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Poll Question: Pick your favourite track that starts with just a keyboards playing:
Poll Choice Votes Poll Statistics
2 [2.74%]
2 [2.74%]
2 [2.74%]
12 [16.44%]
4 [5.48%]
0 [0.00%]
1 [1.37%]
2 [2.74%]
2 [2.74%]
1 [1.37%]
27 [36.99%]
2 [2.74%]
6 [8.22%]
10 [13.70%]
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Originally posted by kenethlevine kenethlevine wrote:

so many great ones.  Went with Curved Air, but Le Orme, Genesis, and Renaissance are no slouches

 
One of my faves too, and according to the mood I woke up today, that Le Orme's 'canto' got stuck in my mind till I get to work, hah!


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"Trip to The Fair" by Renaissance
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Triuvmirat for me, Ric. My favorite song on Mediterranean Tales-deeply moving.
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Missing from this list, in my opinion, is Boston's Foreplay/Long Time. Monumental among the rest. I know, I know - it's not prog, but could you imagine what a whole album built around Foreplay would have sounded like? I once heard a rumor that Boston copied the song from an Italian prog band. If true, I wish I knew who the band was.
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Eddie Jobson's stunning work on Metamorphosis is a classic !
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Firth Of Fifth obviously, but Man-Erg is incredible too. The chords are much more complex on Firth Of Fifth though, even if it's less emotional.
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Firth of Fifth followed closely by Fool's Overture.
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ELP-Three Fates from the first album.....very  long keys intro.
But from the list Genesis.
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Originally posted by tszirmay tszirmay wrote:

Eddie Jobson's stunning work on Metamorphosis is a classic !

yep that is superb and also from he best Curved Air album imo
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Originally posted by Rednight Rednight wrote:

Missing from this list, in my opinion, is Boston's Foreplay/Long Time. Monumental among the rest. I know, I know - it's not prog, but could you imagine what a whole album built around Foreplay would have sounded like? I once heard a rumor that Boston copied the song from an Italian prog band. If true, I wish I knew who the band was.

very ELPish so I go for Le Orme

Kansas - The Spider is also an instrumental track in a similar vein although probably doesn't qualify for the thread as the keyboard is accompanied.
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Originally posted by BrufordFreak BrufordFreak wrote:

"Trip to The Fair" by Renaissance



2 micky points for you...  I ADORE that intro and was  the first thing I thought of when I saw the poll. 
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If we talk of classic prog songs, the intro to ELP's "Take a Pebble" deserves a mention. However, when I first saw the title of this thread, I immediately thought of Deep Purple's "Highway Star". Jon Lord's Hammond is simply killer on that song.
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well yeah...that was..umm.. ok LOL but Deep Purple's cover of River Deep Mountain High had their ultimate keyboard intro. By god that was awesome.
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Originally posted by Raff Raff wrote:

If we talk of classic prog songs, the intro to ELP's "Take a Pebble" deserves a mention.


Wow, I always thought it was some sort of mini harp or something, but it was Emerson strumming the piano strings.  So it is indeed a keyboard intro!  Well done Raff!  Tongue
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Firth of Fifth...


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ELP - Trilogi
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Points: 1607 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 29 2014 at 18:22
Originally posted by Padraic Padraic wrote:

Originally posted by Raff Raff wrote:

If we talk of classic prog songs, the intro to ELP's "Take a Pebble" deserves a mention.


Wow, I always thought it was some sort of mini harp or something, but it was Emerson strumming the piano strings.  So it is indeed a keyboard intro!  Well done Raff!  Tongue
 
Then I'm one more here that falled in this 'brilliant trap', set by the magic Keith! Damned! I eagerly wanted to include some track of my favourite band in this thread, besides TAP frankly I was not sure of including also the part 2 of The Endless Enigma - it seemed to me that some drums beat accompanied the very first notes of that such an elegant GRAND piano - silly of me for not ignoring just mere details, since those incredible 2 minutes close majestically one of the most (if not the most) fantastic prog rock compositions I ever listened to!


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Points: 46828 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 29 2014 at 18:27
you see why I love her so Rick. Hot ... sexy... can cook.. puts up with my sh*t.. and loves ELP  hahah
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Points: 1607 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 29 2014 at 18:34

^You said it all Micky!

 
You just reminded me of something really true - behind a great man there is always a wonder woman hahaha...
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