Nothing from Spinal Tap?

Did the computer figuratively shut off??

Musta been really hard to pick a RATM song! My personal favorite is Freedom, but I was a teenage bass player at the time it came out and god damn was that track fun as hell to play.

Mark knopfler. Dire straits came up when punk was extremely big and bands like led zep and deep purple already got the name "dinosaur rock". He made guitar music interesting and fresh again, in a time where it was a whole lot harder than in the 60's/70's. He definitely belongs on the list of the names mentioned (clapton, hendrix, page, beck)

Ok Sweet Home Alabama is a great song but the greatest rock anthem of all time is Freebird. Shame you can't include Guns-N-Roses but Welcome to the Jungle is in the top 20 as well.

Boston was an incubator of great new music and outlets on the fm dial to hear it.. but the city just lost its last FM station (WAAF) that played new release and featured local bands. There are 4 remaining classic rock stations that play the same overlapping playlists of worn out songs over and over.

#5 is something you can't teach

on the turning away - Pink Floyd

Consider Neil Geraldo: "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" and/or "Jessie's Girl." His choices are always so quirky, yet tasteful and concise. Ear candy.

I was on concert of both. Joe is a perfect musician on guitar but John has more musicality and don't gets boring.

Ok, let's start a top #20 list with the #1. Rick is great.

I completely agree with most of them 😍

throughly enjoyed watching you go through these

It's super cool to hear from first class players like Joe who are first class dudes as well.

It always sounds jarring and awkward to me. The instruments sound ugly.

Come on, Rick !! how can you forget the several Beatles songs covers that your neighbor Elton John did? LUCY IN THE SKY WITH DIAMONDS for me is the best . Much better than the classic original !!

That is very close to what I would of had. Was U2 the War album their debut?

Christina Aguilera’s ICONICs intro should better be here.

What about Golden Earring (Radar Love, Twilight Zone) or Rush (Spirit of Radio, Closer to the Heart, Tom Sawyer, etc.)

January 1st 1970 to December 31st 1973 are my favorite 4 consecutive years of music. The musicians who were still alive and vital, the groups that were still hungry and climbing, it was a time before heroin and cocaine took over the industry.

None of this music would ever make my playlist. I must be getting old.

Geoff Tate

Layla? Fade to Black?? Feel like both of these would be flagged as well. Oh, well!

Every time I listen to one of your WHAT MAKES A SONG GREAT i CANNOT SLEEP THAT NIGHT - STILL TWITCHING WITH THE GROVE...... EXCELLENT.......STUFF. Rock on Chris.

How does Tosin's brain work???

This is a joke!

Just getting to grips with guitars and this is a nice challenge. Great work Rick!

In my opinion, if you were gonna put a Led Zeppelin song at #1, it should have been Good Times Bad Times instead of Levee.

Oh,,,, If you haven't already. Check out the instagram account "Sh**ty flute". Hours, of fun. They do a rendition of "how deep is your love" by the Bee Gees,,,, I hurt my ribs laughing so hard.

Yep! Reminds me of all the small labels that wanted to sign my band, but wanted complete ownership of everything we wrote. Sad part is that contracts they were offering us would have paid us LESS than we were making on our own.

Think first guy did it on purpose or some guitar tech. Said “Dude,No really I meant to do that.” You know it was a Les Paul.

Ok. I like to fun around...but Neil from JOURNEY qualifies as a Virtuoso in my opinion. Its true he IS pretty darn good. But i dont like how he Srewed that philipino kid that gave him a new start. He seems kinda like a tool.

Imagine ending a top list video without November Rain.

Don't forget about Primus' "Sailing the Seas of Cheese" released May of that year.

Hey Rick, can you do an episode about The Aristocrats ?

i missed it buy a couple days but this series is 3 years old

The Beatles used the drop D tune in some songs since 60s

I USE A 7 BAND EQUALIZER SEEMS ALL I NEED AND A FEW DO DADS, NOT THAT I'M A GREAT PLAYER!! ALSO RESPECT YOU FELLOW MUSICANS!!

ABSOLUTELY MASTERFUL!!! Eddie would have been proud of those licks!! Eric was also on 🔥 As much as the original can't be touched, if it had been, those guys nailed 🤘🤘🤘 it!

20 "Best solo of all time" ? >>> Ask 100 people and yull have 100 best 20.

All the lonely people, where do they all come from (Eleanor Rigby - The Beatles) La da dee da dee da daaaa da etc (There must be an angel- Annie Lennox) Dearly beloved. We’re gathered here to get through this thing called life etc (Let’s go crazy- Prince)

WHEN AT A JAMM AND PEOPLE REFUSE TO TURN DOWN, OR ARGUE WHAT TO PLAY!!

beautiful but overused

This song is actually one of their worst song

And while Rick is explaining is... the video is interrupted with a Cubase ad...

I really enjoy the three of you sharing stories. I got my first Ray Charles album at 11, listened to Motown, was a Dylan fan from Freewheeling on, became a huge Beatles fan, loved Stax, Cream, the Airplane, then became a CSN and sometimes Y fan, Allman Bros and became a Deadhead. First songs I ever played were My Girl and For What it's Worth. I'd love to hear you talk about The Band, The Allman Brothers and Stephen Stills. They have always been big influences on me. I love your stuff.

I see the love in her eyes for you, and you for her. It's so precious, and rare to see. What a blessing to have shared that closeness, so sorry for your loss. Thank God you will always haves those memories. I find myself weeping, thanks for sharing. May God comfort you and your family. Peace.

AS every Generation ends up REBELING against the Previous, so every new trend or genre in music does likewise! In fact, even the 50's,60's,70's etc Pop Music was quite unlike the much slower music of the 30's & 40's: the Benny Goodwin-George Gershwin slow dancing Style! At times, the Rebellion produces good to excellent results, with the effect of the much older music genre getting re-accepted in appropriate occasion & context, But sometimes the Rebel Trend destroys what was good in the prior Phase of musical expression, to bring a sort of decadent or deficient state....But then, the next Baby Boomers of the 21st century will end up rebelling against EVEN That, and produce their very own unique Style for that future time, yet even then they will go back to re-appreciate what musical greatness went way before them! SUCH is genuine progress in music genre.The perfect example is Classical Music of the great Masters: Mozart, Beethoven, Albinoni, Devorack, Tchaokofsky,et al. The same with Country Music, Folk Music, etc. The true musician, or player of music, or listener will always APPRECIATE the entire Heritage of Great Music no matter what His or Her or Their PREFERANCE FOR. Like the true Gardener, the true Artist & Art lover, the true musician doesn't reject the past absolutely....

Man... I'm thrilling up, watching this video...

I was 14 that fall. It was like a bomb in dropped-D went off.

I wonder what song episode will be 100? Hint:it’s stairway

"In My Dreams" by Dokken

“Anthony kiedis’ singing rapping sound” hysterical 😂😂😂😂

No Peart? No Bill Ward? Come on, son.

HEY MAn, PLEASE DO A TUTORIAL FOR BREATHLESS BY SHAYNE WARD!! CAN'T FIND ANY OTHERS ONLINE!!

The most boring human being within my memory. Hem haw Hem haw...get to the point...what are you selling? How does anyone watch this guy more than eight seconds?

Screaming trees were from Ellensburg, WA., not Portland.

Un popular opinion: I've never gotten into that jazzy doobly dibbly bibbly bobbly jaco style playing. Give me a Cliff Burton or a Justin Chancellor or Geddy Lee or a John Paul Jones or a Steve Harris any day of the week.

Interesting discussion. I personally would disagree with the dictionary definition of the term virtuoso as "extraordinarily skilled in technique". The fundamental purpose of music (or any art) is the expression of meaning such that it can and does alter consciousness in the listener (or viewer), creating a genuine, whole experience only accessible through that art. Comparing virtuoso technique to virtuoso expressiveness is the same as comparing clean, precise, incredibly fast playing to the purposeful creation of whole worlds that people like Gilmour can achieve with a fraction of the notes and a far lesser degree of technical gymnastics. Insanely accomplished technique is impressive, but quickly becomes boring to listen to because it lacks meaningful content that resonates in the listener's experience (unless they're an aspiring shredder too, and even then it's more of a lesson in technique than an entirely new experience or intensely personal communication between the artist and his audience). That's why most people would take the artist over the technician any day. Defining virtuosity in terms of the artist's ability to improvise as a way to communicate fluidly and in real time is far more worthy of the term (imho) than merely the ability to pull off seemingly impossible technical tricks that a machine designed for that purpose could accomplish just as well.

Hi Rick. How about 'Grace' by Jeff Buckley? The chord run up to the chorus is brilliant. Cheers. Ian.

The real fab four 🖤

In Other Words - The Minors In C Become Majors and Majors In C Become Minors - The 7 Is The Mystery Chord With A Flat Major.

Thought there would be some Tool, Opeth or Iron Maiden :3

WTF! No Pachelbel’s Canon? Sniff....

Wayward Son for #1 - gives me goosebumps every single time! Great list though, really enjoy these kind of videos

You're on here promoting these bands and there's every chance you are introducing older acts to a new audience, surely thisis of benefit to these acts.

No way Alanis is in over any , Honorable mentioned ? How do I disagree with someone of such knowledge? But damnnn!!!

I really wished he wud read the Hotel California intro😞

For me its early Van Halen with out any doubt

That bloke can sing.

Putting #1 a multitrack recorded voice? And Peter Gabriel's Dancing with the moonlit knight? Wow, Rick... disappointing...;-)

Look at that! You're over 2 million subs! When did that happen?

Jimi Hendrix is the most overrated guitarist of all time

"Smell o Wine and cheap perfume"

How do you separate the song to its different channels? Do you have the original recording?

A friend of mine clipped one of those tuners on my headstock while I was playing to show off this new amazing technology and when he yanked it off it left a scratch. Guitarists that annoy me are the ones who noodle between songs (guitar diarrhea) and don't keep maintain their gear like cables and input jacks and make you wait why they struggle.

Nothing from Frank Zappa?

cool that you can also play the guitar riffs

I recently started to listen to Britney Spears "3" but I couldn't finish it. The Autotune and compression offended me to the point that I just had to stop the playback, leve a scathing comment and find something else to listen to. Blocking is INNANE!!! Young people get a taste of the old music and they go nuts because they've never heard real artists perform before. And that introduces a whole new generation to the best music and hopefully inspires them to do likewise. I really hope that people will finally say ENOUGH!" and stop paying to listen to mass-produced synthisized crap so that real artists and musicians can have a hope of earning a living at it again.