"Freight Train" is a song by
Nitro from their 1989 album ''
O.F.R.''. In the video for the song,
Michael Angelo Batio uses the one-of-a-kind
quad guitar, which is a
guitar with four necks. The top two necks have seven
strings and the bottom two have six strings. The guitar was stolen after the second performance of the "Nitro O.F.R" tour in El Paso, Texas. Then, in 2004, a fan showed up to one of Batio's performances with a guitar case. The fan opened up the case to reveal two of the four guitars that had made up the famous quad guitar.
Jim Gillette performs a shriek before the first guitar solo, considered among the highest in popular
heavy metal music
Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom and United States. With roots in blues rock, psychedelic rock and acid rock, heavy metal bands developed a ...
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Music video
Howard Johnson writing for
Classic Rock ranked the song's video at No. 7 on their list of The Top 10 Best Hair Metal Videos.
References
1989 singles
1989 songs
Nitro (band) songs
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