Guitar Gods Unleashed
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Joe Perry came up with the 'Walk This Way' riff at a 1974 soundcheck in Honolulu. Twelve years later Run-D.M.C. turned it into a #4# hit that helped spark Aerosmith's comeback.
Hollywood Bowl, 11/1/26, 40 years after the remake, Aerosmith back with Run-D.M.C., playing the same Guild guitar he used in the 1986 video.
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Underrated Guitar Hero: Warren DeMartini (1/5)
Roots
He worked out the chords to Ratt's biggest hit sitting on the floor next to Jake E. Lee, while Lee was working on what became Bark at the Moon. Two riffs, one room, same time.
Born 1963 in Chicago, raised in San Diego. His mom bought him a guitar when he was about seven. The cheap tuning pegs wouldn't hold, so he smashed it like Pete Townshend.
At 14 he bought his own with money he'd saved, a Cimar Les Paul copy. Jake E. Lee, older and already gigging in San Diego, taught him vibrato.
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Before the stadiums, before the private jet, there was this.
Led Zeppelin on Danish TV in March 1969, less than a year after they first played together, tearing through "How Many More Times," the closing track on their debut album.
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Joe Perry came up with the 'Walk This Way' riff at a 1974 soundcheck in Honolulu. Twelve years later Run-D.M.C. turned it into a #4# hit that helped spark Aerosmith's comeback.
Hollywood Bowl, 11/1/26, 40 years after the remake, Aerosmith back with Run-D.M.C., playing the same Guild guitar he used in the 1986 video.
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Underrated Guitar Hero: Warren DeMartini (1/5)
Roots
He worked out the chords to Ratt's biggest hit sitting on the floor next to Jake E. Lee, while Lee was working on what became Bark at the Moon. Two riffs, one room, same time.
Born 1963 in Chicago, raised in San Diego. His mom bought him a guitar when he was about seven. The cheap tuning pegs wouldn't hold, so he smashed it like Pete Townshend.
At 14 he bought his own with money he'd saved, a Cimar Les Paul copy. Jake E. Lee, older and already gigging in San Diego, taught him vibrato.
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Tony Iommi, "Children of the Grave" (California Jam, 1974)
From 1971's Master of Reality. At Cal Jam it closed Sabbath's set in front of a crowd reported at around 200,000, at a speedway that's now a shopping mall.
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After Randy Rhoads died in March 1982, Ozzy auditioned Brad Gillis on a hotel bed, no amp, singing 'Flying High Again' from the floor.
A snowstorm then trapped him for three days with a tape of Randy's live set, and he learned the show by ear.
Two months later, here's his solo at Irvine Meadows, June 12, 1982, filmed by MTV.
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Legends Collide: Mick Taylor & The Rolling Stones – Can't You Hear Me Knocking (1/4)
Mick Taylor walked away from the Rolling Stones at their peak and never stood in that spotlight again.
In June 2013, almost 39 years after he quit, he joined them for their first-ever Glastonbury set to play Can't You Hear Me Knocking.
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"School's Out" went to #1# in the UK partly thanks to the woman trying to destroy it.
Morality campaigner Mary Whitehouse pushed the BBC to pull the song, calling it "anti-law and order." Cooper says the publicity backfired, and he thanked her with flowers.
Top of the Pops, 1972.
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After Randy Rhoads died in March 1982, Ozzy auditioned Brad Gillis on a hotel bed, no amp, singing 'Flying High Again' from the floor.
A snowstorm then trapped him for three days with a tape of Randy's live set, and he learned the show by ear.
Two months later, here's his solo at Irvine Meadows, June 12, 1982, filmed by MTV.
Show more
Legends Collide: Mick Taylor & The Rolling Stones – Can't You Hear Me Knocking (1/4)
Mick Taylor walked away from the Rolling Stones at their peak and never stood in that spotlight again.
In June 2013, almost 39 years after he quit, he joined them for their first-ever Glastonbury set to play Can't You Hear Me Knocking.
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Wake Up to Guitar Greatness
Dimebag Darrell, "Revolution Is My Name" (San Jose, 2001)
The lead single from Reinventing the Steel, Pantera's final studio album. It got a Grammy nomination for Best Metal Performance.
That August in Yokohama, Japan, he played his last show with Pantera.
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This isn’t a Prince concert. It’s his soundcheck, jamming on Wayne Shorter’s jazz standard “Footprints” with James Brown’s old sax man Maceo Parker in the band.
On the 2004 Musicology tour, Prince gave every ticket buyer the album. Those counted as sales, and it worked so well Billboard changed its chart rules.
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This isn’t a Prince concert. It’s his soundcheck, jamming on Wayne Shorter’s jazz standard “Footprints” with James Brown’s old sax man Maceo Parker in the band.
On the 2004 Musicology tour, Prince gave every ticket buyer the album. Those counted as sales, and it worked so well Billboard changed its chart rules.
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Every year, Rory Gallagher came home to Cork to play Macroom, Ireland’s first open-air rock festival.
In 1978, he made it legendary. He rolled up in a car, grabbed his battle-scarred ‘61 Strat, ran straight up the steps with no soundcheck, and tore into “Shin Kicker.”
Pure rock and roll.
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Underrated Guitar Hero: Marty Friedman.
1/5 – Roots
Born 1962 in Washington D.C. Picked up guitar at 14 after seeing KISS live in 1976.
His family moved to Hawaii, where he joined a band literally called Hawaii and recorded three albums before anyone outside the islands knew his name.
He connected with Shrapnel Records in 1981, but it took six years to make real noise.
In 1986 he recruited a 16-year-old Jason Becker to form Cacophony. Their debut, Speed Metal Symphony, is still one of the most intense twin-guitar albums ever recorded.
Most fans discovered it too late.
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Today's Pick: Chet Atkins - "Dark Eyes" (Live TV)
Thumb on bass, fingers on melody, Atkins turns an old Russian waltz into a one-man duet.
Extreme went on stage five minutes early so they'd have room for it.
"One year ago, Ozzy Osbourne died. Let's do this one for him."
Then Nuno Bettencourt played Randy Rhoads and Jake E. Lee back to back, and finished on Iommi's "Iron Man" riff.
Footage: Joe E Bravo (YouTube)
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