Chris is probably the only celebrity I’ve cried over the death of. I remember exactly where I was when I heard. What a loss. I couldn’t listen to any of his stuff for like a year or two without almost breaking down.
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Also…
Like a stone - AudioSlave
Scar on the sky - acoustic live
Black hole sun - acoustic live
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Oh all the Chris Cornell talk reminded me of another one!
Audioslave - Doesn’t Remind Me
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I’ve read that Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins is a huge Yngwie fan.
He used to practice Yngwie stuff before he fell into the 90’s seattle sound - alternative rock style.
There’s a Beato interview with him and near the very end he mentions Yngwie but Beato doesn’t take it anywhere. But I’ve heard him talk about Yngwie many times.
I’ve never been the hugest fan of SP but the double album Mellon Collie and the infinite sadness is a great album. Quirky with different kinds of styles.
Mellon Collie and the infinite sadness
To Forgive:
Gallapagos
By Starlight
XYU
Just a random “ShoeGaze” song by Lush
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I recall reading that Dave Grohl (NIrvana Drummer) and friends ran into Yngwie in a bar and approached him saying how much they liked him and respected him for his virtuosity stating we totally suck. I read that Yngwie was surprised they knew of him and liked him and he enjoyed the encounter and thought they were cool.
Added:
A rap icon (Ice-T)'s metal band (Body Count) cover of a Slayer track
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This should give you a clue of how massive of a Billy/SP fan I am. To say that Siamese Dream is my favorite guitar oriented rock album of all time is probably an understatement.
My very worn Fender sig, we’ve been through quite a lot together.
I’ve never agreed with SP being grunge adjacent (unless having a relationship with Courtney Love automatically makes you grunge, hahahaha). Fun fact “Violet” by Hole is about Billy and Courtney claims she put a hex on him and all his hair fell out when they broke up).
Billy’s influences are more myriad, lots of shoegaze influence from bands like My Bloody Valentine Billy talks about it in the Beato interview and of course 80s metal.
This is on the same album as 1979 and Tonight, Tonight. Never fails to amuse me straight thrash riffing. Must have been like the people that bought Extreme II for “More than Words”
Rivers Cuomo from Weezer has a similar path pre fame very into 80s shred stuff. Here’s Billy in the 80s.
Billy’s an Uli Jon Roth fan too. Uli played with SP once.
Here’s some favorites from a guitar perspective.
Glad you brought up Ice-T in addition to playing the longest running male live action character in TV history he’s a huge metal fan. The Sabbath fans will know where the riffs in these came from
Ernie C. (Body Count’s lead guitarist) can shred his ass off. Somewhere in storage I have their debut album with “Cop Killer” on it before it was pulled. If memory serves in the liner notes they thank a lot of the thrash guys like Mustaine. It always cracks me up how the media called Body Count a “rap group” during the controversy, nah this is crossover thrash plain and simple. One of my favorites to crank up in the car driving. Only Body Count could write a ballad about crackheads
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I used to llke this Weezer song:
This is kind of a simple nice song by SP. I think it was one of the first songs they recorded and it’s not on any their normally released albums if I’m not mistaken.
Bleed
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I’ll just leave this here
It’s funny cause Metallica themselves lifted the Sweet Home Alabama riff for the bridge of Four Horseman and a later riff in Sanitarium sounds a lot like Rush’s Tom Sawyer.
Apparently the Sweet Home Alabama thing started as a joke by Mustaine when Lars wanted a slower part and he played the riff as a joke and Lars didn’t know Skynyrd so it was left in.
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I don’t know how high this version charted but it is a famous song and it has a couple of shreddy runs in the beginning
This Chicago song which was their first single release (only charted as high as number 24) has some quick playing in the beginning (bass sounds prominent on that)
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Terry Kath was amazing. What a tragic loss.
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I’m the same, Siamese Dream and MCATIS are likely my favourite rock albums. They still get regular listens decades later
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Yngwie said that the singer should eat some Pearl Jam… (on the song “go”)
STP
Sad how all of these guys are dead (KC, LS, CC and SW).
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Stuff that’s (IMO) been missed.
In the vein of killer guitar solos on major hits:
Rush - Tom Sawyer (that solo is no joke to play well. Angular lines over weird time signature(s))
Tesla - Love Song
G ‘n R - Sweet Child ‘O Mine
Bon Jovi - Living On Prayer
Peter Frampton - Do You Feel Like I Do
Metallica - One
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I do, too! lol On cassette, I was 13… this was about a year before I started playing guitar. I definitely had O.G. Original Gangster first (was huge into rap) and there’s a Body Count track on it, too, that served as a sort of teaser for the then-unreleased BC album.
To add to the post in general, since I don’t think it was mentioned yet: Rock Around the Clock. Pretty major hit at the time, and some wild guitar.
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That has one of my favorite guitar solos:
That two second part especially.
Beato does a video about this solo:
He has one about the song too. → link fixed - was a duplicate of link above
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The other day I was thinking about Paradise City. It’s mostly legato, .i.e cheating (jk lol) but Slash plays some pretty fast stuff in that solo at the end.
Also re: Rush…there’s this one that has some crazy (though sloppy, but still cool) really chaotic soloing. Definitely virtuoso level speed and a bit “fast for radio”. Free Will maybe? I can’t remember but I’ll have to check.
I’m guessing Spirit of Radio or Freewill. Permanent Waves was where he really went ballistic.
Lifeson is criminally overlooked. He spent so much time fitting into the song….or being so outside the song it was like another part entirely.
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I used to like the Necromancer solo but I don’t think it was on the radio much.
Freewill solo.
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If I had to pick one……the solo in Rush’s Kid Gloves is his best ever. Controlled, frenetic and intense….while fitting the song perfectly.
Factoid: He rarely worked out his solos. He’d run a few takes and pick. (Ignoring epics like 2112, Hemispheres, Xanadu, La Villa).
I’m a big fan:
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Yeah after the refresher from @tomsters link Freewill was the one I was thinking of. Jimmy Page on steroids.
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Speaking of: #21 on the Hot 100. The fast parts are pretty chaotic.
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