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Speaking of bad solos by great guitar players... Dave's in FTGGOG is.... Shite
I have said it before. Love dave but he improvises in some solos a lot. Even classic solos like NOTB with that extended note..and many others. I dont know if they dont remember the solos or they are just tired of playing the same solos. But he always nails the tropper solo. Janick does the same. For solos the best is adrian for sure.
 
I have said it before. Love dave but he improvises in some solos a lot. Even classic solos like NOTB with that extended note..and many others. I dont know if they dont remember the solos or they are just tired of playing the same solos. But he always nails the tropper solo. Janick does the same. For solos the best is adrian for sure.
I love H´s changed solo in The Writing On The Wall.
 
I wish they would shake up the live arrangements a little and do a little bit of noodling and some guitar fills here and there that weren’t on the albums. Steve would probably have a heart attack though.

Still can’t believe we got an added guitar solo on Journeyman in 2003-04.
 
I wish they would shake up the live arrangements a little and do a little bit of noodling and some guitar fills here and there that weren’t on the albums. Steve would probably have a heart attack though.

Still can’t believe we got an added guitar solo on Journeyman in 2003-04.
That's actually something I'd like metal bands to embrace in general. For whatever reason most bands are super rigid. If you look at other artists they are much more likely to shake up their songs and arrangements, sometimes even changing genres. Rick Astley for example has performed a brilliant version of Never Gonna Give You Up with the Foo Fighters, in the style of Smells Like Teen Spirit, and it works amazingly well. Or one of my favourite artists, legendary Greek rock cunt singer Vasilis Papakonstantinou, who has changed quite a few of his songs:

(Studio version)

(Live version)

Listening to the first 30 seconds or so of each version should be enough to illustrate the differences. He also likes to do lengthy medleys/mash-ups of some of the classics, freeing up space in the setlists for new material or deep cuts. Though I guess this is even more controversial in metal circles and would cause angry responses lol
 
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