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Points: 230 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 22 2007 at 17:36
David Gilmour playing Comfortably Numb live in Pulse album. John Petrucci's work comes very close in Dream Theatre's new albums.
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Points: 944 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 21 2007 at 17:20
a lot of camel solos!
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Points: 2601 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 21 2007 at 17:10
Some quality keyboard solos that come to mind within prog rock:
 
Antonio Pagliuca (Le Orme) - La Porta Chiusa (Hammond)
Manfred Mann (Uriah Heep) - July Morning (Moog)
Robert Fripp (King Crimson) - In the Wake of Poseidon (Mellotron: brass tapes)
Flavio Premoli (PFM) - Dove...Quando Part I (Piano)
John Evans (Jethro Tull) - Quartet (Hammond and Moog)
David Sinclair (Caravan) - Nine Feet Underground (Organ)
Martin Orford (IQ) - Further Away (Roland?)
 
mandatory:  okay, it wouldn't be right if I didn't mention the "big three"
 
Banks - distorted organ solo in The Musical Box...okay and the one in The Fountain of Salmacis too
Wakeman - all of 'em on GFtO, and I especially like the Moog and Tron on The Revealing...
Emo - Take a Pebble (Piano) and Hoedown (Moog and Hammond)
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Points: 362 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 21 2007 at 14:38
Well, as it happens, my favorite solo appears in a non-prog work. My favorite solo is the guitar solo in Judas Priest's "Painkiller". Since it's not a prog piece, I will refrain from commenting on it.
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Points: 7744 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 21 2007 at 13:21
The vocal solo at the end of Strange King of Woman on Made in Japan. 
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Has anyone heard the outro solo from Of Once And Future Kings by Pavlov's Dog?
 
 
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While i'm not a typical Yes fan my favorite musical moment is the 3-4 minutes after the i get up/down solo from Anderson. Wakeman and also the rest of theband are totally incredible in the section thereafter. All of this is better on Yessongs than on their studio material, imo Yes performs far better live than studio in the first place.
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Points: 4318 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 20 2007 at 21:47
I'm more of a Lando Calrissian fan, I think...
¡Beware of the Bee!
   
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Roman Bunka's solo at the end of "Heartbreak" from his first album "Dein Kopf ist ein schlafendes Auto" is one of my absolute favourites. Also his solo in "Lost Scooters" on the "Live" album of Aera.
And, by the way, why is he still not in the archives as a solo artist? The album mentioned above is one of the very best prog albums ever, in my opinion..



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Here's what I have at the moment (guitar only)"
 
Steve Hackett - Firth of Fifth, Genesis Revisited version (not one solo list from myself would be complete without it, I should also mention The Musical Box, Moonlit Knight, Fountain of Salmacis....ah forget it)
Jan Akkerman (Focus) - toward the end of Birth
Steve Rothery (Marillion) - The Web and Chelsea Monday from the same album
Kerry Livgren and Rich Williams (Kansas) - intro to The Wall
Dickey Betts (The Allman Brothers) - Jessica
Andy Latimer (Camel) - Lady Fantasy
Martin Barre (Tull) - Back Door Angels
Carlos Santana - Black Magic Woman
 
I tried to stick to one's most people have heard, so these are all fairly common.  I'll be back later with fave keyboard solo's...come to think of it it will be hard to control myself on that oneLOL
 
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The Zoo ... Schenker/Scorpions
Comfortably Numb .... Gilmour/Floyd
Cliffs of Dover .... Eric Johnson
Crazy Mama .... JJ Cale
Different Strings .... Lifeson/Rush

and of course

Roisin Dubh/Black Rose ... Gary Moore/Scott Gorham at their best with Thin Lizzy (awesome live)


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An té nach mbíonn láidir ní folláir dó bheith glic
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Points: 4312 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 20 2007 at 19:14
the CLEM CLEMPSON guitar solo on LOST ANGELES from COLLOSSEUM ''LIVE'' 
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Points: 415 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 20 2007 at 18:33
easily and obviously the Hammond solo in apoc in 9/8 from supper's ready
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Points: 10266 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 20 2007 at 18:26
Originally posted by StyLaZyn StyLaZyn wrote:

Originally posted by progismylife progismylife wrote:

Rush - Neil Peart - The Rhythm Method off of Different Stages
 
Neil Peart solos...enough said.  Clap 
No other drummer, for a major band, has constructed solos in such a listenable format. His solos are compositions not wailing fests.

You should listen to the solos of Moerlen.


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Richie Blackmore's solo from When A Blindman Cries: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAZyjARWKzM - so simple, so pure, so sweet (and made even sweeter by the thought that he hates the song so much)
 
Though I am warming to this version with Steve Morse: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3_XJf1TAzU - His violinning intro is a pleasure to watch (just watch his pinkie-finger around the 1:20 mark)
 
However, this version by someone or other really famous: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEF6YO-VcVg - while being very flash and stuff, just misses the point completely.
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Points: 84 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 20 2007 at 16:55
At the moment, Erik Sayle's solo in Common Ground's Numerology
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Wilf Gibson (violin) ELO  - Roll over Beethoven

absolutely wild and demonic...Clap
The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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Points: 849 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 20 2007 at 16:44
Deep Purple - Highway Star
Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell
Genesis - Firth of Fifth
Genesis - The Knife
Marillion - Easter
Marillion - Splintering Heart
Rush - La Villa Strangiato



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Rush- O'Baterista (Neil Peart)
Zappa- The Black Page Drum Solo (Terry Bozzio)
Primus- Jellikit (Tim Alexander)
 
DT- The Dance of Eternity (John Myung)
Yes- The Fish (Chris Squire)
 
Rush- La Villa Strangiato (Alex Lifeson)
Led Zeppelin- Since I've Been Loving You (Jimmy Page)
Hendrix- Machine Gun
Pink Floyd- Comfortably Numb (David Gilmour)
Genesis- Firth of Fifth (Hackett)
King Crimson- 21st Century Schizoid Man (Robert Fripp)
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Points: 99 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 14 2007 at 12:03
Anyone who doesn't think Machine Gun by Jimi Hendrix doesn't contain the best guitar solo hasn't heard it. LOL
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