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Snow Dog

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Posted: April 12 2011 at 04:20

PatMetheny wrote:

Snow Dog wrote:

PatMetheny wrote:

Strange no-one mentioned Kit Watkins on Wait (Camel).

Didn't I?

Snow Dog wrote:

The solo from Camel here always makes me feel good.

Oops, sorry - didn't notice... Embarrassed

To be fair....I didn't actually name it. Smile

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Posted: April 12 2011 at 04:19

PS Perhaps saying 'swatting' instead of 'swotting' was a freudian slip!

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Posted: April 12 2011 at 04:17

Jon Evan?!! Tony Banks?!! Rick Van Der Linden?!! Peter Bardens?!! Assorted Camels?!! then Jean Michel Jarre (gasp!!!!)

Just shows how diverse our opinions, tastes, likes, dislikes are. I wouldn't have considered most of those even as anything other than second division players never mind soloists. Of the rest, at least Banks and Bardens are solid journeymen.

Then again, on reflection I have to admit that it's always possible for any player of a good standard to almost accidentally create a sublime moment, or at least one that touches certain listeners, so perhaps I'm not analysing properly when I take such an overview of playing rather than judging specific solos. Must do some swatting up!

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Posted: April 12 2011 at 03:57

Snow Dog wrote:

PatMetheny wrote:

Strange no-one mentioned Kit Watkins on Wait (Camel).

Didn't I?

Snow Dog wrote:

The solo from Camel here always makes me feel good.

Oops, sorry - didn't notice... Embarrassed

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Posted: April 11 2011 at 17:48

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John Evans when he was with Jethro Tull had a great solo in a song called With You There To Help Mein the DVD called Jack In the Green Live in Germany. The solo is actually a song called By the Kind Permission of.

I also love the Hammond solo about three minutes into TAAB. It's so raw and pornographic. And the piano intro to Locamotive Breath.

I'm sure I'm at least the fifth to mention Firth. Both pianos and synths are lovely.

Edited by hobocamp - April 11 2011 at 17:51

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Posted: April 11 2011 at 16:38

Evolver wrote:

Rick Wakeman, coming out of the break section on Close To The Edge

If I pick only one solo - here it is Smile

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Posted: April 11 2011 at 13:47

aginor wrote:

some great solos here

I've always loved this song but nothing beats the studio version IMO.

Tony C.

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Posted: April 11 2011 at 13:05

PatMetheny wrote:

Strange no-one mentioned Kit Watkins on Wait (Camel).

Didn't I?

Snow Dog wrote:

The solo from Camel here always makes me feel good.

Edited by Snow Dog - April 11 2011 at 13:07

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Posted: April 11 2011 at 12:55

Originally posted by topographicbroadways

topographicbroadways wrote:

Love this keyboard guitar battle

Amazing album by Iceberg indeed, as they are sometimes called, the spanish Mahavishnu!

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Posted: April 11 2011 at 02:51

Strange no-one mentioned Kit Watkins on Ice & Wait (Camel).

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Posted: March 20 2011 at 16:35

tszirmay wrote:

Eddie Jobson on piano, organ and synth on Metamorphosis by Curved Air

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Posted: March 19 2011 at 18:08

For me this is the best solo of New rock progressive, it's not just keybaord but is a crossing between guitar and keyboards, go at 4.03 to hear it, it's marvelled!

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Posted: March 19 2011 at 17:46

Eddie Jobson on piano, organ and synth on Metamorphosis by Curved Air

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Posted: March 19 2011 at 17:39

Snow Dog wrote:

The solo from Camel here always makes me feel good.

Wow, great this solo, very very innovative sound for that period!

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Posted: February 27 2011 at 00:16

It isn't exactly a full blown solo or anything, but I absolutely adore the little keyboard lick in Burden by Opeth, about 2:20 into the song.

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Posted: February 24 2011 at 17:16

John Evans when he was with Jethro Tull had a great solo in a song called With You There To Help Me
in the DVD called Jack In the Green Live in Germany. The solo is actually a song called By the Kind Permission of.

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Posted: February 22 2011 at 09:07

Sorry, mistake! I don `t mean Stratus( a good one, too), I mean "Red Baron"

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Posted: February 21 2011 at 18:23

some great solos here

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Posted: February 21 2011 at 16:49

Same as with guitar solos, I like best when the solo is innovative in terms of composition, melody or sound instead of showing artistic but meaningless virtuosity. Bank 's "Cinema show" certainly is the all-time classic. But I Like the strange ones even better: Minnears piano-madness on "Interview", Hammer 's screaming E-piano on "Stratus", and Joachim Kühn 's distorted Jupiter 8 on "Information", the best guitar solo that is none.

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Posted: February 21 2011 at 16:00

Love this keyboard guitar battle

Edited by topographicbroadways - February 21 2011 at 16:01

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