LordMaiden
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Why are some go pissy about people are posting?
EDIT: Wow. I need to lay off the beer.
EDIT: Wow. I need to lay off the beer.
Guitar solos " The Final Frontier"
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Travis The Dragon
AFTERGLOW!!!
Anyway, let's get back on topic.
EVERYONE, do you hear 2 or 3 guitar solos on S15...TFF?
EVERYONE, do you hear 2 or 3 guitar solos on S15...TFF?
Travis The Dragon
AFTERGLOW!!!
Listen to the files I posted and you'll hear the 3 separate solos. Well, hopefully. 
Plus, I'm just posting the guitar solos only for the discussion. It's not like I'm posting the full song. Wouldn't the German audio samples that removed from the German site have been considered copyrighted? My download link for those was allowed.
So, those of you who think there are only 2 solos, you think it's Dave playing both the 2nd and 3rd parts? From 6:47-7:00 and again from 7:01-7:14 or do you think 6:47-7:14 is one big solo?
Exactly.mozzle said:
Plus, I'm just posting the guitar solos only for the discussion. It's not like I'm posting the full song. Wouldn't the German audio samples that removed from the German site have been considered copyrighted? My download link for those was allowed.
So, those of you who think there are only 2 solos, you think it's Dave playing both the 2nd and 3rd parts? From 6:47-7:00 and again from 7:01-7:14 or do you think 6:47-7:14 is one big solo?
Lampwick 43
Barstool Warrior
I also only hear two solos but I hear it a little differently. I believe from 6:32-7:00 is one big solo, and the second solo (dave's) is 7:00-7:14
Travis The Dragon
AFTERGLOW!!!
That's a very good possibility Lampwick. I can't wait to see it live so we'll know for sure. Makes for interesting chat though. 
take no pensioners
Invader
Travis_AKA_fonzbear2000 said:Listen to the files I posted and you'll hear the 3 separate solos. Well, hopefully.
Exactly.
Plus, I'm just posting the guitar solos only for the discussion. It's not like I'm posting the full song. Wouldn't the German audio samples that removed from the German site have been considered copyrighted? My download link for those was allowed.
So, those of you who think there are only 2 solos, you think it's Dave playing both the 2nd and 3rd parts? From 6:47-7:00 and again from 7:01-7:14 or do you think 6:47-7:14 is one big solo?
That's Adrian from 6.30 to 7.00. The tone of the guitar clearly doesn't change and you can even here him slide up to the higher notes at 6.47. Also, listening through headphones, the solo doesn't change panning position across the stereo mix.
Dave is from 7.01 onwards, and you can definitely tell the change in guitar tone (fat, warm neck pickup sound that he favours) and it is definitely Dave's style of playing.
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Yes, on Brighter Than A Thousand Suns.
Maiden never had an a-side that was co-written with more than one guitarist. If it's a Harris-only song, it's an long epic and there will be a room for all guitarists. The guitarist that writes/co-writes the song will get the solo. I can only think of one example where there is a solo in the song, and it isn't played by co-writing guitarist - Gers doesn't play any solo on Mercenary.
Smith was (again) the most creative guy around, he got a lot of co-writes, hence he got a lot of soloing space.
Have in mind that Smith composes his main leads, whereas Dave and Janick don't. So his solo will always work, as a part of whole arrangement, because he will work on it (on his own) until it does. Guitarists that improvise may or may not hit a good solo in the sessions.
And i'm pretty sure that Adrian and Janick are good, because i've read numerous times in the interviews, how they like to tweak with their sound, how they experimented in playing whole BNW in drop D tuning together, etc...
TMA-4? Great choice for an avatar, Zare.
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Thank you, LC.
Did you know that the latest launch (July) towards ISS was 100th? Nice little anniversary, for sure. It was carried out by Soyuz TMA-19. Which was 105th Soyuz mission overall. Talk about workhorses.
Did you know that the latest launch (July) towards ISS was 100th? Nice little anniversary, for sure. It was carried out by Soyuz TMA-19. Which was 105th Soyuz mission overall. Talk about workhorses.
Forostar
Ancient Mariner
Will-I-Am said:
Yes. Since he hardly was invited to play solos on other people's songs, that's about the only reason I can imagine why Janick is (or: decided to be) the only solist on his own tracks.
Zare said:
That's a rather new rule then. Check Brave New World, or Dance of Death. Less writing input by H (esp. on BNW), but not necessarily this shitty amount of solos Janick played on the last two albums.
Check Piece of Mind or Powerslave or any other album with two guitarists. Equal soloing, whoever wrote the songs.
I like Smith, but I rather see more equal dividings of solos, like in the past.
Later I'll get deeper into all this. First I want to play the album more, and more, and more.
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I don't see what you're talking about.
If we rule out Mercenary, which i mentioned as an exception, Smith soloed on his two co-writes and one 9 minute epic where all three guitarists participated.
On DoD, he soloed on his co-writes and on epic tracks where all three shared the spot.
Give me one example (other than Mercenary) of a song that has a solo, but it's not played by guitarist that co-wrote the song.
Music changes. You can't compare AMOLAD/TFF with Powerslave.
It's also a question of whether the guitarist in question can deliver a solo good enough. And does the composition (in Harris' ears) allow two / three solos.
It's not like they have a mathematical equation who should play where.
Wow, i just read one crucial word.
Do you really think that they invite eachother to play solos on tracks? For the fuck's sake, they have sessions and they jam together.
If we rule out Mercenary, which i mentioned as an exception, Smith soloed on his two co-writes and one 9 minute epic where all three guitarists participated.
On DoD, he soloed on his co-writes and on epic tracks where all three shared the spot.
Give me one example (other than Mercenary) of a song that has a solo, but it's not played by guitarist that co-wrote the song.
Music changes. You can't compare AMOLAD/TFF with Powerslave.
It's also a question of whether the guitarist in question can deliver a solo good enough. And does the composition (in Harris' ears) allow two / three solos.
It's not like they have a mathematical equation who should play where.
Wow, i just read one crucial word.
Do you really think that they invite eachother to play solos on tracks? For the fuck's sake, they have sessions and they jam together.
I think they said in an interview that they just jam the song together and see who does what the best, and that it goes on the record like that. It's in one Rock Hard magazine, not sure if it's the recent one or the one that came out when A Matter of Life and Death was released, though.
Forostar
Ancient Mariner
I think Zare deserved a longer answer from my part. Here goes:
Why rule it out? That's the example of how it went when a guitarist does not contribute much in songwriting but still gets a fair share on the record.
H got his share on this song because Jan must have felt that if they would follow the rule "The ones who write way less songs should play way less solos on the album", it wouldn't be that cool. Now on the latest two records, I wonder if H has been as generous to Janick, as Janick was to H. This time Janick writes way less, but now he gets way less solos.
Look at Dave. He doesn't write much either but still gets a fair amount of solos.
Apparently someone in the band thinks the amount of guitarists is about the same as in the eighties.
I agree yes. And who knows, maybe this had to with Janick's hand injury, who knows. By the way, when we look at the songs which were finished as the last three -The Man Who Would Be King, The Alchemist and When The Wild Wind Blows- Jan plays a big role on the last two I mentioned. Besides his solo on his own co-written track he does the guitar melody under Bruce's voice, on Wild Wind. Still this doesn't explain his low amount of solos on the prevous album.
I think there's one particular song on the album that easily could have two solos (each the length of the recorded one): Mother Of Mercy. That part is so cool, I'd love to have that extended. But you won't hear me complaining too much about that. In the past I thought some songs had too many solos, now this aspect is really well done.
They had at least some sense of balance (which has to do with mathematics) on the first two albums of this line-up.
Alright, so Janick must have missed some then.
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Per, just read your post, if that's true I feel sorry for Janick that he played so bad. I mean, in the past it apparently went better. Or there were other norms.
Zare said:
Why rule it out? That's the example of how it went when a guitarist does not contribute much in songwriting but still gets a fair share on the record.
H got his share on this song because Jan must have felt that if they would follow the rule "The ones who write way less songs should play way less solos on the album", it wouldn't be that cool. Now on the latest two records, I wonder if H has been as generous to Janick, as Janick was to H. This time Janick writes way less, but now he gets way less solos.
Look at Dave. He doesn't write much either but still gets a fair amount of solos.
Zare said:
Apparently someone in the band thinks the amount of guitarists is about the same as in the eighties.
Zare said:
I agree yes. And who knows, maybe this had to with Janick's hand injury, who knows. By the way, when we look at the songs which were finished as the last three -The Man Who Would Be King, The Alchemist and When The Wild Wind Blows- Jan plays a big role on the last two I mentioned. Besides his solo on his own co-written track he does the guitar melody under Bruce's voice, on Wild Wind. Still this doesn't explain his low amount of solos on the prevous album.
Zare said:
I think there's one particular song on the album that easily could have two solos (each the length of the recorded one): Mother Of Mercy. That part is so cool, I'd love to have that extended. But you won't hear me complaining too much about that. In the past I thought some songs had too many solos, now this aspect is really well done.
Zare said:
They had at least some sense of balance (which has to do with mathematics) on the first two albums of this line-up.
Zare said:
Alright, so Janick must have missed some then.
edit:
Per, just read your post, if that's true I feel sorry for Janick that he played so bad. I mean, in the past it apparently went better. Or there were other norms.