While not one best songs ever written, I think that this fits the title of the thread.

 

I'm not familiar with this guy, but he is good! My guess is he is a player from some known band in the 70-80's and this is his solo gig? Anyway, I found it interesting he went into some White Snake riffs from Still of the night about the 5:30 mark. Here is the original song he went into. Great White Snake song BTW too. That whole album is really good actually.

 

Classic song choice from an amazing player, and great tone as well, your right.

 

Have to do one more tribute from the guy that has probably single handedly had the most influence on my own as a player. This is a short instrumental piece at the very end of his 1985 Marching out album, titled "marching out". The thing I love about it, is it probably sums of the best of Yngwie's familiar neo classical styling but with a great minor blues feel. He drew inspiration from classical composers in general and inspired by the sounds of the violinist in particular and developed a style unique to his own with light sweep and alternate picking along with scalloping his fret boards on his guitar to come up with a very fluid violin-esk sound from such an otherwise grainy raw sounding 70's marshall amplification with old 60's Fender Strats. His sound and style was something no one else was really doing at the time to his level of ability and command of expression. He sparked a whole neoclassic guitar playing generation after. He is still writing music, but has got a little long in the tooth as many artist can through the decades, but his first 3-4 albums in the 80's were some of the most ground breaking and inspirational pieces, melded with some of the more traditional heavy butt rock that was popular at the time. His persona was inspired by Jimmy Hendrix and Richie Blackmore after all. Enjoy.

 

Classic duel from movie Crossroads

 

Steve Vai! You know, I tried a Yngwie Malmsteen repro Strat with scalloped fretboard and all. Couldn't play it. Really odd feel. But, then I do come from the old school of radius fretboard of the early Telecaster. Steve Vai's Ibanez is an awesome guitar.

My favorite Deep Purple. Most delicious Blackmore riffs to cop.

 

Rory...

 

Greeny.

 

Deep Purple - Smoke on the Water. OMG, I haven't heard that in years but it does bring back memories! That was one of the head-banger songs that did talk to an old rock & roller like me.

 

One of most recognizable intros. Not that hard to play. Was noodling around and caught onto it one day. Same with Heartbreaker and Sunshine of Your Love. All pentatonic Blues scale stuff, FWIW.

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