10 Essential Songs To Get You Into Alter Bridge

8. Open Your Eyes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eYHvrgPqQ0 For fans of: Ridiculously complex solos. Chosen by first record company Wind Up due to the opening chords having something of a similarity to the feel of older Creed material - a battle the band would have from each subsequent record label until Roadrunner got behind Isolation - the song itself has far more going on under the hood than anything that had gone before. Although that's not to take away from the material the band recorded with Scott Stapp prior to grabbing Myles, you need only listen to something like the solo to get a firm sense of how much Tremonti was pushing himself to become a definable guitarist in his own right. The music video itself is definitely reminiscent of the 'older image' the band had around their inception, with a handful of camera-croons from Myles and an overall feel of early noughties rock, but what shines through is that they're still having a blast putting the piece together. If you compare the videos for songs like this with that of Isolation, you can see just how much the fanbase has effected everything about the way they present themselves.
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