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alanerc

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Posted: December 22 2007 at 01:33

Under a Glass Moon
Hollow Years, the budokan version
Working Man
Sweet child o' mine

Crassius

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Posted: January 03 2008 at 20:28

Pink Floyd - Pigs on the Wing (Joint) - Snowy White
Pink Floyd - Time - David Gilmour
Pink Floyd - Shine On (I-V), Best use of just 4 notes I've ever heard - David Gilmour
Jethro Tull - Minstrel in the Gallery - Martin Barre
Jethro Tull - Thick As a Brick - A short solo in a long album, but still a huge highlight - Martin Barre
Camel - Lady Fantasy- Every solo - Andy Latimer
Camel - The Snow Goose - The whole album, not just the song. Especially La Princesse Perdue - Andy Latimer
Yes - Close to the Edge - Howe
King Crimson - Starless - Deceptively simple - God

Floydian42 View Drop Down

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Posted: January 04 2008 at 01:02

Firth of Fifth, Comfortably Numb, Banks on TMB.

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Posted: January 04 2008 at 14:24

Can't remember if I posted in here or not, oh well...

David Gilmour - Dogs
Steve Hackett - Firth of Fifth
Alex Lifeson - The Necromancer
Frank Zappa - Muffin Man

Ancient

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Posted: January 04 2008 at 18:51

Here's a few favourites:

Genesis - Hackett Firth of Fifth
Genesis - Banks - One for the Vine
Yes - Howe - Awaken
Wakeman - Marlin the Magician
Focus - Akkerman - Hocus Pocus
Camel - Latimer -Stationary Traveller
Zappa - Montana
PFM - Four Holes in the Ground

Exodizer

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Posted: January 05 2008 at 14:22

All of the above - Roine Stolt (at the end but there's two before that)

Into the Fire - Neal Morse (I know Roine Stolt played on this album I think it's him)

Fatal Tradegy (do I even need to name the guitarist?)

Nevermore - Allan Holdsworth.

Drums

The live John Bonham one on the ocean

Vinnie Coulliata (I can't remember the song)

Keyboards

All of the Above - Neal Morse

OzzProg

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Posted: January 05 2008 at 15:27

Keyboards: #1Rick wakeman on Close to the Edge

#2 Keith Emerson on Tarkus (really the whole song is a super long insane solo...hahaha)

Bass: #1 Chris Squire on Heart of the Sunrise
#2 John Wetton on Larks Tongues in Aspic, Part One (Most people probably don't even notice this subtle but super cool solo)

Guitar: #1 Andy Latimer on Rhayader Goes to Town

#2 Steve Howe on Sound Chaser

Voice (well i dont know if these count as "solos", but what i mean is nice Acapella parts)

          #1 Annie Haslam on Song of Scheherazade
          #2 Peter Gabriel on Dancing With the Moonlit Knight

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crimhead

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Posted: January 05 2008 at 15:59

I'll say it again..."Watermelon in easter hay" off of Joe's garage pt. 2

That Zappa guy could friggin play the guitar.

Sunhillow_ View Drop Down

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Posted: January 05 2008 at 16:24

The keyboard solo on In The Cage (Genesis).

This is very odd, but.. the Keyboard solo on Roundabout

David Guilmor solo(s) on Dogs

The Gumbo variations solo
Ermm

Russia_on_Ice View Drop Down

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Posted: January 06 2008 at 04:44

Gilmour - Comfortably Numb

Akerfeld - Hours of Wealth

Chieli Minucci - Without You (one of those solos where every note has an emotional purpose)

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Posted: January 06 2008 at 04:47

Sunhillow_ wrote:

The keyboard solo on In The Cage (Genesis).

Yes. But did you hear it on their latest live show? I don't think it came across too well, and Phil Collins sounded so bored during that...

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Posted: January 06 2008 at 04:57

Chameleon wrote:

Articuno1 wrote:

Pink Floyd- Is There Anybody Out There?

It's called Comfortably Numb.

Come on now, there is a song called "Is there anybody out there", it's right after Hey You. It has no solo but I think we gotta take him at his word insted of changin titles on him

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Posted: January 06 2008 at 07:04

OzzProg wrote:

Keyboards: #1Rick wakeman on Close to the Edge

#2 Steve Howe on Sound Chaser

Voice (well i dont know if these count as "solos", but what i mean is nice Acapella parts)

          #1 Annie Haslam on Song of Scheherazade
          #2 Peter Gabriel on Dancing With the Moonlit Knight

Well, if you consider"Tarkus" to be a keyboard solo, then I will say that "Master Builder" by Gong and "The Last Seven Minutes" by Magma are drum solos, with the rest of the instruments only being accompaniment to the drums. Wink

Absolutely superb drumming in both songs! "The Last Seven Minutes" can be listened to in the archives, by the way.

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OzzProg

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Posted: January 06 2008 at 12:40

BaldFriede wrote:

Well, if you consider"Tarkus" to be a keyboard solo, then I will say that "Master Builder" by Gong and "The Last Seven Minutes" by Magma are drum solos, with the rest of the instruments only being accompaniment to the drums. Wink

Absolutely superb drumming in both songs! "The Last Seven Minutes" can be listened to in the archives, by the way.

Ya i agree. Tarkus isn't really one long solo, but there are hundreds of tiny little solo snippets, that just sound fantastic!

The last seven minutes is a cool song.

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Posted: January 06 2008 at 15:03

The tapping solo from Steve Hackett's "The Lovers".

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Jshutt64

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Posted: January 07 2008 at 01:02

There's just some that strike that special chord with me.

Al Di Meola- Return Of The Jester And The Tyrant

John Petrucci- Beyond This Life

David Gilmour- Comfortably Numb

Just to name a few.

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Posted: January 07 2008 at 01:29

Russia_on_Ice wrote:

Akerfeld - Hours of Wealth

I with you on this one (although you missed the "t" in Akerfeldt). Almost any of his solos in a soft song should qualify for best solo ever.

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Posted: January 08 2008 at 16:02

BaldFriede wrote:

I will say that "Master Builder" by Gong and "The Last Seven Minutes" by Magma are drum solos, with the rest of the instruments only being accompaniment to the drums. Wink

The only way I can listen to drum solos is if there are other instruments playing too! Wink

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Kuifje

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Posted: January 10 2008 at 15:48

Mine all tine favorite is the solo on Ice (Camel) from the great Andy Latimer.

AnthemOne

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Posted: January 10 2008 at 21:24

Atavachron wrote:

for guitar..

-Di Meola, 'Sequencer'
-Eddie VH, 'Push Comes to Shove'
-Randy Rhoads, 'You Can't Kill Rock'nRoll'
-Uli Roth, 'Cast Away Your Chains', 'I'll Be Loving You Always', 'Chaplain and I', 'Sails of Charon',
-Hendrix, 'Machine Gun'

Gotta agree with ya on Randy and Eddie, pure sweetness there. Along the same lines i would have to include Trevor Rabin's "Cant Look Away" solo, Gary Moore's "Shapes of Things" solo

Still compiling my fav's in the Prog Arena