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beterdedthnred4 
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 Posted: August 18 2005 at 22:47 |
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This may be blasphemy, but I just cannot take the atonal xylophone solo in Gentle giant's Knots
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Bj-1
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Posted: August 18 2005 at 22:54 |
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RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on!
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Zitro
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Posted: August 18 2005 at 22:54 |
 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.
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Starette
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Posted: August 18 2005 at 22:59 |
The thing that annoys me the most is when a pop/rock band choose going up a key as their bridge: no solos, just a key-change.  boring boring boring.
Can't say I know any prog-rock BAD solos! I don't tend to look for the bad stuff- I just let it wack me in the face.  It's only when it begins to HURT that I know it's bad.
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50 tonne angel falls to the earth...
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KoS
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Posted: August 18 2005 at 23:15 |
King of Loss wrote:
Zitro wrote:
LEts try the negative of things ... What is the worst Guitar solo and the worst keyboard solo you have ever heard?
Also include other horrid solos from other instruments.
Here I go:
Worst Keyboard Solo : Dream Theater - Live In Budokan - Keyboard Solo
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O C'mon, the first part of the solo wasn't really a solo. It was Jordan have sex with his keyboards  |
Yeah its almost pornographic esp. when he goes back and forth and back and forth
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Trotsky
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Posted: August 19 2005 at 00:21 |
King of Loss wrote:
Zitro wrote:
LEts try the negative of things ... What is the worst Guitar solo and the worst keyboard solo you have ever heard?
Also include other horrid solos from other instruments.
Here I go:
Worst Keyboard Solo : Dream Theater - Live In Budokan - Keyboard Solo
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O C'mon, the first part of the solo wasn't really a solo. It was Jordan have sex with his keyboards
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Hmmm, somebody just gave me this one this week ... not so sure I want to see it now 
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"Death to Utopia! Death to faith! Death to love! Death to hope?" thunders the 20th century. "Surrender, you pathetic dreamer.
"No" replies the unhumbled optimist "You are only the present."
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Logos
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Posted: August 19 2005 at 00:35 |
I won't bash any solos, but I gotta say to the guy who doesn't like the CttE organ solo: WTF??? 
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BaldFriede
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Posted: August 19 2005 at 03:16 |
Publius wrote:
Holger Czukay's gutiar sounds exactly the same in every Can song I have heard so far... |
Holger Czukay played bass in Can. The guitar player was Michael Karoli (who died of cancer a few years ago).
By the way, we often see Holger Czukay, since he lives in Cologne,
where we live too. He is an instantly recognizable figure. Also his
face appears on many pillars in the Cologne underground, along with the
faces of other Cologne VIPs.
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 BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue.
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Jim Garten
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Posted: August 19 2005 at 03:27 |
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.
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Jon Lord 1941 - 2012
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BaldFriede
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Posted: August 19 2005 at 03:30 |
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The worst guitar solo is, in my opinion, the first guitar solo in the
live version of "Sign" from Peter Hammill's live album "The Margin +"
(probably played by the man himself; he just ain't no lead guitar
player). The 2nd guitar solo by John Ellis is a lot better. But as
dilletantic as that first guitar solo is: I like it!
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Jim Garten
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Posted: August 19 2005 at 03:34 |
BaldFriede wrote:
The worst guitar solo is, in my opinion, the first guitar solo in the
live version of "Sign" from Peter Hammill's live album "The Margin +"
(probably played by the man himself; he just ain't no lead guitar
player). The 2nd guitar solo by John Ellis is a lot better. But as
dilletantic as that first guitar solo is: I like it!
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There's a memory - I remember seeing Marillion on their first major tour in 1983 & they were supported by a guy I'd never heard of with his backing guitarist...
Peter Hammill & John Ellis.
If I knew then what I know now, eh?
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Jon Lord 1941 - 2012
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BaldFriede
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Posted: August 19 2005 at 03:56 |
Jim Garten wrote:
BaldFriede wrote:
The worst guitar solo is, in my opinion, the first guitar solo in the
live version of "Sign" from Peter Hammill's live album "The Margin +"
(probably played by the man himself; he just ain't no lead guitar
player). The 2nd guitar solo by John Ellis is a lot better. But as
dilletantic as that first guitar solo is: I like it!
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There's a memory - I remember seeing Marillion on their first major
tour in 1983 & they were supported by a guy I'd never heard of with
his backing guitarist...
Peter Hammill & John Ellis.
If I knew then what I know now, eh? |
Fish is a great fan of Hammill; the covers of two Hammill albums ("Fool's Mate" and "Over") appear on the cover of "Fugazi".
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Odd24
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Posted: August 19 2005 at 07:12 |
Uriah Heep - Gipsy
The keyboard solo really  RUINS the entire song.
Without solo 9/10, with solo 5/10.
I have made a special edit of this song and now I'm really satisfied with it.
Edited by Odd24
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Right down the line
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NutterAlert
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Posted: August 19 2005 at 07:28 |
And drum solo...
I saw a double header of Carl Palmer Band and Blue Oyster Cult a few years ago in London.
CP was on first and was his usual excellent self. In fact his trio (then with Sean Baxter on guitar) were on great form, best show i've seen them do.
BOC came on next, and though good, near the end of their set the drummer has a drum solo spot that was, well pitifull. Seeing the legend of CP and this man in one night was quite a contrast.
This gig was reviewed later in one of the UK mags and the drummer, whose name I totally forgot, but who was fairly rotund, got a right pasting.
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chopper
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Posted: August 19 2005 at 07:40 |
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. |
No, I like that solo. You should hear the version of Lucky Man on "The show that never ends". Now that is bad.
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Odd24
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Posted: August 19 2005 at 08:31 |
beterdedthnred4 wrote:
This may be blasphemy, but I just cannot take the atonal xylophone solo in Gentle giant's Knots |
How about the xylophone solo in Gentle Giant's The runaway. I think that is a jazz kind of solo (should be a nice topic: Jazz solos in prog music...)
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Right down the line
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M. B. Zapelini
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Posted: August 19 2005 at 09:02 |
NutterAlert wrote:
And drum solo...
I saw a double header of Carl Palmer Band and Blue Oyster Cult a few years ago in London.
CP was on first and was his usual excellent self. In fact his trio (then with Sean Baxter on guitar) were on great form, best show i've seen them do.
BOC came on next, and though good, near the end of their set the drummer has a drum solo spot that was, well pitifull. Seeing the legend of CP and this man in one night was quite a contrast.
This gig was reviewed later in one of the UK mags and the drummer, whose name I totally forgot, but who was fairly rotund, got a right pasting.
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Probably the drummer who played with Blue Öyster Cult was Chuck Bürgi - the worst drummer Rainbow ever had!
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salmacis
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Posted: August 19 2005 at 09:04 |
The studio version of 'July Morning' by Uriah Heep has quite a few fluffed notes from Ken Hensley on organ- I'm not really too critical of that though, I like it the way it is!!
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Zitro
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Posted: August 19 2005 at 09:53 |
Lucky Man's solo?
That's probably the best keyboard solo I have ever heard in a pop song!
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nimrodel
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Posted: August 19 2005 at 11:09 |
i dont like the solo in bohemian rhapsody..
maybe i have heard it so many times that i cant stand it anymore..
but it has that feeling on it that it has too much emotion..
i know i suck
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