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Topic: Worst solos
Posted By: Zitro
Subject: Worst solos
Date Posted: August 18 2005 at 19:36

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

 

Worst Guitar Solos :

_ Yes - The Ancient (slide guitar solo)

_Yes - Owner of a Lonely Heart

_ Some horrid guitar solo from Wakeman's "live in Buenos Aires" DVD

 

 




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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: August 18 2005 at 19:37
^ Don't agree with any of those!

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Posted By: Damen
Date Posted: August 18 2005 at 19:55

I can't think of a bad prog solo

But for a horrific "guitar solo" listen to NOFX's cover of Black Sabbath's Iron Man...



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Posted By: Publius
Date Posted: August 18 2005 at 19:55
motorhead's ace of spades (the most overplayed piece of trash ever) has a really lazy, emotionless solo. Changing the subject slightly...what are your favourite unlikely guitar solos? Mine is the beautiful fuzzy guitar breaks in 'Goodbye To Love' by The Carpenters.

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Posted By: Revan
Date Posted: August 18 2005 at 19:58
me either...

Worst solos? Only one:

Oh yeah - Can


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Posted By: Zitro
Date Posted: August 18 2005 at 19:58
The guitar solo in 'How Many More Times' is one that I could put in a top 10 guitar solo list ... I never heard anyone outside a led zeppelin forum talk about the solo.


Posted By: Publius
Date Posted: August 18 2005 at 19:59
Holger Czukay's gutiar sounds exactly the same in every Can song I have heard so far...

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Posted By: King of Loss
Date Posted: August 18 2005 at 20:04
Originally posted by Zitro 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

 

 

O C'mon, the first part of the solo wasn't really a solo. It was Jordan have sex with his keyboards



Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: August 18 2005 at 20:31

Originally posted by Zitro Zitro wrote:

Worst Keyboard Solo : Dream Theater - Live In Budokan - Keyboard Solo

ok, i think the first 3 or so minutes suck, but then it gets, really good. so i end up liking it when it's over



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Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: August 18 2005 at 20:32
Originally posted by King of Loss King of Loss wrote:

Originally posted by Zitro 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

 

 

O C'mon, the first part of the solo wasn't really a solo. It was Jordan have sex with his keyboards

same thoughts here



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Posted By: Chris88
Date Posted: August 18 2005 at 20:34
Originally posted by King of Loss King of Loss wrote:

Originally posted by Zitro 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

 

 

O C'mon, the first part of the solo wasn't really a solo. It was Jordan have sex with his keyboards

well, the solo i hate the most is a neil young song, i cant remember the name but it made my stomach flip it was some pentatonic hunk of crap.



Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: August 18 2005 at 20:35
Originally posted by Chris88 Chris88 wrote:

Originally posted by King of Loss King of Loss wrote:

Originally posted by Zitro 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

 

 

O C'mon, the first part of the solo wasn't really a solo. It was Jordan have sex with his keyboards

well, the solo i hate the most is a neil young song, i cant remember the name but it made my stomach flip it was some pentatonic hunk of crap.

lemme guess..."Hey Hey, My My (into the black)"



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Posted By: Chris88
Date Posted: August 18 2005 at 20:38
yes i actually think thats it it rings a bell. I have nothing personal against him but i just cant stand his music even worse his solos  well that is his music but it stands out more than the cheap cliched chords he uses


Posted By: Drew
Date Posted: August 18 2005 at 20:39

yeah whats up with that keyborad solo??? it does suck- i have seen him solo 3 times- THEY WERE ALL AMAZING!!!!!!!! why does the one on he cd suck????

Owner  of a lonely heart solo sucks big time.

How about 'love hurts?" SUCKY ASS guitar solo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: August 18 2005 at 20:40

Originally posted by Chris88 Chris88 wrote:

yes i actually think thats it it rings a bell. I have nothing personal against him but i just cant stand his music even worse his solos

i'm good. but i actually like that song. different strokes for different folks, i guess.



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Posted By: Single Coil
Date Posted: August 18 2005 at 21:03

The pipe organ interlude in Close to the Edge is really tough for me to listen to. I don't know if Wakeman thought of it as a solo or not.

 



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Posted By: Hangedman
Date Posted: August 18 2005 at 21:06
The Synth solo in "Invisible Touch" (the song) by genesis. Haha, its actually not bad but its horridly out of place. I like to imagine the brainstorming for it. Phil and Mike "What would make this straightforward nothing elaborate pop ballad better?" Tony "Innapropriate synth solo".


Posted By: Hangedman
Date Posted: August 18 2005 at 21:07
Originally posted by stonebeard stonebeard wrote:

Originally posted by Chris88 Chris88 wrote:

yes i actually think thats it it rings a bell. I have nothing personal against him but i just cant stand his music even worse his solos

i'm good. but i actually like that song. different strokes for different folks, i guess.

So do I  I find it really powerfull



Posted By: juanchoverd
Date Posted: August 18 2005 at 22:18
Originally posted by Hangedman Hangedman wrote:

Originally posted by stonebeard stonebeard wrote:

Originally posted by Chris88 Chris88 wrote:

yes i actually think thats it it rings a bell. I have nothing personal against him but i just cant stand his music even worse his solos

i'm good. but i actually like that song. different strokes for different folks, i guess.

So do I  I find it really powerfull



same here. its a good song. if you dont like his solos, try listening to "cortez the killer". my favorite neil young song with great guitar playing. its basically a very long solo with some singing.


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Posted By: Zitro
Date Posted: August 18 2005 at 22:33
Originally posted by Single Coil Single Coil wrote:

The pipe organ interlude in Close to the Edge is really tough for me to listen to. I don't know if Wakeman thought of it as a solo or not.

Everybody (Except my dad) hates it whenever I grab a keyboard, and play that part.

 



Posted By: beterdedthnred4
Date Posted: August 18 2005 at 22:47
This may be blasphemy, but I just cannot take the atonal xylophone solo in Gentle giant's Knots


Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: August 18 2005 at 22:54

Originally posted by beterdedthnred4 beterdedthnred4 wrote:

This may be blasphemy, but I just cannot take the atonal xylophone solo in Gentle giant's Knots



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Posted By: Zitro
Date Posted: August 18 2005 at 22:54

Originally posted by beterdedthnred4 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.



Posted By: Starette
Date 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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Posted By: KoS
Date Posted: August 18 2005 at 23:15
Originally posted by King of Loss King of Loss wrote:

Originally posted by Zitro 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

 

 

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


Posted By: Trotsky
Date Posted: August 19 2005 at 00:21
Originally posted by King of Loss King of Loss wrote:

Originally posted by Zitro 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

O C'mon, the first part of the solo wasn't really a solo. It was Jordan have sex with his keyboards

Hmmm, somebody just gave me this one this week ... not so sure I want to see it now



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Posted By: Logos
Date 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???


Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: August 19 2005 at 03:16
Originally posted by Publius 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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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: August 19 2005 at 03:27
Originally posted by beterdedthnred4 beterdedthnred4 wrote:

This may be blasphemy, but I just cannot take the atonal xylophone solo in Gentle giant's Knots


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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Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: August 19 2005 at 03:30
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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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: August 19 2005 at 03:34
Originally posted by BaldFriede 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!


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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Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: August 19 2005 at 03:56
Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

Originally posted by BaldFriede 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!


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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Posted By: Odd24
Date 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.



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Posted By: NutterAlert
Date 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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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: August 19 2005 at 07:40

Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

Originally posted by beterdedthnred4 beterdedthnred4 wrote:

This may be blasphemy, but I just cannot take the atonal xylophone solo in Gentle giant's Knots


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.



Posted By: Odd24
Date Posted: August 19 2005 at 08:31

Originally posted by beterdedthnred4 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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Posted By: M. B. Zapelini
Date Posted: August 19 2005 at 09:02
Originally posted by NutterAlert 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.

Probably the drummer who played with Blue Öyster Cult was Chuck Bürgi - the worst drummer Rainbow ever had!



Posted By: salmacis
Date 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!!



Posted By: Zitro
Date 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!



Posted By: nimrodel
Date 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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Posted By: Wormboy
Date Posted: August 19 2005 at 11:34
Originally posted by Zitro Zitro wrote:


Worst Guitar Solos :

_ Yes - The Ancient (slide guitar solo)



YES!  THANK YOU! 

IIRC, I think it's a pedal steel guitar solo.  Technically speaking.

The double coyote bad solo!

Occasionally a solo is single coyote bad: you gnaw your arm off to remind you not to listen to it again.  Double coyote bad is where you gnaw your other arm off so you will never have the opportunity to do it again!

But seriously, it is probably the most self-indulgent, absolutely clueless solo I've ever heard.  Did he not know how awful it sounds?


Posted By: el_Sethro
Date Posted: August 19 2005 at 14:03
the only one that comes to mind is Neal Morse's keyboard/organ solo on TransAtlantic's "My New World" at about 10:18. It's not very long, but It's not in the same key as the rest of the song, and it doesn't work at all, in my opinion. The rest of the song is absolutely teriffic, though.


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Posted By: Retrovertigo
Date Posted: August 19 2005 at 14:08
Originally posted by Revan Revan wrote:

me either...

Worst solos? Only one:

Oh yeah - Can


Whaaaat?


Posted By: Odd24
Date Posted: August 19 2005 at 17:29

The keyboard solo in Genesis' Your own special way is really nothing special, the only flaw on W&W.

Sorry, Tony Banks, but I like your solos in The cinema show and Riding the scree much better.



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Posted By: drumsandbass
Date Posted: August 19 2005 at 17:54
Renegade by Styx. And to be honest that one isnt one my favorite songs
either.


Posted By: Prosciutto
Date Posted: October 10 2005 at 20:22

The sax solo by Nik Turner on the Hawkwind's classic "MASTER OF THE UNIVERSE", that my friends is the WORST solo I've ever heard by any instrument...

HAWKWIND RULES!!



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Posted By: margaret
Date Posted: October 10 2005 at 21:46
Originally posted by Prosciutto Prosciutto wrote:

The sax solo by Nik Turner on the Hawkwind's classic "MASTER OF THE UNIVERSE", that my friends is the WORST solo I've ever heard by any instrument...


HAWKWIND RULES!!



didn't like that myself, but the worst solo I'VE heard by any instrument, to me is a no brainer, Ron Bushy's drum solo on In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida   

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Posted By: margaret
Date Posted: October 10 2005 at 21:48
Originally posted by Zitro Zitro wrote:

Originally posted by beterdedthnred4 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.



a classic solo.

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Posted By: Drew
Date Posted: October 10 2005 at 21:50

Dream Theater- Erotomania

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

No. JK- That Song "Love Hurts"

and I'll throw in- "Owner of a lonely Heart"



Posted By: BePinkTheater
Date Posted: October 10 2005 at 22:44
the sympathy for the devil guitar solos always makes me vomit/ cry/ want to kill myself, and everyone in the rolling stones...those talents less pieces of sh*t...

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Posted By: salmacis
Date Posted: October 11 2005 at 16:27

Must say one of the worst solos I've heard is a keyboard solo in 'Headlong' by IQ- it starts off fine, yet comes horribly unstuck near the end of the solo. However, the track does recover..

'Your Own Special Way's solo was totally irrelevant to the song- in a totally different key to the rest of the track, so it's clear it was added as an afterthought to me...The solo in 'Congo' must have a mention too-

Caravan's live album, 'A Knight In London', featured the returning Jan Schelhaas on keyboards. He made a mess of every solo he played- 'For Richard' and 'Nine Feet Underground' were really bad imo. However, in all fairness, this was I think his first gig with the band since about 1977, and the band have also condemned the DVD for various technical problems. I've not ever been hugely impressed by Schelhaas yet surely he's never been as bad as he was there?

 

 



Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: October 11 2005 at 16:34
On ELP's live album "The show that never ends" there is a version of Lucky Man with a truly horrendous keyboard solo. Hard to believe it's Emerson (perhaps it wasn't, perhaps a mouse ran up and down the keyboard for a bit).


Posted By: salmacis
Date Posted: October 11 2005 at 16:47

Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

On ELP's live album "The show that never ends" there is a version of Lucky Man with a truly horrendous keyboard solo. Hard to believe it's Emerson (perhaps it wasn't, perhaps a mouse ran up and down the keyboard for a bit).



Posted By: krusty
Date Posted: October 11 2005 at 17:51
I remember a while ago I saw Hawkwind and for some reason Ginger Baker was drumming for them. Now I don't know what he had been up to before that gig but his drum solo was the worst I have ever seen, he kept dropping sticks and fummbling around for replacements while playing bass drum and hihat.
 
Why was he even playing a drum solo at a Hawkwind gig anyway?? jeez...







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Posted By: Prosciutto
Date Posted: October 11 2005 at 19:30

Believe it or not Ginger was the band's drummer for about a year between 1979 and 1980, as far a I know, in the end he was fired by Dave Brock, don't know the reason...

Hawkwind rules!!

 



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Posted By: AbsentEnemy
Date Posted: October 11 2005 at 19:41
Starless - King Crimson. If that counts as a solo. Would it kill him to play a different note?

Owner of a Lonely Heart is sh*t as well. The funny part is that a while ago in Guitar One it was voted as one of the best tones in a guitar solo. Annoying fuzz and 87 layers of harmonizer too many? I don't think so.


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Posted By: Yams
Date Posted: October 11 2005 at 19:48
The Starless solo builds up the song.


Posted By: AbsentEnemy
Date Posted: October 11 2005 at 19:51
...or atleast it attempts to. And fails. It goes on way too long IMO.

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Posted By: laplace
Date Posted: October 11 2005 at 21:46
Rush - Bastille Day


Posted By: Philrod
Date Posted: October 12 2005 at 01:18

Originally posted by Publius Publius wrote:

Holger Czukay's gutiar sounds exactly the same in every Can song I have heard so far...

 

Wel... he has his style

but it definitely works on a song like Paperhouse... I adore the solo on that song! 



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Posted By: nimrodel
Date Posted: October 12 2005 at 07:47
not prog but every audioslave or rage against the machine solo... urgh

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Posted By: The Hemulen
Date Posted: October 12 2005 at 10:07
Steve Howe's solo on that rubbish too-jolly-for-its-own-good track on "The Ladder" (Lightening Strikes, is it?) is pretty jaw-droppingly poor, especially from the man behind the licks on Awaken.


Posted By: Progbear
Date Posted: October 12 2005 at 14:55
Worst guitar solo: anything Davy O’List played on The Thoughts Of Emerlist Davjack

Worst keyboard solo (overall): Gayle Moran’s piano solo near the end of Mahavishnu Orchestra’s “Eternity’s Breath”

Worst synth solo: Wakeman’s Polymoog (ugh!) solos on “On The Silent Wings Of Freedom”. Actually, the sound of the solo on “Don’t Kill The Whale” is worse, but this one’s harder to listen to because it’s a great, great Yes song with horrible, horrible synth solos. It’s the aural equivalent of taking a big, steaming dump on the Mona Lisa.


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Posted By: floydaholic
Date Posted: October 12 2005 at 15:14

Europa-Santana

 



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Posted By: gr8dane
Date Posted: October 12 2005 at 15:27

Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

Originally posted by beterdedthnred4 beterdedthnred4 wrote:

This may be blasphemy, but I just cannot take the atonal xylophone solo in Gentle giant's Knots


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.

 

If I remember corectly.Lucky Man moog solo was the first moog solo on an album.It was also done in a take or 2,by one of the first owners of a moog besides Moog.

 



Posted By: Prosciutto
Date Posted: October 12 2005 at 21:03

Originally posted by Progbear Progbear wrote:

Worst synth solo: Wakeman’s Polymoog (ugh!) solos on “On The Silent Wings Of Freedom”. Actually, the sound of the solo on “Don’t Kill The Whale” is worse, but this one’s harder to listen to because it’s a great, great Yes song with horrible, horrible synth solos. It’s the aural equivalent of taking a big, steaming dump on the Mona Lisa.

Actually almost all the keyboard sounds Rick used on the "Tormato" era are plain awful. Overall the whole band's playing on Tormato is far from their best.



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Posted By: transend
Date Posted: October 13 2005 at 00:48

Not really prog, but did anyone notice that on 'Cinnamon girl' by Neil Young his solo consists of almost entirely ONE note....

I have to agree with 'Lucky man' to a certain extent, it was innovative and different, but I always felt that is did not fit the song. However, Keith is likely the best synth player ever...weird really.

Generally in prog though, because of the caliber of musicanship there are not too many bad solos. I do agree about the keyboard solo on the DT 'Budokan', but single instrument solos without the context of a song around them I find fairly pointless anyway....I mean, didnt Rudess have enough solos in that show anyway??!!!!



Posted By: Harry Hood
Date Posted: October 13 2005 at 00:53
Originally posted by transend transend wrote:

Not really prog, but did anyone notice that on 'Cinnamon girl' by Neil Young his solo consists of almost entirely ONE note....

Yes, but I think he plays that one note quite well.

Robert Fripp also did one-note solos.



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Posted By: Cygnus
Date Posted: October 13 2005 at 03:34
Originally posted by Odd24 Odd24 wrote:

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.

Have to agree with that. Also I never liked the guitar sound on Paranoid's solo



Posted By: salmacis
Date Posted: October 13 2005 at 09:43

By the way, the reason I heard Ginger Baker was forced to leave Hawkwind was that he tried to bring Jack Bruce in, then he toured with only one other member (I think Simon King??) and called that Hawkwind!!

'Levitation' is one of their best albums no doubt, though.



Posted By: Prosciutto
Date Posted: October 13 2005 at 11:22
Originally posted by Cygnus Cygnus wrote:

Uriah Heep - Gipsy

The organ solo on Gypsy is OK for me. I choose the horrible "solo" Manfred Mann did at the end of July Morning, that solo goes nowhere. I wonder why the Heeps invited such a mediocre keyboardist having already the very talented Ken Hensley.



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Posted By: elpprogster
Date Posted: October 13 2005 at 11:56
The Gypsy organ solo on the Live 79 album is truly awesome, some of the best Hensley has ever done!


Posted By: elpprogster
Date Posted: October 13 2005 at 11:59
I guess Uriah Heep has chosen Manfred Mann to do the solo because around 1971 Ken Hensley wasn´t yet playing synth on record with the band, only from the Demons & Wizards sessions on.


Posted By: salmacis
Date Posted: October 13 2005 at 13:17

Funny- I think both the 'Very 'Eavy..' and 'Live 79' versions of 'Gypsy' have somewhat scrappy solos- I enjoy the one on 'Very Eavy' because it's roughshod yet still terrific (adding much charm and grit), yet the live 79 one is just a mess, in my opinion. (much of that original '79 album is in a similar vein- the CD version greatly expands it to a better degree) Hensley's absolutely stunning work on the 'Live '73' version outshines both for me.

If you like the Uriah Heep 'Live In Europe 79' set, the new box 'Chapter And Verse' has recordings from Newcastle in this era, and they absolutely rip through the songs- by far the best gig judging by the songs on the box..

The solo on 'July Morning' is one of the best recorded imo- Manfred Mann was one of the few people in the UK at the time that used a Moog to any good degree, alongside Keith Emerson and Rick Wakeman.

Heep otherwise have had mostly superb solos in their career- in some cases, the solos are better than the song' 'Cheat 'N' Lie', 'Shady Lady' and their unnecessary cover of 'Hold Your Head Up', which has an extremely meaty solo by Mick Box.

Anyone ever hear the 'California Jam 74' version of 'Space Truckin' by Deep Purple? Jon Lord sounds as if he's learning to play the moog right there and then- it's awful!

As has been said earlier, 'Don't Kill The Whale' has an embarassing solo that's the epitome of those fake strings sounds on late 70s keyboards...Most of Rick's album 'Rhapsodies' has truly awful and cheesy solos too- 'Rhapsody In Blue' and 'Swan Lager' are just terrible!



Posted By: Prosciutto
Date Posted: October 13 2005 at 19:34
Originally posted by salmacis salmacis wrote:

Anyone ever hear the 'California Jam 74' version of 'Space Truckin' by Deep Purple? Jon Lord sounds as if he's learning to play the moog right there and then- it's awful!

I was very disappointed with the "Cal Jam" version of Space Truckin', it sounds a little under-rehearsed specially the "Mandrake Root" jam, I will always prefer the great Made in Japan version of that song. About the "Mark III" line-up, Live in London is a much better live album than the Live at the California Jam, it has better sound quality and much better performances, sadly it doesn't feature Space Truckin'...



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Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: October 13 2005 at 19:40
Originally posted by salmacis salmacis wrote:

By the way, the reason I heard Ginger Baker was forced to leave Hawkwind was that he tried to bring Jack Bruce in, then he toured with only one other member (I think Simon King??) and called that Hawkwind!!

'Levitation' is one of their best albums no doubt, though.

you probably mean violinist and keyboarder Simon House



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Posted By: Pingree
Date Posted: October 13 2005 at 20:55

Originally posted by laplace laplace wrote:

Rush - Bastille Day

That's just evil dude!

It's an amazing solo! I must admit as a guitarist I find it hard to call a prog solo sh*t, I mean listen to the f**king sh*te solo in Green Day's American Idiot and there you have a good example of an awful solo!

Prog solo's are good at the end of the day, I mean how many can you play, technically they are legendary!

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Posted By: Angeldust
Date Posted: October 13 2005 at 21:50
Slayer have propably the worst solos..They fit with their music though.....(not saying that their music is bad )

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Posted By: professorchaos
Date Posted: October 13 2005 at 22:24
Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

^ Don't agree with any of those!


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Posted By: salmacis
Date Posted: October 14 2005 at 11:41

It wasn't Simon House I don't think- he had long since jumped ship. I have the CD with the details somewhere and will have to check it out...

 



Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: October 14 2005 at 12:22
Originally posted by salmacis salmacis wrote:

It wasn't Simon House I don't think- he had long since jumped ship. I have the CD with the details somewhere and will have to check it out...

Well, can hardly be Simon King, because he is a drummer too.



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Posted By: salmacis
Date Posted: October 14 2005 at 12:26

Yeah that's what I was thinking- that's why I had the question marks after his name.

Apparently the member was Keith Hale, a keyboard player, so I was way off!



Posted By: Starette
Date Posted: October 16 2005 at 18:57
I can think of quite a few guitar ones from Evanessance- but I think that kinda goes without saying and is irrelevant to the topic as they're not prog. Erm....I really can't think of any to be honest.

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Posted By: salmacis
Date Posted: October 17 2005 at 11:52
I remembered another REALLY bad one- it's not prog, but still- Bruce Springsteen's 'Badlands', which has a horrible, almost out of tune guitar solo.


Posted By: Fraja
Date Posted: October 17 2005 at 13:52
All solos have their magic!!



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