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Someone isolated this part of Vinnie's Metal Tech video out. I love this solo. Its so unique and catchy. Sometimes I just have this guitar solo stuck in my head, and its great.

I knew we were talking about this great solo the other day, so I just wanted to share it.

It's a killer solo for sure!!

I like the album solo better! Got to have some restraint every now and then!!!

Really Andrew?

I'm going to side up with PW on this one and say emphatically that I wish this was the solo that ended up on the album version of Ashes to Ashes. I read that Vinnie himself preferred this solo and that Chrysalis Records nudged him to go the other direction which ended up on the album. I don't dislike the album version solo at all but I do prefer the longer and more melodic version that is posted here as this was Vinnie's original version of the solo for this song.

I think that we can all agree that Ashes to Ashes is a great track and an awesome way to start All Systems Go.

That's my favorite solo from Vinnie ever! In this solo you can hear a little more melodic part and that's something I miss on GFH. Only shredding without melodic is not my style...
This part show us the Vinnie for what I love him so much - and he has fun when he was playing...what is now NOTHING!!!!!!

Wolfi

Fuck that's great... I don't know why but when I just watched that it was like hearing it for the first time in the late 80's...hit me like a tonne of bricks! Bought back a real rush of memories...

its like heavy metal tango. amazing work.

Yes, why of fuckin' why did he stop!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

why o' why? why o' why did he choose to fall out with everyone ?
Vinnie just do something, please!

We've spent years waiting for something, anything...

doublev2 wrote:its like heavy metal tango. amazing work.

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I don't listen to many female singers, but my favorite female metal singer is Doro Pesch. I wish I could sing like her!!! I LOVE Warlock, one of my favorite metal bands. Good call...dad...

haha, i don't like this song too much however.
Vinnie knows the perfect line between good and bad where the sweet spot is.

doublev2 wrote:haha, i don't like this song too much however.
Vinnie knows the perfect line between good and bad where the sweet spot is.

You mean you don't like 'Ashes To Ashes'? I love that song, for this specific solo. But my favorite song off ASG is 'Dirty Rhythm...

love ashes, just not the tango song by Warlock.

doublev2 wrote:love ashes, just not the tango song by Warlock.

Oh whew. For a moment there you startled me Dino. My favorite Warlock song is 'All We Are.'

gonnarock wrote:I don't listen to many female singers

Check out Angela Gossow.

I can't remember the exact song off of GUITARS FROM HELL, but there is a track that borrows heavily from the Ashes to Ashes solo.

erg2 wrote:I can't remember the exact song off of GUITARS FROM HELL, but there is a track that borrows heavily from the Ashes to Ashes solo.

I believe you're talking about "Invincible"

Shaft wrote:

erg2 wrote:I can't remember the exact song off of GUITARS FROM HELL, but there is a track that borrows heavily from the Ashes to Ashes solo.

I believe you're talking about "Invincible"

Agreed - Shaft is 100% Correct

Yup. Thazz dee one.

It makes me feel that the song was an "FU" song to his old band members and record company. Lyrically it's pretty straight forward...they can try to stop him. Musically it expresses his displeasure with how the music and solos on ASG were forcibly restrained by showing how the solo for ASHES TO ASHES might or should have been.

Or maybe I'm putting too much thought into it...

Man, that could be IT for sure!

Vinnie, YOUR THOUGHTS ????

I would love to read Vinnie's reasoning behind lyrical and musical choices. Just some insight into his process.

Vinnie's answer : PUSSY and MONEY.

Yeah invincible and ashes. I believe Youngblood (or one of those soto tunes ) borrows from love kills too and maybe that one with the lap pedal but will have to listen again.

Vinnie and I have made plans to have a party and destroy the Soto tapes. PURE SHIT.

poserboy71 wrote:Vinnie and I have made plans to have a party and destroy the Soto tapes. PURE SHIT.

One of the few times that I have to disagree

I'm digging Youngblood and Gypsy in her Eyes

Respectfully,

I think those two songs are products of their time. Very rooted in the styles that were popular then. They do not hold up as well as a lot of his other work, which I felt bucked trends.

Soto's voice is too harsh for Vinnie's songs.

I think soto would have been interesting with heavier material, the ballads to me are on the brink of cheesy but good cheesy .

Portillo wrote:

gonnarock wrote:I don't listen to many female singers

Check out Angela Gossow.

i'd listen to her!!!

weird. you commented exactly a year after this post...

Lots of similarities in this ashes solo to the invincible solo.. infact I feal that song may have morphed out of this solo. Even the backing track could be invincible.

Actually, I believe that both songs should be fused into each other as one GRAND MASTERPIECE with both chorus melodies meeting at the end.

i want to hear a 7 minute ashes to ashes... i really like this epic long song. I guess Invincible would have been cut if released but i would hope not. Vinnie is at his best in these epic long songs. Invasion, I still love you could all go 7 or 8 minutes and I would be happy.

Amen, Dino !!!!

sorry my writing is even more sloppy than usual. Having a hard time with my new phone.

yeah i think 7 or 8 minutes or more - like a classical piece or jazz tune. Vinnie could actually make this tunes into 15 minutes master pieces and I would be more than happy.