Slipknot -Psychosocial Guitar Solo By Mick Thompson & James Root -Live in Rock Am Ring 2009

[yohomeygsup]

For anybody thinking they have to go out and buy some 4 thousand dollar les paul to have a good sound or play like this? Look what jim is playing on...a standard telecaster(prolly tweaked to his liking of course) but nonetheless it's a standard $400 telecaster

[DJSumthinCool]

@yohomeygsup Hate to break it to you but it's actually his signature Tele that Fender designed for him and it costs about $1200. Although, yes, you don't need to spend that much on a guitar, I just figured I should let you know haha.

[yohomeygsup]

@DJSumthinCool well i realize he's playing "his" telecaster, guess i shoulda specified, that type of tele though is only around $400, and even less if you buy a squier haha

[luyru2004]

twice as much time to the original time

[TheLaigen]

yeah right TWO guys could play a SOLO? ;) well, i don't care slipknot is best.

\m/ Stay sic maggots \m/

[andyj2012]

btw jim recorded the solo in the studio

[rebekahwolftiger]

JAMES ROOT! <3

[TheTrickedBag]

im not gonna hate on mick or anything,he does great riffs..but hes just horrible at solos...if you listen to them on the records they all sound the same except for vermillion....jims the guy for solos..he changes them up on stage and hes more melodic and diverse...listen to gehenna or the child of burning time or one of his stone sour solos their all so melodic

[HundredsOfAdjuchas]

@AlembicPools NO FUCK U-ASS DONKEY

[HundredsOfAdjuchas]

@AlembicPools no fuck you.you suck

[HundredsOfAdjuchas]

@AlembicPools fuck u

[ghfgabriel]

mick is thash kkkkkkkk jim is god metal

[horriblequin]

MICK RULES!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[MrCoasterkid577]

shit. i think theyre both good, i just like ibanez way better than a fender..

[yataluvsrugby]

Jim needs a better metal guitar than that piece of shit he uses on this vid.

[Art7TEEN]

come on guys. no need to argue about whos better between jim and mick. both are really good. differences are that mick is more of a heavier player, while jim is more melodic.

[tbitsu27]

metal guitarists are the worst guitarists I think. I mean yes they are the most skilled but when it comes to riff making, and making the best sound Graham Coxon and Thurston Moore are the greatest. James root is a better guitarist than Mick

[Blitzzkreigg]

@tbitsu27 Sigh, countless and countless times must I keep explaining to people, it's all just preference, I seriously think metal guitarists are the best and most versatile guitarists out there, look at Buckethead, that guy can play anything: Jordan, Soothsayer, etc.

[cheko221000]

ufffffffffff es lo mejor que he visto

[marcusebrawner]

I WAS THERE at that moment i was in a tent getting 6 stitches from a mosh pit.....fun times

[BowlingGrisen]

i fucking love how mick starts the solo and then jim kicks in the middle and finishes it!

[randomX698]

@BowlingGrisen I am with you :D

[Herolake]

synyster gates is amazzzzzzzing

[COREY1435]

@bennieponken there both leads while one is soloing the other is playing rythmning

[slipknotfan823]

MICK AND JIM ARE BOTH GODS SLIPKNOT R GODS RIP PAUL

[jobxhit]

james plays cleaner and clearer than mick..

james solos are good to hear..but i like them both..

[blackflag974able]

MICK & JIM FRY ANY GUITARIST IN THE UNIVERSE

[LithuanianGuitar]

@blackflag974able lol?

[sorrow9819]

wow thats good solo by mick and jim

[Direksone]

fuck its too fucking fast, totally raped a good song. I hate it when a band ruins their own songs like that... respect to slipknot theyre fucking awesome but this is just terrible. Like Sepultura with Roots Bloody Roots also tends to be twice as fast

[ChrisONGuitar1]

JAMES ROOT ROCKS MY FAV GUITAR PLAYER

[benniponken]

who is the rythm guitar player and who is the lead?

[james5436]

@benniponken mick thomson - lead (hocky mask sorta thing) and jim rythm guitar. stay sic!!

[lidlet]

@james5436 MICK is alot beteer in my opinion im ownly 11

[micksmaggot7]

its not that they speed up their songs on purpose, its because they have their adrenaline pumping and tend to play it a little faster. besides nobody can play every solo 100% every time, especially live.

[LinKuei06]

@micksmaggot7

Plus the crowd pumps them up as the crowd themselves are pumped up :)

[JoeyJordison961]

GO JAMES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Xx6kanedy9xX]

you cant blame them, jim said himself that when he does a solo in the studio, its off the top of his head and he doesnt wright it down ,but instead he records it and when its time to practis he goes back and listens to it to relearn it.

[Gportentosa]

You just have to start the solo in the wrong fret and it all sounds fucked up. That could happen and isnt that bad. So i dont matter if it sounds alittle weird and not as perfect as on the record.

[Paulo1234558]

pika

[Hynek6CZ]

@Chrome104 =DDD

[DelayedandLethargic]

Originally, Mick did the entire solo for Psychosocial. Guess they realised that Mick can't solo for shit, and let James do the second half.

[stonecoldwhat182]

hahaa men you're so wrong i sat slipknot live playing this solo and Mick played awesome but Jim sucked.

[joshtheblueguy]

you mean in the recording?cause the second half is jim on the music vid.

[weredog132]

@DelayedandLethargic no originally it was all james in an interview james said some of my solos are 'psychosocial, dead memories, and sulfur basically all the new slipknot songs that have solos on them

[Slipkn0tfan101]

dude actually James split the solo part with mick thompson so first its james then it goes mick

[elliotdeware87]

actually he can, its just his guitar tech fucked his sound up, listen to Vermillion, its sounds alot better, also the solo in sulfur is awesome too!

[RoiKaleya]

@DelayedandLethargic you ares o wrong, you can see the diference between the mick style solo and the jim style.

[Kevon100]

You people should know how it is to perform live! Esp. when a song like PSYCHOSOCIAL is performed live with a faster tempo. The song itself has a killer tempo and putting it faster slaughters dude. That's a good job there

[dropsykes]

look guys you might think his playing is a bit sloppy but if you have noticed the song is played alot faster live and from being in a band my self it is harder to play a song in front of a big crowd and get it note perfect, you try going up on the rock AM ring stage and pulling off the solo note for note then you can criticize

[TheZepKid7861]

@dropsykes slayer does it iron maiden does it hell even metallica does it so why can't one of the most popular metal bands do it? even i can live

[dropsykes]

dude your just being a douche, no offence but you are, you couldn't go on the rock AM ring stage and do that so stop bullshitting.

[TheZepKid7861]

maybe if my band had enough songs to fit a 90 minute set and the fan base then actualy we could and i don't care if theres a million peole because even if i did fuck up i wouldn't give two shits because most of the bands that play rock am ring suck anyway, but they do have good bands on the bill

[dropsykes]

just goes to show how much you care about your music then

just stop trying to be a douche

[TheZepKid7861]

i probably care more about my music than that fag does, atleast i don't purposeley fuck up my tone with layers and layers of distortion

[vegeto245]

@dropsykes Ya so what it still sounds kickass.

[xxblackmagnoliaxx13]

@dropsykes not to mention, the vid quality kinda sucks

[MetalMakesMeEargasm]

@dropsykes True but Slipknot fucking rules and Mick and James are extremely clean players and the sound quality on this preformance is shit, but look up both of them playing and theirs obvious proof on how fluid and clean they play, and how perfect their tone is.

[XxAiRuNxX894]

@dropsykes well, i know some bands like between the buried and me, and all there solo's r just to clean live, not downing on slipknot there a down band, but there solos could sounds better.

[guzman101]

@dropsykes Word dude. Seriously, when people are listening to the record and it sounds awesome, well thats because they fucking played hundreds of tracks till they got one that was perfect for the song.

[KCgrunge]

mick always mess up the solo(s) ...hes great , but jim should play the solos ..

[Verraden]

no mick just adds alot of heavy distortion and delay to it and thats why it sounds like that

[TheZepKid7861]

@Verraden is that why you can't hear anything he plays and shit you do hear sounds out of key?

[Verraden]

listen to any of his other solos live they sound perfect

and he even says he likes to experiment live adding alots of heavy distortion

[TheZepKid7861]

@Verraden live hes hellof out of key and adding just heavy distortion to your tone kills it, face it mick sucks now james is good, if you ask me paul, joey, and james should fpr , theor own band and ditch slipknot

[WillDrumForMoney]

@KCgrunge Mick also has stage fright.

[gt4ad1ct0yo]

el solo de mick thomsons totalmente desfanido y segun dice su biografia es profesor de guitarra -.-

[TheImmortalDimebag]

I love Mick but he needs to work on this solo a bit more.

[NumberFour09]

since evry1 is giving their 2 cents, Mick's playing tends to be really sterile no big effects except on a few songs and just really fast runs and scales and all that good stuff. The problem is, as much as i love him, he doesnt always hit em, he really messed up when i saw em in baltimore on psychosocial in a few spots, hes still awesome. Jim is gods gift to music. He mixes in alot of melodic in2 the fast scales and is an autowah junky. He never does the same solo twice and it keeps it fresh.

[911SHIZBO]

@NumberFour09 If you watch there stuff live tho, they both change and mix up shit while playing solo's so alot of the time, parts of solos sound alot different. It's not that they fuck it up, they just change it around. I mean come on, you gotta change it up sometimes, must get sorta boring playing the same thing for like 300 shows or more.

[911SHIZBO]

@911SHIZBO Plus this song is sped up a lot, which for some reason, they do alot when playing it live.

[4thwatcher777]

@911SHIZBO almost Every band speeds up their song live.

[iLifeSkate]

@NumberFour09 Everyone makes mistakes though and it's nearly imposible to play a song the same more than once =)

[MA4VA]

@NumberFour09 mick is better guitar player than jim ... but jim is awsome cuz he learned playn' in 2 years

[FysicalFreak]

@NumberFour09 Jim's actually said that the reason for that isn't so much as the desire to change it and play something new as it is that he can't remember the solo note for note and just plays it however he feels sounds good and is close to the original. He pretty much just plays whatever he feels like even in recording sessions. He was just then starting to learn actual scales when they made the album.

[guitarcrazy2405]

mick doesnt such hr may use his effects to drown out his solos mabye thats why you tink he suck but micks as good as jim but jim has nice clear solos

[loganpalmiter]

jim has no learned theory

[SpudStimson]

You can always tell Mick's solos from Jim's.

Mick's are dirty and sloppy.

Jim's are clean and sexy! XD

[MetalPower86]

kinda sounded like assholes

[0115939141]

thats the fuckin' worse time i heard it!!!

[TheCHKMEOUT]

mick's solos r always low, u cnt here them :( i luv SLIPKNOT!

[Picopunk3]

I love how Mick always makes his Phychosocial solo sound dirty, conventional solo's really arn't slipknot live.

[guitarplayer600]

mick sucks that sounded like a bunch of mess

[ToaJoe]

Christ this is terrible

Terrible dual guitarists. Pathetic solo

Megadeth crushes Slipknot

[maggotbound]

ur the lowest rated comment on the board. this is like going to a husker bar durring the super bowl and wearing the other team's jersy....megadeth is good but slipknot dominates!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!

[ToaJoe]

Lol, how dare you even compare Slipknot to Megadeth

PM if you want to be eduacted on why Megadeth kicks Slipknot's Nu metal (fake metal) ass

[iamamaggot666]

neither is lead...they share the solos, obviously as seen here, and they both play rhythm...just people think they're always HAS to be a lead and rhythm when theres more then one guitarist...so they started saying Mick was...Jim likes to add melody and such to the songs which is probabl why he was named rhythm guitarist but in reality...they both share the roles...

both sic guitarists, and this video is a horrible representation of them...they're both SO much better

[rigsupport]

both solos from this video sucked? listen to them! haha, u should have been at download or roskilde 2009, they performed SO MUCH BETTER!

stay sic /m/

[yabbapcdfg]

if you want to play jim roots solo best thing to do is to turn your guitar on rythm and sweep rool your fingers its almost exactly if you watch his hands you can get it perfect

[guitarcrazy2405]

mick is better

1 he is much faster than jim

2 he playes all their riffs much better

3mick is the lead guitarist

but jim is still great

[DefSquadGeneral]

Fuck That, Jim Adds Melody To All Of Their Songs This Last Album Cycle. His Solos Are Insane, But I Dont Know. I Didnt Like Too Many Of His Solos During RAR And Download. Mick Definitely Is Great Guitar Player. I Like His Solos On Albums, Their Nuts. But Live, Not So Much. And Another Thing, Im Not Trying To Be A Douche, Just Stating My Opinion . Jim Is Technically The Lead Guitarist For Slipknot And Stone Sour, But He Often Switches It Up.

[anbuwolff]

hahha not true actually..i went to there concert on oct 20, james did every single solo and fukin perfectly, and through out the songs he would throw in his own little arppegios, mick just played rythem

[CAMSAM8Stashman]

How can u say mick is faster when they play the same damn riffs dipshit... mick is great... i love him but Jims solos are beautiful and articulate... and micks are random and sporatic... mick has no clue how he recorded his solo... and he never will know... thats y his dont sound as good live. ohh and Jim did take over the lead... ive seen them live twice this year and jim played almost all the solos

[iPoIsOnOuSx]

not really, both share the lead position, u can see it listening all the songs.

[MyFenderOwnsYours]

@guitarcrazy2405 Then explain me how in live performances Jim plays more (improvised) leads than Mick? And how Jim's solos sound much cleaner? Mick won't even dare to play his own lead, and when he plays a solo live it's sloppy and many notes are either not hit or out of tune.

[heavyrockerlife]

mick kicks jims ass

[123123guille123123]

mike is the lead guitar??

i read i dont remember where... that jim was the lead... :S

they are both excellent... but mick is like... too fast so i cant hea him... i mean... hes not fastest than jim, but his solos are like.... to much noise for me... ilove'em but jim's like my favorite guitaist... =D

thats just what i think... or wht i could explain.... X)

[MrSlipdeth]

dude i couldnt even hear micks part at the start, all i heard was drums and the jim's guitar

[matteandrepace]

i love james

[ZaiorosZ]

mmm i like both but if mick is the leader guitar so it should be for something

[muzaqqir1]

i have to agree that jim is better .

[blackflag974able]

mick kicks jims ass

[VaitrucciSatch]

Jim is definitely better.

1. He is more diverse.

2. His playing is actually clean, unlike Mick's.

3. He is faster.

[jcallseven]

not faster not more diverse. cleaner live. yes

[screamnowx]

yes...

Jim is better^^

they played every song faster @ Rock am Ring..^^

[MarviB10]

I agree jim is better

[blackflag974able]

naw mick kicks jims ass

[MarviB10]

yeah in a real life fight but in a guitar battle jim would rip mick into pieces !

[hitterbrehm]

Jim is better

[Kha096]

Wasn`t that a little fast playing?

[helioglobe]

normally when these guys perform live they love playing faster. ive seen them before at their 2009 toronto concert.

[MrEvga]

it was sped up

[RasaHawk]

james root started using his new guitar :O u can see it at ruisrock 2009 site pictures.

[buneg12]

what? you mean the gibson flying V?

[RasaHawk]

Yes.

[CriZiS22F]

it just a few time that he used it