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    Posted: February 25 2006 at 15:44

Which one is your favorite?

Mine would have to be:

1. Genesis - Cinema Show - The best of all time

2. Yes -  Close to the Edge - Not the church organ one, the one around 14:55, sortof jazz organish...

3. Dream Theater - Stream of Consciousness - Around the 9th minute... WOW

4. ELP - From the Beginning - I'm not a big fan of the technical and wild solos of Emerson, I find them a bit too insane... On the other hand some of his melodic solos like From the Beginning are far more influential and alot cuter too....

5. Yes - Siberian Khatru - It's really short and a bit unsatisfying for that reason but It's a GREAT solo, around the 3:05 of the song. I see it as a hugely influential solo.... I think the solo from Stream of Consciousness resembles it in many ways....
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Your favs are great, mine depend of my feelings and hence varies from times to times. I am presently enjoying EL&P version for Prokofiev's 'Romeo and Juliet' and I also cannot forget the majestic intro of Genesis's 'Firth of Fifth' and the soft and sad piano suite of VdGG's 'House of no doors'. 
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Also I forgot to mention the solo from Supper's Ready, in the 9/8 Apocalypse thingie.... yahhh that ownz...
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Yes -  Close to the Edge!
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Jordan Rudess - Octavarium

Pete Bardens - Nimrodel

Caravan - nine feet underground (don't know the name of the keyboard player)

Kevin Moore - The killing hand

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Peter Bardens - Skylines (Live) is up there - not as obvious as some
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Time of the Season - The Zombies has a great hammond solo!
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  1. The piano solo in Genesis' Firth Of Fifth
  2. The piano solo in ELP's Take A Pebble
  3. From The Undertow, the opening track from Tony Banks' A Curious Feeling (completely synth)
  4. The piano intro from Kayak's Niniane, The Lady Of The Lake (from Merlin); cheating here: also the keyboard solo at the end (well, almost the end) of the song
  5. Very simple, but I love it: the mellotron solo in Cliffhanger's epic Ragnarok (from their magnificent album Not To Be Or Not To Be); followed by some synth; very emotional stuff!

Three piano solos out of 5? I think I have to change my ID to "Pianotron III" 



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Guter Werno section on Beyond daylight were for 4 minutes hes about the only band member playing while Andy Kuntz sings, brilliant.
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"In the Cage" from Genesis' TLLDOB has got an awesome kb solo as well...
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GENESIS: "FIRTH OF FIFTH" & "IN THE CAGE",

OF COURSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!  

 

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the 4 minute cinema show keyboard solo blows EVERY other solo out of the water (besides the apocalypse in 9/8 one of course)




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In descending order of awesomeness:
Apocolypse in 9/8
The solo towards the end of Revealing Science of God
Firth of Fifth
A bunch of places on Tarkus
In the Cage
The middle/end part of Can-Utility and the Coastliners
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Close To The Edge and Suppers Ready
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two solos by Dave Stewart are my favorite ones: the solo at the beginning of "Dreams Wide Awake" from National Health's album "Of Queues and Cures" and the solo at the beginning of the episode "Hiram Aftaglid Meets the Dervish" in "Solar Musick Suite" from Steve Hillage's album "Fish Rising"


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Originally posted by BaldJean BaldJean wrote:

two solos by Dave Stewart are my favorite ones: the solo at the beginning of "Dreams Wide Awake" from National Health's album "Of Queues and Cures" and the solo at the beginning of the episode "Hiram Aftaglid Meets the Dervish" in "Solar Musick Suite" from Steve Hillage's album "Fish Rising"



I was loving his work on Hatfield and the North earlier today..


My favorite keyboard solo..... comes down to two...

Genesis - The Cinema Show
Traffic - Glad

different as night and day... but both are something else.
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Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

Originally posted by BaldJean BaldJean wrote:

two solos by Dave Stewart are my favorite ones: the solo at the beginning of "Dreams Wide Awake" from National Health's album "Of Queues and Cures" and the solo at the beginning of the episode "Hiram Aftaglid Meets the Dervish" in "Solar Musick Suite" from Steve Hillage's album "Fish Rising"



I was loving his work on Hatfield and the North earlier today..


My favorite keyboard solo..... comes down to two...

Genesis - The Cinema Show
Traffic - Glad

different as night and day... but both are something else.

I just love it when a keyboarder goes really mad , and no-one does that better than Dave Stewart


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