Avenged Sevenfold Accepting Fans Guitar Solos

posted Oct 16, 2007 at 4:13 PM by Diamond Oz. (61 Comments)

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The Pulse of Radio reports: AVENGED SEVENFOLD is giving fans a chance to create their own guitar solo for the band's latest single, "Almost Easy". Anyone who pre-orders the group's new self-titled album or buys it after it comes out on October 30 at the iTunes store will receive a bonus "jam-along" version of the track minus guitarist Synyster Gates' solo. Fans can then devise their own solo and upload it at AvengedSevenfold.com. The solo picked by Gates as the best will earn the winner a Synyster Gates signature model guitar from Schecter Guitar Research, autographed by the entire band, along with a pair of tickets to an upcoming show where they will meet AVENGED SEVENFOLD.

Lead vocalist M. Shadows told The Pulse of Radio that the band felt "Almost Easy" would set itself apart from other rock tracks as soon as it got on the radio. "Musically, it's just bad-ass," he said. "Like, we wanted to go with the first single being something that was gonna kick ass on the radio and didn't sound like anything else out there and kind of set us apart. Everything's so formula, and what we like about this song is not formula at all. But it's still somehow under four minutes, we've got two guitar solos in there, a guitar intro, a great bridge, bad-ass chorus and some slamming riffs."

AVENGED SEVENFOLD's new record, its fourth, follows up 2005's "City of Evil". It will arrive as both a standard CD and an interactive MVI disc.

The California-based act will play a free show in Hollywood this Saturday (October 20) before beginning a U.S. tour on October 29th in Los Angeles. An October 30 performance on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" is also on tap.

Source: Blabbermouth

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61 Comments on "Avenged Sevenfold Accepting Fans Guitar Solos"

1. FocusShift writes:

He means to say: two weak a$$ solos, a simplistic guitar intro, a lame bridge, a pop-core chorus, and some nu-metal riffs.

I should have one of my guitarists enter that contest so Syn can cry when he can't play it himself.

# Oct 16, 2007 @ 4:52 PM ET | IP Logged

2. godlike writes:

# Oct 16, 2007 @ 5:11 PM ET | IP Logged

3. fearthedje writes:

just submit an arpeggio that contains more than three notes. that would probably do the trick.

# Oct 16, 2007 @ 5:38 PM ET | IP Logged

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4. Bastard_Of_Bodom writes:

I just started playing guitar about a week ago. I could probably send in a tape of me attempting to play the Inspecter Gadget theme and they would probably take it.

# Oct 16, 2007 @ 5:48 PM ET | IP Logged

5. ? writes:

# Oct 16, 2007 @ 5:55 PM ET | IP Logged

6. ZT writes:

Pick up stix.

# Oct 16, 2007 @ 6:31 PM ET | IP Logged

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7. Cynic writes:

Posts 1, 3 and 4 all made me laugh, hats off to ya!

Now Playing: Doomsword - "Heathen Assault"

# Oct 16, 2007 @ 6:38 PM ET | IP Logged

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8. Neurotictim writes:

Wonder what happens when a fan sends in a solo that their lead guitarist can't hack...? They gonna hire Head to do it?

# Oct 16, 2007 @ 6:40 PM ET | IP Logged

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9. Vicarious_Intent writes:

I'm gonna make something that doesn't necessarily sound good, but that's really hard to play. In the weirdest tuning ever. I really want to make it so that they can't play it.

# Oct 16, 2007 @ 6:55 PM ET | IP Logged

10. old skool thrash writes:

Lmaooooooo!!!.. hey sh**. mind you thats a good business idea to get all their $$$$$$ credit to these bunch of emo's though haha!

# Oct 16, 2007 @ 7:32 PM ET | IP Logged

11. ? writes:

emo's f***in suck

# Oct 16, 2007 @ 9:47 PM ET | IP Logged

12. ? writes:

now dont any little emo kids go cutting them selves cause i said that.

# Oct 16, 2007 @ 10:02 PM ET | IP Logged

13. FocusShift writes:

You know they're going to pick an easy solo by someone dressed up in a7x clothes that is relatively simple in terms of guitar virtuosity and skill.

# Oct 16, 2007 @ 11:21 PM ET | IP Logged

14. fearthedje writes:

someone should just steal a solo from necrophagist, or the new between the buried and me. not only couldnt they play it, but if they ever did manage to do so and record it think of the wonderful lawsuits!

# Oct 17, 2007 @ 10:39 AM ET | IP Logged

15. FocusShift writes:

I think if one of them tried to play anything from Colors they'd immediately blow up for tempting the metal gods.

# Oct 17, 2007 @ 2:22 PM ET | IP Logged

16. dmasa writes:

they need your solos cuz they cant make any good ones ther proabably so gay they would steal ur sh** n not credit u

# Oct 17, 2007 @ 2:45 PM ET | IP Logged

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17. SexBloodandMetal writes:

Neurotictim (post #8), AHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!!!!!!

# Oct 17, 2007 @ 3:21 PM ET | IP Logged

18. Public Execution writes:

Alexi Laiho should send in a video of him playing the guitar to show A7X how its done.

# Oct 17, 2007 @ 4:41 PM ET | IP Logged

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19. SexBloodandMetal writes:

Oh no, get Karl Sanders to send a solo.

# Oct 17, 2007 @ 7:19 PM ET | IP Logged

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20. Neurotictim writes:

Screw that, Zakk Wylde should send in something... I betcha they girls from A7X think pinch harmonics is something you do in bed...

# Oct 17, 2007 @ 8:10 PM ET | IP Logged

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21. kallah writes:

Rofl, Yngwie Malmsteen should to their studios and beat the f*ck out of them while the recording is on.

# Oct 17, 2007 @ 8:23 PM ET | IP Logged

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22. kallah writes:

should go*

# Oct 17, 2007 @ 8:29 PM ET | IP Logged

23. ...Just Another Number... writes:

HAHAHA good call kallah

# Oct 17, 2007 @ 8:33 PM ET | IP Logged

24. ZT writes:

Screw ALL OF 'EM! I should send a vid of ME!!

# Oct 17, 2007 @ 8:58 PM ET | IP Logged

25. fearthedje writes:

nah man, they should just use a solo from cc deville, because that is what they will become one day. the worst soloists of all time.

# Oct 17, 2007 @ 9:17 PM ET | IP Logged

26. godlike writes:

To hell with all of them... it would be funnier to see Desiree Bassett send them a solo....this is a 15 yr old girl that makes most adult players sound like beginners....check her out on Youtube or her own website...damn the girl is AMAZING..!!!!!!!!

what am I hearin....Desiree Bassett doing All along the Watchtower

# Oct 17, 2007 @ 9:24 PM ET | IP Logged

27. ? writes:

dude i saw your post and so i went on youtube 2 try and find her and she is hell of alot better than what i could do at playing a guitar, maybe 1 of the best young guitar players i've seen in a while. i watch the video of her at the 2nd annual wimBASH but she was only 14 then.

# Oct 17, 2007 @ 9:35 PM ET | IP Logged

28. fearthedje writes:

i just watched one of those videos and it was really silly. if only i spent as much time playing guitar as a kid as i did playing with myself.

# Oct 17, 2007 @ 11:05 PM ET | IP Logged

29. ? writes:

what do you mean it was really silly, she's actually pertty good.

# Oct 17, 2007 @ 11:23 PM ET | IP Logged

30. fearthedje writes:

yea, good at copying things. and from the video i saw, i think 13 year old shredding?, it was just really awful regardless of how fast she can play. anyone with enough training can do any of those things, especially if she has the crazy parents that like vicariously through their children. now, i dont really know if shes a prodigy or not, but with the internet age and youtube i view everything with a large degree of skepticism.

# Oct 18, 2007 @ 10:32 AM ET | IP Logged

31. fearthedje writes:

that live vicariously, sorry

# Oct 18, 2007 @ 10:32 AM ET | IP Logged

32. devildriver fan writes:

this band is worthless....they suck ass..and the singer i think might be a women....lol

# Oct 18, 2007 @ 2:27 PM ET | IP Logged

33. godlike writes:

hey fearthedje, I guess maybe I judged this girls abilities a little too soon...??
I havent been able to find all the videos of you tearin up the fretboard..!!

# Oct 18, 2007 @ 7:56 PM ET | IP Logged

34. fearthedje writes:

i find it funny when someone has to say something like "well i dont see you tearing up the fretboard" or "if you dont like it lets see you do it better". seriously, come up with something better, and dont be a f***ing d*** if you dont agree with me and dont have anything to back it up with. im actually pretty good at guitar, and the reason why i dont/wouldnt post anything on youtube is i think that whole idea is silly (and i dont have any sort of camera/webcam). i honestly hate seeing peoples guitar playing videos (other than the instructional ones). its a little too ego stroking for my taste. f***, there are videos of some douchebag playing nickleback songs that have pretty high ratings with a lot of positive comments. and honestly, i dont really give a flying f*** about some 14 year olds abilities to play a hendrix song. the dude from psyopus is a pretty good guitar player ability wise, but he cant even make a decent song. he has some good parts, but as a whole, hes a hack, a good hack, but a hack none the less.

# Oct 18, 2007 @ 8:53 PM ET | IP Logged

35. FocusShift writes:

Well put fear, though I do like Psyopus. Musicianship isn't just about being talented, its about having the ability to write with soul and make music that has a life to it, not just be completely and technically ridiculous.

That's why this band has gathered themselves such a horrible rep (along with their egos, and horrible vocals) is because their music has no soul.

# Oct 19, 2007 @ 12:58 AM ET | IP Logged

36. fearthedje writes:

i agree. its just manufactured garbage like the majority of metalcore bands out there. they realize it sells a lot of records, so hey why not jump on the band wagon? especially now that numetal is on the way out.

# Oct 19, 2007 @ 2:22 PM ET | IP Logged

37. godlike writes:

Well, it seems that its OK, to toot your own horn...so I'll jump on the bandwagon too....
I am a guitarist/bass player and have been playing longer than most of you have been alive..hell I was giving lessons in the 80s for Christs sake... I have seen close to a hundred bands live...not including "bar bands"... so, I feel that I am a decent judge of talent when it comes to "axe slingers"... so, when I said that this girl ( Desiree Bassett ) is amazing... I wasnt just talkin outa my a$$..... Hell, its not like the videos are her in front of a webcam....she is on stage with the f^ckin editor of Guitar World Magazine.... and playing at NAMM.... for f^cks sake.... in another one.. she is jammin on stage with Living Color.... if "burnin" Vernon Ried thinks she is good... then maybe there is something to it...??????

and just to throw this out there.....I dont have any videos posted on Youtube either.....I spend WAAAAYYYY too much money on my guitars to afford a f^ckin webcam...so its not like I can say watch mine...

On another note....on Youtube you can find some other kids playing under the name of Princeton School of Rock... these kids are quite talented too.... a 15 yr old girl drummer playing Achilles Last Stand and not missing a beat is AMAZING...!!

what am I hearin.? Rainbow - Cant Happen Here

# Oct 19, 2007 @ 3:14 PM ET | IP Logged

38. fearthedje writes:

so that gives you the right to automatically discount my opinion? its a child playing a rendition of a song. no doubt she is good. and that matters to me how? shes still just playing what shes learned. i have no doubts about her technical prowess. thats not my issue, which you seemed to completely ignore. the problem i have with your constant plugging of her (not just on this thread, but on the other avenged sevenfold one as well) is that all she does is play well. i dont really care if she can play well, its not that impressive. give me something that sounds awesome, that has some sort of thought into it, thats impressive in any way but technical. then i will give her the credit due, until then she is just playing an instrument incredibly well but contributing nothing to art. theres far to many of these "child prodigies" out there on youtube for me to actually care about how any of them play.

# Oct 19, 2007 @ 3:34 PM ET | IP Logged

39. godlike writes:

uhh....ok, so you have an opinion...thats good.. I was not discounting or ignoring it...just giving you my opinion of your thoughts..!
Yes, I did mention her name in that other A7X thread... I was suggesting that other people may want to check her out.....others watched and commented.... you are the only one with anything negative to say....!!
I wasnt the one made this comment...
"but some fag commented of how she sucks, he's probably just mad that a 13 year old girl can play a guitar better than his sorry a$$ can.people like that make me so p***ed off "

I feel the same though....you are a putz..!!

# Oct 19, 2007 @ 5:56 PM ET | IP Logged

40. fearthedje writes:

when did i say she sucks? youre not even hearing my argument, youre just ignoring it and making up another one. i said that i have no doubts of her technical prowess, im just saying that im not impressed by what she plays, not by how she plays. so if you want to be a f***ing a$$hole, go ahead, youve already accomplished that. and youve proved that you have no point other than being an a$$hole because i disagree that shes the most amazing f***ing thing in the world. so if anything man, youre the putz. and by the way, i never went out of my way to insult you, but for some reason you think im just attacking you personally and you feel the need to insult me. so what, are you like her dad or something?

# Oct 19, 2007 @ 6:30 PM ET | IP Logged

41. fearthedje writes:

see, all you are talking about, in your previous post as well is what they play. what they play written by other people. thats my point. i am not impressed by someone's ability to play what another person wrote. thats like saying, "oh man, wait till you hear my cover band play this awesome song from another band that we play dead on. but get this, our guitar player is 15!"

# Oct 19, 2007 @ 6:33 PM ET | IP Logged

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42. Cynic writes:

I said this in other threads but yeah, I'll always think Jason Becker was the child guitar prodigy to end all. He joined Cacophany when he was 16. There's some amazing vids of him playing when he was 18. Muhammed Suicmez also wrote all of "Onset of Putrefaction" (ridiculously technical, probably some of my favourite solos ever) by the time he was 18.

That said it doesn't matter as long as your songwriting is down, ie I'd rather listen to Steven O'Malley that Yngwie Malmsteen.

Now Playing: The Melvins - "Goin Blind"

# Oct 19, 2007 @ 6:39 PM ET | IP Logged

43. fearthedje writes:

exactly, those players are amazing because they made there own music at such a young age. thats what impresses me about them, especially muhammed and onset. that cd is amazing tight.

# Oct 19, 2007 @ 6:44 PM ET | IP Logged

44. godlike writes:

OK.....fine...I am an A$$hole..!! I have known that for a long time.. Ask most of the women I have lived with...they will tell you the same thing..!!
I do understand your point of view...and no, I am not her father...however I am impressed by her abilities..whether its playing someone elses music or not..shes pretty good.... believe me, I have seen my share of waterheads that wanted to play and then convinced their parents to buy them expensive guitars and equipment and then paid me to teach them....and it was a waste of time...
Not just anyone can pick up a guitar and play it.....
At no time, did I use the word prodigy...or even the phrase "most amazing f^cking thing in the world"
So anyway, I didnt want to start some useless battle... OK..?

Yes, Becker's playing is definatly impressive to say the least...
another amazing player is or was... Shawn Lane....he died waaaaay before his time...Check out some of his stuff on the 'ol Youtube...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2IU3926fsI&mode=related&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57q5zdvMw58&mode=related&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqT7_fV0Yuk&mode=related&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hL4AMwrAcyE&mode=related&search=

whether he is playing his music or covers...this guy was AMAZING..!!

# Oct 19, 2007 @ 7:24 PM ET | IP Logged

45. godlike writes:

OK....so, I am an A$$hole...yeah, I already knew that....every woman I have lived with, has told me that at one time or another...!!
so anyway...I didnt want to start some useless battle over something so senseless...No, I am not her father...but I am impressed by her abilities..!
At no time, did I use the word prodigy or the phrase "most amazing f^cking thing in the world"...!!

Yes, Becker's playing is amazing....another phenominal picker was Shawn Lane...check out some of his stuff on the ol Youtube...
whether he is playing his own stuff or covers...this guy was unbelievable... and no, that isnt just my opinion either..

what am I hearin..? Scarlet Runner - Gamblin Blues

# Oct 19, 2007 @ 7:32 PM ET | IP Logged

46. Dan the Man writes:

1st of all, let me say I am the dad of this girl and any pecker head who thinks that i am living my dreams threw my kids can take a flying leap.I have been in the music business since age 16, touring as a lighting guy.i have been blessed to have a girl guitar PRODIGY, yea i said it, born to me. Desiree' is a true artist, who has been writing her own material for several years and who performs regularly with the big dogs of rock n' roll.
godlike, thank you for your enthusiasim, join our fan club see the guitarqueen at www.desireebassett.com
like it or not, Desiree' Apolonio Bassett is the future of rock n' roll !
now go practice and have a nice day. the manager

# Oct 22, 2007 @ 8:15 AM ET | IP Logged

47. godlike writes:

Well hello to you Sir... I have been to her website... and I am still amazed...!!!

what am I hearin - my stomach growlin...!!

# Oct 23, 2007 @ 6:01 PM ET | IP Logged

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48. Cynic writes:

Do we think she'll ever beat The Great Kat though?? Voted in the top 10 fastest shredders of all time by Guitar One mag, and her musics really cool too (thrash).

Now Playing: Hammers of Misfortune - "The Bastard Sapling"

# Oct 23, 2007 @ 7:45 PM ET | IP Logged

49. godlike writes:

Kat is another amazing player...!!! There really are alot of them out there...guitarists in general whether female or male that is....to pick one as the best is really quite a daunting task...!!!

what am I hearin.? Mr.Big - Addicted to that Rush..... speakin of guitarists...Paul Gilbert with Billy Sheehan on bass....WOW..!!!!

# Oct 23, 2007 @ 7:54 PM ET | IP Logged

50. ZT writes:

Shred guitar? hmmm..................................

# Oct 23, 2007 @ 9:41 PM ET | IP Logged

51. ... writes:

these guys f***ing suck. an eight year old on meth could play guitar with his feet, sh** out his mouth and still make better music than this weak band.

# Oct 23, 2007 @ 11:54 PM ET | IP Logged

52. dan the man writes:

Desiree' listens to a.sevenfold, and will be submitting her solo work and video for review to the band, once the cd is out . she's already working on it . rock on

# Oct 24, 2007 @ 7:08 AM ET | IP Logged

53. DEVILDRIVER FAN writes:

YOU people have to much time on your hands...lol

# Oct 24, 2007 @ 2:02 PM ET | IP Logged

54. godlike writes:

Well, Dan the man... I must ask you to pass on my compliments to your amazing daughter...
I wish her luck in this endeavor...but then again, I dont think that she needs any "luck"..!!
She has more than enough talent to accomplish whatever she wishes...
I've watched all the footage that is posted on Youtube...Broken Machine is definatly impressive..as is Circles..!!

what am I hearin - Scarlet Runner - See You Cry on guitar- Jason Christensen- National winner of Fender sponsored guitar talent search back in the early 90s...!! check em out on Youtube

# Oct 24, 2007 @ 8:51 PM ET | IP Logged

55. dan the man writes:

it will take luck to navigate thru the sharks; Broken Machine was written by Desiree' at age 12. She has written alot of really cool songs since then, we can't wait to get it all on disc. subcribe to my videos on youtube

# Oct 25, 2007 @ 8:43 AM ET | IP Logged

56. Mr A7X writes:

Alright you guys say you can win than send in a video and see what happens you Dumba***

# Nov 11, 2007 @ 6:06 PM ET | IP Logged

57. ... writes:

we dont have to, it doesnt take much to be better then them.
you seem confident, how about you post a video?

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59. Android Nurse writes:

Haha this is a joke.

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60. me agen writes:

oh my comment went slightly wrong...

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