@@clemclemson9259 Dude, this world is doomed. Yesterday someone said that Dann Huff is "criminally underrated". One of the most hired and prestigious studio-guitarists of all time. You can't watch one music related video without the "underrated" comment anymore. And most of the time it's not even true.
@@clemclemson9259 Well, almost 20 million albums sold but still "underrated", right? ^^ You are absolutely right with what you're saying. I feel the same. It all turns into one big sh-thole. People don't like to think for themselves anymore. Stay strong, brother. As long as there are people like you - there's hope. ;)
Saw Brad with Night Ranger in Dayton Ohio around 15 years ago....I was about fifth row reliving my 80's youthfulness playing along with him using the best air guitar moves in history. Brad saw me in the audience mirroring his awesomeness and when he got to the cricket tremolo move I was doing the same air smacking of the Floyd Rose and the end of the song he called me up to the stage and gave me one of his signature metal guitar pics and a big high five. It was so fun -- the crowd really enjoyed our interaction and then NR went back to killing it. I still have that pic proudly displayed in my own music studio. Brad has always been a big influence on me and I have always been grateful for their incredible music and songwriting.
Met Brad after a NightRanger show at Holiday Star in Merrillvile, IN... outside of the venue. I recall how big everyone looked up on stage, and was surprised to find I was a couple inches taller up close getting my shirt signed... very humble and easygoing, I felt like he was seeing an old friend in those few minutes... 100% real down to earth, and hugely talented. Night Ranger songs helped me grow into who I am today, and Brad's genuinely nice act of being accessible to those few fans that evening is one of my favorite memories....
Holiday star!!! And yes, night ranger, amazing and down to earth. One of the greatest bands. And idk what anyone says, holiday star was a great venue. From a fellow region rat
I was about 14 when I first saw night ranger and Brad and Jeff Watson. It was stunning not only because of their tech. ability but because they were the first band that was melodic and wrote songs that stood WAY above other rockers at the time. Not to mention they had keys, great vocals. All the members were exceptional musicians. This is such a cool vid! Thanks guys!
Blues4Winter The only reason I went to see Night Ranger back in the 80s was because of Brad Gillis. I had seen already with Ozzy on the Speak of the devil album. He blew me away since the very first time I saw him
Brad convinced me to get a metal pick after thinking about it since back on the 80s. Had to buy it online for about $10 and had it taper the damn thing. It does get more bite in certain solos. Big fan of NIGHT RANGER
Highly entertaining, as expected. At the risk of being flamed here, I have to admit I had never heard that phenomenal acoustic piece (LA No Name). That was fabulous. I hung on every note. And Mr Gillis. Kudos to you for staying physically fit.
Been following Brad and Night Ranger since the first album, and trying to learn the solo in DTMYLM for just as long (I still can't play it). That acoustic piece... DAMN.
I have the Tab for this from "Guitar" Mag June '84. After watching this video I finally see that most of the Tab was purely wrong. I labored over this piece for years as it is my go to warm up exercise. Bravo for posting this video and giving us a real master class.
I try doing Jeff Watson’s guitar solo and I ended up playing like lil Wayne because the solo is so fast and of course Brad and Jeff are really great guitarists
I tried those years ago, and I found that I really needed to step up a gauge, then my tuning was spot on! Floyd player too! I got stronger, therefore my strings gave out sooner! FYI Stevie Ray played 13 gauge high E! That's normal when shredding! :-)
I have one of the original, non fine tuning Floyds. Previous owner put it on a 1977 Aria Pro II flying V I bought as a kid back in Nov 1981. It is locked away right now waiting for the next perfect guitar to put it on
Always had Brad very high on my list of great players - this confirms why what tone!!!. Thnx Night Ranger for coming to Honolulu back in '88 . Brad comes to edge of stage to find out why there's a gap/void at third row looks down finds me and pal burning the ''Waimea nightmare'' (doob) he smiles , shakes his head - Aloha shaka back
The reason why bands sound melodic is because they have technical proficiency on the instrument. This is because the more melodic the sequence of notes the hard they are to play. Melody that sound like blues or Jazz sound hard to play but are actually much easier.
Always wanted to learn this. one of the best riffs ever. of course along with riffs from the other greats, Sholz, van halen, santana, satriani, vai, on and on and on.... "there are those that can play a guitar then there are those that can make it sound like an opera singer..." Writer, ME!
Two of my favorite guitar players, just some great chops and guitar riffs!! I was also inspired by Randy Rhoads, among others too many to mention!! 😁✌️
This is totally outrageous Night ranger is absolutely awesome the great Brad gillis is the most underrated beast of a guitarist ever!!! I'm going tonight ranger concerts in the year 2024 Dallas Texas grew up listening tonight ranger Omaha Nebraska in the early 1980s like 1982 or so
"I'll tell you, I'm not a speedster player..." th-cam.com/video/bLNV621AQF8/w-d-xo.htmlm57s Yeah, right :-) Had a chance to meet Brad a couple of times and not only is he the God of Floyd, but a very genuine guy that loves doing this.
I always do my power pull ups and dive off of what I read Brad did in guitar magazine like Way back when. How could anybody thumbs down this video even if you didn't like some of the other style of music I thought it was really unique and I always give somebody a lot of credit when they get very unique in their own style. Nancy Wilson is kind of like that with some of her guitar chords she plays stuff that I never even thought of. You can never learn too much and you can probably forget twice as much LOL I had VHS is of everybody Star Licks tape unfortunately my house burnt to the ground the spring and I lost them all but I can get set back up with new things I just like those two because I had to complete collection of everyones. Everybody's doing teaching videos these days and they're doing quite well even Carlos Santana's got one with some courses I'm more of a power cord rhythm player so I'm always up for learning new stuff I need to work on that. Also I just bought a Korg triton Extreme too I want to set up a little home studio studio maybe do background stuff for Internet stuff and Someday theme songs for movies would be cool.etc
Wow I just came here from Jeff's instructional video & from where Joel breaks down Jeff's part in the 1st section of the solo at 5:34 he actually plays a couple things different than Jeff. Joel & Jeff are so far beyond me but I can say I noticed these error's of Joel's because Jeff breaks it down very slow so it makes it easy to play along with Jeff note for note. I wonder if Joel just interpreted from the record at full speed because I can see that fast of course it's easy to get a few things wrong.
Thanks Brad bought the Big bends nut sauce & some med / heavy steel picks. Had them years ago but wouldn't of known shit. Partied with your old x beautiful gf Allison in like 1986 in L.A.
I had to go online ( this was about 2 yrs ago) to some out of the way website and they charged me 10 dollars for I pick. I had to grind and taper the playing edge a little to get it right. Jeez it is thick cause I use med/lite picks . It does get more bite on solos and harmonics. Good luck!
@@markr.devereux3385 Found a Billy Gibbons special at Strait Music in Austin. Dave also makes a (more affordable) plastic pick with a metal tip. What I find is that you get some wicked attack, but it is ruthless about keeping you honest on pick rotation. I have a tendency to rotate the pick from 3-9 o'clock (parallel to the ground) to more like 4-10. This isn't Troy Grady pick slanting. I do that to. Anyway, the pick sliding across the strings sounds awful. So it encourages better habits.
@@v3rlon appreciate good feedback. I'll be damned if I didn't watch that pick slanting episode maybe a week or ten days ago!!! I'm planning to experiment a little more with metal pick ur so right about what you ssid
It would be helpful,at the start, for them to say they are tuned down a half step..but other then that ,a great lesson on how to play the solos correctly.
Two underrated guitarists, and even Night Ranger as a whole.
1984 with Jeff Watson is still the best guitar duo I have ever seen live
oh no not another "under rated" comment... dud wtF are you talking about.
@@clemclemson9259 Dude, this world is doomed. Yesterday someone said that Dann Huff is "criminally underrated". One of the most hired and prestigious studio-guitarists of all time. You can't watch one music related video without the "underrated" comment anymore. And most of the time it's not even true.
@@clemclemson9259 Well, almost 20 million albums sold but still "underrated", right? ^^ You are absolutely right with what you're saying. I feel the same. It all turns into one big sh-thole. People don't like to think for themselves anymore.
Stay strong, brother. As long as there are people like you - there's hope. ;)
Saw Brad with Night Ranger in Dayton Ohio around 15 years ago....I was about fifth row reliving my 80's youthfulness playing along with him using the best air guitar moves in history. Brad saw me in the audience mirroring his awesomeness and when he got to the cricket tremolo move I was doing the same air smacking of the Floyd Rose and the end of the song he called me up to the stage and gave me one of his signature metal guitar pics and a big high five. It was so fun -- the crowd really enjoyed our interaction and then NR went back to killing it. I still have that pic proudly displayed in my own music studio. Brad has always been a big influence on me and I have always been grateful for their incredible music and songwriting.
Met Brad after a NightRanger show at Holiday Star in Merrillvile, IN... outside of the venue. I recall how big everyone looked up on stage, and was surprised to find I was a couple inches taller up close getting my shirt signed... very humble and easygoing, I felt like he was seeing an old friend in those few minutes... 100% real down to earth, and hugely talented.
Night Ranger songs helped me grow into who I am today, and Brad's genuinely nice act of being accessible to those few fans that evening is one of my favorite memories....
Holiday star!!!
And yes, night ranger, amazing and down to earth.
One of the greatest bands.
And idk what anyone says, holiday star was a great venue.
From a fellow region rat
Gillis is an icon. And so is Joel. That acoustic song is absolutely insane.
I was about 14 when I first saw night ranger and Brad and Jeff Watson. It was stunning not only because of their tech. ability but because they were the first band that was melodic and wrote songs that stood WAY above other rockers at the time. Not to mention they had keys, great vocals. All the members were exceptional musicians. This is such a cool vid! Thanks guys!
Blues4Winter The only reason I went to see Night Ranger back in the 80s was because of Brad Gillis. I had seen already with Ozzy on the Speak of the devil album. He blew me away since the very first time I saw him
My first concert was also Night Ranger, Mountain Air 1984
If they'd posted this 25 years ago, they'd save me a lot of wasted time in my life. Lol
😂😂
Too true!!! This is the best guitar lesson you could EVER get for free!!
hahahaha so true
Just because you can see it doesnt mean you can play it...haha I hear you dude!!
Yep
That L.A. No Name acoustic bit needs its own video. Best live rendition I've heard!
Man these guys are good. I love how Brad plays everything like he's performing. That's a great lesson. He's into every note.
If you ever get to see him live, it’s a real treat. He’s pretty darn special as a performer
Joel is great love his phrasing and he makes it look so effortless
These guys are very humble and a class act . Thanks for posting the video .
Brad and Jeff were simply incredible! They were the 2 most under rated guitarists of that time period. Both are simply incredible at what they do!!
I was very impressed with how Joel gave credit to Jeff Watson at the beginning of the video!
Brad is obviously very high
On the list of great rock guitarists.
two fantastic guitar players - pleasure to watch. both seem like nice guys too which is refreshing.
I've met both. They were class acts and pretty humble considering their monster talents.
My God, that acoustic jam!!!!! Incredible!!!!
Got to see them when they came to GTMO IN 2007. Brad used my EBMM I built as a backup for the show.
It was amazing
Damn! Chemistry is one of the greatest things to watch.
These 2 guys never waste the gift they have.
I was on a stage crew with these guys in Charlotte at PB Scotts in 1983. Vixen opened. Killer show.
Holy shit. Brad is the man. Melodic is the shit.
two exellent guitar players ,Mr Gillis you are unique, very inspiring,you play with your heart and created your own style.
Thanks Brad and Joel for this look into your guitar life and a little lesson here for us non guitar buffs in how these songs evolve musically.
Awesome fellas and down to earth guys...thanks for the video.
Night ranger is by far some of the most melodic best hard rock of all time
That acoustic piece is sick!
AMAZING!!! Two great down to earth guys with AMAZING talent! Just so fun to watch, listen and learn from. 😁👍
Brad convinced me to get a metal pick after thinking about it since back on the 80s. Had to buy it online for about $10 and had it taper the damn thing. It does get more bite in certain solos. Big fan of NIGHT RANGER
Highly entertaining, as expected. At the risk of being flamed here, I have to admit I had never heard that phenomenal acoustic piece (LA No Name). That was fabulous. I hung on every note. And Mr Gillis. Kudos to you for staying physically fit.
Too frickin cool Joel and Brad, what an awesome combination!! Love it 😁👍✌️
You guys are way awesome. So glad I got to see you at the ND state fair this year
Would love to see an acoustic duo show and here stories in between songs. Has to b the most entertaining guitar video out there today. Thanks guys
By far the most underrated guitar player in rock history. Brad Gillis.
Brad was talking of his metal picks. I actually have one from the 1992 show at Toad's Place in New Haven,CT.
I'm from naugatuck Connecticut my dad can play like em on guitar
Love these guys- what an influence me back in the day... still killing it....
Been following Brad and Night Ranger since the first album, and trying to learn the solo in DTMYLM for just as long (I still can't play it).
That acoustic piece... DAMN.
I have the Tab for this from "Guitar" Mag June '84. After watching this video I finally see that most of the Tab was purely wrong. I labored over this piece for years as it is my go to warm up exercise. Bravo for posting this video and giving us a real master class.
Speachless except to say thank you for sharing this insiders view of your craft and talent!
I try doing Jeff Watson’s guitar solo and I ended up playing like lil Wayne because the solo is so fast and of course Brad and Jeff are really great guitarists
I didn't think anyone could replace jeff watson,.his 4 finger tapping is amazing...but this guy is really good....
I love the Dean Markley blue steel strings! Their the best strings for my styles and hold their tone and stays in tune! Thanks Brad!
I tried those years ago, and I found that I really needed to step up a gauge, then my tuning was spot on! Floyd player too! I got stronger, therefore my strings gave out sooner! FYI Stevie Ray played 13 gauge high E! That's normal when shredding! :-)
I have one of the original, non fine tuning Floyds. Previous owner put it on a 1977 Aria Pro II flying V I bought as a kid back in Nov 1981. It is locked away right now waiting for the next perfect guitar to put it on
Right up there with all the epic dual guitar trade offs of those great days and before....perfect!
8:44 Gillis is funny!!
Talk about paying it forward Brad your the man!
Good stuff....Im 53 and a fan from back in the day.....
Joel Hoekstra! I would love to meet him! Brad as well!
Always had Brad very high on my list of great players - this confirms why what tone!!!. Thnx Night Ranger for coming to Honolulu back in '88 . Brad comes to edge of stage to find out why there's a gap/void at third row looks down finds me and pal burning the ''Waimea nightmare'' (doob) he smiles , shakes his head - Aloha shaka back
Holy crap that acoustic piece.
The reason why bands sound melodic is because they have technical proficiency on the instrument. This is because the more melodic the sequence of notes the hard they are to play. Melody that sound like blues or Jazz sound hard to play but are actually much easier.
these guys are so darn good.
Always wanted to learn this. one of the best riffs ever. of course along with riffs from the other greats, Sholz, van halen, santana, satriani, vai, on and on and on....
"there are those that can play a guitar then there are those that can make it sound like an opera singer..." Writer, ME!
Goose bump city here, that's when you know it's good! Heavy guitarist's dream video story. Nono L thank you for your uploads!
Joel is such a badass!!! love Brad too!!!
Nothing against all the other guitar players and Night Ranger but Jeff and Brad had this thing man
Wow..feel the energy...
These guys kick Ass...
Two of my favorite guitar players, just some great chops and guitar riffs!! I was also inspired by Randy Rhoads, among others too many to mention!! 😁✌️
I'm a bit surprised Gillis hasn't installed a Floyd on that acoustic...🤔
he did it, right after that shooting !
This is totally outrageous Night ranger is absolutely awesome the great Brad gillis is the most underrated beast of a guitarist ever!!! I'm going tonight ranger concerts in the year 2024 Dallas Texas grew up listening tonight ranger Omaha Nebraska in the early 1980s like 1982 or so
oh is that all!!!!?????!!!!! ... freakin amazing dudes... got to meet Brad at a concert in Charlotte.. coolest dude ever...
Absolutely love this!!!
8:41 yea, that's about how I feel
Night Ranger is full of skills!..Got me a lot of sister christian with night ranger cassettes ..
This guy is so good ..takes guitar out of the norm
precious video !!
I lost it what BG goes “ Yea, I just do this... weee whaaaaaa mmmmmm”” Awesome..
This just makes me wanna cry like a freakin baby. I N C R E D I B L E
los dos solos son espectaculares
Dawn Patrol rocked even though Def Leppard ruled at the time.
"I'll tell you, I'm not a speedster player..." th-cam.com/video/bLNV621AQF8/w-d-xo.htmlm57s Yeah, right :-) Had a chance to meet Brad a couple of times and not only is he the God of Floyd, but a very genuine guy that loves doing this.
Your a Bad Ass Brad. 🎸🎶
83 was a great year
Don't forget Jeff Watson.
1:56 ... JEFF WATSON's guitar solo played by Joel...Give credit where credit is due. Let's Go Brandon 2022!
I always do my power pull ups and dive off of what I read Brad did in guitar magazine like Way back when. How could anybody thumbs down this video even if you didn't like some of the other style of music I thought it was really unique and I always give somebody a lot of credit when they get very unique in their own style. Nancy Wilson is kind of like that with some of her guitar chords she plays stuff that I never even thought of. You can never learn too much and you can probably forget twice as much LOL I had VHS is of everybody Star Licks tape unfortunately my house burnt to the ground the spring and I lost them all but I can get set back up with new things I just like those two because I had to complete collection of everyones. Everybody's doing teaching videos these days and they're doing quite well even Carlos Santana's got one with some courses I'm more of a power cord rhythm player so I'm always up for learning new stuff I need to work on that. Also I just bought a Korg triton Extreme too I want to set up a little home studio studio maybe do background stuff for Internet stuff and Someday theme songs for movies would be cool.etc
Wow I just came here from Jeff's instructional video & from where Joel breaks down Jeff's part in the 1st section of the solo at 5:34 he actually plays a couple things different than Jeff. Joel & Jeff are so far beyond me but I can say I noticed these error's of Joel's because Jeff breaks it down very slow so it makes it easy to play along with Jeff note for note. I wonder if Joel just interpreted from the record at full speed because I can see that fast of course it's easy to get a few things wrong.
3:17. Big Ben's Nut Sauce. Total Beavis & Butthead moment.
What is that?? Funny, you don't want to know my dirty thoughts😁
Big Bends*
Man, so good!
Was this filmed on a flip phone?
Theres a better quality video but i dont know if still available on youtube
Saw them with Foreigner a few months ago
Awesome video!
I love how they think this is a lesson. Awesome!
I too love using the Wang bar
Great lesson guys! Thanx!
Did he mention he has the third floyd Rose Trem ever built?
💥Two Greats 🎸🎸How Do You Beat That💥
This is great
My head is spinning
Thanks Brad bought the Big bends nut sauce & some med / heavy steel picks. Had them years ago but wouldn't of known shit. Partied with your old x beautiful gf Allison in like 1986 in L.A.
3:42 is there something that he's using to sustain the note?
That was bad ass.
Wore out that cassette of the Dawn Patrol album
As a lover of heavy picks, now I must try and find a metal one.
I had to go online ( this was about 2 yrs ago) to some out of the way website and they charged me 10 dollars for I pick. I had to grind and taper the playing edge a little to get it right. Jeez it is thick cause I use med/lite picks . It does get more bite on solos and harmonics. Good luck!
@@markr.devereux3385 Found a Billy Gibbons special at Strait Music in Austin. Dave also makes a (more affordable) plastic pick with a metal tip. What I find is that you get some wicked attack, but it is ruthless about keeping you honest on pick rotation. I have a tendency to rotate the pick from 3-9 o'clock (parallel to the ground) to more like 4-10. This isn't Troy Grady pick slanting. I do that to. Anyway, the pick sliding across the strings sounds awful. So it encourages better habits.
@@v3rlon appreciate good feedback. I'll be damned if I didn't watch that pick slanting episode maybe a week or ten days ago!!! I'm planning to experiment a little more with metal pick ur so right about what you ssid
Killer, both killer players.
I scan these comments to see how many I have to go through before someone says "underrated". Only three comments this time. Bravo.
Was not expecting to hear a cat food commercial. 😂
Respect the Ranger
LA NO NAME awesome job 14:42
It would be helpful,at the start, for them to say they are tuned down a half step..but other then that ,a great lesson on how to play the solos correctly.
I can do Brads solo but I have to tap the 2nd solo. I just cant do that spread.
FFFUUUUUUCCCCCKKKKKK!!!! THAT WAS AWESOME!!!!!!
Just bought a guitar signed by the band!