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    Posted: July 31 2020 at 07:47
Tony Banks has always been able to craft some really beautiful keyboard solos during all the genesis discography, despite the band going full pop in the 80's. Big smile Post the ones you enjoy most. My list:

1. Cinema Show
2. Firth of Fifth
3. Suppers Ready (Apocalypse)
4. Duke's Travel
5. Entangled
6. Stagnation
7. Home By The Sea
8. Fading Lights
9. Living Forever
10. The Musical Box

Some honorable mentions:

Watcher of the Skies
Riding the Scree
Slipperman
There must be some other way
Abacab
Submarine
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^ You’ve covered most bases right there !! Living Forever is another good one. For some reason, I liken Banks to Bardens.
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Many of mine would be all the ones off the Lamb.
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I love every solo Banks does. He’s in my Top-5 Keyboard players.
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Originally posted by Tom Ozric Tom Ozric wrote:

In The Cage
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I love every solo Banks does. He’s in my Top-5 Keyboard players.

I agree. Even Rick Wakeman likes him enough to put his arm on his shoulder. LOL
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Apocalypse
Hogweed
Can-Utility
Slippermen

its really hard to know what are actual solos sometimes

The Hogweed one is really a piano break , perhaps not a full blown solo , bit it's totally sublime and one of the best things ever. Apocalypse still wins easily.Smile





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¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡Duke's Travels!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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"I am an anti-Christ" - Johnny Rotten
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I generally prefer Tony Banks' keyboard solos on his solo albums. Smile
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They're more common (unsurprisingly) so I expect there's more chance of there being good one on his solo albums.
I need to listen to his solo stuff more...
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1. Supper's Ready
2. The Cinema Show
3. Fading Lights
4. Duke's Travels
5. Second Home By the Sea
6. Can-Utility and the Coastliners
7. In the Cage
8. ...In That Quiet Earth
9. The Colony of Slippermen
10. The Musical Box
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Cinema Show on top for sure
Closely followed by Apocalypse in 9/8
Watcher of the skies intro
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