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gr8dane 
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 Posted: October 12 2005 at 15:27 |
 Jim Garten wrote:
beterdedthnred4 wrote:
This may be blasphemy, but I just cannot take the atonal xylophone solo in Gentle giant's Knots
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You think that's blasphemy? HAH!
I cannot stand the moog solo on ELP's 'Lucky Man' - cobbled together & stuck on at the last minute, totally inappropriate to the song, & whilst Emmo's noodling around, Lake gets bored & buggers off leaving Palmer to keep up the pretence of backing the moog, then even he thinks "sod this, I'm going for a pint" & just stops.
Great song, terrible ending. |
If I remember corectly.Lucky Man moog solo was the first moog solo on an album.It was also done in a take or 2,by one of the first owners of a moog besides Moog.
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floydaholic
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Posted: October 12 2005 at 15:14 |
Europa-Santana
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I'll see you on the Darkside of the moon...
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Progbear
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Posted: October 12 2005 at 14:55 |
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Worst guitar solo: anything Davy O’List played on The Thoughts Of Emerlist Davjack
Worst keyboard solo (overall): Gayle Moran’s piano solo near the end of Mahavishnu Orchestra’s “Eternity’s Breath”
Worst synth solo: Wakeman’s Polymoog (ugh!) solos on “On The Silent
Wings Of Freedom”. Actually, the sound of the solo on “Don’t Kill The
Whale” is worse, but this one’s harder to listen to because it’s a
great, great Yes song with horrible, horrible synth solos. It’s the
aural equivalent of taking a big, steaming dump on the Mona Lisa.
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The Hemulen
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Posted: October 12 2005 at 10:07 |
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Steve Howe's solo on that rubbish too-jolly-for-its-own-good track on "The Ladder" (Lightening Strikes, is it?) is pretty jaw-droppingly poor, especially from the man behind the licks on Awaken.
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nimrodel
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Posted: October 12 2005 at 07:47 |
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not prog but every audioslave or rage against the machine solo... urgh
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We want... a shrubbery!
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Philrod
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Posted: October 12 2005 at 01:18 |
Publius wrote:
Holger Czukay's gutiar sounds exactly the same in every Can song I have heard so far... |
Wel... he has his style
but it definitely works on a song like Paperhouse... I adore the solo on that song!
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laplace
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Posted: October 11 2005 at 21:46 |
Rush - Bastille Day 
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AbsentEnemy
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Posted: October 11 2005 at 19:51 |
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...or atleast it attempts to. And fails. It goes on way too long IMO.
Edited by AbsentEnemy
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" If the company of tumbleweed is unexpected fun, you're a cactus..."
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Yams
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Posted: October 11 2005 at 19:48 |
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The Starless solo builds up the song.
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AbsentEnemy
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Posted: October 11 2005 at 19:41 |
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Starless - King Crimson. If that counts as a solo. Would it kill him to play a different note?
Owner of a Lonely Heart is sh*t as well. The funny part is that a while
ago in Guitar One it was voted as one of the best tones in a guitar
solo. Annoying fuzz and 87 layers of harmonizer too many? I don't think
so.
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" If the company of tumbleweed is unexpected fun, you're a cactus..."
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Prosciutto
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Posted: October 11 2005 at 19:30 |
Believe it or not Ginger was the band's drummer for about a year between 1979 and 1980, as far a I know, in the end he was fired by Dave Brock, don't know the reason...
Hawkwind rules!! 
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Don't be a prog-hole, please...
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krusty
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Posted: October 11 2005 at 17:51 |
I remember a while ago I saw Hawkwind and for some reason Ginger Baker
was drumming for them. Now I don't know what he had been up to before
that gig but his drum solo was the worst I have ever seen, he kept
dropping sticks and fummbling around for replacements while playing
bass drum and hihat.
Why was he even playing a drum solo at a Hawkwind gig anyway?? jeez...
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salmacis
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Posted: October 11 2005 at 16:47 |
chopper wrote:
On ELP's live album "The show that never ends" there is a version of Lucky Man with a truly horrendous keyboard solo. Hard to believe it's Emerson (perhaps it wasn't, perhaps a mouse ran up and down the keyboard for a bit). |
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chopper
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Posted: October 11 2005 at 16:34 |
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On ELP's live album "The show that never ends" there is a version of
Lucky Man with a truly horrendous keyboard solo. Hard to believe it's
Emerson (perhaps it wasn't, perhaps a mouse ran up and down the
keyboard for a bit).
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salmacis
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Posted: October 11 2005 at 16:27 |
Must say one of the worst solos I've heard is a keyboard solo in 'Headlong' by IQ- it starts off fine, yet comes horribly unstuck near the end of the solo. However, the track does recover..
'Your Own Special Way's solo was totally irrelevant to the song- in a totally different key to the rest of the track, so it's clear it was added as an afterthought to me...The solo in 'Congo' must have a mention too-
Caravan's live album, 'A Knight In London', featured the returning Jan Schelhaas on keyboards. He made a mess of every solo he played- 'For Richard' and 'Nine Feet Underground' were really bad imo. However, in all fairness, this was I think his first gig with the band since about 1977, and the band have also condemned the DVD for various technical problems. I've not ever been hugely impressed by Schelhaas yet surely he's never been as bad as he was there?
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BePinkTheater
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Posted: October 10 2005 at 22:44 |
the sympathy for the devil guitar solos always makes me vomit/ cry/ want to kill myself, and everyone in the rolling stones...those talents less pieces of sh*t...
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I can strangle a canary in a tin can and it would be really original, but that wouldn't save it from sounding like utter sh*t.
-Stone Beard
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Drew
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Posted: October 10 2005 at 21:50 |
Dream Theater- Erotomania
No. JK- That Song "Love Hurts"
and I'll throw in- "Owner of a lonely Heart"
Edited by Drew
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margaret
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Posted: October 10 2005 at 21:48 |
Zitro wrote:
beterdedthnred4 wrote:
This may be blasphemy, but I just cannot take the atonal xylophone solo in Gentle giant's Knots |
A loathe that song!!!!
yes, that is a terrible solo ... especially whenever I compare it to the solo in 'Schooldays' from the same band. |
a classic solo.
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Space is dark it is so endless
When you're lost it's so relentless
It is so big, it is small
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margaret
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Posted: October 10 2005 at 21:46 |
Prosciutto wrote:
The sax solo by Nik Turner on the Hawkwind's classic "MASTER OF THE UNIVERSE", that my friends is the WORST solo I've ever heard by any instrument...
HAWKWIND RULES!! |
didn't like that myself, but the worst solo I'VE heard by any instrument, to me is a no brainer, Ron Bushy's drum solo on In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
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Space is dark it is so endless
When you're lost it's so relentless
It is so big, it is small
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Prosciutto
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Posted: October 10 2005 at 20:22 |
The sax solo by Nik Turner on the Hawkwind's classic "MASTER OF THE UNIVERSE", that my friends is the WORST solo I've ever heard by any instrument...
HAWKWIND RULES!!
Edited by Prosciutto
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Don't be a prog-hole, please...
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