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Post by Blue on Jan 18, 2015 14:09:28 GMT -6
Out of the classic big rock/metal bands it would be something like this, just to mention a few: Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality Deep Purple - Deep Purple In Rock Led Zeppelin - IV Queen - Innuendo Van Halen - Van Halen Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time Metallica - Ride the Lightning Pantera - Cowboys From Hell Dream Theater - Images & Words For the shreds: Yngwie Malmsteen - Marching Out Racer X - Second Heat Tony MacAlpine - Edge of Insanity Jason Becker - Perpetual Burn MAB - Lucid Intervals and Moments of Clarity  |
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Post by Erikrt123 on Jan 23, 2015 15:15:46 GMT -6
My Favorite album is Savatage- Streets of a Rock Opera with their Gutter Ballet being a close second. IDK, now to me this music just has the perfect blend of everything. To bad Criss Oliva was taken so early :/ Never has gotten the attention he should have.
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Post by blackjack on Jan 29, 2015 16:13:12 GMT -6
My Favorite album is Savatage- Streets of a Rock Opera with their Gutter Ballet being a close second. IDK, now to me this music just has the perfect blend of everything. To bad Criss Oliva was taken so early :/ Never has gotten the attention he should have. Cool! My favorite is Gutter Ballet, second favorite is Streets, and third is Edge Of Thorns which was Criss' last album. I agree with you that he never has gotten the attention he should. He deserves to be considered a guitar hero on the level of Zakk Wylde at least, yet Criss remains one of the most underrated metal guitarists ever. Actually Criss was a much cleaner player thaan Zakk. As for their music, that's a matter of taste, and I like both of them but I certainly think Savatage while Criss Oliva was alive had riffs, leads and songs every bit as good or better than those of Zakk Wylde. This song has one of my favorite solos by Criss: To show his diversity, listen to how differently Criss plays on the leads to this song! I love the aggression and tone! |
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Post by Cybersquatch on Feb 3, 2015 16:34:44 GMT -6
Why does it not surprise me that people on this forum have impeccable taste in music I've been saying it for years now how overlooked Criss was worldwide as a guitarist locally everyone in the Metal scene back then knew how truly awesome he was he kept getting better with each release too! I saw Savatage to many times to count I am glad I took advantage of it when I did back then, still chokes me up a little when I think how tragically too soon he was taken away  My favorites were Hall Of The Mountain King and Gutter Ballet also love the straight forwardness of Power Of The Night's song writing. |
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Post by Erikrt123 on Feb 12, 2015 16:01:59 GMT -6
I think Criss has influenced my playing far more then anyone else has. When I look at my playing... what I lean toward... and aspire to most I think Criss embodies most of it. I would have loved to have seen them live! I have seen a dvd for sale on amazon... but it was from the Scholnick days... after Criss was gone. As much as I love Alex... it just wasn't the same. I like him best in Testament. Anyway, that DVD wasn't for this region  Thankfully, Chris Caffery is still around. I heard Savatage might be doing Wacken this year? I hope if that is true... They record it and put it out on DVD for one and two we see a return :)Metal Method should really get Chris Caffery in... he is a great untapped resource. I know he was with Dean briefly... would love to see him back there... maybe do a sig guitar... I freakin love that Tiger strat type guitar he plays. Knock, Knock Elliot, Doug!!!! lol! Anyway... yeah so sad Criss is gone Would be cool to see a tribute guitar to him One of the best and deffo deserves more recognition |
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Post by blackjack on Feb 17, 2015 0:31:43 GMT -6
I think Criss has influenced my playing far more then anyone else has. When I look at my playing... what I lean toward... and aspire to most I think Criss embodies most of it. I would have loved to have seen them live! I have seen a dvd for sale on amazon... but it was from the Scholnick days... after Criss was gone. As much as I love Alex... it just wasn't the same. I like him best in Testament. Anyway, that DVD wasn't for this region Thankfully, Chris Caffery is still around. I heard Savatage might be doing Wacken this year? I hope if that is true... They record it and put it out on DVD for one and two we see a return :)Metal Method should really get Chris Caffery in... he is a great untapped resource. I know he was with Dean briefly... would love to see him back there... maybe do a sig guitar... I freakin love that Tiger strat type guitar he plays. Knock, Knock Elliot, Doug!!!! lol! Anyway... yeah so sad Criss is gone Would be cool to see a tribute guitar to him One of the best and deffo deserves more recognition That's so cool! I bet I'd like your playing then. Criss is also one of my biggest influences. For rhythm too, not just lead. He wrote great rhythm guitar riffs - some real classic riffs! Yngwie has also been a huge influence on me and early Fates warning when they had John Arch in the band is a big influence of mine. Those guys along with a sort of underground band named Unorthodox is also a huhe influence on my style of writing. The guitarist of Unorthodox, Dale Flood is a little bit of an an influence on my leads but he's a huge influence on my rhythm guitar writing! For lyrics, I think Jon Oliva is my biggest influence. John Arch, Geoff Tate, Ronnie James Dio and James Hetfield are also big influences on my lyrics. Ritchie Blackmore is also a huge influence on my lead playing! Tony Iommi as well but Iommi is probably a bigger influence on my rhythm guitar playing. Here's an example of the Unorthodox style of rhythm guitar that I love: |
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Post by jacoby3mnk on Mar 13, 2015 19:45:50 GMT -6
This is probably the toughest one for me to pick a favorite from. That is MAB. I have tried for the last several days to see if just one stands out. From Holland, Nitro, C4, or his solo work if I was to pick one I would have to go with Nitro O.F.R. . This is only because it is the first material I heard Michael on. Everything I have heard from him continues to seem to gain more to the songs each time I listen. It seems like I am constantly picking up on something in the songs that I have missed before.
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Post by blackjack on Oct 11, 2015 8:19:37 GMT -6
Metallica, close tie between the black album and justice for all. Black album is just a good listen all the way through, heavy and good to jam to on guitar. But I grew up with the justice for all album, my friends dad had the posters and was always playing the songs from it. I loved One and Dyers Eve. My first proper favourite band, always inspired me to pick up the guitar in the first place. I like the raw, heaviness off those album and the guitar work is great. Just wish Kirk would play more solos like the ones on there I believe And Justice For All is Metallica's greatest album. I like the subject matter of the lyrics, I like the riffs, the arrangements of the songs with many, many parts to a song and many changes in tempo and feel, and I think the level of playing is their best technically speaking. Blackened has some tremendous riffs. The title track has so many parts to it and it's a wonderful arrangement to be able to combine all those great riffs into one cohesive song! "One" is a great ballad based on "Johnny Got His Gun" which I read in college. Shortest Straw has a very heavy, great riff and cool vocals and guitar solo. I think the guitar solos by Kirk are some of his best and he's not using the way pedal on every single solo like he later would. Their next album, the black album is just too simplistic for my taste.Artistically it just does not have the creativity this has and it doesn't have the instrumental virtuosity of And Justice either. It doesn't have the heaviness either. The best parts of "Black Album" are Enter Sandman, The Unforgiven, and Nothing Else Matters (at least that's one Metallica song you can listen to with a girl in a darkened room, ha hah)! |
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Post by blackjack on Oct 11, 2015 8:35:09 GMT -6
What is your favorite album by ________________? What makes it your favorite? I am not trying to start fights with this thread. Everyone has their opinion and since music is subject to individual tastes there are no wrong answers. Looking at this as a way to possibly discover new artists that I have not checked out before or maybe a different disc than I have heard. This does not have to be favorite album of all time. I grew up a big KISS fan. I prefer the stuff they released in the non-make up era to the originals. Not saying the originals don't have great songs. I like the style better with Bruce. Probably my favorite Kiss album would be Revenge. I think their sound is harder than where they had been on their last few albums. I liked most of the songs. They seemed to be more focused. I still play that disc a lot. Reminded me of Destroyer but I felt Revenge was a better package. My favorite album by Dio is Holy Diver. I love the vocals - both the vocal melodies and the way he sings them along with the great lyrics. It's an album that has a great blend of melody and heaviness. Also the guitar playing is awesome. Vivian Campbell's alternate picking is so fast! I thought he was the fastest guy around at the time! This album was released in May of 1983. The first Alcatraz album which featured Yngwie wasn't released yet - it was released half a year later. So unless you'd heard Yngwie on the one album he did before Alcatraz - the Steeler album - you hadn't heard him yet and Vivian Campbell seemed to be the fastest alternate picker in heavy metal or all of rock. The solos on Don't Talk To Strangers and Rainbow In The Dark were particularly ferocious. "Invisible" has an intro that takes the listener into a very dreamy, trippy atmosphere, it made me feel almost like I was high even though I didn't do drugs. It was what I imagined being high would feel like though when I heard the intro to Invisible. RJD's voice is absolutely incredible on this album and he sings about very interesting things, things that are much more relevant to our lives than songs about wizards and dragons. Even Rainbow In The Drak isn't about Rainbows it's about a person who never seems to be able to let himself shine - he has so much potential but he's lost - he's a rainbow in the dark. "No sign of the morning coming, you've been left on your own like a Rainbow In The Dark." or "It was cold, lost my hold, to the shadows of the night." This is a theme that is explored in the album's opener as well - "Stand Up And Shout" in which he sings "You've got wings of steel but they never seem to move you, you always seem to crawl." The combination of the powerfully emotional vocals with the also emotional and blazing guitar makes this album the best Dio album ever! |
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Post by blackjack on Oct 11, 2015 8:48:26 GMT -6
My Favorite album by Judas Priest is Defenders of the Faith. For me it's the perfect bridge between their classic Hell Bent for Leather era stuff and their later work (Painkiller etc.). There are so many great tracks on that album! "Rock Hard Ride Free", "Some Heads Are Gonna Roll", "Free Wheel Burning"..... the list goes on. I love the tones, production, everything. It's one of those albums that I can listen to over and over again. Maxxxwell, have you heard Priest's second album "Sad Wings Of Destiny"? It's my favorite Judas Priest album of all time! This album was recorded in the mid 70s when Priest was at the height of their artistic creativity they had yet to commercialize their sound to be a more mainstream metal band So it's more like "art metal" if such a thing even exists, LOL My favorite Priest sons is on this album and it's titled "Victim Of Changes" It may well be my favorite song of all time by anyone! The guitar riffs are amazing, the vocals are absolutely godlike, and there is just so much emotion, especially in the dreamy interlude right before the ferocious ending to the song. Here it is -from almost 40 years ago: - |
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Post by blackjack on Oct 11, 2015 9:03:15 GMT -6
Here's one more song from Sad Wings Of Destiny Rob Halford uses so many different voices in this song that when I first heard it, I thought someone else sang the intro! This is another song that makes me feel "high." To this day I've never heard anything like this song! "Dreamer Deceiver." This is truly the "art metal" I was writing about:
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Thankfully, Chris Caffery is still around. I heard Savatage might be doing Wacken this year? I hope if that is true... They record it and put it out on DVD for one and two we see a return :)Metal Method should really get Chris Caffery in... he is a great untapped resource. I know he was with Dean briefly... would love to see him back there... maybe do a sig guitar... I freakin love that Tiger strat type guitar he plays. Knock, Knock Elliot, Doug!!!! lol! Anyway... yeah so sad Criss is gone 
