A Rockin’ Happy Birthday, Kuya Junior! ( Engineer Gualberto C. Lambino, Jr. )

tap the vid for one of Kuya Junior’s all-time favorite speed metal guitar renditions:

“Ritchie Blackmore’s guitar solo on this track was ranked #15 on Guitar World magazine’s 2008 list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Solos. In the issue, Blackmore explained how he did it: “I wrote that out note for note about a week before we recorded it. I wanted it to sound like someone driving in a fast car, for it to be one of those songs you would listen to while speeding. And I wanted a very definite Bach sound, which is why I wrote it out – and why I played those very rigid arpeggios across that very familiar Bach progression – Dm, Gm, Cmaj, Amaj.” “ (from articles anthologized by songfacts.com)

… with screechingly screaming vocals by lyricist and frontman Ian Gillan…

Highway Star, composed and originally performed by Deep Purple:

Here is Deep Purple reprising themselves more than twenty years later, in 1994:

the iconic Deep Purple: