Over the Mountain is the first song on the Ozzy Osbourne album Diary of a Madman. This was the last album recorded with Randy Rhoads before his unfortunate death in 1982. It was released in 1981 and re-issued in 1995. There was also an altered version released in 2002 with some controversy (I’ll talk about […]

Here is a cover of Sleepwalker, the first track from Megadeth’s new CD United Abominations. I can’t get enough of this CD. It has the classic heavy Megadeth sound. It’s the same sound they had in the eighties with fast and complex guitar riffs.
The guitarist playing the cover of Sleepwalker is Francisco Meza from Toronto […]

Friends is the first track on Joe Satriani’s album The Extremist. It was released in 1992 and is his most commercially successful album to date. The album is critically acclaimed and considered an instrumental rock classic.
The song Friends, renowned for its anthem style, is known for the use of the harmonics method by Satriani. The […]

Here is a cover of David Gilmour’s Comfortably Numb outro solo. It is played by Mark from Lockport, New York. He does an good job on the solo but what really stands out is sound of his guitar and gear. I love the tone.
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Here is a Vito Bratta riff to finish off this week’s post of 80s guitar videos. This short solo is played by Claudio Cabrera from Peru.
I consider Vito Bratta to be one of the best of the Eddie Van Halen wannabes. He totally ripped off many of VanHalen’s signature licks. Some guitarists took a […]