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  • 2:36 - 3:48 i cried

  • fuck.

  • now this is brilliant! out of all the "impossible guitar" videos or the "world's fastest" solo videos i have yet to see anybody play anything to compare to this.

  • @JWG10237 AT THE SPEED OF TOUGHT MAYBE POSSIBLE... : D

  • @squattrash I'm still trying. (atleast)

  • Greatest damn guitar based band ever

  • @goodygoody23 WIthout a doubt.

  • duhfaefue p8yd 8iy 08g6/asi uo IOBNHDAS FUHLDF DFG ADG

    sorry, i'm cleaning the cum off my keyboard...

  • man this is awesome

    

  • Could someone tell me what the outro piece is? The one over which the last guitar lead is layered, so like from 2:30 - 3:30, roughly.

  • @Kakhaufan i think is serrana

  • I used to have a copy of this piece on a Soundpage from Guitar Player mag,and have been racking my brain trying to remember the title for years. Ah,relief!!!!

  • I cant tell who plays what,except for the quick arpeggios,Becker,i think

  • Kirk who?

  • The part that starts @ :59 is still one of my favorite riffs ever to play!

  • @takeaimnfire is a Mozart section

  • @fracesco05 well yea, most neo-classical is loosely based on some genuine classical. just rearranged for guitar, and played as high a tempo as they can get.

  • @fracesco05 Becker was godly at it though.

  • Everyone has an opinion. None of them are facts.  If you don't like this, that's fine. If you do, whatever. But what gives any of you the false sense of entitlement to where you think you're right and someone else is wrong about their opinion? I think this shit shreds, but I'm not right. Nor am I wrong. It is what it is. But to start getting personal and making claims about someone's character on the comment page of a youtube video? That's fuckin ignorant. Learn to agree to disagree.

  • @kiswjustin Amen.

  • @MrTheMark21 Seriously. People are retarded. 

  • problem dragon shit?? ...(dragon force)

  • that outro its a teer jerker i cant place it buts its beautiful so brilliant i can feel tears welling up inside!

  • @ooDirtyMickoo I apologize that your opinion means nothing to me. You obviously have a horrible taste in music when you claim that a song must be 'repetitive' in order to be 'good' music. All this shows is your simple mindedness, and lack of a creative mind. It's funny seeing you get defensive and respond back to everybody trying to prove your false point. Keep trying sport.

  • Still enjoy Marty's part at 2.25... some 20 years after I first heard it! He plays it too damn fast, I need to practice more!

  • Great players awful music.

  • That is one  bizarrr sounding intro, but this is amazing. Especially Marty's solo!

  • It's sad that it has taken me this long to listen to Cacophony after reading about them so much. Good god this is dual shred at its best.

  • Meanwhile here is a Nickleback video for you. watch?v=v9evuZz4mh4 go ahead and watch it. Sorry the comments are disabled so you cant say how much you love it.

  • @ooDirtyMickoo Classically trained musician here. Years of training in composition, theory, and playing. To say that a song written by an 17 - 18 year old (Jason Becker) this complex is 'shitty' shows your ignorance. Trolls will be trolls but I find it fun say something I know to be fact. Once you can think outside the box, outside your small small world or rap hip hop, you will start to understand that this takes so much more talent, practice and focus than a repetitive ABAB form.

  • @mcgregor2007 no, he didn't have years of training....he's garbage, stop calling it complex, it's a bunch of haphazard riffs thrown together with sloppy transitions, but he plays it fast, so that's, what makes him a music god, wow kid.

  • @ooDirtyMickoo Your ignorant. Go listen to your shitty pop music. You don't deserve to listen to Becker.

  • @mcgregor2007 ok, yeah because if it's not this, i must listen to pop, spot on. that wasn't ignorant at all kid.

  • This IS genius. If you can't follow the beauty of the song, it's definitely NOT for you. If you can't follow this song, the go listen to your music where it has millions of repetition, all parts are the same. To see GENIUS, one has to be a GENIUS. No wonder you can't appreciate this song. Because you are a fucking idiot.

    Obviously this song isn't for everyone (because everyone is an idiot), then if you're still here, you are the one being childish. You'll grow out of it someday kids.

  • @Shotgunshit it's really not. sorry bro. this is shit music.

  • @Shotgunshit ok, all of those were hollow statements, zero evidence, this music still sounds like shit to me....hopefully you'll realize someday.

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  • @BaryMary how is this genius, it follows ZERO composition, the riffs don't repeat, all of them are different, nothing to go back to, zero format, pure shit, you'll grow out of it some day, and come to your senses kid, this is NOT music.

  • >implying people want to hear the same riff over and over

  • @OmgItsGaryBusey not over and over, but repetition, it's a composition technique, there's a difference.

  • yeah but not everyone likes to hear the same thing more than once in a song. as a musician, i've learned this the hard way. people like either a lot of variety in a song, or that lady gaga bullshit

  • @OmgItsGaryBusey yeah dude, it's definitely only those 2 extremes, you caught me, i listen to gaga o_____o

  • @ooDirtyMickoo Go listen to some Debussy or Bartók. Music doesn't have to have repetition to be music. This track rules; Cacophony rules. If you think something else, then I'm not going to try to persuade you otherwise - this is YouTube, not the Crusades.

    This is just my opinion, but Cacophony was just excellent. Becker and Friedman, you guys are indeed kings!

  • this is shit, congrats, they can play fast, fucking garbage song composition, any of you that say different need to pull your head out of your ass, and stop following the cliche that music is good only if played fast as fuck.

  • @ooDirtyMickoo How dare you say such filth about a song involving Jason Becker, someone with ALS!!! Show some kind of humanity you fool!

    Plus, you obviously know nothing about music theory or song writing if you think this is poorly written.

  • @Whackooyzero this is garbage song composition, you obviously haven't heard music before if you think this, in the slightest, holds composition. and i never targeted any of the negativity in that comment, on the Jason person's diseases of character flaws, i said the MUSIC was garbage, not the person, you don't even understand what i was saying, stop trying to argue with me, it's over your head kid.

  • @ooDirtyMickoo You my sir are the only asshole with that retarded opinion. I know you wont accept the fact. And you'll probably try to counter my argument. But your wrong.

  • @DOPOW9419 that's because 90% of people who watch a video on youtube have the intent of enjoying it, i saw this on facebook, with zero expectations, and realized how shitty it was.

  • This dirty dick magoo is a low life troll...why do you people feed his hunger for attention?? just let him be and he will eventually come to realize no one likes him.

  • @ooDirtyMickoo suck my dick

  • I got this song on a floppy record that they used to insert with Guitar Player magazine (before CDs) back when this came out maybe around 1988 or so. Still have the record. can't remember the b-side.

  • beethoven just bought an electric guitar or what? <3

  • These guys had it all: great tone, melody, rhythm, compositions, originality and always the element of surprise in their music. Their music will never be forgotten!

  • there just so perfectly on time with eachother, its above talent to play like this...but both in perfect time? something far beyond what I can understand

  • 3:12 onwards are peaceful

  • this might be a silly question. but how much IQ does Jason have?

  • @capturethelife

    That is a silly question, only because IQ tests are largely based upon how quickly you can complete them. Obviously he cannot finish them very quickly. I do know he is smart, and it shows in everything he has ever done, and that is all that matters. Genius? We may never know.

    Musical Genius? Damn right he is.

  • Watch out for the upcoming Jason Becker movie !!!

  • This is the definition of EXCELLENT GENIUS SHREDDING!!!!!!!!!

  • This is soooo tight lol

  • A fine marriage of shred and harmony !!

  • I "go off" to becker's music every day

  • Nothing like Cacophony. Not now, before or ever again. Long live Jason!!

  • 2:38 always make cry. :) It's such a happy phrase.

  • fucking genius all i got to say!!

  • the song really starts on 0:16

    

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  • Can They Fly ?

  • @Jabonier Jajajajajajajajajaja I dont know, but they really make me fly

  • Really, kings!

  • 2:38 onwards reminds me of ''Race Against Disaster'' from Jeff Loomis... actually, Becker is one of Loomis's biggest influence

  • @creblestar Becker thinks Loomis is great too, funny.

  • Monstrous!!!!!!!!!!!

  • shit i need to cleen up my brain off the gorund

  • harmony @ 1:54

  • cacophony's essence... one of the most hard guitar metal song..

  • Bwaaaah Go Fuckyourself gay

  • @superbowser888 SURPRISE BUTTSECKS!

  • du caralho...

    metal porraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

  • 2:05-end, JESUSNESS.

  • 00:1 - 00:15 and 00:29 - 00:54 = orgasm

  • There is no doubt that these boys are super talented but, my GOD what an annoying song!!

  • @PowerTrap you're kidding right?

  • @theZoftime Er....no. It's a song designed purely to showcase their talents but their tone and harmonies just give me a headache. Just not for me is all!

  • @PowerTrap I disagree. It's music.

  • @PowerTrap THIS... IS... MUSIC!!!! (Kick to your Chest and fall to a well)

  • @dbadgones This isn't music, it's better than any modern day stuff, but it's still not quite listenable. Jason Becker can play the most beautiful things I have ever heard on the guitar but when you put him in a band like this, his skill gets overwhelmed with shitty drum lines and metallic themes that kill his sound.

  • @c0rnp0p5 well at the end, i gotta be realistic, Jason becker and marty friedman on their own way have better music than cacophony, bcuz even though if this band have like the best musicians ever, they don't play the best music ever, but STILL is a really cool band, and its a shame that they couldn't play any longer to see how they could have evolved but well, at the end is music, like it or not!

  • there so many emotions in here...youd think a man be bi - polar....shiit sooon...amazing

  • only 98k views? what?

  • jesus, the last calm part. So he actually wrote that when he was around 18 years old ? GOD

  • i dont now why...but jason becker touch my soul in every song he play ...

  • Does this song remind anyone else of Mr. Bungle???

  • way to go Daver!

  • haha until 0:13 it sounds like a ringtone :D

  • @petrameier22 LMAO True!

  • Jason makes melodies Angels dance to...

  • this is my warm up D:

  • the begining scables my brain everytime. the 0:15 part baffles me when it starts over. got no words for the song til 1:23 when it sounds like millions of pissed off angels flying around. 1:31 is drugs. not like it, just drugs. again, no more words fer a while. but then...at 2:37 it turns into beauty incarnate. i wouldnt b pissed at all if this was the only song in existence

  • after that band marty went to megadeth?

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  • ada mp1!

  • i could swear at 2:18 it sounds like cannon in d or cannon rock lol the sweeps

  • why no one likes 0:26? is the most beautiful thing in this video

  • 2:18 holy fudge.... one of my alltime favourite moments of cacophony

  • 9 people need to go off!

  • You don't choose to like Cacophony rather it chooses you.

  • So epic the ending solo by Becker is the most beautiful thing IV ever listen to

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  • yup! lol yup yup yup!

  • Out of this universe, f*****g awesome

  • maestros

  • if you like the song, buy the album. I read in Jason Becker Message Board the he is living on the edge financially. Well to maintain his health, i'm not surprised that it need lots of money. So if you like this song buy it.

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  • Cacophony were the band that taught me that metal could be beautiful, chaotic, aggressive, heartfelt, anything, just anything you might want for in a genre of music.

    It also amuses me greatly to find a debate about the term "classical" here, you fellow die hard musos, you.

  • 1:40 onwards is soundrack to iron-maiden's video Raising Hell

    when the magician guy swallows the stone thing.

  • Hardest Song Ever?

  • @ilove2shredtheRGZ guitar hero can't touch this shit....

  • @ilove2shredtheRGZ song that gets me the hardest ever

  • @ilove2shredtheRGZ its easier then appear but isn't really really easy...

  • The first time i heard this song, it was on this paper-thin vinyl single inside a Guitar player magazine, (in -89). These guys are not just skilled, they have feeling.

  • I remember when I first heard this song on cassette in the 80's, I started checking my stereo and stuff--I thought it was eating the tape or playing at the wrong speed or something~!

  • Jason Becker just added me on Facebook.

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  • jasons not dead!

  • What are they playing in the intro? It's so fucking crazy...any insights as to what they're playing? e.g. what scales what keys etc

  • @Gergerpatpat I don't know if it's much help, but if you want to see the intro played at it's normal speed try >> /watch?v=rE-spHoxcm8

  • this song makes me want to play some Megaman!

  • fuck yeah man, the Carvin years

  • Becker and Friedman had it all: virtuosity, great tone, feeling, beautiful melodies and arrangements, and always the element of surprise in their music. This is ingenious guitar work that only one in ten million can possibly hope to achieve.

  • Who's Playing From 2:38 Till' The End...UnReal !!!!!!

  • @69masterone Sound's Like Heaven ...... :~)

  • @69masterone Jason Becker = )

  • this song is awesome

  • my god marty is amazing at melody, and then theres jason.... im speechless with jason

  • I remember this being used in the Iron Maiden DVD Raising Hell, so I looked it up, and I think this is as cool as Steve Vai's stuff (which for me is hard to beat)

  • THESE ARE THE REAL GUITAR HEROS!!!

  • awesome. its so sad that Jason Becker has ALS

  • @gtymer35 and you are a big MOTHER FUCKER!

  • @gtymer35 hope your son becomes a professional roller blader

  • @leekwesi ahahahahahah dude thats the only time i really did lol

  • @gtymer35 how can it be if it has no lyrics

  • truly these men must be ludwig van and vivaldi reincarnate for this to be so ballbustingly beautiful!

  • we should all listen to more of the 80's. it truly was a time when the music was PURE.

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  • @RIFFSUAREZ Totally agree, fuck those disco, house, trance, tecktonic, bla,bla,bla....BULLSHIT ! Only real music is with guitar.. :) ♥

  • dragonforce?

    fuck offf...

    CACOPHONY !!!!!!!

  • Gods!! Well the outro solo or Last solo by Jason Becker is soo beautiful!!!!!

    2:38 - 3:48

  • hail this guys fckin amazin sound with deep emotion to true guitar sound not crappy niga rap shit n guns n violence wasting human lifes n blood wher is Elizabeth Bathory? get suckers off the earth thanx

  • Dweller In The Cellar is also apiece of work

  • Man, and I thought Jason ALONE was good!! Jason+Marty=World Domination : )

  • the outro i can tell is Jason ... That is so beautiful

  • That whammy use is characteristic of his ;D

  • @ShinOnigashima

    yea i love Opus pocus he dose it alot in that song

  • Or Marble's Fatal Fable ;)

  • @ShinOnigashima and rain!

  • ahhh..........marty and jason in their prime

  • well, he already told me that now becker isnt doing good, at all, he cant speak, has trouble moving, but is still trying to write songs. but thats now. he said that jason and friedman were the best two he played with, he didnt really say which is better because he said they were pretty much the same

  • not many people really care about him but the singer peter marino lives across the street from me

  • @yngwieroks what does he say about jason

  • ha whenever i hear this song i think bout them old cartoons where you have one of the guys pretending to be the others reflection :)

  • I like Marty a little better than Jason, but they are both fucking amazing!

  • hey, I'm trying to combine metal and jazz. anybody know how I could use major7 arpeggios and still keep it metal..?

  • why did it take 21 yrs what was u listening to crapy frank sinatra songs or somthin?

  • im trying to figure out that intro metal riff i no its in Fsharp i just cant

  • jason becker and shawn lane 2 best guitarists ever

  • I still have the vynil I bought after hearing this the first time on the guitar player sound page. I also heard Vai, Satriani, Ritchie Kotzen, Paul Gilbert and others the first time on guitar player. Miss those days.

  • los mejores riff de la hostoria!!!!

  • Impresionante

  • slowa "kurwa" tu brakuje. zajebiste

  • jason becker is the law,.,

  • Took me 21 years to acqure the taste of these 2 guys and WHAMMO! Now I get it...I have seen the light. Thought it was a bit much at first and NOW just realized how well Becker shreds it out on this album and Friedman keeps the intenseness up a notch on shreddability. Good stuff. After 21 years I say KUDOS! Thanx 4 posting this DaveDenver!

  • @maestroaxeman hey no problem glad you can dig it! check out shawn lane too if you want shred and amazing fusion guitar playing!