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klaasvakie This guy is good, nailed that one - wah tone was great!

Aaaannd those bends were all spot on... ?

V8 Yeah, the bends were top notch. Especially the "pre-bends", for me those are the toughest since you can't use your ear to guide you, they have to be spot-on the moment you pick the string. Normal pick-then-bends are much easier (for me at least).

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    klaasvakie Especially the "pre-bends", for me those are the toughest since you can't use your ear to guide you,

    +a lot!

    I can get to a one step bend fairly accurately (not 2 or more though)...but, I struggle with the timing of bending without playing the note, it always seems VERY weird to me!

    No 76. Neil Young with Cinnamon Girl. No Comment

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      No 75. with The Who. I love The Who so much, and I love this song, but this is not a complicated solo. I love the lick at 00:45.

        No. 74 With Deep Purple - Man this looks hard.

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          klaasvakie Enjoyed that, quite bluesy, with a dash of prog? Those bends had me grimacing in sympathy for his fingers, he did nail them - but it must of hurt eventually.

          I dig the way he writes the background for the player/song - adds to it to have a bit of a backstory.

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          No 73. with Phish - this one has a nice vibe to it, didn't know the song at all

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            So apparently he learned the wrong Phish solo for No 73, here is 73 again with the correct solo:

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              Quick, let me sneak this in before everyone dissapears for the weekend ?. No 72 with Aerosmith, these songs are damn catchy.

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                klaasvakie One of my all time favourites!

                Sacrilege...but I dig the Run DMC version, video is rather funny - solo's are a slightly different though. Impossible to beat the original played live - rawkin'!!! ?

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                Slightly OT, but if you had to pick a top 100 (or even top 20) solos using only tracks from the 2000s onwards, which would be your top choices?

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                An absolute unit of a solo here at no. 71. I've been waiting for this one to come up --- tough one to nail. Think he did really well.

                  joeymakesmusic Slightly OT, but if you had to pick a top 100 (or even top 20) solos using only tracks from the 2000s onwards, which would be your top choices?

                  Not sure about 20, or a 100, but my top pick for a post 2000 solo would be Guthrie Govan's Solo in the Steven Wilson song "Drive Home". Solo starts at 5:05

                  Man just listened to that album again --- someone has been cutting onions in office --- I'm not crying I promise.

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                    First Jimi solo at No 70! Such a great song.

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                      Third honorable mention with another Rush track. Looks hard!

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                        No 69. Beatles. Didn't know this song before now. The one-guitar version looks mighty tricky.

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                          klaasvakie He nailed the 12-string esque tone for both parts - easy to imagine people thinking that was a 12 string or some studio trickery back in the day?

                          If anyone ever wondered what a bridge pup on a strat sounds like...there ya go - solid icepick to the temple ?

                          V8 easy to imagine people thinking that was a 12 string or some studio trickery back in the day?

                          Yeah, I think I would've just assumed two guitar players ? But as he says, two guitar players weren't really a thing back then.