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MAHO wrote:

Live at the Olympia is still the best version I've heard. I like it even better than Blackmore's original, even though his take on it was totally different than either Morse's or Satriani's. (I guess it's the was the lack of sustain.)

As for the youtube clip, it's great. But the only thing I like better about Satriani's solo is his guitar sound. Usually Satriani's guitar sounds a lot better than Morse's.

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MAHO wrote:

I really don't understand that reasoning. for me it's the the product itself (the solo) that counts, not it's individual pieces. If it's many notes, or few notes, don't really enter into. There's no natural correlation between number of notes and "emotionality" (if that's a word). For the audience, it's all in the ear of the beholder.

Besides, Morse's solo on the Olympia album doesn't qualify as a fretboard fest. There are a few quick-runs, yes, but overall it fits the mood of the song quite well. You can see/hear the occasional runs as brief outbursts of emotional, um, frustration. There's so much longing and yearning in the playing that sometimes it can't hold itself back. Thus the runs actually add emotional depth.

Irrespective, it's the totality of the solo that counts for me. The melodic "arc". The emotional states (moods) it manages to evoke. It works for me.

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waldo wrote:
1) Highway Star whammy-bar intro - childish...

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