]

11. That's all I need to say.

[@brianmiller1077]

@@The.extra_chromosome Page used a violin bow, Tufnel used a violin, and then changed the tuning on the violin and played some more.

[@216trixie]

I came looking for this comment.

[@The.extra_chromosome]

@@brianmiller1077 lol I just watched it I see now

[@peejay6930]

It always makes me smile when people say punk ended stadium rock, Genesis, Pink Floyd, the Eagles and Queen (among many others) were playing stadiums throughout the 2,000s 2010s and now the 2020s, while the Damned and the Stranglers are playing pubs near where I live

[@javi__...]

Who says punk ended stadium rock? In the 70s punk never out sold those bands.

[@Tefisheep]

They didn't play stadiums either, that was the point of punk, they didn't want to screw around with executives and just got on with it. The biggest venue I've seen was at Wembley arena, that's not the stadium, it's indoor and much smaller, it was The Cure which wasn't seen as punk anyway, not in '85.

[@peejay6930]

@@Tefisheep Malvern McClaren was ALL about the money, if he could have got the Pistols to playing Wembley Stadium, he would have. You reminded me of a joke "I was telling someone I used to be in a Goth band called The Prevention.... "were you any good" she asked.... apparently we were better than the Cure 🙂

[@Dreaming_Genio]

The Yngwie song is called Black Star

[@PvtGrips-vh7ti]

Yeah Dark Star is 20+ minute Grateful Dead jam song. Perhaps Yngwie covered it in a parallel universe!

[@GDIEternal]

This is cool, but there’s a couple of key items missing: 1. The instrumental guitar movement led by Yngwie and Satch also came with a growth in instructional videos (the REH series in particular). So not only were guitarists doing new things, but “how to” information was starting to circulate more than ever. KZbin’s guitar sector is a continuation of that. That’s why you’re seeing kids today doing things within a couple of years of the instrument that were lifetime achievements in decades past. 2. The 70s and 80s were when guitar effects became a lot more accessible, especially distortion pedals. There were also high output aftermarket pickups and high gain amplifiers. Even the guitars themselves were being produced with thinner necks, flatter fretboards, and bigger frets. Not to mention the Floyd Rose and Kahler whammy bar systems. All of the pyrotechnic guitar stuff that was happening was technologically enabled. The guitar as a physical object was different in the 80s compared to what was around in the 60s (same goes for pedals and amps).

[@bobsebring2819]

An excellent observation. That's very true. well done!

[@jakeweed1327]

You clearly did not read the part where it said "an incomplete history"

[@soft-serveprovisions4542]

God the intro to this series is awesome

[@waysinwaves]

Thank you! 🙏

[@Akshay-ji9nt]

That you. Means great to me and my team

[@kholathekid]

With the EVH vs Randy Rhoads part. I always thought Eddie was a pioneer for what shredding would eventually kick off to become in the 80s. He brought a lot of different techniques into the light that weren't seen as much before. Randy on the other hand was a fantastic composer. He wrote things that not a lot of guitarists were capable of writing. I've always believed Mr. Crowley's last solo to be one of the first appearances of neoclassical. They were both absolutely fantastic though.

[@tjenadonn6158]

And Al Di Meola, Jan Ackerman, and John McLaughlin were doing far better than both of them far before them. Listen to "The Inner Mounting Flame," listen to "Romantic Warrior," hell, listen to fucking anything that wasn't mentioned on the Billboard Top 40 or in Rolling Stone for once. It won't kill you.

[@kholathekid]

@@tjenadonn6158 My point wasn't they're the better than any. I was saying how Eddie and Randy always get compared as if they're the exact same guitarists, even though they thrive in completely different styles.

[@peejay6930]

I would say Uli Jon Roth was doing neoclassical before Randy, basically harmonic minor shredding. Olly Halshall and Allan Holdsworth were monster rock players in the mid 70s

[@Kriegter]

Neoclassical kinda started with Uli Jon Roth in the 70s

[@DenkendeMystik-ll8oi]

Uli's Sails of Charon (1977) was Yngwie before Yngwie! He is one of the best players ever. He was classic, blues, rock and jazz in one person.

[@emmanuel3968]

I think players like Lynch and Warren Demartini are very underrated, yes they were in the Glam movement, but technically and musically made such a huge impact on modern shred

[@evanneal4936]

Since you mentioned grunge, Literally everyone doesn't realize how underappreciated the 80s and 90s band Soundgarden really was to the Seattle grunge scene... they literally started the Seattle grunge scene by slowing down punk, changing tuning into drop D, C, and others and improving technical ability from punk. Soundgarden formed in 1982 and released a album by 86, well before nirvana, Alice in chains or pearl jam were even thought of existing. These bands owe their existence and popularity to Soundgarden who first brought label attention to Seattle to sign those other guys in the first place, they also all toured with SG at least 1 time gaining popularity in the process. SG is basically the led zeppelin and black sabbath of the 80s and 90s.

[@AllMediaReviewsPodcast]

And Soundgarden likely never would have been using the Drop-d tuning had they not heard and been fans of King's X.

[@clayfoster8234]

Soundgarden is easily the best and most enduring of the grunge bands (my opinion, obviously)

[@lowenbad]

Hands down the best band of the era. Not to mention Chris Cornell was one of the only TRUE vocalists (along with Mike Patton of Faith No More and Mr Bungle) of that era.

[@Bartman61911]

Soundgarden wasn't really a grunge band though along with Alice in chains they were actually part of the Seattle doom metal scene. In fact listen to Soundgarden and Alice in chains first albums they are clearly doom metal. To be truthful the only band that originally started out as grunge band was Nirvana.

[@lowenbad]

@@Bartman61911 agreed… and AIC started out with some very glam tendencies.

[@Tony78432]

This channel is such a fever dream for electric guitarists, thank you for chronicling the history of our favorite music and artists 🎸

[@CorrosionX4]

As a 1980s kid we started with Metallica, GNR and Nirvana, and we discovered music going backwards. It hits differently when you experience it chronologically with every bad trying to top each other.

[@evanneal4936]

Listen to Soundgarden they're better than all those guys combined. Trust me, try them.

[@shanewalton8888]

Nirvana is 90s, dude.

[@bunsenn5064]

@@evanneal4936I’ve listened to them, they’re pretty good, but there’s maybe two songs at most from them that I would call genuine hits with the public.

[@marivg8948]

@@shanewalton8888they hit the mainstream in the 90s but their first album was from 1989.

[@dio2076]

​@@evanneal4936 Don't forget Pantera and Alice in Chains

[@maciek19882]

And it turned out that we needed both punk and NWOBHM

[@xp8969]

New World Order Bohemian Hate Metal?

[@prometheustv6558]

Punk and NWOBHM is Thrash Metal

[@kyleolin3566]

Neanderthal Warlocks’ Occult Black Heretics Metal?

[@ecurewitz]

Of course!

[@ericphoenixg]

​@luke5100metalcore is metal plus hardcore. Metal + Core

[@dw7704]

Blatantly missing from the shred section is Steve Vai, not only his solo work and time with Frank Zappa, but his more high profile time with David Lee Roth (including using his guitar to “speak” with DLR on Yankee Rose) and Whitesnake

[@Kevhuman]

Also the Hollywood movie he was in with Ralph Machio (karate kid)

[@carlocastelli8381]

Missing Dime and Pantera too. Also, Yngwie states that he doesn't sweep pick, he does alternate picking. He says that he doesn't even know what sweep picking is...

[@lakrids-pibe]

Hah! Prince could shred the guitar when he wanted to, but he was very comfortable outside the constraints of "proper" rock, "pure" rock, or whatever. He dipped into heavy guitar sounds and mixed it with funk, electro dance, power balads, pop, and the schmalziest falsetto crooning. Yeah I was a big time Prince fan lol Game... Blouses!

[@KamenSentaiMetalHero]

I wished you mention how Black Flag's Greg Ginn began incorporating complex, atonal free jazz-inspired guitar solos in the band's later years and how that influenced the later development of both grunge and sludge metal. Also, a mention of the development of the guitar in the post-punk movement would have been nice. Other than that, this has been a great series this far.

[@MattTee1975]

The thing about the monitor speakers catching on fire is a myth. No amount of playing fast and loud is going to cause monitors to ignite.

[@stellviahohenheim]

Yeah also the moon is a hologram

[@user-er5mg6zj4v]

even if it’s not a myth it says less about the intensity of the solo and more about the ineptitude of whoever set up the studio equipment

[@mokodo813]

Thought I would never see SRV on here. Great work!!

[@Tensei888]

I would have been pretty disappointed to never see SRV on this series, since Little Wing is my single favorite guitar performance ever. Glad he has a mention.

[@MrIke86]

A conspicuous “missing link” in your narrative linking the 70s to the 80s is jazz fusion. Guitarists like Holdsworth, McLaughlin, & Di Meola provide the direct inspiration for 80s “Shredders”

[@michaelfried3123]

Black Sabbath, Blue Oyster Cult, Van Halen, Queen, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple all set the stage for Electric guitars heaviest decade (which was obviously the 70's).

[@tjenadonn6158]

THIS IS WHAT ROCK JOURNALISTS ACTUALLY BELIEVE. More and heavier music is being made than ever before. Listen to something like Pure Reason Revolution's "The Dark Third," Frost's "Falling Satellites," Youth Code's "Commitment To Complications," Steven Wilson's "Hand. Cannot. Erase." And that's before we even get into the stuff that's actually classed as metal: even today's "light metal" like Ghost, Polyphia, and Sleep Token, and (arguably) Sabaton make acts like Van Halen and G&R sound like dance pop: once those gateway bands lead people onto harder material like Author & Punisher, Primordial, or even all the way down the spiral to drone doom acts like Earth and Sunn (O))) "Stairway" and the like will just seem quaint. Just because it's not on top 40 radio doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Maybe it's because I started in the deep end. The first metal album I ever bought back in eighth grade was Mors Principium Est's debut "Inhumanity," a tight bit of Finnish melodic death. That led to other more melodic death metal acts like Dark Tranquility and Cynic. Later on I found industrial through the standard gateways of Nine Inch Nails and Rammstein, went hard into the Wax Trax scene and the Al Jorgensen industrial complex with albums like "The Mind Is A Terrible Thing to Taste" and "Beers, Steers, and Queers," then further back to the even more extreme bands that started the genre like Eindtürzende Neubauten and Laibach. "Fear of a Blank Planet," "Octavarium," and "The Hazards of Love" were my gateways to prog. I didn't listen to a full NWOBHM album until this year, and I have to say there's nothing Iron Maiden did on "Powerslave" that Queensrÿche didn't do better on "Operation: Mindcrime," or Slough Feg didn't do better on albums like "Traveller" or "Atavism," and that Sabaton does the whole heavy metal war LARPers thing better than them: "40:1" and "Resist And Bite" are permanent fixtures on my pump up playlists for a reason. And if you're going for heavy bands from the 70s at least go with bands that actually made heavy music: Yes didn't record "Heart of the Sunrise" and "Machine Messiah," King Crimson didn't record "Red" and "Fracture," Mike Oldfield didn't record "Hergest Ridge Part II," Jethro Tull didn't record "My God" and "Cold Wind to Valhalla," Goblin didn't record "Suspiria" just so you could ignore them in favor of the band's that recorded "Don't Stop Me Now" and "Hot For Teacher."

[@murmenaattori6]

THANK YOU for mentioning BLUE ÖYSTER CULT! So often going unnamed. Currently I'm in the deep end with NWOBHM classics, lots of Saxon for example. Love it.

[@evanneal4936]

Not all of those are metal technically, but they definitely helped form it and were definitely heavy.

[@michaelfried3123]

@@tjenadonn6158 dude, how long did it take you to type all that out?

[@tjenadonn6158]

@@michaelfried3123 I don't believe in half-assing things, music is a major part of my life (metal kept me surviving long enough for HRT to get me to a point where I enjoy being alive,) and my fingers move quickly. Let's put it at maybe one "Games Without Frontiers:" approximately five minutes, a leisurely but not unreasonable smoke/poo break.

[@nestortomaselli6372]

Eddie’s story about playing the Beat It solo so fast and hard the amp literally caught on fire is mindblowing. What a fucking legend - only a guitar GOD is capable of setting an amp on fire like the fucking Bush of Nazareth.

[@mallninja9805]

Sure it did ☺

[@idiofyiaphysics8027]

I still think the 70s are the best still mainly for the glorious experimentation that was done

[@Anonymous-xq5cs]

60s*

[@roth8332]

>Talks about randy >Shows footage of Jake E Lee

[@Panda_man..]

8:27 Felt it’d be pretty interesting to note that the technically first thrash metal song was Queen’s “Stone Cold Crazy” from their 1974 album Sheer Heart Attack. Also which Metallica would later cover in 1990 and win a Grammy for it :)

[@97warlock]

There was no thrash until the early 80s imo there was faster tempo rock songs though

[@AdvenuringTime]

I think it might have been important to mention purple rain was recorded from a live partially improvised performance on stage

[@kevincgrabb]

This series is so damn good, man. Super appreciated!

[@GregorySpikeMD]

This is easily becoming my favourite docuseries on youtube!

[@MrLeebaxleyjr]

I'm not sure if this was intentional or just a mistake, but that was Ian Hill the video panned to for JP, not Glenn Tipton. Also, you were showing footage of Jake E. Lee when talking about Randy Rhoades. Not trying to be a døućĥè, but... ftr, I truly enjoy your channel 🎉🎉🎉

[@danbal4185]

7:50 That's bassist Ian Hill of Judas Priest, Glenn Tipton is the one on the left of singer Rob Halford.

[@seanparnell4122]

Zoomed on the bassist. Probably the most attention Hill's gotten in 50 years of fame.

[@charlescdt6509]

As a bass player cant wait for you do do a series on it.

[@mikebauer6917]

Thank you for covering this. Wonderful.

[@workingorder2189]

I wish the vid didn't reduce Glam metal guitar gods to just power ballads. Lots of talented guitarist play Glam metal.

[@thenoodledrop]

Exactly. Warren Demartini, George Lynch, Nuno Bettencourt. All masters of their craft.

[@hipnofago2102]

Let's not forget what Pantera was before 1990...

[@petarikic65]

just one correction, Yngwie Malmsteen's song is called Black Star, not Dark Star (Dark star is by Grateful Dead). Anyways great video!

[@kaypolo_]

Great video as always. it's always enjoyable hearing someone speak so in depth and passionately about guitar. I also just wanted to mention Frank Gambale the 80's fusion jazz guitarist is someone often cited as being the person who pioneered sweep picking.

[@PallasPat]

Kinda shocked that Michael Schenker wasn't mentioned once in this series. The band he is best known for playing in, UFO, is a huge influence on most of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal and hair metal greats. One listen to Schenker's solo on Rock Bottom and you'll soon realize why so many guitarist in the 80's had a V shaped guitar just like Schenker's.

[@nathanhull8302]

He was the favorite guitarist of so many hard rock/ metal guitarists. UFO is literally Iron Maiden’s favorite band and far better than them imo. Rock bottom is enough to blow everyone else out of the water

[@DenkendeMystik-ll8oi]

Even Yngwie played a Flying V in Alcatrazz 😉

[@shaun7163]

The video is subtitled “an incomplete history…” you know

[@TheGreatBaronOBeefDip]

That was Ian Hill not Glenn Tipton.

[@ob1quixote]

Those visualizers rip, man. Outstanding.

[@banesovilj]

This channel tells stories in such an amazing way.

[@ebf336]

Hey man, been watching your videos for a long time, and I gotta say your content is a huge inspiration to me. I studied history and writing in college and I wrote a lot about the history of Rock and Roll. I'm looking into going to grad school for Ethnomusicology, and this content has really helped to show me that not only is there still absolutely an audience for this kind of work, but that there's also always still new ground to cover and new perspectives to be analyzed. Thanks for making awesome content, keep it up

[@__belial__]

Been playing guitar for twenty years, didn’t know slash had an “E” at the end of his name…

[@cameronferguson7145]

It's not, strictly speaking, true that Eddie Van Halen played on "Beat It" for free. He said in interviews that he agreed to do it for a case of beer and dancing lessons from MJ.

[@PatrickSandersSpace]

Fantastic vid! Always love your work. Unfortunately you pointed to Judas Priest bassist Ian Hill in the photo, not Glenn Tipton. It’s cool…. Keep up the good work. Thank you for the great content.

[@lemac3200]

I'm glad you pointed this out, now I don't have to. Small error, still a awesome video and once again a piece of art!

[@MrAdomus]

Credit must also be given to a little known but much loved guitarist and singer from Ireland called Gary Moore. Raised on the blues legends like Albert King, Howlin' Wolf, John Lee Hooker and Peter Green, Gary taught himself to become one with the guitar and cemented himself as one of the greatest, hardest working and most versatile guitarists to ever live! Never heard of him? Do yourself a favor and watch some live performances

[@WhenHariMetKari]

Thank you for your channel sir.

[@cordellbenedict8087]

Awesome video!

[@andywild9183]

Hi Guys, the zoom in on Glenn Tipton is not Glenn Tipton.

[@anxietify]

this series is the best

[@arielmyfriend]

22:22 & 22:51 Slashe? Anyway, a brilliant video essay, as always. So informative and interesting. All thought the video I couldn't help but notice the amazing drumming styles and techniques that accompanied the guitar solos, would be incredible to see some videos about that in the future too :)

[@VegetabIeMan]

Also at 7:52 he totally put Glenn Tipton’s name over bassist Ian Hill with Tipton himself opposite to him with one eye only in the frame to show for it.

[@PaulTheSkeptic]

I wonder if you'll/he'll do an episode on fusion jazz. Some of the best guitar solos ever come out of the fusion scene. Guthrie Govan, Frank Gambali, Allan Holdsworth, John McLaughlin, Al DiMeola are some of the best guitar players there are. If you like to hear impressive solos, check them out.

[@tjenadonn6158]

I think this guy learned everything he knows about music from Boomer rock radio. I mean calling GnR and Van Halen the heaviest bands of the '80s when Death, Ministry, Laibach, Nitzer Ebb, Front 242, Queensrÿche, Kings X, and so many others were kicking around is just pure unintentional comedy.

[@PaulTheSkeptic]

@@tjenadonn6158 Did he say that? I think he said the 80's was the heaviest decade and then mentioned some of the more popular bands that have some heaviness to them. If not, surely GnR is heavier than Death. 😉

[@danielkamal5575]

First time i've seen satriani with hair and without sunglasses! Thx @polyphonic !

[@babyduv3241]

8:45 ouhhh im surprised there's no influx of Mustaine fan boys coming after this since the solo's on the album are his

[@mySDK3333]

I played lots of Guitar Hero years ago and got introduced to lots of nice music I enjoy for years. Good to learn more context and bits I missed from your video

[@Goatchild90]

Amazing series

[@pommie5093]

Ozzie: "I don't know if you're as good as I think you are, but I'll see you tomorrow"

[@jesusflores2121]

Every Gen Z'er should watch this. I would like to point out that though this was a very thoughtful approach to guitar solos and how they have changed, in a sense it is an overthinking of the solo itself. Rather, I should say the reason why popular music with guitar has changed with so much angst against prior developments of it is simply because none of the solos presented here were bad, per say. None were musically wrong. Jimi Hendrix was not trying to be the best guitar soloist, per say. He was trying to be the best guitarist/musician that he can be. He firmly believed in pushing music further. Not the solo, but music itself. He was playing solos, because all music had solos at that time and he was merely trying to compliment the music. There are examples where he played a one note solo; see Rock Me Baby live at Monterey Pop Festival. Thelonious Monk had a brilliant example on one note melody play on his self titled song Thelonious from his album underground. Kirk Cobain wasn't in particular protesting against a "type" of solo, per se, so much as he was protesting the image of what those people who tended to play solos like that had become. Neither is wrong, all are good music, per taste. But, one thing above all is true, music has to change, it must progress. Whether, that means no solo, the most simplistic solo, or complicated solos. The only real thing that matters in music is that it is done with passion and from the heart.

[@tjenadonn6158]

Gen Z has plenty of good music. And I'm saying that as a millennial. Boomer/Gen X top 40 rock wasn't the pinnacle of artistic achievement.

[@jesusflores2121]

@@tjenadonn6158 Ummm...? Who said that they didn't? That is an assumption on your part.

[@jesusflores2121]

To sum up, I'm saying that music has to progress and we cannot/should not have any biased opinions concerning how music ought to, and ought not be based on popular opinion. To progress we need to look to the past, and learn from their struggles to identify what music should be, but always with the view to create new, and progress music further. There is no wrong way, so long as it's done out of passion and from the heart.

[@desmondvandermeulen2343]

​@@tjenadonn6158 As a Gen z'er I can say that the music is good but since like 2017/2018 most music released is forgotten in like 2/3 years. And music released in the 70s and 80s but mostly 70s is still considered the best music and that doesn't necessarily have to be rock. And it definitely had the most innovation, and experimentation which is only put down nowadays.

[@tjenadonn6158]

@@desmondvandermeulen2343 That's the way it's always been. Most new music is crap, and what little good stuff there is gets remembered for the ages. We're already seeing that process happen with the 2000s: people remember albums like "The Black Parade," "Human After All," "Sound Of Silver," and "In Rainbows," but nobody's keen to remember massive acts from that era like Hoobastank, Shinedown, or Coal Chamber. Back in their day The Archies outsold the Beatles, and Debbie Boone was rated as the defining artist of the 1970s by Billboard Magazine. Basically, it's too soon to tell what music of this current era will be be remembered and last the test of time because the test is still underway.

[@deesmusic9933]

Always appreciate the SRV love.

[@Gen_X_Rosey]

The "friend" who pestered Randy Rhoads into auditioning for Ozzy was Dana Strum who is a very talented musician and somewhat of a talent scout and rock music producer.

[@memopinzon]

This goes hard.

[@lazarebedukadze7244]

The video is very enjoyable and interesting but the close up was on Ian Hill, not Glen.

[@afrosensei5308]

Great episode (and loving the series in general). But Vernon Reid of Living Colour also stands out as one of the great guitarists of that era IMO

[@freewulf_1214]

Alittle bit upset that “a band called Death” wasn’t mentioned. But I do realize this a very broad stroking video

[@dylanclark5438]

Great video

[@sonicsnout]

I think it's worth mentioning in context with the Prince segment that Eddie Van Halen was also a pioneer and advocate of the synthesizer in the early 80s. He fought to include the synth parts and solo on Jump when Roth (and I think others in the VH camp) believed that people just wanted to see him as a guitar god.

[@juliancp1599]

16:26 that's Jake E. Lee, not Rhoads or Blackmore

[@AaronLS.]

What an incredible docuseries

[@juliancp1599]

7:47 you zoomed in on Judas Priest bass player Ian Hill, Glenn Tipton is second from left in that photo

[@HarvestStore]

Great video.

[@lowenbad]

Thanks for pointing out what happened with guitar in the 90s. I turned 15 in 1990 and had been playing guitar for 3 years at that point… so, my beginnings were during the original shred era. By 92, shred was not only dead, it was actively scorned.

[@superyoda1803]

love the series, but your wrong about yngwie. he famously did not sweep pick despite it sounding like he did, he would just alternate pick the notes so fast it apears as such but despite him inspiring people to sweep pick thinking that's the only way to play like that while being that fast he never did such thing

[@user-pz4su9fi9r]

"Bluesy fluid solo by Glenn Tipton" zooms into Ian Hill, cropping Glenn out of the photo. Oof. Priest were before the NWOBHM, which was really all based on them anyway. Priest should have been featured last episode IMO

[@ElOsoMarino]

Wow great video

[@elkeschmelzer9052]

I think the song is called black star

[@Nickk81]

great vid

[@DaYoda191]

Nothing will ever convince me that story about Eddie setting the monitors on fire is true. So many stupid myths like this around music and it's just ridiculous. How does that even make sense? It doesn't! At the absolute best it was a coincidence. But more likely it never happened.

[@marioscharalambous7413]

Great video as always but would have also loved mention of new wave and post punk especially the Genious of Johnny Marr since he was precursor for indie guitar!

[@tjenadonn6158]

This guy seems to have gotten all of his knowledge of music history from his extremely boomer dad's collection of greatest hits albums.

[@patrickwilliamson29]

Don't get me wrong, this is a good history about rock for someone who has no idea about music history, but to say any of this is particularly heavy compared to a lot of the stuff that has come out in the last 2 decades is an absolute joke. Most of the metal bands coming out today would classify as heavier than any of these. Where is the nu metal, black metal, death metal? Don't forget that bands like meshuggah which are considered the founders of djent formed in 1987 and play some of the heaviest music out there. There is so much great music being created today yet we hear the same bands which were popular a long time ago and are not very relevant in the music scene anymore

[@jacksongatens2419]

23:00 if you ask me November Rain is probably the last song that can be considered “Classic Rock” whatever that term means.

[@parengthonycastillo4272]

Correction! It was not Kirk who made the Guitar Solo on Seek&Destroy! It was Dave Mustaine who wrote that Guitar Solo!

[@mallninja9805]

Performed by ?

[@tecpaocelotl]

I think you just need to mention deep purple in this video and then say, all these artists influenced the power ranger theme song along with other songs used in the show. Lol.

[@matthewwhiting6191]

finally! a polyphonic video where i know the guys hes talking about!!!

[@joedanker3267]

The Kinks and early Who laid some of the groundwork for punk rock, too.

[@Scriven42]

Ozzy's comment on Rhoads is fucking epic, OMG! 💀

[@sam08g16]

Malmsteen's song is called Black Star, not Dark Star

[@judewessel5713]

Priest had plenty of albums before 1982 just fyi. Love the vids

[@welcometonebalia]

Thank you.

[@TundraWanderer]

Electric guitars heaviest decade is literally every decade

[@willbowling3744]

I can’t wait to hear about dimebag

[@Zeta9966]

"The heaviest decade" And here I was thinking that Meshuggah, Korn, and Neurosis changed the heaviness game in the 90s....

[@jadedtermite2513]

Ahh gotta go listen to souls at zero for the nth time now.

[@pearcefitzpatrickodonovan480]

Eddie Eddie Eddie! ❤

[@dobbelttrobbel]

God damn someone please find me the guitar version of the Smells Like Teen Spirit at 23:55 , its brilliant

[@voodood2471]

God damn I love music ❤ peak content 🎉

[@Santisoma]

The Yngwie song is Black star, not ¨dark ¨

[@jaredvennett4036]

Damn, i wanted this video to keep on going til current time

[@RyanFerreri]

Are you going to put all the videos in this series in a playlist?

[@PaulTheSkeptic]

I like prog and punk. The thing about music, there's a lot of it. Variety. Just because you like something, that doesn't mean you have to dislike the opposite. I wish that logical error wasn't so common.

[@matthewtaylor744]

7:50 You zoomed in on Ian Hill, the bassist. Glenn is the guy on the other side of Rob Halford. Also, Judas Priest did the 2 guitars thing before Iron Maiden, and was probably what influenced them. And Another Thing Coming was an oddly big hit for them, but I've never considered it to represent them very well. You really probably should have talked about JP a bit more. Then again, and maybe it's just because I'm such a fan, it feels like a lot of people kinda forget and overlook JP. I don't know why, but their great influence feels forgotten. Just the Painkiller band....

[@EclecticRapture]

Great video, but you zoomed into the wrong guy. Glenn Tipton is to the left of Halford; and Yngwie's song is called Black Star not Dark Star.. but kudos;)

[@hipnofago2102]

Guys, Dark Star is an 80's NWOBHM band, too. They're quite good.

[@WayvoCrawford]

This has to be your best vid yet! Nice stuff man

[@nischalmaharjan7524]

what is the name of the song whose solo starts at 20: 40?? that hit me straight to the heart damnnnnn...

[@Elven.]

Faster and more complicated doesn't impress me. Save that for private practice. Good music and art makes you feel more emotions