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Points: 17527 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 11 2011 at 14:29
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Of all the solos, anywhere, there is one that has always stood out for me, and it deserves the mention. Sadly, it would not be considered "progressive", even though this guitarist did some very nice things in other places, not all of them exactly "progressive", but many things still nice. I do think that his presence in Greg Lake's first solo album is the best part of it.
 
If you ever get a chance, the most insane, and best, guitar solo I have ever heard, is Garry Moore, in his first solo album ... the song is called "Spirit" ... and you must listen to that side two with the cut before and after, because it makes it even better. That is a guitarist and then some ... leading the way ... into ... insanity ... and having fun along the way!
 
Keyboard solos are a bit more difficult, because, let's look at Richard Wright ... he almost never did a "solo" ... he only augmented what he already had, and he was very faithful to the atmosphere in his work. Look at the Amon Duul 2 keyboard player  Falk U. Rogner ... and saying that anything played in those first 7 or 8 albums ... is a solo? ... I can even look at Irmin Schmidt and ... trying to find a solo ... maybe in the Unfinished and the Outtakes, but hard to consider anything in Bel Air, or Augmn or side 2 of Soon Over Babbalooma a "solo" ... these are simply magnificent pieces of music, very well designed and played ... and to me, this was what Tony Banks, Rick Wakeman, Keith Emerson ... and some of the others, were really all about.
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Points: 887 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 12 2011 at 00:56

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You make some good points too. And I don’t disagree about some of those Emerson solos at least. I didn’t say that he couldn’t play solos, just that he wasn’t consistently great at playing them. Most of his best playing is what I would call ‘set pieces’, and where he plays ‘free’, he is often too sloppy and very much more of a standard organ-riff Jimmy McGriff kind of player, it’s not really his forte (if you’ll pardon the pun!).


Actually, if you look at the harmonic modal aspect of Emerson's work, like in Tank, the song Trilogy,
Pirates and When the Apple Blossoms Bloom, he is pretty inventive as a "composer."  He's not
just jamming blues scales.  He's got great writing in Karn Evil 3rd Impression.   I think a lot of people
don't get Emerson because they haven't sat with his work long enough.  Granted, I've listened to it probably
more than most proggers, and presently couldn't listen to it for a while, but he's pretty inventive when
it comes the modes he's capable of using/inventing (if you take the idea of mode in a loose way).  Just listen to the works I've mentioned.  The man is inventing harmonic realms as much as anyone in prog.

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ELP played so many shows in the early seventies that Emerson needed to constantly freshen things up. That's why the version of Tarkus on the live album is so different to that on the orginal album.Aquatarkus was just a 2 minute thing at the end of the studio album but ended up being over 10 minutes long live. The soloing was extended although the basic structure of the peice hasn't changed. Makes you wonder whether its a solo or just a great peice of improvised writing on the hoof so to speak.
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as for keyboard solos In the Cage by Genesis and Song Within a Song by Camel. Actually all of Moonmadness has great keyboard solos
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Tony Banks solo from Genesis - In the Cage
Rick Wakeman solo from Yes - Revealing Science of God (The one starts on approx. 16:55)
Rick Wakeman solo from Rick Wakeman solo album Anne of Cleves (Actually it's an organ solo song)
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The beginning of The Sky Moves Sideways Phase 2 (Porcupine Tree) Reminds of the Vangelis sound from Bladerunner
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I like this solo... haha this has probably been posted somewhere on this thread but I think this is so cool!
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Larry Fast (Synergy) is pretty amazing, especially the first three albums.
The song "Warriors" has some nice runs in it.  The whole piece is incredibly
classic, with great moods.  It's hard to talk about composers that affect
you strongly, when they stop making music like that.  One doesn't want to be
unkind  But one finds that people who are very serious about music often
are very strong with their words. I'll just say that playing with Gabriel must have
taken a lot away from Larry. It was probably the biggest mistake he made for
his own music.  I'm sure both are nice people, but Larry should have never
played second fiddle to anyone after those first three albums.  I hope he
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Originally posted by thellama73 thellama73 wrote:

My favorite keyboard solo is, for some reason, the one from The White Rider by Camel. I don't know why, but that solo just gives me chills it is so good.


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Tony Bank's Hammond organ in "Apocalypse in 9/8" is simply jaw-dropping, as is his piano solo in "Firth of Fifth"!  

I love Wakeman's Hammond solo in "Roundabout," and Moraz's Moog solos in "Sound Chaser".  

Much to love in prog if you are a keyboard fan!
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The Moog solo at the end of "From The Beginning". Beautiful
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Points: 17527 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 15 2011 at 13:05
Originally posted by brainstormer brainstormer wrote:

Larry Fast (Synergy) is pretty amazing, especially the first three albums.
 
 
I like his solo albums ... but I really think that what he did with Nektar (Recycled) is amazing and much better than what Peter Gabriel allowed him to do. I think that Nektar allowed him to do anything and they just added music on top of it to make one of the most bombastic and amazing rock albums ever ... it's a shame that it also kinda killed Nektar at that time.
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The guitar keyboard unison at the end of Dream Theater's In the Presence of Enemies Pt. 1 gives me goosebumps.
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Wakeman's pretty good on a classical level... but there aren't many jazz orientated solos mentioned. Thought I'd contribute this gem.
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Originally posted by The Pessimist The Pessimist wrote:



Wakeman's pretty good on a classical level... but there aren't many jazz orientated solos mentioned. ....
 
The day that we stop calling "rock" anything else, but MUSIC, you might see some more jazz mentioned here ... but cold day in Jupiter or Hell that you gonna get some of these metal'icos to listen to something else ... and jazz? ... you gotta be kidding ... that's not music!
 
Where is that list of postneoprog at?
 
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The solo from Camel  here always makes me feel good.

Edited by Snow Dog - February 21 2011 at 13:46
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The weird roaring moog solo on Il Volo´s first album. 4´th song - I can´t recall the Italian name...
Edgar Froese did some wonderful solos on Force Majeure - especially on the title number.
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Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

The weird roaring moog solo on Il Volo´s first album. 4´th song - I can´t recall the Italian name...
Edgar Froese did some wonderful solos on Force Majeure - especially on the title number.
Listening to a lot of Tangerine Dream at the moment having just acquired all the Booster series. Froese is actually a great guitarist but that is something that tends to be forgotten.
BTW worth checking out Froese's solo album 'The Stuntman' if you havn't already got it. Have a feeling you will like thisSmile


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Originally posted by moshkito moshkito wrote:

Originally posted by The Pessimist The Pessimist wrote:



Wakeman's pretty good on a classical level... but there aren't many jazz orientated solos mentioned. ....
 
The day that we stop calling "rock" anything else, but MUSIC, you might see some more jazz mentioned here ... but cold day in Jupiter or Hell that you gonna get some of these metal'icos to listen to something else ... and jazz? ... you gotta be kidding ... that's not music!
 
Where is that list of postneoprog at?
 

>Jazz
>not music

Angry

I hope u are trolling because jazz is the greatest music ever
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