Yngwie Il Maestro Johan Malmsteen, THE Shredder, THE Guitar Hero par excellence!!! 🤘🤘🤘🔝🔝🔝❤❤❤ A list packed with MONUMENTAL musicians!!! 🤘🤘🤘🔝🔝🔝❤❤❤ Greetings from Italy!!! 😉
So many guitar-legends! Too many to mention but I'm so glad you had Akira Takasaki on here, and Criss Oliva 👍 I feel these guys are often overlooked. Great video as always! Can't wait for part 2 🤘🤘🤘
Mike Varney launched Shrapnel Records that gave us Vinny Moore Greg Howe Racer X Paul Gilbert Marty Friedman Jason Becker to name a few . Recommendations would come from magazines like Guitar for the practicing Musician guitar World .Varney also put out a blues and tone label that had The Blind side blues band Tony spinner tone label Cintriniti and other fusion super groups. Varney was a solid guitarist himself.
Randy Rhoads, George Lynch, John Sykes, Jake E.Lee and Criss Oliva are my favorites. Amazing guitar players. I hope that You will put some other brilliant guitar heroes in a part II (Andy La Rocque, Adrian Smith, Vivian Campbell). Cheers!
Jake E Lee got so much hate it hurt my young little heart at the time. And George Lynch and what's his face Dimartino from Ratt, its so easy to overlook hair metal bands but the ones who made it had skills
I recommend people watch the entirety of Yngwie's performance in the full concert video "Alcatrazz: Metallic Live '85", to see just how much he was on another level, even amongst his peers. Wonderful melodic solo'ing, stunning and revolutionary technical virtuosity, and the most incredible, violin-like vibrato. A few of the standout tracks (although they are all great) are the entirety of "Kree Nakoorie" including the extended solo (of which a small part is featured in the above video clip), "Evil Eye", "Suffer Me", and "Lost in Hollywood". Video link is available here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-y7PC08BTxhI.html
Loved early Yngwie. A true innovator and breath of fresh air to set the standard for the shred movement. Sadly I feel he's stagnated and I got bored around 2000 War to End all Wars. Of all in that list the most underrated and who should have had a bigger career was Jake E Lee. Got shafted by Ozzy's witch Sharon and never really recovered. Not a great Ozzy fan but love The Ultimate Sin because of Jake's playing
My favorite is George Lynch. His style is so different and outside sounding, mysterious and exotic. No one else sounds anything like him and he’s self taught.
So in albums like "under lock and key" these amazing solos come (I think) of him jaming or doing a lot of takes. And between of a lot nonsense you get gems. Or perhaps he carefully construct them.
Reb Beach. I saw him with Winger in 2018. My band opened for them at a local casino, and I got to meet the guys. They were incredibly gracious and friendly. I’m a drummer, so meeting Rod Morgenstein was especially cool. Great guys, extraordinary musicians. Reb’s playing was literally flawless. His solo on Headed For A Heartbreak was astonishing. 👍
If you ever listen to Savatage live post Cris Oliva with Alex Skolnick on guitar, you'd swear it was like Cris was there all along. Cris had a style and tone that was very distinct and Alex nailed it. Savatage needs to get back together full time. Their combination style of power and melodic metal is something to behold.
I agree, I always enjoyed thier lps through thier career. I wished they would have continued regardless of thier new project Trans Siberian Orchestra taking off.
Another bad ass video dude!!! I like that these guitarists are usually over looked for the most part, but I’m thinking part 2 needs Andy LaRocque, Chuck Schuldiner, Vivian Campbell, Smith and Murray from Maiden, Degarmo, and Robin Crosby, and Jeff Hanneman RIP. Thanks bro
Brad Gillis for the simple fact that in no time for the record speak of the devil he had to learn black sabbath songs and for the vhs(later dvd) he had to learn ozzy first 2 albums...to me that's make him a guitar hero.....and not flashy over the edge Grammy crazy looking guitars like most of this guys😅😅
Mark Real ( Riot) Ross The Boss( Manowar) Carey Howe ( Leatherwolf) ,Lita Ford ( The Runaways/ Solo), Kelly Johnson ( Girlschool),Jody Turner ( Rock Goddess) etc
Man ... at this point of my message i only ive been watchin a second of video... and thanks ! ... you keep guitar alive ! ... thanks from my heart ! saludos colombianos !
Criss Oliva is literally unique.He has his obvious inspirations ofc, but his songwriting,the extra melodies and other stuff he plays over the riffs lifted Sava songs to another level.Legato master,my hero
1. Randy 2. Yngwie 3. Eddie (not sure he counts since he debuted in '78...) 4. Dave Murray 5. Slash 6. Matthias 7. Oliva 8. Hammett 9. Mustaine 10. "Diamond" Darrell 11. Sykes
Yeah I had Eddie Van Halen in the 70's videos. I tried to put them where they were kinda at the peak of their powers and not put the same guitarists in several videos. heers!
randy rhoads was for me the epitome of a guitar god 🤘Malmsteen too. Steve vai ; from Altrazz through David lee roth ; Whitesnake and on his own , George Lynch Dokken , awesome. WARREN demartini from Ratt is another underrated player ; i would have to say Vito Bratta from White Lion is or was seriously underrated too. John sykes one phenomenal player . marty Friedman wow Incredible and last not least Joe satriani. surfing with the alien incredible album 🤘. forgot about jake e lee and Brad Gillis from Night ranger both incredible too 🤘
100% agree with you. Randy Rhoads was my all-time fave. A lot of players played a lot of fast stuff that got "mushy" and wasn't very melodic. Some famous players, to generalize, threw in some tapping and bends for everything, but Randy always had solos that were constructed differently from all his others.
Maybe a "Ranking the Shrapnel Records Shredders" would be in order somewhere down the line. Wolf Hoffman, Andy LaRocque, and Lars Johansson are some of my 80's favorites in addition to the gods in this video.
Most important to me is how they integrate tone and feel into songs. Some of these stand-alone fretboard gymnastics sound like scale exercises. Would like to see Dave Meneketti in Part 2.
@@bondalero0074 I went to a Steve Vai concert in Amsterdam ten years ago. In the Middle of the concert Steve introduced a guy named Mathias Eklundh. Ill guess he is Scandinavian. Boy he could really play the guitar. We all knew Vai is great but after the concert everybody talked about Eklundh. He used to play in a trio called Freak Kitchen. Check him out
I miss: Kiko Loureiro, Jeff Waters (Annihilator), Adrian Smith, Dave Murray, Slash, Dave Mustaine, Zakk Wylde, Dimebag Darrell, Richie Kotzen. But as always it was great video. Maybe some of these guitarist will appear on Part II. Thanks!
Not to mention for obvious reasons ,.. the king himself Eddie Van Halen ,.. who started it all around 78 or 79 with the first album but he dominated the 80"s though .
In that 1 clip Yngwie shows just how far the gap was between him and everyone else on the scene. Reminds me of the 'We're Stars' video where he does the same thing to all the other amazing guitarists during the solo section. Amazing.
Mathias Jabs, Rudolf & Michael Schenker, EVH,Uli,any Guitarist from Iron Maiden,Billy Duffy, The Edge, Ted Nugent,Mick Mars,Ace Frehley and many more you should highlight. 👍❤🤘🔥
Awesome players!!! Please include Matthias Jabs, Adrian Vandenberg, Kee Marcello, Michael Sweet, Rowan Robertson, Vito Bratta, Steve Morse, Dave Murray, Adrian Smith, Hans Ziller, James Byrd, Frank Aresti.....I'll go on with my list some other day. Thank you so much, man for this wondeful job of yours, God bless you, man!!! 😊😊😊😊❤
OMG! Thinking of the 1980’s were 👑Edward Van Halen🎸, Robbin “King” Crosby, SRV, George Lynch, Eric Clapton, David Gilmour, Warren Demartini, Randy Rhoads, Dave Murray, Adrian Smith, Phil Collen, Steve Clark, Steve Vai, Mark Knopler, Dave Mustaine, KERRY King, JEFF Hanneman, Joe Satriani, Jeff Beck, Keith Richards, Billy Gibbons, 😈Angus Young,John Fruciante just to name a few I worshipped in my life since 72’!#(R.I.P.) To ALL of “OUR” fallen 🎸Hero’s on my list as well!#🎸👑🤘🏻🔥✨#80’s”TheBESTofTimes!”
I cannot say which one is my favorite but to mention which one I was listening more... George Lynch, Yngwie, Alex Skolnick, Vito Bratta and of course Eddie.
Some guitar heros for part 2: Eddie Van Halen, Gary Moore before the Blues, Slash, Kirk Hammet, Diamond Darrell from Pantera, Mick Mars from Motley Crue, Richie Sambora from Bon Jovi, Vito Brata from White Lion, the duets Murray and Smith, Tipton and KK Downing and so many other..
What a great list my man! Definitely would like to see a part 2. What a time to be alive and a metalhead. 1983 was when I fist started playing guitar and so many great influences. In part 2 see if you can do some duo’s - Smith and Murray, Downing and Tipton, Denner and Shermann, etc. That would be awesome. Keep up the great work. You understand Metal brother!
Awesome bro! Of course you put Yngwie 1st instead of Rhoads, but I totally understand where you are coming from. It's the sane reason why I'd always put Rhoads 1st in this caragory. 🤘 I was hoping you would have dug deep and I was not left wanting. You also managed to put Jake E Lee, George Lynch, Warren DeMartine & the dude from Loudness in here. Superb! Can't wait for number II with Vivian Campbell, Dave Murray & Adrian Smith. Please note that I don't remember how to spell most of their names correctly and I'm not going to pause your video to jot them diown, BUT I can name 'em on sight, sound, or what band(s) they've played in. Thank you Suicidal 4 Life 🤘☮️✌️
Glad George lynch was on this list his solos has so much feeling and emotion to them and that killer tone,like to see Dave Mustain on the list and satriani
Great list, all of them had an impact on me. I was happy to see you included Criss Oliva, Jason Becker. Looking forward to a Part 2, still so many left (Vitto Bratta, EVH, Tony MacAlpine, Ronnie LeTekro) to name a few.
