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Dream Theater => Dream Theater => Topic started by: WildRanger on May 02, 2020, 08:57:06 AM
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You can include his solo stuff.
My picks:
Under a Glass Moon
Home
Glasgow Kiss
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Lines In The Sand
The Spirit Carries On
The Inevitable Summer
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In no particular order..
Behind the Veil
Barstool Warrior
Octavarium (Razors Edge)
So many more to choose from..
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- Lines in the Sand
- Inocense faded
- Under a Glass Moon
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Off the top of my head:
Spirit carries on
Lines in the Sand
In the presence of the Enemies Pt. 1 (slow intro solo)
It would probably be different if I spend more time thinking about it.
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Breaking All Illusions
Voices
A New Beginning
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Under a Glass Moon
Voices
ACOS V: Another World
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Under a Glass Moon
Inevitable Summer
Best of Times
I guess? There’s about 15 others that could qualify for top 3.
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The Best of Times
Octavarium (Razor's Edge)
A Change of Seasons (The Darkest of Winters)
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Breaking All Illusions
Voices
A New Beginning
This is about as good a list as any, but there are just so many great ones that narrowing it down to three is impossible for me! All I could say that those three would all be in my top 10 I guess.
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Lie (Outro Solo)
Scarred
Breaking All Illusions
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Lines In The Sand
Paradigm Shift
Voices
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In no order, and should be at least a top 10:
The Inevitable Summer
Lines in the Sand
Hollow Years (Budokan extended solo)
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Hollow Years (Budokan extended solo)
Yes yes!.
The studio version is a Bottom 15 track, and the Budokan version is a Top 15 track.
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Lines in the Sand
Under a Glass Moon
Voices
An honorary mention to Scarred which is 98 % on the ball, but in the end suffers a bit of a stumble with those sweep arpeggios.
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Hollow Years - Live at Budokan (intro also)
Breaking All Illusions
Fall into the Light
Honorable mention. (Really though, most songs!)
A New Beginning
Beyond this Life
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Over the years he sure nailed some of the best solos ever ..here's my top 3 then..
1) Lines in the Sand, especially the version from Once in A Livetime..truly amazing performance
2) The Best of Times
3) Octavarium (Razor's Edge)
and may I add a solo that perhaps not many people talk about..but to me is like one the best in the genre..it's solo in the beginning from When the Water Breaks (around 2:55 in)..his phrasing and notes choices..just the emotion that he squeezes out of the guitar is just perfect!
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Petrucci is like Gilmour, Lifeson or Stolt for me in that he has so many awesome solos that it seems almost impossible to pick just one, or three in this instance. First ones that came to mind, however, were:
Voices
The Spirit Carries On
Lines in the Sand
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Voices
The Spirit Carries On
Lines in the Sand
That
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Subject to change:
Breaking All Illusions
Barstool Warrior
Out of Reach
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Subject to change:
Breaking All Illusions
Barstool Warrior
Out of Reach
Same here.
Out of reach sounds so organic and really portrays the emotion of melancholy of the story of the song.
For me honorable mention is Erotomania
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To be honest, I can’t do this but I will name 3 great ones which spring to mind.
Breaking All Illusions
Lines In The Sand
The Best Of Times
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The Spirit Carries On
The Best Of Times
Under A Glass Moon
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This could change depending on how I feel a particular day (just too many great ones to narrow down to 3), but today it's
* Voices
* Lines In the Sand
* Breaking All Illusions
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Jeez, that's tough to narrow down to just 3, but;
The Spirit Carries On
The Inevitable Summer
At Wit's End
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Voices
Octavarium/Razor's Edge
Barstool Warrior
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The Spirit Carries On
The Best of Times
Razor’s Edge
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It's interesting that I can narrow it down to two that I think of within two seconds of someone mentioning Petrucci's solos (Under A Glass Moon and Lie), but the third place could be taken by an infinite number of solos basically.
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Yeah, no way I can answer this easily. Limiting myself to studio output, off the top of my head, here's three that pop up immediately:
- Another Day
- Beyond This Life - especially if you include the octotonal unison after the whole-tone keyboard solo
- Innocence Faded
And yes, I'm leaving out tons of great stuff here.
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That's a Hard one.
Octavarium
Lines in the Sand
Lie
I'm making a Live Solos top as well, I believe they're in their own category:
Lost Without You
Hollow Years
State of Grace
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The Best of Times
Octavarium - Razor's Edge
Goodnight Kiss
But so so many could fill those top 3 slots
Live
The Rena Song at 02:30ish from evening with JP & JR
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The Spirit Carries On sounds like a David Gilmour's solo.
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^ Gilmour with wild shred chops, maybe.
Another Day was a good call from Elite. That is a brilliant solo. From that era, I've always thought of Bombay Vindaloo as prime Petrucci.
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I can only limit to 3? ;D
For the record, I really like John's slower stuff just as much as the fast and furious parts.
Really hard to choose, but if forced to...
Fatal Tragedy
The Test That Stumped Them All
Nightmare to Remember (esp that riff at 9:31)
My first meet and greet with them, I asked John what scale he used for that 2nd solo on Nightmare. His eyes got real big, he paused and said "You know, I have no idea...I'd have to look it up!"
Love that guy :D
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The Spirit Carries On
The Best of Times
A New Beginning
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Lines in the Sand
As I Am
Under a Glass Moon
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Lines in the Sand
Breaking all Illusions
ACOS - Scenes from NY version
Honorable mention - Hollow Years (Budokan)
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ACOS - The Inevitable Summer
BAI
TMoLS
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Hollow Years (Budokan extended solo)
^This.
And for my current tastes, A New Beginning has the other two--one shred, one rockin'
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Hmmmmm off the top of my head:
Erotomania for sure.
Breaking All Illusions.
And I'm currently in mad love with the Untethered Angel solo.
Honorary mention to the the Constant Motion solo.
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Still surprised nobody mentioned my current favorite, the outro of At Wit's End.
My current faves are recent. Number 2 is Our New World. Nummber 3 is Chosen.
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Listened to a lot of Petrucci tonight. If I had a top 10, he'd probably fill at least half of it, maybe more.
Top 3 (for now):
Freedom of Speech (first solo in the beginning)
Lines in the Sand
Best of Times
I actually think the first two are locks for the top 3, but that 3rd spot could easily be swapped for probably a dozen different ones. What a fucking legend.
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1. Hollow Years (Live @ Budokan)
2. The Best of Times
3. Fall Into The Light (there's an emotional element to this that gets me every time)
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I’ll just throw it out there that I think Petrucci hit his apex with the Awake album
He’s just on fire the whole album- the 7 string work which was very creative for its time, the riffs, the quick unisons he does with Moore, the solos...he just lays everything out on the table.
The outro to “Innocence Faded” sounds like Neil Schon on crack. The “Lie” solos give Marty Friedman and Dimebag a run for their money for heavy metal shred intensity. The “Scarred” solo is awesomely composed and compliments Moore’s keyboard solo that comes before it.
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JP was indeed amazing in Awake. But it was missing one signature, the emotional solo that makes you cry, loke the TSCO solo.and outro, TBOT, 8VM outro, AWE outro.
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JP was indeed amazing in Awake. But it was missing one signature, the emotional solo that makes you cry, loke the TSCO solo.and outro, TBOT, 8VM outro, AWE outro.
The Voices solo sounds quite emotional to me.
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Top three right now off the top of my head (there's large parts of the later discography I haven't heard in a long time, and I've still not got around to listening to Distance over Time :o, so there'll likely be ones I've missed)
Under a Glass Moon - kind of a given really, but it is just that good. It feels like it was written to include as many ideas/techniques as possible, but manages to do it really smoothly without feeling like things have just been shoehorned in.
Erotomania - the big long solo in the middle
Don't Look Past Me - the one at 4:00-ish, just after "Don't ask how come, ask how high" - It's not massively flashy or technical compared to some of his other solos, and it's overlooked since the song isn't on a 'proper' album, but I just absolutely love this one.
Honourable mention goes to the ending of Take the Time. One of those ones where you wish it didn't fade out and kept going. I just really like the up-beat perky major scale (well, major scale with the raised 4th to accommodate the F# chord) vibe it's got.
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JP was indeed amazing in Awake. But it was missing one signature, the emotional solo that makes you cry, loke the TSCO solo.and outro, TBOT, 8VM outro, AWE outro.
The Voices solo sounds quite emotional to me.
Voices..all of The Silent Man...all of Lifting Shadows Off A Dream..
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You are equating the emotions of the solos in these songs to the emotions evoked by the TSCO, 8VM and AWE outro solos? The tears rolling down your face while JP playa on top of a mountain solo? :laugh:
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Goodnight Kiss
Hell's Kitchen
Under a Glass Moon
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You are equating the emotions of the solos in these songs to the emotions evoked by the TSCO, 8VM and AWE outro solos? The tears rolling down your face while JP playa on top of a mountain solo? :laugh:
I meant all of the guitar work, not just the solos. And none of them make tears roll down my face. The ones I mentioned, or you. But that doesn’t mean they’re not emotional.
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Top three right now off the top of my head (there's large parts of the later discography I haven't heard in a long time, and I've still not got around to listening to Distance over Time :o, so there'll likely be ones I've missed)
Under a Glass Moon - kind of a given really, but it is just that good. It feels like it was written to include as many ideas/techniques as possible, but manages to do it really smoothly without feeling like things have just been shoehorned in.
Erotomania - the big long solo in the middle
Don't Look Past Me - the one at 4:00-ish, just after "Don't ask how come, ask how high" - It's not massively flashy or technical compared to some of his other solos, and it's overlooked since the song isn't on a 'proper' album, but I just absolutely love this one.
Honourable mention goes to the ending of Take the Time. One of those ones where you wish it didn't fade out and kept going. I just really like the up-beat perky major scale (well, major scale with the raised 4th to accommodate the F# chord) vibe it's got.
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1. As I Am
2. Our New World
3. Razors Edge
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Aghh picking three is hard.
Lines in the Sand
Octavarium (Razor's Edge)
Barstool Warrior (last one)
Honourable mentions go to These Walls (probably one of the simplest JP solos but it's so tasteful), The Spirit Carries On, Wither, The Best of Times, The Count of Tuscany. I could keep going on :lol
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in no particular order:
1. Illumination Theory
2. Pale Blue Dot (the one during the ending, or the second Morricone section of the album, as I refer to it and the one during the wank section, nice and angular)
3. Breaking All Illusions
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Lines in the Sand
Under a Glass Moon
Voices
An honorary mention to Scarred which is 98 % on the ball, but in the end suffers a bit of a stumble with those sweep arpeggios.
What about the sweep arpeggios are you not a fan of?
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Lines in the Sand
Under a Glass Moon
Voices
An honorary mention to Scarred which is 98 % on the ball, but in the end suffers a bit of a stumble with those sweep arpeggios.
What about the sweep arpeggios are you not a fan of?
I feel like going up a major arpeggio and down its inversion was a rather uninspired choice for capping off that solo. It has the feel of a sweep-picking exercise.
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Lines In The Sand
The Spirit Carries On
Breaking All Illusions