First time I seen him play with KISS, a string broke on his pink Jackson in the middle of his solo and he angrily flung it off stage. Best guitar solo I ever seen.
I wouldn't be surprised if Gene and Paul reprimanded him for having the audacity to steal the spotlight from them making himself the center of attention. Sir Gene probably gave him a good tongue lashing! (No pun intended!) 😜
Vinnie has his moments when he sounds awesome but then he goes off the rails and spins out of control. His playing style is almost schizophrenic It’s a mixed bag of wonderful and awful.
If you don't like what he was doing here.... Then just go back to your 70's grocery store music ....or elevator music bitches!!! And forget about this type of virtuosity 🤟🤟🤟
VV played guitar like was an adrenaline rush, he could even slow it down and calmly explain what he is playing, i don't know what is scarier what he is playing, or the fact he knows what he is doing !he plays some seriously blazing runs and has molments like this solo that really shine. Euphoria has some great ax werk
He has a very good control of the instrument. I love how he incorporated a violin sounding volume swells in the shred.. Something I seldom hear in shreds. Also good control of the whammy bar. He is the most Thrash Metal guitar player in Kiss. I think they chose him that time because 80s is all about fast guitar solos..
Never been able to hear anyone play a guitar with that tone since Vinnie! After many years of search searching, the only person that comes close is a electric violinist called Mark Wood!
@@DougCanney1That's cool. I'm a bisexual male and I've always found Vinnie to be very sexually attractive, especially in 1986. He looked so cool back then and I still love his music (his first two albums), and of course, his guitar playing when he was with Kiss.
@@bobby1970 That's absolutely not a factor, But I've never found him to be a good player or really good looking, he does kind of look like a chick. Interesting that I would talk to someone who is bisexual, cuz I always thought that was a myth. I always thought bisexual people were just.... Lazy. It's like "Send someone in, as long as they have genitals IT'S ON". I appreciate your comment, be well.
Awesome shred with some moments of frustration. A band like kiss should've been able to tolerate these moments in a song like this & backed him up. I know for a fact Eric would've loved it! Anything goes in rock n roll, give'em his moment. Remember, one for all & all for one.👍
I actually saw Vinnie with Kiss, unlike a lot of people on youtube...but although I'm a huge Ace fan..he was a fantastic guitarist who influenced many players, without being super techni6like say Eddie Van Halen. Vinnie on the other hand played pop and rock before moving on to hard rock and metal. His style is a shredding style that came to it's for in the 1980's ..I saw him in 1983. Hes actually a great guitarist and could have been up there with Randy Rhoads ...Rhoads copied Schenker and Van Halen ( Eddie didn't like Rhoads style but said he was decent enough player). The problem Vinnie had was although he could play technical solos like Rhoads and Van Halen amongst other stuff, he tended to go a little overboard. You could argue this was the style at the time as other guitarists did the same. Yes I agree. He also was hard to get along with ( tell me of a guitarist who isn't?) All in all if he was in a band with more personal lyrics style and better singer than his Vinnie Vincent's Invasion band I think he would be talked about in a higher regard.
IT is COMPLEATLY IMPOSSIBLE to play guitar better than MR. VINNIE VENCENT. Best guitarest in the hole wide world. NO ONE plays better than MR. VINCENT . NO ONE.
Alex Hutchings, Steve Vai, Allan Holdsworth, Randy Rhoads, the list could go on and on. Vinnie's very good and one of the best guitar players that Kiss has ever had, but not the very best guitar player in the world.
I always loved his style of playing - it's super effortless and always on the edge of being a little bit to chaotic and over the top but it always stays just below that threshold and still sounds kickass somehow... if that makes any sense.
To me, his style in the 80's was very close to what Randy Rhoads (RIP) was doing. That's why i never understood why he ended up with Kiss, instead of Ozzy.
It's all about shredding, but it's so pretty solo, first part sounds romantic. I think, if solo will be rearranged from hundreds of 32 notes and shred will be used only for culmination, it will be awesome 😍
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Wtf, awesome axe work. Reading some other comments made me reflect. Vinnie reminds me in a way of Peter Green, Syd Barrett and Danny Kirwin. Great talents who couldn't cope with pressure of their own talent. All major influences on my own guitar style, along with so many more.
He’s miming all the ASG solos on that tape. He does play the VVI album ones live. That is the extended original solo to Ashes to Ashes that got cut in half before release. He’s miming it.
Yes he's miming it like a fuckin boss too, not easy to tell, it indicates that he knows this solo by heart and it's not improvised. There were a couple from the debut album as well like "Animal" and some other one. Animal is one of my fav solo that he did
The most impressive part of vinnies playing , to me, and the part most people never comment about or miss, is his right hand technique. Ive neber seen another rock player utilise such a fully integrated chickin pickin technique before or since.
After hearing his early solo stuff he will never sound over the top to me, incredible singer and songwriter. I hear the beauty even in his shredfests now, kinda like Shawn Lane in his melodic and musical depth that allows it to still shine through even when shredding.
He knew 50% of the time, how to make his guitar playing compliment the song. Trying to blaze through everythng, no matter what made sense for the song.
That actually did have some melodic sections that were quite beautiful, then all the shredding kicked, and I love shred as much as any metal head, but I would've liked to have heard a little more of the melodic stuff.
@@cooperblackley1585 Personally I think Vinnie has faster and cleaner technique but Bruce had a better style/fit with Kiss. Id say Vinnie was their best guitarist technically and theoretically but Bruce was their best musician.
I saw Kiss on the Dressed To Kill tour in NY when I was 17. Just before Alive 1 came out. They kicked ass. I saw Vinnie with Kiss in the early 80s. I never heard of him at the time. I thought he was alright. Even though he was no Ace Frehley on guitar. Ace had feel. Vinnie was all flash. But he was ok on guitar that night. I think people are a little hard on him after all these decades. I never got to see Kiss with Bruce or Tommy. But from the videos, Bruce was good. Tommy? I'm sure he's a good player but....Remember this people. Nobody played Ace licks like Ace. Just put on the first three albums again. frankny65yroldwhitekid rockfan
I agree..I'm a huge Ace Frehley fan..but when your talking about 1980's shredding style ( and I've seen Vinnie in 1983 with Kiss) ...you have Vinnie easily up there with Schenker, Rhoads etc. Rhoads gets his style from Van Halen and Schenker..but Vinnie doesnt get the credit of say Rhoads, I dont think Rhoads is way above him at all.
*Why is Vinnie Vincent not in memory as Randy Rhoads made a career like Satriani, Eddie Van Halen, Steve Vai or Inwie Malmstein... What was his mistake, if he is so virtuous???*
50 to 60 seconds. How do you go from that intensity to making your guitar sound like a cello? Reason I started playing when I heard my older brothers version of thier debut album. And then I heard randy rhoads and I was all in
First time I seen him play with KISS, a string broke on his pink Jackson in the middle of his solo and he angrily flung it off stage.
Best guitar solo I ever seen.
That sounds like Vinnie Vincent alright
A pink BCrich? He never played that. A black BC or a pink Jackson. And the BCrich was not his guitar but Paul's.
@@ziviaantjeverharius6165 Thank you. It was a Jackson, not a BC Rich. Sorry bout that
It was in Buffalo. Lick it Up tour.
"I've" not "I".
I wouldn't be surprised if Gene and Paul reprimanded him for having the audacity to steal the spotlight from them making himself the center of attention.
Sir Gene probably gave him a good tongue lashing! (No pun intended!) 😜
Despite him being a bit over the top sometimes he's a seriously underrated guitarist.
I agree, sometimes he is. lol
Sometimes you're like wtf? There's like no melody and it sounds kinda awful and other times you're like holy shit, how did he do that? lol
That’s because he disappeared for 30 years after releasing the second Vinnie Vincent invasion album
Kinda why I like his style so much. You never know what he’s gonna do next
IMHO, no melody or harmony, just random notes.
Love that violin/chello sound he made.
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That's the Eddie Van Halen "Cathedral" technique.
Those are basically very fast volume swells.
He does hammer ons, pull offs and turns the volume knob up and down again.
Its volume swells
Vinnie has his moments when he sounds awesome but then he goes off the rails and spins out of control. His playing style is almost schizophrenic It’s a mixed bag of wonderful and awful.
Well said. It's like a gourmet dinner with occasional pieces of hair and bugs.
@@dad1432 😂
This comment sums up the entire video
He was just expressing his influences, in a pinch ,🤟🤟🤟
If you don't like what he was doing here.... Then just go back to your 70's grocery store music ....or elevator music bitches!!! And forget about this type of virtuosity 🤟🤟🤟
Vinnie Vincent's approach to guitar solos = victory!
He's massively underappreciated, a splendid songwriter, and an insecure, but massively good guitarist
Dude you nailed it.
VV played guitar like was an adrenaline rush, he could even slow it down and calmly explain what he is playing, i don't know what is scarier what he is playing, or the fact he knows what he is doing !he plays some seriously blazing runs and has molments like this solo that really shine.
Euphoria has some great ax werk
He has a very good control of the instrument. I love how he incorporated a violin sounding volume swells in the shred.. Something I seldom hear in shreds. Also good control of the whammy bar. He is the most Thrash Metal guitar player in Kiss. I think they chose him that time because 80s is all about fast guitar solos..
and he has zero control over himself
Its a mimed performance
CONTROL!?!? THAT'S HIS BIGGEST WEAKNESS!!!
Vinnie is like if Prince and Nigel Tufnel had a baby. I absolutely love HER
Her?
@@aguaraguazu8461 its a guy who looks like a girl
@@aguaraguazu8461It’s been debated whether or not Vinnie is transgender, not that it matters or anything
More like if Prince had a baby with Fairuza Balk.
This guy can do it in his slumber. What a talent.
ONE THE MOST UNDERRATED GUITAR PLAYER.
Never been able to hear anyone play a guitar with that tone since Vinnie! After many years of search searching, the only person that comes close is a electric violinist called Mark Wood!
abd is that good or bad
@@nickstrapko7549 v good!
Tone? You mean running ten distortion boxes in line into an overdriven amp?
@@ericjsmoczynski4374 whatever he uses. Listen to the Invasion debut, there is not other guitarist that sounds like that.
Guys please don’t google Mark Wood.
Nobody plays like this. Not even close. And on top of that, he wrote this amazing tune.
Nobody? Huh?
Damn...that "guy" could freaking play !!!!
He is a male, yes
@@lordcharlesthomas I believe he's trans now.
@@DougCanney1That's cool. I'm a bisexual male and I've always found Vinnie to be very sexually attractive, especially in 1986. He looked so cool back then and I still love his music (his first two albums), and of course, his guitar playing when he was with Kiss.
@@bobby1970 That's absolutely not a factor, But I've never found him to be a good player or really good looking, he does kind of look like a chick. Interesting that I would talk to someone who is bisexual, cuz I always thought that was a myth. I always thought bisexual people were just.... Lazy. It's like "Send someone in, as long as they have genitals IT'S ON".
I appreciate your comment, be well.
Vinnie es el mejor así sea extremo todo lo que hace es perfecto
Awesome shred with some moments of frustration. A band like kiss should've been able to tolerate these moments in a song like this & backed him up. I know for a fact Eric would've loved it! Anything goes in rock n roll, give'em his moment. Remember, one for all & all for one.👍
brilliant musician.
I actually saw Vinnie with Kiss, unlike a lot of people on youtube...but although I'm a huge Ace fan..he was a fantastic guitarist who influenced many players, without being super techni6like say Eddie Van Halen. Vinnie on the other hand played pop and rock before moving on to hard rock and metal. His style is a shredding style that came to it's for in the 1980's ..I saw him in 1983. Hes actually a great guitarist and could have been up there with Randy Rhoads ...Rhoads copied Schenker and Van Halen ( Eddie didn't like Rhoads style but said he was decent enough player). The problem Vinnie had was although he could play technical solos like Rhoads and Van Halen amongst other stuff, he tended to go a little overboard. You could argue this was the style at the time as other guitarists did the same. Yes I agree. He also was hard to get along with ( tell me of a guitarist who isn't?) All in all if he was in a band with more personal lyrics style and better singer than his Vinnie Vincent's Invasion band I think he would be talked about in a higher regard.
i actually cant tell you how much i love this video and the little glances up are so cute
Amazing Vinnie Vincent ❤ I think really'bout Vinnie Vincent is an underated artist...fantastic guitar player and great performer ❤
One of top Shredder 🎸🎸🎸
IT is COMPLEATLY IMPOSSIBLE to play guitar better than MR. VINNIE VENCENT. Best guitarest in the hole wide world. NO ONE plays better than MR. VINCENT . NO ONE.
*Eddie Van Halen, jimmy hendrix
Uli Jon Roth kills him
Alex Hutchings, Steve Vai, Allan Holdsworth, Randy Rhoads, the list could go on and on. Vinnie's very good and one of the best guitar players that Kiss has ever had, but not the very best guitar player in the world.
Rory Gallagher, Gary Moore.
Slash hehe
That is a strange definition of beautiful.
He perfectly fits that guitar, a wild and random playing style.
I could listen to him shred all day
He cant even play a simple song anymore, very disappointing
Me too!...all day.
The same... 🎸❤️
Love him
@@ricardocruz2845 can you do what you did at 25? im 50. so, how bouts you?
no offenc
This is a very memorable guitar solo
Name ?
@@mukti612no name 😂
I always loved his style of playing - it's super effortless and always on the edge of being a little bit to chaotic and over the top but it always stays just below that threshold and still sounds kickass somehow... if that makes any sense.
I agree
He’s mastered the fretboard damn !
He played the guitar like he hated it… wild, aggressive, out of control… and it was wonderful. ❤️
Well-stated 👍
he is amazing and so effortless shred or not its emotional.
El mejor guitarrista que tubo kiss
One of Amazing 80's Shredder Guitarist 🎸🎸🎸
#vinnievincent #invasion #kiss
C'on his AWESOME!
My 2nd favourite guitarist after Yngwie Malmsteen
To me, his style in the 80's was very close to what Randy Rhoads (RIP) was doing. That's why i never understood why he ended up with Kiss, instead of Ozzy.
Nice!Never knew Vinny was that great of a guitarist!🏆Just never noticed.Great attitude,approach,technique.
now is an old grannie
Vinnie cant be beat.
It's all about shredding, but it's so pretty solo, first part sounds romantic. I think, if solo will be rearranged from hundreds of 32 notes and shred will be used only for culmination, it will be awesome 😍
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Vinnie is the love child of evh and yngwie.
Wtf, awesome axe work. Reading some other comments made me reflect.
Vinnie reminds me in a way of Peter Green, Syd Barrett and Danny Kirwin.
Great talents who couldn't cope with pressure of their own talent.
All major influences on my own guitar style, along with so many more.
He’s miming all the ASG solos on that tape. He does play the VVI album ones live. That is the extended original solo to Ashes to Ashes that got cut in half before release. He’s miming it.
Yes he's miming it like a fuckin boss too, not easy to tell, it indicates that he knows this solo by heart and it's not improvised.
There were a couple from the debut album as well like "Animal" and some other one. Animal is one of my fav solo that he did
They really shouldn’t have cut that solo. That’s my only complaint about the album (and cutting the full version of “Love Kills”
@@___and_memes_for_all only the reissue had the cut version of Love Kills, original CD had the full version, if I remember rightly.
The most impressive part of vinnies playing , to me, and the part most people never comment about or miss, is his right hand technique. Ive neber seen another rock player utilise such a fully integrated chickin pickin technique before or since.
Check out John 5
Kiko Loureiro
..wow.. :)
JUST AWESOME
So good, why don't people pay attention?
Mr. Vincent. U R. The Best dam Mother Fuckin Guitarest God has ever Made.👍👍👍👍 Congratulations Sierra.
Best guitar in the world
Guitar or guitarist?
@@bobby1970 guitar 🎸
@@danmontgaThanks. Can you please tell me the brand and model? I might have to get one of these it does look very cool and awesome.
Wow….lots of spreed and talent!!!
Jimmy D
THE BEST
Vinnie is Vinnete now. Who would have thought.
One of my favourite ax slingers
It's so hot when he looks into the camera and smiles while playing.
Good player.🤟🎭💯
After hearing his early solo stuff he will never sound over the top to me, incredible singer and songwriter. I hear the beauty even in his shredfests now, kinda like Shawn Lane in his melodic and musical depth that allows it to still shine through even when shredding.
He knew 50% of the time, how to make his guitar playing compliment the song. Trying to blaze through everythng, no matter what made sense for the song.
I think I got a cavity listening to that
Amo este solo
He’s great!
That actually did have some melodic sections that were quite beautiful, then all the shredding kicked, and I love shred as much as any metal head, but I would've liked to have heard a little more of the melodic stuff.
My favorite parts is when he goes off the rails. We’ve all heard tapping patterns. But the wild bends etc is what I’m here for.
This chick’s pretty good
Devoid of any emotion. Glad he lasted as short as he did.
what a beast
Vinnie Vincent
Guitarrista estadounidense, de la banda Kiss
Cumple 72 años (nació en 1952)
increible❤
GREASED LIGHTNING!
What's nuts is I grew up knowing of Vinnie but had no idea until now that he was this big of a shredded. What the hell was he ever doing in Kiss?
he is a grannie now
Excellent guitarist
es un geñio❤
Some of that is his Ashes to Ashes solo
i was searching for this comment
thank youuu
Muy bien, es con ritmo de blues en Si; observen los cambios, traten de seguirme, ¿De acuerdo?
Makes me want play guitar 🎸 hero ❤
I love the album version of the solo for Ashes to Ashes.
Oh Vinnie😵
Winnie Wincent!
I think vinnie would've been better in a thrash metal band . He definitely had the speed for it . I think he would've had better success doing that .
Vinnie es la verdadera alma de Kiss.
By far the best guitarist Kiss had.
best shredder? 100%, in that field vinnie is one of my favourites, best KISS guitarist? If were talking technicality than probably Bruce
@@cooperblackley1585 Personally I think Vinnie has faster and cleaner technique but Bruce had a better style/fit with Kiss. Id say Vinnie was their best guitarist technically and theoretically but Bruce was their best musician.
Vinnie looks like the guitar that Steve Vai looks like he bangs while on stage. But my god the man has FUN while playing!
I saw Kiss on the Dressed To Kill tour in NY when I was 17. Just before Alive 1 came out. They kicked ass. I saw Vinnie with Kiss in the early 80s. I never heard of him at the time. I thought he was alright. Even though he was no Ace Frehley on guitar. Ace had feel. Vinnie was all flash. But he was ok on guitar that night. I think people are a little hard on him after all these decades. I never got to see Kiss with Bruce or Tommy. But from the videos, Bruce was good. Tommy? I'm sure he's a good player but....Remember this people. Nobody played Ace licks like Ace. Just put on the first three albums again. frankny65yroldwhitekid rockfan
yeah I could do that in my sleep...when I dream
Vinnie Vincent is controlled chaos
Easily on the level of all the top shredders. At that time. Now. Idk maybe if he worked hard
I agree..I'm a huge Ace Frehley fan..but when your talking about 1980's shredding style ( and I've seen Vinnie in 1983 with Kiss) ...you have Vinnie easily up there with Schenker, Rhoads etc. Rhoads gets his style from Van Halen and Schenker..but Vinnie doesnt get the credit of say Rhoads, I dont think Rhoads is way above him at all.
@@studio-flashi agree
Tremenda tecnica tenía.
VINNIE!!!!
*Why is Vinnie Vincent not in memory as Randy Rhoads made a career like Satriani, Eddie Van Halen, Steve Vai or Inwie Malmstein... What was his mistake, if he is so virtuous???*
This guy gives Yngwie a run for his money
😂 u been smokin the good stuff lol
50 to 60 seconds. How do you go from that intensity to making your guitar sound like a cello? Reason I started playing when I heard my older brothers version of thier debut album. And then I heard randy rhoads and I was all in
Wow!
AUNT VINNIE
Fucking amazing
Intense play and this is just in a small studio workshop
ßi m dicen k m dan a vinnie m le llévo sin dudarlo
Wow ! He's amazing.
k animal❤
Some Brad Gillis crickets there . You guys stop trying to get him to sit on your lap !! Thats a guitarist man.
❤
Way underrated
if this is the best and more beautiful ... i dont wanna hear the others bro....
The dive bomb near the end starts diving before he touches the bar. I suspected this clip was fake but that sealed it