10 Essential Songs To Get You Into Alter Bridge

1. Blackbird

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSrQlvTfB_4 For fans of: Everything. Okay sure it's a bit too hyperbolic to just put 'Everything', but when the actual list of demographics this track appeals to spans everything from hard rock lovers to Led Zeppelin-worshippers, any who are yet to give it a whirl really should do so. Winner of Best Guitar Solo of All Time from Guitarist magazine, it's a crowning achievement of musicianship that could easily be another Stairway to Heaven if it was released in a different decade. Lyrically Myles wrote it about his friend Mark Morse who sold him his first guitar and sadly passed away, but the song is a fitting tribute to the man who helped kickstart Kennedy's foray into music in the first place. Tremonti knocks it out the park with one of the finest finger-picked intros he's ever written too, and after some suitably weighty chords start moving things along it's a fan-rallying chorus that helps make sure the song doesn't let up for a second. Then there's the solo: a beautiful duelling composition that trades passages between Myles and Mark in a way they'd revisit for Cry of Achilles, yet here it's laced both with the emotional side of writing about a fallen friend, and also lyrics detailing the notion of flying away in relation to the afterlife. The solo itself is a slow-release of perfectly played notes that connote this wonderfully, with Tremonti's section roaring into life following Myles' more slower section, ending the entire composition with a brilliantly fast tremolo-picked section that's reminiscent of Metallica's Jump in the Fire solo - yet even more tenacious. Which tracks have you given to people wondering 'what the big deal is' with the band, or in preparation for seeing them live? Let us know in the comments!
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