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  • @ RNRDOLL --> I understand! I agree!

  • @austinpool21940 damn, me too grgrgrrg \m/

  • long live the 80's!

  • how many bands now adays try to re create the sound of 20 years ago, or a rap song an they sample or record what they played years ago an take credit for items they stole

  • Wher is Randy Rhoads?

  • @michu490 with quiet riot common feel the noize excuse my english

  • One of the best solos not included here is Michael Wilton's solo from Queensryche's 'Speak' from Operation:Mindcrime. That whole CD is full of earspank.

  • I'm sure that there will be a new generation of great guitarists up ahead and I will do all I can to be part of that.

  • Is That Rowan Atkinson?

  • Some kick @ss guitar in this video! Why is everyone asking where is this player or that player? There were so many good solos in the 80's it would be hours long. This a really good start! Not a bad solo in there great job ! Love it! Shall the 80's live forever!

  • where the fuck is van halen at wtf... where the fuck is metallica... where the fuck is acdc... WTF!!!!!!

  • i though vivan was from leappard

  • @wayneandgarth122 You must have been born in the 90s :) Which is okay...you're in the best music section anyway!

  • too bad guitar solos starting to be dead FUCKKKKKKKKKK

    Fuck LADY GAGA lol

  • thanks, nice stuff

    \m/

  • wheres metallica

  • @lgcmetallica not good enuf, kirks solos suck shit

  • The Solo from The Last In Line is one of my favourites

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  • Metal solos, why can't guys in bands today play the guitar like this? i agree that those solos are fucking awesome but many many players can play like this today just liste to meldeath solos or something like this... most of em' are freaking impossible

  • tnx ,thats was amazing!!!

    keep doing videos like this

  • Lynch has better solos than the ones on here but he still shreds ur face off

  • lynch, killer power stance at 3.49!

  • check out the band im in on my channel we play Music From the 80's Rock on

  • check out the band im in on my channel we play Music From the 80's Rock on!

  • R.I.P Dip :(

  • @2511991120000 * Dio

  • You got that right, why cant they play the guitar like that anymore, give credit to Lynch, at least he didnt fuckup his life with drugs and alcohol enough that he could recover from the 80s, and is still getting it done.

  • george lynch, pry one of the best if not the best metal guitarist that played!!!

  • fan of lynch? , hes my favorite guitarist, I like 80s metal but also some deathmetal. This one kid thought i was a fool for liking some of this stuff. He didn't like ozzy for some reason didnt hate him but not a fan of him.

    When i hear this solos it makes me determined and pumped and it jsut sounds badass.

  • Nothing wrong with the list, but there were so many good solos in the 80's. You should consider, making part 2,3,4,5 ect. Akira Takasaki from Loudness is one of the greatest guitar players ever, his solo in "shadows of war" is ridiculous. Ratt had tons of great solos, Motley Crue had some as well.

  • awesome

  • lol playing an electric guitar without a cord or amp looks about as silly as if they were doing air guitar. ridiculous video lolz

  • round and round was 1984 not 1983

  • shot in the dark is soo good.

  • weres metallica anthrax priest megadeth death etc

  • my top fav bands would have to be 10.Whitesnake 09.W.A.S.P. 08.Accept 07.Loudness 06.Mötley Crüe 05.Great White 04.Scorpions 03.Ratt 02.Van Halen 01.IRON MAIDEN
  • Mr. Bean - I thought it was Dr. Who.

  • just where is JAKE E LEE????

  • Jake is the last 2 songs with Ozzy.

  • i meant where is he today????

    anyone else catch MR BEAN in the DIO song

  • @bigfanofthis dumbass

  • @bigfanofthis -.-

  • George Lynch's FINEST!!!!!!!

  • ahhh VIVIAN CAMBELL Great guitar player

    HUGE argument that he stole evrything from GARY MOORE. Luv em both but would choose gary over him I miss the 80s it was real, it was energenic, no samplin none of this crap TODAY

    hopefully the 80s will return some day

  • Loved it all! Would have liked to see Shotgun Messiah, and Extreme too though....

  • great selection of solo's however the one obvious solo that was missed was 1980's "I'm all out of Love" by Air Supply, talk about a heavy song that was years ahead of its time.

  • "why can't guys in bands today play the guitar like this"

    We can, we just don't want to. There's plenty of great soloists here, but the only good solos in this vid are from Jake E. Lee. The rest are mindless, flashing scaling from a time that all you had to be was fast to be considered good. One star, only because there's nothing lower.

  • There are so many good 80's metal solos that you need at least an hour to cover them all!

  • The videos and styles may look silly but there ain't nothing "cheesy" about these guitar solos.

  • You All should check the video i got !! new glam/sleaze band that totally rocks !

  • Well we have the garage and punk revivals. 80's glam will have its' revival soon enough.

  • EXELENT MAN GREAT VIDEO=)

  • No Randy Rhoads

  • because they can't.

  • he also put in 2 bands that randy played in but no randy

  • grunge killed metal

  • @Lestatvvvvvv

    and then it came back. And now rap is killing ti again.

  • rap aint killing shit. Its its own thing. What kills rock/heavy metal is lazy fans who have no pride in their music. They sit there whining about everything, even when they get what they want. It just seems to me, rock fans are always finding something new to complain about. You don't see Britney Spears fans whining do you? they support the fuck out of he regardless of what she does. Now if us rock fans can be the same way......redemption.

  • @RNRDOLL That is actually so true. i partially take back what i said.

  • man u said it!!!

  • Metal killed Metal. You all seem to forget how ridiculously bad the second wave of hair bands were. Poisons, Warrants and Trixters and the like were the ones who gave first wave guys like Dokken, Whitesnake, Dio, Ratt and Quiet Riot a bad name. The big four grunge bands werent even grunge beyond their first albums. AiC was never grunge to begin with; they took late 80's hard rock and twisted it into something dark and ethereal

  • But Nirvana destroyed all your commercial 80s crap with four chords and a chorus-soaked melodic solo. You know why? Because Dio has written two good songs, ever. Because Quiet Riot lost Randy. Because no one important even remembers Ratt. They were all byproducts of the video age, which (as the Pixies put it) killed the radio star.  When good music returned, no one cared about fucking Dokken. Bad falsettos and triple-tracked solos are dead, & all the coke in Bolivia couldn't bring them back.

  • I like both 'grunge' and (first wave) hair metal. Two different reasons...The lyrical content of grunge is a lot more expressive and poetic, uses fewer cliches. 80's metal because I'm a guitar player, its hard to be a guitar player and not like 80's heavy metal because there's TONS of guitar in those songs, so there's a lot to learn as a musician. Listen to Mr. Scary by Dokken or Scream by Dio and tell me that aint a badass song

  • Scream does kick ass and never heard Mr. Scary. I really figured you knew nothing about Grunge because anyone who doesn't really listen to AiC will kinda call them sellouts (which they kinda are) if they know about their beginnings, so my intent was to piss you off based on that assumption :P.

    But you do seem to have taste and know what you're talking about so I guess now i have to listen to Dokken. I'll just go back to my earlier point; every solo in this vid is just flash. (Except Jake)

  • @Lestatvvvvvv True that and i shall never forgive it for that.

  • @Lestatvvvvvv yeah dude, it seems like grunge took all the good humor out of metal that was so necessary. Metal is the comic books of the music world. When it takes itself too seriously, things start to get a lame.

  • yea no one plays like this anymore...why??? this stuff rules the world!!!

  • because classic style heavy metal is considered cheesy even by other metalheads. Everyone playing metal now is all about "the BroOtalz" double bass blast beats,muddy sounding 8 string guitars, unmelodic death metal or anything with 'core' at the end of it. I hate metal subgenres. Just give me the regular shit. Maybe some thrash. I like my metal CRUNCHY, not fuckin mashed potato tone like those guys who drop down to B.

  • did any1 notice that the start of the in my dreams solo is almost exactly the same as the start of evh's beat it solo? lol bu theyre both sweet anyway

  • the music videos back then were soo awesome! t

  • I'm tired of all these new bands making "music" they think is good. The solo is the spine of the song! No solo, no song :/

  • Pure Truth Right There

  • @xxxNostalgia its true

  • u can say that again!!!

  • why the fuck dont they solo like this nowadays??

  • nowadays it's all commercialiced.you can thank nirvana for the death of good old 80's metal.coban knew he fucked up thats why he shot himself.the 80's were a blast,i never left the 80's lol.

  • Actually everyone thought he killed himself because he couldn't stand his music going to use making record companies rich because idiotic consumers like you let music become repetitive, mediocre, commercial crap and buy i anyway. But really Courtney Love had him killed :)

    I can't wait to see the hate comments I get for saying that... Metallica blows!

  • @prutsikas Black Tide can

  • i liked vivian cambell and jake e lee,saw em both when i was a younger lad in the 80's. the metal guitar solo is a lost art.

  • Awesome picked 80s metal solos. Ratt didn't start "karma" -steverid- YEAH ROKKEN WIF DOKKEN 2:41

  • I love RATT but it's kind of funny how they fucked up the term "What goes around comes around". In the song they sing "What comes around goes around" & it is now forever in the minds of all. Just a dumb observation. I really miss those days, the bands, everything & I hope that metal will make a comeback. Thanks for putting your metal collection on here.

  • You know, he also says "I'll tell you why!" And he never does lol.

  • thats ratt for ya lol

  • Steel Panther...great album, funny as shit too.

  • where is randy rhoads!!!!!!!!!!

  • You have to give others a chance. It would be no fun if it were a race for 2nd.

  • makes sence =]

  • he's burried in San Bernadino,ca.and it's a nice tomb.the sad part is ,is that San Bernadino is a shithole town.nothing good about San Bernadino.he deserved better.

  • Fucking thank you. You can't have an 80s soloist video without Randy. And sadly you're the only perosn other me who said it. I hate you all, except tburn66.

  • Man after my own heart! its bloody true as well randy was the 80's guitarist!

  • What is the name of the Ratt song?

  • Round and Round

  • thats fucking awesome when he breaks though the ceiling and starts shredding

  • did u guys see rob schneider?

  • George Lynch is one of the most unique players even today no one even comes close to sounding like he does

  • Metal solos, why can't guys in bands today play the guitar like this?

    That's why this guys growed up in the 60's and 70' or earlyer and they had no playstations, handys, computers and only a very minimal tv. They had time to play guitar!

  • Its between that and everyone thinks metal is supposed to be the BroOTalz. Stinkin' metal subgenres piss me off. Put the damn 8 string down and learn some friggin' melody!

  • awesome choices! not much of a Carlos Cavazo fan, but you picked some of not only the best 80's metal solos, but some of the best of all time. MISSING: Metallica, Kirk Hammett "Jump in the Fire"

  • lol jump in the fire was all mustaine

  • True, Dave wrote the song, but he never played a single note on "Kill 'Em All' and I doubt he actually wrote the solo. Hammett doesn't get the credit he deserves for being a great shredder and is quite good at writing solos.

  • hes not quite good at writing solos he uses the same liks in all of his solos but i do give him credit on being able to solo over there songs alot of there songs are cromatic and usually not in a spacific key

  • Was good at writing solos* Now he just goes throught the same fast chromatic crap again and again.  I guess he's as fed up with Lars as everyone else. Metallica blows dog dick for quarters.

  • lol!!!!

  • Thanks for posting and I've always loved these solo's and many more,but good choices!

  • man i faved this video a while ago does not get old i also loved the others I wish there was still music and girls tghat looked like this love the 80's look

  • yah, now days everyone wants to growl, i miss the really high notes

  • Nope, Google a pic of Viv Campbell, it's him

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  • In My Dreams Solo Is The Best One Here \m/

  • sweet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Not one clip is unworthy of being in this lineup. Ya need to do another one.

  • Nice Job Sunset!!!!!!!

    Thanks.........

  • I'm 22,666 view. Metal Forever!!

  • jake e lee had some sick! solos with ozzy and carlos cabazo was no randy roads, but was ok

  • i agree but Carlos was I think one of the absolute most underrated guitarists of the 80s, great melody as well as shredding. Solo in come on feel the noise is i think one of the best of all time

  • this is what solos should be like!! shreding all high on the gutiars!! I hope to holy jesus this come back!

  • the problem is...you had to listen to don dokken screech away...to get to lynchs solos..

  • i was born in 1990, i have so much good luck eept for that, why couldnt i been a teen of the 80's :( what a fuck load of arse

  • ditto that

  • sorry kid but what you have is a strat knock-off. That guitar is a tiger strat custom made for him by fender. probobly worth closer to 1500 bucks. nice try tho. =P

  • if youre talking about lynch the original tiger strat was done by himself. i don tthink he has ever had fender custom make one, obviously esp has made tons. but yeah the original tiger was a fender but its one that he did himself in like 78' or something

  • your parents clearly listened to better music then you are now!!!!! 80's forever!!!!

  • Your parents obviously didnt beat you enough.

  • George lynch is god

  • Someone take me back to the 80'S!!!!

  • Someone take my lungs and liver back to the 80's............LMAO

  • Take me with u.......!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!xD

  • awsssooommeeeee

  • george lynch rules! he is the best guitar player ever and better than yngwie !!!!!!!!!!

  • 4:27 love the water shooting up the drums :)

  • George Lynch is a fucking animal way ahead of his time, fuckin BEAST!!!

  • Round and round what comes around goes around. Man i loved that tune awsome 80's metal video

  • ok george lynch and jake e lee had to be here. yes its really a shame that some guitarplayers dont play much good solos today.

  • Campbell was a great you just forget how good he was now his balls have been nuttered in Def lepard never seen a band sellout as much a Lepard

  • fuck you you cunt def leppard rules, they never were heavy so how can they sell out. stupid shit. campbell isnt worthy to be in there any way he just wanks off all the time, steve and phil are/were melodic thats the point of def leppard, playing music rather then just showing off. Moron

  • YOUR A REAL THINKER ARN`T YOU . You can`t deny that fom the mid nintees on all they released was ballad after ballad even Joe Elliot said the record company would`nt touch anthing else and a band as big as Lepard should have done their own thing come on anything after Hysteria was shit . OF course they were a lot hevier than they are now thats not the point anyway thats for 12 year olds they went from a good rock band to a crap pop ballad band super cheese monotone crap YEH LEPARD RULES DUDE!!

  • what a moron, look at the old hits, hysteria, love bites, bringin on the heartbreak all ballads. Adrenalized is a great album, since then the only songs that are as good as the old ones have been ballads. Plus their new album is totally different to anything they've done before. You just feel insecure listening to anything other then power chords and shred, because you are a pathetic twat. get a clue or fuck off

  • What makes you asume all I listen to is power chords and shred just because I don`t like sickly cheesy ballads by the way the ones on Hysteria were great dosen`t mean I am insecure about my musical taste I will only like it if it is good noy just because its Lepard . I didn`t say they had`nt ballads in the early days but they mixed them with good rock songs .

  • that would be dokken in my dreams at 3:55 love them

  • what band is in 3:55

  • dokken - in my dreams

  • love dokken this is a kick ass vid!

  • reason why you don't hear any soloing like this anymore is because fatass record execs think it's over the publics head... imagine Britney spears trying to deal with a guitar solo in a song,... hahha.. The scorpions had some really bad ass stuff happening for a while, bands like waysted, ozzy, king crimson (not metal but amazing) just disappeared because it was challenging the listeners..... listeners have become more or less lazy...... what a shame

  • Britney soloing hahha....thats funny XD

  • Lmfao I d love to see britney with a guitar solo, that'd be ass funny as Celine Dion singing Metallica (that really happened btw look it up)

  • Like Manowar says;The Gods Made Heavy Metal.

    \m/

  • They also said: "I need more bronzing lotion on my left peck, and a touch of hair spray on my chest hair. Where is my Buns of Steel VHS tape anyway?"

  • Ouch!...but yeah i agree, haha.

  • lmfao thats epic conquer....

  • hahahahahahahaha...

    fucking 80´s linch

  • woooww!! Awesome!! You have chosen my 3 favourites Dokken solos!! Great!! 5***** and to favourites!!

  • Gosh the sound of those solos... You just don't hear anything like it anymore. I like this music the best, and I didnt even grow up with it, Im only 16. It beats all the new stuff by a longshot, too bad it changed, Id love to grow up listening to great sounds like this and seeing them Live.

  • All the new stuff is arpeggio crazy enough with the sweep neo classical crap, it is making me ill. In the 80's they went crazy with hammer ons now the sweep, arpeggio crap. PLZ... Enough develope your own style and stop copying.

  • Last in Line solo Kicks ass. The Goddamn video cuts some of the solo out.

  • Alright, Randy Rhoads originally did the solo to Quiet Riots' cover of Cum on Feel The Noise. not Carlos Cavaza.

  • thats a massive lie. that song came out years after randy died, and was a spontaneous thing-they didnt even want to do the song. so i hardly think that a band would spend 5 years or so planning a cover they dont even like. You really dont have a clue..

  • tear it up GEORGE LYNCH-saw him in N.Y.IN2005-TWISTED SISTERS FINAL CONCERT,WHAT A GREAT NIGHT IT WAS!!!!

  • Why do people try to say that George Lynch is like Eddy Van Halen? Or is that Don Dokken on guitar? Either way he's better than Eddy no doubt. I think people choose Eddy is because he was around before Don Dokken. But his guitar playing is not better. My opinion of course.

  • look up new wave american heavy metal.

    and dont forget they dont play alot of metal on the radio like they used to. all the older metal is somewhat ...SOMEWHAT...radio freindly

  • i see alot of people up here saying this is the greatest music ever and all the new stuff is shit and that soloing died with te 80's.

    ...

    no it didn't. i love 80's metal alot, but i like new stuff too. alot of the new stuff tho is heavier than the 80's stuff and it puts off the older ppl. but the new stuff has great leads too...i mean trivium, dethklok, a7x,lambofgod, children of bodom, shadowsfall,coheed and cambria(welcome home ending), nevermore,god forbid,mastodon,atreyu.

  • Dude, these new bands just can't get heavier than what used to be. I intend to bring back what used to be, and make it even better..in the GOOD way.

  • @KissMelmPunk

    They're way heavier. In terms of overdriven guitar, in terms of heavier sounding drums, everything. You iz a douche.

    @SpadeBag

    A7X sucks except for Synyster Gates, Coheed & Cambria sucks, Atreyu is for emo kids, and Zakk Wylde is gayer than 8 guys fucking 9 guys. Nu Metal sucks ass, and you're giving my generation a bad name. Trivium rocks though.

  • No, they just try to be heavier jsut because they use the same god damn technique and they're tuned down to like fuckin' D or Drop C. Just because they simply tune down doesn't mean shit.

  • No, they're heavier because they sound heavier. I don't listen to drop d crap, I'm a standard or half step down guy for the most part, like Hendrix and SRV. And I am telling you they are heavier. Go listen to Disturbed and tell me they aren't heavier. Or keep listening to you Bon Jovi wuss rock or whatever and live in your cave, I really could care less.

    PS - You're still a douche.

  • reminds me of saturday night, a case of beer, sack of smoke and a piece of ass in the back seat.

  • 1:44-2:33 is the best

  • yeeeeaahhh, baby!!! 80's fuckin' metal is the best...I love it

  • i love this shit!!!!!!!!!

  • this is amazing!!!!!!! im loving the dokken and jake e lee ozzy wasnt that good with zack and dokken lost they're attention when george left i wish the 80s never ended

  • i don't understand how music died. what happened to these guys. i myself and thousand of dudes out there admire this and i donno about you but i smoke pot, just like then, cause if your gonna live, why not do it high. i've been playing guitar for a while. drugs improved my love for it. like back then. if you wanna feel it and play it. smoke what they smoked. what happened to that decade :( at least i know i still feel the art for what it was. punk killed music. it started goth, emo, etc. fuck

  • guess what i have no life either....i love to jam on my guitar....i can almost master jake e lees solo "bark at the moon"i rather play lita fords shit.....i guess ill go and 420 and play some more......

  • Real goth wasn't bad, its all those mall kids that kept changing their mind about what they liked and didn't like. Not to mention people today prefer the more "cute side" of bands. Emo guys look like sissies of course. Metal heads were ugly, but didn't give a shit. And girls aren't attracted to the "loser drug and rock n roll" kind of guys anymore either. So actually corporate America is what killed metal music not the other genres...Well they did to but you know what I mean.

  • i totally agree. but of coarse looks are gonna change. every ten years it does majorly. i still think the real metal dudes own music. i don't care about the chicks, the media, or what people think. IT'S ABOUT MUSIC! like wtf?! hello people not a fashion show..now so many people hate drugs. but guess how popular it was in the 80s/70s. hmm 'that 70s show' explains it all. those were the times. sure style changed. but that doesn't mean music should die slowly. someone please help me bring it back.

  • You can't kill metal, even in America. Right now there is a thrash band called Warbringer from California that is starting to get known.

  • nothing epic but rapid fire by judas priest got some pretty rad axe in it.

  • dio /  /

  • dont worry guys, me and my future band are on our way. the other guys dont know it yet but we are. im opposed to most methods of riffing and soloing of this recent era, although i might like some of it i do not wish to play it. love Dokken, love Dio, love Sabbath, Love the 80's man!!!