Paul Schuster I never realized how much midrange was in a lot of these sounds until I heard the iso tracks. A lot of guitarists will scoop out the mids almost by nature -sounds good in your bedroom for practice but this midrange sound gets the guitar heard in the context of a band for sure!
What I love about these iso tracks is hearing the slight imperfections. The guitar parts aren't edited to a grid so there is an elasticity to the rhythm. When exposed you can hear Warren hitting some notes late. But when it is mixed with the rest of the tracks, perfection. Just goes to show, the whole can be far greater than the sum of the parts.
composerdave68 it also shows that the modern way of keeping everything on the grid has a cost. I prefer the looser, organic vibe of players just being rehearsed, and talented to start
Yeah, it's funny because I play this all of the time and I didn't realize how many mistakes are in the original track. Sounds like me after a few beers, lol.
@@mikefisher1629 The majority of what you are hearing that might seem a little off is a bleed through from the other track...There is a TON of reverb in this track by itself and any bleed through is going to have a chorusing effect under any circumstance. It sounds rather perfect when listened to normally for a reason.
Robert S also, you had maybe, 8-16 tracks. Half of that was taken up by drums, which got mixed and bounced to two stereo tracks. Then vocals usually sat on the same tracks as solos, guitars had one track each, or multi tracks and stereo bounces, it was a major juggling act. I remember ping ponging the fuck out of my Tascam 4-track, losing fidelity with each bounce, but that’s just the way it was....
Ratt and Skid Row were bands that even the thrashers and death metal heads could appreciate because the guitar work and song structures were just so on point.
@@blackpilledchad1927 Besides all the attitude and fashion stuff from glam metal the scene still has some of the best guitarists when it comes to technique and virtuosity
I quote Kerry King: "We hated those guys..Anyone coming to a show with a Ratt T-shirt, we would point at him, and he would be beaten and kicked out of the show...Then one day we all gathered around and agreed we all play DeMartini licks...."
Always appreciated that Warren didn't let his crazy chops overrule melodic sensibility and bluesy feeling. This man has tremendous soul in his playing.
Yes. And look at you now: Retired, lying on piles of hard-earned cash under your mattress whilst listening to one of your favorite rockers. Can life be any better?
I really love Warren DeMartini's melodic hard rock style and the fantastic choices he makes in his tasty solos. I was a huge EVH fan too, and of course Eddie was an influence on every guitarist who came after him in the L.A. Rock scene of the 1980's. Having said that, Warren carved out a great legacy for himself and his bandmates in RATT.
When Warren points up to Robbin to take his solo in the Round and Round video, it is SO powerful! Robbin was a BIG good looking dude glammed to perfection and Warren was a wiry Ratt looking dude juiced to perfection and they were a PERFECT compliment/foil to one another.
Robin was extremely underrated. At the top of his game he was not only a brilliant, tight as a drum rhythm player but an excellent lead player as well. I wish he was still around. Gone before his time. I always felt like Ratt somehow, in a parallel universe, had a lot more to offer.
@@beasheerhan4482 I was always a big fan of great duel leads like Allman Bros and Thin Lizzy. Great when it's done right. An octave above, and octave below, etc.
Warren is absolute god. I’ve been playing for decades and am still blown away by his chops - not just his dexterity and flow but his note choices and phrasing ... and he was still a youngster
@@dante8227 very different than EVH! Dizmartini uses different keys like F# minor and unique modes, instead of EVHS's typical A and E minor, C major, in almost every song.
Th guitar lead in Lay it Down has gotta be in my top 25 ever! It’s not that hard skill level wise but it builds so cool and is so melodic. It still blows my Sox off after all these years. The rhythm guitar on that tune is really clever and bad ass too. Round and Round was the beginning but there was a lot of cool stuff from these guys that stands up to the test of time.
Warren was indeed. But in Ratt robin Crosby was the frame of the band. He wrote the songs. Riffs. Hooks. He was the melody maker. Left way too soon. Ideallly him and warrensgoukd have left together. Created anew different singer. Not that Neil wasn’t good. He was but These two could have been so huge.
Warren, aka ( Torch) is a guitar god absolute LEGEND, next to EDDIE is my favorite guitarist of all time. RATT really started rolling in 84 when I was 16 in highschool still one of my favorite bands of all time. Wish he would get back out there would go in a heartbeat. Wishful thinking. Peace........
He’s the reason I picked up guitar. For my 10th year wedding anniversary present I received his signature series Cross Swords guitar!! Just so awesome!!
A friend bought me this album in the 7th grade. I didn't know anything about it, but I knew I liked this song in particular, and there was this crazy section in the middle that sounded *awesome*. I didn't even hardly know what an electric guitar was, but I would lift the needle on the record player and drop it back listening to this section over and over again. Only a few years later I got my first Strat, and I'm still playing 30 years later.
First off *RIP Robbins* With that said I have to say the isolated track really shows the fluidity and smoothness of Warren..Robbins was an innovator and one hell of a musician regardless of his afflictions and addictions.
Beautiful piece of art right there the 80s I got to grow up with all these bands I’m one of the lucky ones and they’re were a lot of them. Rat was one of my favorites AC/DC, Def Leppard, Aerosmith, Night Ranger, Ozzy Osbourne and Randy Rhodes. Those were my favorites.
Smoking hot playing and tone. Fantastic. I love isolated tracks since they help you dial in the right tone for these songs. Most people think they’re using more gain than they really are.
Every time I listen to this I get more blown away by the whole complexity of the guitar parts. I agree there´s a lot of naive performance involved, but......that´s part of the magic! What a freaking GREAT tune not only for the guitars! LOVE IT!
Can just imagine Warren walking into Sound City with his Charvel signature series San Dimas. The engineers mic his cab, hit record, and the reels start to spin. They played their asses off and created some of the greatest rock anthems of the 80s. Music forever ingrained in our souls. This is amazing and thanks for sharing, along with King's amazing tracks. Think I'll go stack my hair to the sky and grab a Charvel. Cheers!
there are a couple great Beau Hill interviews on YT. He has a great story about W being dissatisfied with his sound so as the OOTC tour blew up, W would find Marshalls in every city and ship them home. When it came time for recording Invasion he was combining and experimenting with all these heads... I won't spoil it for ya. Funny, predictable story, though.
I think at the time Warren had a pieced together guitar like so many of the guys did in LA. I also think he said he and Robbin had just a couple of small Orange cabinets that they recorded this album with.
There’s a different feel between bands that use the higher strings in their riffs and those that don’t. Both sound totally metal, and totally different at the same time. Metallica (low end), Megadeth (both), and Van Halen (high end), all sound amazing in different ways. That’s why we love music.
the contrast between his part and crosby's part really makes this song happen. warren with the stripped down chord extensions and crosby with the root power chords keeping with the backbeat. one of the best and most well written glam rock songs ever.
when the song first came out a guitarist from some other band said this song was justba bunch of Van Halen riffs sruck together. Its unchained and the pre chorus thing is Panama
I’ve always really liked warren’s playing. He’s always had a real unique sound and way of doing things. It’s nice to hear the isolated track is it demystifies some of what’s going on. He said somewhere that he prefers to use gauge 10 strings. I imagine that helps get that powerful tone as well. Thanks very much for putting this up.
The phrasing is just pure finesse. Thinking back to my youth. I always thought they were playing so much faster and using so many more notes. It's funny how you hear things that aren't really there. Love this stuff.
I saw Ratt in the 8-‘s and Bon Jovi opened for them. Ratt was out supporting Invasion and Bon Jovi’s 7800 degree had just came out! What a great show and memory!
That was a fantastic tour. I had front row for them during this tour and was able to copy everything Warren did perfectly. None of the tabs at the time were even close to how he was playing the songs. Bon Jovi was also incredible as well.
That has been my personal luxurious dream since forever! I heard there´s something of a software out there that does "some" magic......please let me know if you ever come to be the inventor of this dream of ours! Cheers!
You can download certain multitracked songs online and use FL Studio to mix how you want. Edit: A lot of Queen songs have easily available multitrack downloads.
@@ConanObrien22 For example, here’s Queen’s “Hammer to Fall”: www.mediafire.com/file/im3w4kvbx5akukj/HTF_%255BMultitrack%255D_%2528PiotreQrmx.com%2529.rar/file
You can tell he was playing to the song. It sounds disjointed by itself, but with the full recording it sounds great!!! He is a real fine player, and a good choice of notes. Always loved his playing!!
Warren was a friend and student of JAKE E. LEE and was one of a handful of guitarist like George Lynch who really stood out among a bunch of sound alike hacks.👍🎸
It does my heart good to hear all my teen idols sounding like mere mortals when isolated. They all sound so perfect with all the rest of the instruments and studio blending, etc, it was discouraging. I would play the same song and it would sound so "hollow" like this video (albeit with lower quality sound).
Warren DeMartini is one the most UNRATED guitarists of the 80’s. Deserved so much more accolades & respect. Definitely one of the most talented musicians that came out of the 80’s hairband era. #GuitarLegend
Warren had a very unique style that is also very hard to emulate! Marshall amps expose the nakedness in your playing... unlike transistor/ solid state amps. Every little slightest of moves will come straight to the front of the mix! It takes YEARS to be able to sound really well playing through them...and Warren chose them to broadcast to the world his amazing talent. It is perfect in its effectiveness! (even though you can hear the slight hit and miss from the difficultness of this song)
Wow, figuring this solo out as a young pup in the 80's when it debuted on Mtv, I would have killed to have these iso tracks. Would have saved me so much time. Warrens dual guitar parts were hard to pick out with Robins parts mixed in on my crappy little VCR and cassette deck. 🤣 Although, it did make me a much better player figuring stuff out by ear and suffering. lol Now I'm old, just give me the iso tracks. 🤘🏼🤣🎸
4:00 - That's what I was looking for. Always loved that part. There were a lot of guys who were shredders - all chops and no talent. The guys from Ratt weren't those guys. Their stuff always sounded good or better. Note: 4:09 - 4:12 ....really? I mean DANG...
This one, like Robbin’s isolated track, got algorithmed into my suggesteds right between Jason Becker & Mr. Scary… and I’m a better person for it. Thank you.
You don't see this kind of guitar craftsmanship anymore, not a single throw away riff or note, technique for each part rehearsed and perfected before going into the studio, probably nailed it in one or two takes.
At 00:48, something about this lick is SO nice and satisfying. It's like this sweet bit of notes in between these MAJOR crunching chords to give some flair and panache. At 2:27, CLEAR the friggin table!
Often overlooked as an incredible guitarist, I feel like history will remember Warren DeMartini as one of the all-time greats and this track, IMO, proves it. I saw RATT in 1984 at the Big Apple in El Paso, TX and, iirc, GirlSchool opened the show. I stood in line before the show and got all the original members autographs on a hat then gave it to the girl I was with. Young, dumb, and full of...well. what an idiot I was!!! LOL!
Warren was one of many under rated guitarists. I got to see them twice. First time was when they opened for Crue at Boston Orpheum and few months later, they opened up for Billy Squire at Worcester Centrum. Joe Perry was a special guest that night with them too.
The funniest thing about secluded tracks... When you're a hobbyist player or something, when random people you know want to hear you play a song they know, from the radio or whatever... when you play it, you watch the expression on their face go from excited to confused or under impressed, or dismissive/smug because the part you play doesn't sound like the song they requested... it's just one part. "That doesn't sound anything like the song" It's amazing how many non musicians (which I've always referred to as civilians) can't wrap their head around the difference between a whole band, and an individual playing one part. 🙄🤷🤦 Or even if you don't play exactly as the studio recording, because they never realize that even pro/famous musicians rarely sound or play songs exactly as the studio recording with edits and mixing... or mistakes live or even just boredom and the monotony of being in the road touring for months playing the same songs over and over and over
Thank you so much for this! All the tab I have for this song always felt like they get some parts wrong, and I always replaced parts with what I thought I heard. This isolated track exposes a lot of parts I felt were right as being right, as well as a lot of other stuff you just would never hear without the isolated guitar parts. Thank you so much! Now I finally can work out the correct parts! 🤘
I love that midrange tone of the 80’s
this is what my jcm 900 4500 sounds like
Paul Schuster I never realized how much midrange was in a lot of these sounds until I heard the iso tracks. A lot of guitarists will scoop out the mids almost by nature -sounds good in your bedroom for practice but this midrange sound gets the guitar heard in the context of a band for sure!
Joe Robinson In a live setting you need the mids and the treble to cut through the mix.
A guitar is and will always be a midrange instrument.
they used PRO-CO RAT PEDDLE
mid-range doesn't exist. it's just a charvel played through a messaboogie.
Out Of The Cellar is a masterpiece.
Totally accord with you...!
Yes Tony, it certainly is. How is Laurel?
theyre from my hometown - never saw them live, was always working a diff concert every time they played to sold out crowds.
What I love about these iso tracks is hearing the slight imperfections. The guitar parts aren't edited to a grid so there is an elasticity to the rhythm. When exposed you can hear Warren hitting some notes late. But when it is mixed with the rest of the tracks, perfection. Just goes to show, the whole can be far greater than the sum of the parts.
composerdave68 it also shows that the modern way of keeping everything on the grid has a cost.
I prefer the looser, organic vibe of players just being rehearsed, and talented to start
Yeah, it's funny because I play this all of the time and I didn't realize how many mistakes are in the original track. Sounds like me after a few beers, lol.
Nailed it.
@@mikefisher1629
The majority of what you are hearing that might seem a little off is a bleed through from the other track...There is a TON of reverb in this track by itself and any bleed through is going to have a chorusing effect under any circumstance.
It sounds rather perfect when listened to normally for a reason.
Robert S also, you had maybe, 8-16 tracks. Half of that was taken up by drums, which got mixed and bounced to two stereo tracks. Then vocals usually sat on the same tracks as solos, guitars had one track each, or multi tracks and stereo bounces, it was a major juggling act. I remember ping ponging the fuck out of my Tascam 4-track, losing fidelity with each bounce, but that’s just the way it was....
It's crazy how the tone isn't high gain at all but it has a shit ton of power.
It’s the mids, cuts through the mix like a knife through butter.
Totally. Dial back the overdrive and double the guitars and you get a much better overall sound. It's something modern metallers haven't figured out.
yah dude. and he still manages to shredd leggato. guys a god
Seymour Duncan
That's all I hear is high gain
That tone is to die for...
Reminds me of stone temple pilots plush they used this same sound
this is one of the most beautiful guitar riffs of all time
Ratt and Skid Row were bands that even the thrashers and death metal heads could appreciate because the guitar work and song structures were just so on point.
Dokken too
Death and thrash metal guitarists won't admit it but they grew up listening to this when alone in their rooms.
@@blackpilledchad1927 Besides all the attitude and fashion stuff from glam metal the scene still has some of the best guitarists when it comes to technique and virtuosity
I quote Kerry King: "We hated those guys..Anyone coming to a show with a Ratt T-shirt, we would point at him, and he would be beaten and kicked out of the show...Then one day we all gathered around and agreed we all play DeMartini licks...."
Also the black metal guys ☝️
You really hear the Van Halen influences in the Iso track. Sounds very “Unchained” like.
Panama
@@richardgeisel4290 it’s more unchained. You can tell the bridge is definitely is.
Warren and Lynch are equal
@@Luke_22 The Bridge is pure Panama. Both Panama and Unchained use those sus4 shuffles, though.
Everyone back then sounded like Eddie. He changed everything
So much talent came out of the 80's. Don't think we will ever see it again.
There's SO much Eddie Van Halen in this, even the guitar on left with the reverb on the right. It sounds awesome
Especially around 1:23 (Unchained) ; 2:10 (Hot for Teacher)
@@georgemalian550 2:10 u mean Panama, but actually this song was recorded earlier than '1984'
There's a direct lift from VH"s "Feel Your Love Tonight," but I don't care. Still rocks.
Yes, but Panama was Eddie ripping off this song again...full circle :D
@@larslevinberget9558 Well, no. Panama is on 1984, which was recorded in 1983 and released in January 1984, before this song by Ratt
Always appreciated that Warren didn't let his crazy chops overrule melodic sensibility and bluesy feeling. This man has tremendous soul in his playing.
I love that Warren made the guitar say "Round" without effects!
Remember Warren was all of 20 when he recored this album...
I was effing around at junior college when I was 20.
Yes. And look at you now: Retired, lying on piles of hard-earned cash under your mattress whilst listening to one of your favorite rockers. Can life be any better?
I really love Warren DeMartini's melodic hard rock style and the fantastic choices he makes in his tasty solos. I was a huge EVH fan too, and of course Eddie was an influence on every guitarist who came after him in the L.A. Rock scene of the 1980's. Having said that, Warren carved out a great legacy for himself and his bandmates in RATT.
Except Randy who was his own guy and was very influential on metal guys more do than Eddie
Warren actually got the Ratt job when his band decided to learn an unyet released diary of a madman song opening fir hockey Ratt.
Robbins track and Warrens really compliment each other. RIP King 🙏
Yes, Scott - at that time they played together as well as did Southern Rock guitarists of the 1970s.
ive been playing it "wrong" for years, bc they played two different parts that sounded like one really big part. i love this
When Warren points up to Robbin to take his solo in the Round and Round video, it is SO powerful! Robbin was a BIG good looking dude glammed to perfection and Warren was a wiry Ratt looking dude juiced to perfection and they were a PERFECT compliment/foil to one another.
Robin was extremely underrated. At the top of his game he was not only a brilliant, tight as a drum rhythm player but an excellent lead player as well. I wish he was still around. Gone before his time. I always felt like Ratt somehow, in a parallel universe, had a lot more to offer.
@@beasheerhan4482 I was always a big fan of great duel leads like Allman Bros and Thin Lizzy. Great when it's done right. An octave above, and octave below, etc.
That outro solo is just brilliant
I always liked that sort of tumbling feel to it. Like a drunk ballerina stumbling down some stairs. Kind of flippant but graceful.
There is a sick, off - kilter run in there that I never heard the nuance of. It slaps.
One of the best ever
Warren is absolute god. I’ve been playing for decades and am still blown away by his chops - not just his dexterity and flow but his note choices and phrasing ... and he was still a youngster
Try Alex Skolnick and Vito Bratta as well
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@@Walamonga1313 Bratta was and still is a monster
DiMartini’s style is so unique, my favorite guitarist of the 80’s.
Unique? The guy is basically an EVH clone. He's awesome though.
you said it was Randy Rhoads before
Do you like Lynch too?
Not really ruclips.net/video/57SNPbxi0r0/видео.html
@@dante8227 very different than EVH! Dizmartini uses different keys like F# minor and unique modes, instead of EVHS's typical A and E minor, C major, in almost every song.
4:16 I remember being so impressed with that choice. simple and effective bending.
Th guitar lead in Lay it Down has gotta be in my top 25 ever! It’s not that hard skill level wise but it builds so cool and is so melodic. It still blows my Sox off after all these years. The rhythm guitar on that tune is really clever and bad ass too. Round and Round was the beginning but there was a lot of cool stuff from these guys that stands up to the test of time.
I agree 100%
This also shows the way Warren and Robin complemented each other. They have to be one of the best guitar tandems in Metal. No rat problems here... 🤣👍
Priest and Maiden too
AC/DC, Kiss, Guns'N'Roses also
The final solo is absolutely incredible.
I really like Ratt's street sound.
One of the reasons why the 80’s has such amazing music
Wow, the VH influence is strong now that I hear these isolated tracks. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Great riffs and fills.
I always thought Warren was a cut above the rest of the 80's shredders with his songwriting abilities and melodic sense.
Indeed. Shred never impressed me that much. 'Ok, so you're fast; does it sound good?' Warren, did. So many tasty riffs and leads (Robbin too)
Yes Warran the Torch was all that and more .. 🔥🔥
Agreed
Warren was indeed. But in Ratt robin Crosby was the frame of the band.
He wrote the songs. Riffs. Hooks.
He was the melody maker.
Left way too soon.
Ideallly him and warrensgoukd have left together. Created anew different singer.
Not that Neil wasn’t good. He was but
These two could have been so huge.
Warren, aka ( Torch) is a guitar god absolute LEGEND, next to EDDIE is my favorite guitarist of all time. RATT really started rolling in 84 when I was 16 in highschool still one of my favorite bands of all time. Wish he would get back out there would go in a heartbeat. Wishful thinking. Peace........
He’s the reason I picked up guitar. For my 10th year wedding anniversary present I received his signature series Cross Swords guitar!! Just so awesome!!
I met him in 2010 at namm show, told him he was the reason I picked up guitar, really a genuinely nice guy.
I’ve always loved that guitar! It’s my all time favorite electric guitar 🎸!
LOL what an awesome wife you have! Yeah, the Cross Swords is epic!
Happy anniversary sweetie, what are we going to do..?
Husband, holding newly shipped Charvel: "Playing This!" 🤣
A friend bought me this album in the 7th grade. I didn't know anything about it, but I knew I liked this song in particular, and there was this crazy section in the middle that sounded *awesome*. I didn't even hardly know what an electric guitar was, but I would lift the needle on the record player and drop it back listening to this section over and over again. Only a few years later I got my first Strat, and I'm still playing 30 years later.
Love the isos.
That flippin solo, good lord!!!!! top notch
First off *RIP Robbins*
With that said I have to say the isolated track really shows the fluidity and smoothness of Warren..Robbins was an innovator and one hell of a musician regardless of his afflictions and addictions.
Beautiful piece of art right there the 80s I got to grow up with all these bands I’m one of the lucky ones and they’re were a lot of them. Rat was one of my favorites AC/DC, Def Leppard, Aerosmith, Night Ranger, Ozzy Osbourne and Randy Rhodes. Those were my favorites.
Great solo
Smoking hot playing and tone. Fantastic. I love isolated tracks since they help you dial in the right tone for these songs.
Most people think they’re using more gain than they really are.
That record sounds really "hot."
You can really hear the dynamics in his playing, a lot of the sound is coming from him just picking *really* aggressively
Spot on with respect to gain.
Yes a lot if people use more than needed
"Just give it a try, I tell you why!! " Yeah RATTNROLL baby,I love these tracks, so cool to play along to!! 👍💯
I saw Ratt in Dec '85 in Pensacola, Fl and still have one of Warrens steel picks he threw to the crowd.
I would have given my left one to have this track in all of its isolated glory back in the day . I just wore the tape out rewinding . Nice post
A total masterpiece! It’s brilliant
Every time I listen to this I get more blown away by the whole complexity of the guitar parts. I agree there´s a lot of naive performance involved, but......that´s part of the magic! What a freaking GREAT tune not only for the guitars! LOVE IT!
Can just imagine Warren walking into Sound City with his Charvel signature series San Dimas. The engineers mic his cab, hit record, and the reels start to spin. They played their asses off and created some of the greatest rock anthems of the 80s. Music forever ingrained in our souls. This is amazing and thanks for sharing, along with King's amazing tracks. Think I'll go stack my hair to the sky and grab a Charvel. Cheers!
SO great that you know the details of this underrated band. Real music played on real instruments by real people.
Except he didn't have a signature guitar when he recorded this. Logic.
there are a couple great Beau Hill interviews on YT. He has a great story about W being dissatisfied with his sound so as the OOTC tour blew up, W would find Marshalls in every city and ship them home.
When it came time for recording Invasion he was combining and experimenting with all these heads...
I won't spoil it for ya. Funny, predictable story, though.
found a snippet of the full interview (which is great)
ruclips.net/video/E73gb0Nl-nU/видео.html
I think at the time Warren had a pieced together guitar like so many of the guys did in LA. I also think he said he and Robbin had just a couple of small Orange cabinets that they recorded this album with.
Pretty much one of the best damn guitar tones of all time. Great studio technique as well.
Reminds me of "Panama" from VH. Great player this guy WOW
I can hear the Eddie Van Halen influence all over this.
Hell yeah hell yeah bro
More like GEORGE LYNCH
@@k.t.5864 Nope. It's Eddie Van Halen all over the place. George Lynch was influenced by Eddie as well. Everybody was.
Ken T. That’s a bit of a stretch
@@tbone8223 Not a stretch at all. Eddie was clearly a direct influence.
Outro solo is a masterpiece 👌👌👌
The guitar chorus in this song makes me so happy and will always!
That’s all the crunch tone you’re hearing it gives me instant chills
Fucking right! Damn thats some good stuff!
This is from my high school days I never recognized how much talent this guy possessed
Thanks for posting this. I love hearing the isolated axe track like this.
There’s a different feel between bands that use the higher strings in their riffs and those that don’t. Both sound totally metal, and totally different at the same time. Metallica (low end), Megadeth (both), and Van Halen (high end), all sound amazing in different ways. That’s why we love music.
This is , without a doubt, one of the coolest riffs to come out of the 80s!
Wicked vibrato by Warren among other outstanding techniques.
the contrast between his part and crosby's part really makes this song happen. warren with the stripped down chord extensions and crosby with the root power chords keeping with the backbeat. one of the best and most well written glam rock songs ever.
when the song first came out a guitarist from some other band said this song was justba bunch of Van Halen riffs sruck together. Its unchained and the pre chorus thing is Panama
I’ve always really liked warren’s playing. He’s always had a real unique sound and way of doing things. It’s nice to hear the isolated track is it demystifies some of what’s going on. He said somewhere that he prefers to use gauge 10 strings. I imagine that helps get that powerful tone as well. Thanks very much for putting this up.
Friggin love the guitar sound they had on this album. Just awesome👍
Such a nuanced rhythm section. Ratt was not a glam show, but a collection of gifted musicians!
The phrasing is just pure finesse. Thinking back to my youth. I always thought they were playing so much faster and using so many more notes. It's funny how you hear things that aren't really there. Love this stuff.
You don’t hear it because of all the instruments when you isolate the guitar you can actually hear it
I saw Ratt in the 8-‘s and Bon Jovi opened for them. Ratt was out supporting Invasion and Bon Jovi’s 7800 degree had just came out! What a great show and memory!
That was a fantastic tour. I had front row for them during this tour and was able to copy everything Warren did perfectly. None of the tabs at the time were even close to how he was playing the songs. Bon Jovi was also incredible as well.
Love it. Sang the song in my head the whole time. Backed up to hear the playing. Sang a little more. Backed up again.....rinse and repeat.
It would be nice if all music could be purchased multitrack and the listener mix it to their own liking.
That has been my personal luxurious dream since forever! I heard there´s something of a software out there that does "some" magic......please let me know if you ever come to be the inventor of this dream of ours! Cheers!
You can download certain multitracked songs online and use FL Studio to mix how you want.
Edit: A lot of Queen songs have easily available multitrack downloads.
@@Felixbucket show me the link?
@@ConanObrien22 For example, here’s Queen’s “Hammer to Fall”: www.mediafire.com/file/im3w4kvbx5akukj/HTF_%255BMultitrack%255D_%2528PiotreQrmx.com%2529.rar/file
Been listening to this since the mid-80s, it still gives me chills every time
It always will it’s a guitar no better feeling
Same
You can tell he was playing to the song. It sounds disjointed by itself, but with the full recording it sounds great!!! He is a real fine player, and a good choice of notes. Always loved his playing!!
One of my favorite guitar solos ever~
What a great talent Warren is
This sounds awesome 👏. I love the tone of that Rat pedal. That’s the pedal that most 80s guitarist used including the awesome George Lynch.
Warren was a friend and student of JAKE E. LEE and was one of a handful of guitarist like George Lynch who really stood out among a bunch of sound alike hacks.👍🎸
That's exactly how I would've played it. Lol.
That sounded amazing. Thanks for sharing.
It does my heart good to hear all my teen idols sounding like mere mortals when isolated. They all sound so perfect with all the rest of the instruments and studio blending, etc, it was discouraging. I would play the same song and it would sound so "hollow" like this video (albeit with lower quality sound).
Best of both worlds really. VH unchained with Panama & throw a Randy Rhodes style solo in for good measure
Warren DeMartini is one the most UNRATED guitarists of the 80’s. Deserved so much more accolades & respect. Definitely one of the most talented musicians that came out of the 80’s hairband era. #GuitarLegend
Warren had a very unique style that is also very hard to emulate! Marshall amps expose the nakedness in your playing... unlike transistor/ solid state amps. Every little slightest of moves will come straight to the front of the mix! It takes YEARS to be able to sound really well playing through them...and Warren chose them to broadcast to the world his amazing talent. It is perfect in its effectiveness! (even though you can hear the slight hit and miss from the difficultness of this song)
Wow, figuring this solo out as a young pup in the 80's when it debuted on Mtv, I would have killed to have these iso tracks. Would have saved me so much time.
Warrens dual guitar parts were hard to pick out with Robins parts mixed in on my crappy little VCR and cassette deck. 🤣
Although, it did make me a much better player figuring stuff out by ear and suffering. lol Now I'm old, just give me the iso tracks.
🤘🏼🤣🎸
4:00 - That's what I was looking for. Always loved that part.
There were a lot of guys who were shredders - all chops and no talent. The guys from Ratt weren't those guys.
Their stuff always sounded good or better.
Note: 4:09 - 4:12 ....really? I mean DANG...
That outro solo is way better than the main solo.
@@DimebaGtr - Yup. It's freaking brilliant. Great, great guitarist.
Thought I was the only one who felt that way lol
Very few can innovate this way. The rest are jerking it with the fretboard exercises.
@@JUdas3.2 - Lol. Nope!
"Im gunna kick your ass guitar riff."
This one, like Robbin’s isolated track, got algorithmed into my suggesteds right between Jason Becker & Mr. Scary… and I’m a better person for it. Thank you.
You don't see this kind of guitar craftsmanship anymore, not a single throw away riff or note, technique for each part rehearsed and perfected before going into the studio, probably nailed it in one or two takes.
I’m just blown away that you have this!
At 00:48, something about this lick is SO nice and satisfying. It's like this sweet bit of notes in between these MAJOR crunching chords to give some flair and panache. At 2:27, CLEAR the friggin table!
Often overlooked as an incredible guitarist, I feel like history will remember Warren DeMartini as one of the all-time greats and this track, IMO, proves it.
I saw RATT in 1984 at the Big Apple in El Paso, TX and, iirc, GirlSchool opened the show. I stood in line before the show and got all the original members autographs on a hat then gave it to the girl I was with. Young, dumb, and full of...well. what an idiot I was!!! LOL!
EPIC tone!!!
Warren and Robin were just perfect for eachother. RIP Robin.
Warren was one of many under rated guitarists. I got to see them twice. First time was when they opened for Crue at Boston Orpheum and few months later, they opened up for Billy Squire at Worcester Centrum. Joe Perry was a special guest that night with them too.
Hey @PLX can you get the isolated tracks for Lay It Down! Would love to hear just the guitars throughout.
Fucking awesome!!! Rock the fuck on!!
The funniest thing about secluded tracks...
When you're a hobbyist player or something, when random people you know want to hear you play a song they know, from the radio or whatever... when you play it, you watch the expression on their face go from excited to confused or under impressed, or dismissive/smug because the part you play doesn't sound like the song they requested... it's just one part.
"That doesn't sound anything like the song"
It's amazing how many non musicians (which I've always referred to as civilians) can't wrap their head around the difference between a whole band, and an individual playing one part.
🙄🤷🤦
Or even if you don't play exactly as the studio recording, because they never realize that even pro/famous musicians rarely sound or play songs exactly as the studio recording with edits and mixing... or mistakes live or even just boredom and the monotony of being in the road touring for months playing the same songs over and over and over
Exactly. Studios can fix a multitude of sins.
This is what i needed in the 80s !
DiMartini was in my top three, my favorite being Vito Bratta.....Tasteful man
Bratta! So glad someone else acknowledges him
I would love to hear nobody rides for free iso track
That song is a masterpiece
Wow. Easy to hear all the production that was applied to the final product.
Thank you so much for this! All the tab I have for this song always felt like they get some parts wrong, and I always replaced parts with what I thought I heard. This isolated track exposes a lot of parts I felt were right as being right, as well as a lot of other stuff you just would never hear without the isolated guitar parts. Thank you so much! Now I finally can work out the correct parts! 🤘
A genious piece of music.
OMG. Just found both guitar tracks isolated. Flipping SAHWEET!!!
Warren had such killer vibrato! 2:27
Awesome tone.
Killer tone, Great playing, super underrated.
Awfully nice of you to post this. I'll soon be attacking this solo again.
Tone never changes! That’s a sick player right there
Nothing beats the 80' s guitars hard rock sound!!
love me some Warren. One of my all time faves.
Awesome. Wish I could find one for little fighter by white lion
That was really cool Robbin