Viv Campbell is my personal favorite and main guitar influence. His tone and bends are incredible. Goldy did everything as everyone said, made justice to respect the solo. Doug aldridge is Doug Aldridge…simply amazing. Steve Morse, cmon…cant touch that man…he is also a legend.
100% agree with your assessment. I would add that I like Viv's solo with the Les Paul much, much better than the Nightswan or whatever he was playing with the whammy bar. Doug's solo was outstanding and Steve Morse's alternate take was really cool too.
Love seeing Viv shred his material with Last In Line on his OG Black Les Paul. How cool he was able to get that guitar back. Been front row for many of these LIL shows and Viv is better than ever.
Vivian Campbell own his own solo and is a beast. And as much as I adore Dio. Why can't he shut up when a solo is played and why can't ha perform live on pair with the studio recordings.
for a brief moment I thought it was Vivian Campbell ( because I'm a fan of him ) but... nothing compares to Craig Golby ... he is an absolute genius, a phenomenon rarely seen on this planet
I remember back in the mid 80s,in some metal magazine which i could not remember,an interview with yngwie and he was asked if he feels like hes the fastest but suprisingly yngwie said no,becos ive heard some fast solos from viv campbell.considering how egoistic he was back then.
acho injusto o trecho de Craig Goldy. olha a performance dele em 2004 nesse link ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cIdzxdpNp0k.html I think Craig Goldy's excerpt is unfair. look at his performance in 2004 on this link
Although Vivian is awesome and a legend, and was the original, Craig Goldy just sounds so much cleaner, smoother, and better in sync with the rest of the band, perfection
You just can't copy Campbell. Feel is not something you can steal. Goldy is trying so hard to make something that is as good, and he misses the target completely no matter how hard he try. It seems like he try to outrun Campbell's feel by adding technic and complexity, but sorry mate, you only did it worse by doing that.
Nah he just outplayed what Campbell could do. Even by his own admission. Campbell is on record saying that he is self taught and it has drawbacks. He doesn’t have the fundamentals to build from and the technical know how of scales etc. he can play and create but it is more limiting to be self taught.
Funny - Doug Aldrich by a lot. Goldy plays is second best. Weird - Vivian comes in 3rd....no wonder he joined Def Leppard. Steve Morse - must be tripping on acid.....he's playing some other solo completely.
They all play the solo for rainbow in the dark well...but only Viv can play the solo for stand up and shout!! All of the other guitarists just butcher it
Nah. Goldy is melodically massively off a lot of the time. He loses the flow, and your attention, by not caring that he’s playing some passages and bends that are not even in the correct key.
Personally, I think it says a lot, or rather it says everything you need to say in that players the caliber of Goldy and Aldrich kept 90 plus percent of the originality intact. They played Vivian's solo, not theirs. What the hell else can you say that is louder testimony in favor of Vivian? Goldy and Aldrich are badass players, undoubtedly, and they both knew not to fuck with something that didn't need fucked with. That being said, I vote the following: 1. Campbell, 2. Aldrich, 3. Goldy, 4. Morse
Awesome video - it was Viv's solo on this song that inspired me to pick up the guitar. As the originator, it's tough to say someone else does a better job with it. Aldrich is a monster and filled not only Vivian's (and Blackmore's) roles with Dio, but also the roles of John Sykes/Adrian Vandenburg/Steve Vai in Whitesnake. For Steve Morse, my guess is that this was a joint appearance between Deep Purple and Dio at some point and he was winging the solo based on the chord charts and what he could remember from hearing it on the radio. Goldy does a phenomenal job with it, but I always thought it a bit of a shame that Dio had him recreate/approximate Vivian's solo. It would have been really interesting to see how he would have approached the song and solo given the opportunity to do it his way.
Steve Morse doesn’t normally shred but he has the chops to learn it but you can tell it was a crash hiring where Steve would have to learn all those song’s leads and so he just did his own thing to make it through the tour. Well, unless it was just a couple of performances and not a whole tour.
Viv originated the solo and Goldy maintained a killer consistency. Years later you can still count on Viv to nail his original work. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uubPfnwHors.html
That was also my takeaway. In many ways, Craig was a better guitarist than Vivian because he not only contributed the most insane live solo of any guitarist to work with Dio on the same tour he was featured on in this clip, but he was also capable of adapting to Viv's signature style and also expand upon it a bit, whereas I don't think Vivian could ever do the crazy stuff Craig did on this tour or the subsequent Dream Evil and Magica albums. For his part, Doug Aldrich did an excellent job of miming Vivian's solo, which is essentially what he took to Killing The Dragon, he essentially recreated Viv's style without really changing anything, which is what everybody wanted at the time since it was clear that Vivian and Ronnie were never going to reconcile. Steve Morse's interpretation is interesting in its own right, as it is probably the closest we'll ever come to hearing what Ritchie Blackmore's interpretation of the solo might have been had Dio stayed in Rainbow and successfully pitched the song to him. On the merits it comes off as weaker because it's the most different, but it definitely has a charm to it.
Sin duda alguna, Vivian es el mejor! Y no sólo en esa canción, el formó parte de la mejor alineación de músicos de Dio. Debo comentar que el trabajo que hizo Doug en la banda fue excelente. La música de Dio tiene un peso inconfundible, donde cada uno de sus integrantes aportó la mejor manera de transmitirlo, y Vivian en la guitarra fue el mejor.
@@NeuroplasticityReprogramAgreed. And sad too, because Steve is such a badass player. I can only guess that Ronnie gave him creative license to play as he wished, cause you know he's got the chops to replicate it more accurately.
All of these guys are amazing, but Vivian is the most accurate. Maybe this is because he wrote it and is also pretty nerdy. Nerds tend to figure it out.
Doug is the most technical and clean, his execution seems to be perfect. But Vivian sounds more autentic and aggressive, there is a different kind of feeling in his song. Craig is great, but I think he was overplaying here... And this video proves: not always the most technician guitarist has the best feeling. Steve Morse totally destroyed the song...
The problem is they're trying to replicate a solo that's wanky as fuck to begin with. Vivian does a good job replicating his own wank. Craig does a great job replicating it, too. Doug replicates it less, but has fewer cheesy pick squeals, fewer over sharp bends, has better tone (less buzzy), and generally has more musical flow and shape. My favorite of these. Steve's would have been my favorite, because he doesn't try to replicate Vivian's wank _at all_ and starts out very melodically, which is something the song deserves. But then he goes into his own flavor of wank and finishes off sloppily. None of them are very good. It's a great progression, it deserves are more tasteful, melodic player.
Craig and Tracy G are my favorite Dio guitar players. Interesting you gave Vivian more air time than the others. And some of the quality of the videos are not great. That isn't fair.
Pointless comparing all these guys to VC he wrote the solo. No one’s going to play quite the same as VC. For the record all this guys are great great players.
