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Poll Question: which solo from Tony Banks you like the most
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1 [2.22%]
6 [13.33%]
2 [4.44%]
1 [2.22%]
15 [33.33%]
1 [2.22%]
2 [4.44%]
0 [0.00%]
17 [37.78%]
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    Posted: July 14 2006 at 01:30
I loke the Cinema Show solo the best, but for just anything he played, i like the piano in the beginning of Dancing with the Moonlit Knight, it's just kind of outlining the vocals but it adds so much. Goosebumps.
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I voted for "the mellotron choir at the end of Entangled", because it's one of the most emotional keyboard pieces ever!

If we go for technicality, I must say:

  • In The Cage
  • Robbery Assault & Battery
  • piano intro to "Firth of fifth"
  • Down and out
  • Follow you follow me (outstanding solo in an otherwise poor song)
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     I find his best keyboard work, and especially the solo parts, on The Lamb. "In the Cage" is a great one, but the one over 9/8 in "Riding the Skree" is absolutely brilliant, compositionally and technically. He never hit that peak again, and much of his later keyboard work is downright embarassing.
 
     By the way, I don't know if "solos" is the right word here, because that usually implies improvisation, and he invariably played them the same, as every bootleg will attest. "Solo parts" or sections is probably more accurate.
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Piano solo in Firth of Fifth
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Out of thes i shoosed: slow mellotron solo in seven stones.
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Great poll!! I love Tony Banks Genesis-period even when his solo albums are... no so good... Anyway, I vote for Apocalypse in 9/8, very prog, very epic and very dark keys solo...

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1. From The Undertow (A Curious Feeling). So intense, so melancholic... I love the chords, the synth sounds... the opening chord is just amazing!
2. The opening solo on Duchess (Duke studio album). Not flashy at all, a bit minimal, but very beautiful and emotional!
3. Piano solo on Firth Of Fifth: no explanation needed
4. The bridge leading to Cinema Show on Three Sides Live, and Cinema Show itself 
5. The mellotron solo of Watcher Of The Skies (Genesis Live version)
6. The organ ending of Get Them Out By Friday
7. The fantastic solo in the middle of Moonmadness.
8. The In The Cage moog solo (Three Sides Live)
9. Synth solo in Robbery, Assault And Battery
10. Synth solo in Inside And Out
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The Cinema Show solo is just awesome.Clap
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Originally posted by Ghost Rider

Other for me - the piano solo in the middle of "Firth of Fifth", just before Hackett's stunning guitar solo. Sheer class!

    


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 The Mellotron/organ intro to Watcher Of The Skies is one of my favorites. Unlike anything else. Powerful, ominous, and dramatic.
 
The whole Lamb Lies Down On Broadway is pretty much a collection of Banks' riffs & solos that carries the whole album through. I especially like the mellotron mixed chorus in Silent Sorrow In Empty Boats.
 
Overall, my favorite Banks solo is The Cinema Show solo. (Studio version) It transports you to lush sonic landscapes. A climatic theme & variations of the whole album.
 
Good entries in your poll list.
 
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Originally posted by dralan

 Yea I was looking for Cinema Show too  so Ill go with "other". It may not be the most technical, but it has a very memorable melody line. Especially the live version on Seconds Out when the double drum parts kick in it still can bring me to tearsCry


My vote exactly.

Second place goes to In The Cage


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Cinema Show.

Closely followed by Riding the Scree.
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Is this dude on drugs??

he missed the two BEST!!

'In the cage' and 'The cinema show'...I am hard pressed to pick between those two.
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I think Ill choose 'other' for In the Cage...

Cinema Show is a great one missing from the list, as is the solo in 'The Raven' section of The Colony of Slippermen. Riding the Scree is a great keyboardy, solo-esque song too...
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Originally posted by warnet

I'll go for The Cinema Show too, as this damn 7/8 solo is more than perfect to me. 2nd place for Apocalypse in 9/8 (in which, by the way, the solo is in 4/4).
I got it as 9/8 in the midi. I even counted the beats of the guitar and were 9 per bar. The solo itself flows but when I listen to the guitar part alone it has the odd cut somewhere along the bar. Perhaps the midi was wrong.
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Originally posted by Ghost Rider

Other for me - the piano solo in the middle of "Firth of Fifth", just before Hackett's stunning guitar solo. Sheer class!


I agree, this might be my favorite TB moment. Also, conspicuously missing from the poll (IMO of course) is Tony's solo (and all his parts actually) from Can-Utility And The Coastliners, which is one of Genesis' most underappreciated songs (again IMO).
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Piano opening of "Firth Of Fifth"
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I'll go for The Cinema Show too, as this damn 7/8 solo is more than perfect to me. 2nd place for Apocalypse in 9/8 (in which, by the way, the solo is in 4/4).
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Cinema Show. Honoourable mensh to the end of "Entangled".


Edited by chopper - July 05 2006 at 15:19
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