He definitely was one of the best and one of the most underrated guitarist. Just like so many other guitarists out there. the problem is, this society only notices the same few players made popular by the media. That they don't notice new potential from so many other great players out there. They keep going back to the same 3 guitar heroes over and over. They were good yes. But there are still so many other great guitarists that don't ever get mentioned just like Christopher M. Olivera here. R. I. P. Chris you were also one of the greatest players out there...
This band had more fantastic original material early in its career than any other. In my opinion, they were America's greatest ever band with rock's greatest guitar player. Ed really was better than anyone else. Anyone.
Alex’s guitar work is amazing on this album. I think his guitar finally came back to the front with power windows, and I think it’s more prominent than it was on signals or grace under pressure.
I disagree, I think this was the first Rush album where the keys were more dominant than the guitar. Signals and Grace under pressure at least had more driving riffs that carried the songs, but on Power Windows the guitar parts definitely sound like they were taking a backseat to the keys. But when the guitar does get more prominent I do agree it sounds very powerful
You’re a hero for uploading these! Hope we get to hear Criss’ guitar isolated for the rest of the albums he played on too, especially Sirens and Hall of The Mountain King
He was one of a kind. A guitar monster! There is many good guitarists out there but nothing like Olivas unpolished, raw play. Nothing like the melody and emotion he could deliver with his guitar. I can think only 2 similar like him... Jeff waters and Marty friedman!
El gran Criss Oliva, inolvidable, un verdadero maestro y generador de hermosas emociones mediante su guitarra. Tenia la mezcla perfecta entre velocidad, virtuosismo, potencia, pero tambien emotividad y sensibilidad, que es algo que casi no tienen los shreders. La primera cancion que escuche de savatage fue 24 hours ago, y blow my mind, desde ahi me volvi fan de esta banda y gracias a este gran y recordado guitarrista. Un reconocimiento a donde te encuentres Criss. Saludos desde México.
Alex recorded the whole album with his big rack setup. The only way to strip the effects would be to go back to 1983 and ask Alex to turn his effects off 😂
Criss was the master of minor/phrygian scale legato playing. I have been using his tricks to impress people for 30 years now. It still works. For me he was an even bigger influence than the other masters of his time (Moore/Malmsteen/Vai/Satriani/Beach/Vandenberg/Norum/Becker etc.). Buti don't think he is underestimated. He didn't care too much for precision. It didn't matter to him if it was 17-notes-a-beat on one beat and 14-notes-a-beat on the next. It was more about feeling. So his speed runs were quite anarchic, compared to the sextuplet runs of todays shredders. But his feeling never failed him. His picking hand was a little sloppy too, which is typical for legato specialists. That was his style, and his solos are still among the sweetest of all time, and i love to play them, especially the ones in "hounds" and "summer's rain"...
