At The Gates "Cold" Solo by Andy LaRocque
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- Опубліковано 12 жов 2010
- The guys talk about one of the greatest metal solos of all time, Mr. Andy LaRocque of King Diamond fame doing a guest spot on At The Gates' "Cold" off of the "Slaughter of the Soul" album.
From the "Making of Slaughter of the Soul" DVD.
Andy LaRocque is an underrated guitarist in my opinion! true guitar legend !!!!
For sure. One of my all time favorite guitar players and truly inspirational. You KNOW him when you hear him.
Well, he's very highly rated in some circles.
I've been saying for over 25 years, Andy and Dave Murray are the 2 most underrated guitarists ever!!!!
Andy Larocque is on more features for solos than your favorite hip hop artist is for a verse.
You know a guitarist is a boss when it takes another guitarist a year to learn his 20 second guitar solo.
especially these 2 shitty passages
his playing style was like another character in the king diamond stories.its not just music,it fits into the stories so well.
man you explained that exactly how that is... fukin dead balls on! hes in my opinion the best guitarist in this business
That solo blows my fucking mind to this day. Pure molten metal oozes from Andy LaRocque's fingers.
That whammy bar technique is really cool. It has a bit of an 80s shred-master feel to it. LaRocque also uses the technique, although much more subtle, in his solo for the Death song Trapped in a Corner.
John Petrucci used that whammy bar vibrato a lot during his Ibanez early years in solos like Under a Glass Moon in a really cool way.
Andy's harmonies in his solos are phenomenal!!!
Andy LaRocque one of the most underrated guitarrist...and Chuck knew it...
Everyone is talking about the solo obviously but the riff that goes behind it is one if my favourite of all time
Just as important!
Hah I love that solo too
This is literally one of the best guitar riffs of alllllllll time. More people need to hear this!!!!
LaRocque is an amazing master, I think he redifine the rock-metal in so many ways!
I keep trying to think of how I can express how amazed I am by this. It's so good. Doesn't matter everyone knows. What a solo! Beautiful piece of music.
The Conspiracy and Abigail albums should turn any non-believer into a believer of Andy's amazing ability to shred at a melodic level.
I love how he says “the King Diamond fans that we were” and then talks about how he never heard that sound with the whammy bar before, which is all over King Diamond albums prior to the Cold solo.
Yes, I’m calling you out!
Just to clarify: by 0:12, Fredrik Nordstrom (the producer) explained that he wasn't aware that he was that famous (implying that he is not a king diamond fan). He asked him to play because the guys on At The Gates are fans of his playing... and that is what Tomas Lindberg said on minute 1:40.
PD:
Eventhough Tomas said that Anders Björler can play the solo now, the reality is that he TRY to replicate it, but way slower and simpler.
If anything, I think he get's better and better with each passing year, it's kinda crazy. Remember how his solo's sounded in the 80's compared to his solos in the 90's and 00's? He was insanely good then, and now his solos just sound flat out immortal.
I really appreciate, no I adore Larocque's guitar work but please, people..go ahead and listen to 'The Eye', 'Them' and also 'Conspiracy'. Larocque simply defines guitar solos there in my opinion.
And Abigail, and Them as well...
Oh, and Chuck Shuldiner's Individual Thought Patterns ~!
Andy is my fav ~
one of the best
The puppet master solos ..the phrasing is world class
frickin hell so fluid
Andy "the legend" LaRocque!! only metal guitarist imo on par with Randy Rhoads. I always wondered how it would've been if Ozzy got Andy to replace Randy!
Pete Blakk? Criss Oliva? Michael J Romeo?
Ed Licari r
Dude fuck yea i love Andy he is such a great musician but Randy Rhodes in King Diamond? That doesnt sound bad
Genius 🥰🤟
If u played in a death album and also played in king diamond your a fuckin badass dude
Cesar Herrera which death album
Individual thought patterns
@@gloobarkonly a handful of solos for Death on ITP.
@@lt8400but they were all fucking glorious the entire album was
@@Jerry-nu2rs I would say its the best Death album but that changes for me every week
truly an amazing solo
damn i didnt know he played that solo yeah hwill be a special guest in any bands project or album he just knows the right phrasings to use etc etc
Very good stuff!!!!The song is a legend!!!
Andy la roque es de los mas infravalorados en vivo rompe todo deja a todo el mundo perplejo
Such an immense talent who I don't think ever got his just due. Even when he's not shredding his ass off he creates intelligently structured songs and leads. And hasn't lost an iota of his speed over the years.
that thing with the whammy bar is a flutter
Andy is the ShredMaster
That's a very good explanation thanks!
EFFING LEGEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
bad ass!!!
02:30 exceptional exceptional exceptional !!!
Their guitar player had to learn that ? Like imitating a flash of lightning !
i would like to see this documentary in its entirely do you have it?
i dont think the guy is saying andy invented that way of playing, hes simply just talking about the WAY andy does it and how it sounds is unlike anything hes heard before.
jeff beck has done it, but it doesnt sound quite like the way andy does it since both guitarists are of two different styles anyways
Gods Hymn has woken.
Wow, this is fucking cool! lml
Andy is the fuckin master!
do you have the entire documentary?
Its commonly called a flutter, but Ive seen several guitarist do it. This happens to be a particularly good one though. Most the time the flutter isnt that wide so you can tell hes really whacking the hell out of it and may have only two springs in his tremolo system.
2:41 I’ve heard that tremolo bar flicking sound before with Brad Gillis of Night Ranger… so, did Andy or Brad do it first? 🤔
Actually that's a trademark Steve Vai tremelo trick. Just pull it back and lt it snap in a bouncing way multiple times like a rubber band. It can pretty much only be done on a Floyd Rose trem. Most others don't seem to have the proper bounce to them.
2:33
@juanchosolid Don't see what's NOT clean about Andy's playing. He's not robotically clean but he definitely gets each note out when he plays even during fast runs in songs like "Black Horsemen" or "Omens".
If interested; here is a new track produced by Andy La Rocque. Featuring Tony Martin on lead vocals.
ua-cam.com/video/ydwXA0EpXpc/v-deo.html If you have a listen; hope you enjoy it! Cheers!
damn that solo destroyed me
Its called the flutter,Oz Fox did it too.
Id like to hear a duel between andy and chris poland
Fuck yeah Amek Angela!
i jumped at the start
I wonder why Andy LaRocque didn't keep his real name?
Rip my ears at 0:00
Can't recall what we were discussing (ha, ha), but ... Andy's great ... Gillis is great ... Vai is great ... so ... great?
Be cool, friend.
@ruinawish I agree 150%....Sorry but Andy's a f'n legend. I thought he was a tech my ass!
Is that the Dream Evil guitar player in the middle????
No sir!! That is the legendary Andy LaRocque from King Diamond my man.
What are you talking about? Angel Black asked about the guy sitting in the studio. Andy Larocque is not there..he was talking about the guy sitting in the middle who handles the equipment.
Thanks, I will find his name for you. It is Fredrik Nordström. He also has written and produced some songs for Hammerfall.
+Alonso de Hojeda Thought he meant in the middle of the song.
Different guitars and fingers yep
Not need to play clean to achieve something great
Andy LaRocque is a great musician
Brad Gillis was doing "bar warbles" long before even Steve Vai, friend.
This!! ..to me brad should get credit for most whammy tricks. Andy just outclassed the others when using this trick
right at the end, they sound kinda doubtful about Andy. they said "not perfect, but [something]" and then the other dude said "kind of amazing," like as in "not totally amazing"
especially when the solo is isolated they hear that the fast run around 2:46 that it's not played very clean. he's just saying that even though the fast part is kind of sloppy, it's still a really good solo
That whammy bar thing he does has been done over and over by Jeff Beck, long time ago.
Why is this attributed to Andy?
idk listen to mansion in the darkness... does anyone else use it to such effectiveness?
Because he took it to the highest level and consistently crushed phrasing the flutters into his solos
That's called "understatement," my friend. He was trying to be funny. Made me giggle, at least.
I seriously find it hard to believe that the guys thought LaRocque was a techie... and that they invited this random techie to contribute a solo?
wait, what...you're really huge king diamond fans but you didn't realize you were working with andy larocque. uh,hm ,uh..huh?
It's called a trill. Just flick your finger on the whammy bar to make a vibration
+Todd Chenard u wouldnt call it a trill . i mean u could but most say flutter. or bounce.
+Daniel Simon hes chirping it
All the guitarists I know call it a "purr" because it sounds like a cat. Also Steve Vai used to do all those cat noises using the trem bar.
Dislike? Show me a solo better than this !
Interesting solo but nowhere near the quality of the ones from the King Diamond albums.