Best solos

cans drum solo on tago mago on augm is pure awsomeness

steve howe's gfuitar solo on awaken is sweet, its my favorite song too!

the keyboard solo goes to elp emerson. pratically all the songs are solo's, but tarkus being the best.

um bass solo um goes to the kool parts in fish out of water by chris squire.

vocal solo goes to the song by yes starship trooper thats an awsome vocal solo!

Eddy wrote: cans drum solo on tago mago on augm is pure awsomeness steve howe's gfuitar solo on awaken is sweet, its my favorite song too! the keyboard solo goes to elp emerson. pratically all the songs are solo's, but tarkus being the best. um bass solo um goes to the kool parts in fish out of water by chris squire. vocal solo goes to the song by yes starship trooper thats an awsome vocal solo!

Eddy-are you sure your keyboard has all its keys?

Guitar: David Gilmour (anything) but especially that second CN solo on Pulse...

Drums: Carl Palmer - Toccata

Keyboards: Keith Emerson (anything) but especially The Three Fates, Trilogy,

Bass: well its not a solo, but I love the bass work on 21st Century Schizoid Man

Vocals: oh gee.. .wonder who??  Greg Lake on anything...

Drums - La Villa Strangiato & the solo on Exit Stage Left - Neil Peart

Guitar - This changes frequently!! At the moment its Andy Latimers playing on 'Chord Change' and 'Lunar Sea' from 'Moonmadness' by Camel.

Bass - Hate bass solos. Best peformances will always be from Geddy Lee IMO. Especially on 'La Villa..' 'YYZ' and 'Freewill'

Keyboards - Tony Banks!!! Performance on 'In the cage' 'Cinema Show' from 'Seconds Out' Its not just TB's soloing technique but his ability to generate atmosphere using strange and original chord sequences, and such lovely melody. His playing never fell into cliches.

Man Erg wrote: I recently listened to an interview with Graham Gouldman who listed the intruments used on I'm Not in Love. Amazingly,there isn't a *mellotron (of sorts)* on that track.The instruments used were:- Moog drum setting Rickenbaker bass guitar *multi-layered vocals* (not mellotron tapes) Other than lead vocal that's it! They used to credit a self-built instrument called a Gizmo,whatever that was.

Thanks for that.  I've assumed because of what I heard them say, when I'm Not In Love was first released as a single, that they must have modified a Mellotron. Apparently they had members of the band tape 'Ah', each singing in a series of pitches to create a couple or more of octaves, each note sustained for 10 seconds or more - took 30 hours apparently by the time they made and strung the tape loops into whatever to allow them to play that choir effect. That smacks of the way a Mellotron originally worked.

The Gizmo was patented by Godley & Creme and ultimately caused 10cc to split. The Gizmo was 6 rotors mounted on the fret board of a guitar (above or below the strings???), and individual keys were depressed so that  a bowed effect was created. The triple vinyl album, the first as Godley & Creme, Consequences started as a demo that G&C intended to play to interested musical instrument companies with the hope of  licensing out the Gizmo. But the project grew like Topsy, while the planned 10cc LP recording was being neglected by G&C.

Consequences is a bit of flawed masterpiece - some 'wow factor' with the innovation (e.g. the track which starts with a dripping tap - in fact the Gizmo),  but more the case of 'too much twiddling' without making great music , It was claimed virtually all the effects created came from the Gizmo and some studio technology. The great, late and lamented British comedian Peter Cook can be heard. It took a long time for somebody to issue Consequences on CD, e.g.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005LNJH/qid=1101 822239/sr=1-8/ref=sr_1_11_8/026-7682140-5975614

 However, the vinyl version as a boxed set could be found remaindered and in dumper bins very cheap in the UK through the 80's, when I bought my copy.