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Points: 35 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 04 2008 at 18:51
Here's a few favourites:

Genesis - Hackett Firth of Fifth
Genesis - Banks - One for the Vine
Yes - Howe - Awaken
Wakeman - Marlin the Magician
Focus - Akkerman - Hocus Pocus
Camel - Latimer -Stationary Traveller
Zappa - Montana
PFM - Four Holes in the Ground
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Can't remember if I posted in here or not, oh well...

David Gilmour - Dogs
Steve Hackett - Firth of Fifth
Alex Lifeson - The Necromancer
Frank Zappa - Muffin Man
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Firth of Fifth, Comfortably Numb, Banks on TMB. 
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Pink Floyd - Pigs on the Wing (Joint) - Snowy White
Pink Floyd - Time - David Gilmour     
Pink Floyd - Shine On (I-V), Best use of just 4 notes  I've ever heard - David Gilmour
Jethro Tull - Minstrel in the Gallery - Martin Barre
Jethro Tull - Thick As a Brick - A short solo in a long album, but still a huge highlight - Martin Barre
Camel - Lady Fantasy- Every solo - Andy Latimer
Camel - The Snow Goose - The whole album, not just the song. Especially La Princesse Perdue - Andy Latimer
Yes - Close to the Edge - Howe
King Crimson - Starless - Deceptively simple - God
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Under a Glass Moon
Hollow Years, the budokan version
Working Man
Sweet child o' mine
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Aereogramme - Barriers
violin solo
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Originally posted by Aeternus Aeternus wrote:

My favorite solo ever:
Jordan Rudess' solo in Home.
 
Oh yeah, love that song! ClapClapClap
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Points: 18292 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 20 2007 at 13:36

That i can think of now:

The Sax solo in "Take Five" by Dave Brubeck Embarrassed
 
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drum solo out of One Word - Mahavishnu Orchestra
guitar solo from Shine On... by Pink Floyd
keyboard solo from Tarkus: stones of years by Emerson Lake and Palmer
keyboard solo from At The End of the Day by Spock's Beard
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 19 2007 at 16:43
i know its not prog. i just have to go with the popular choice and say freebird. It is just that amazing.
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Points: 1678 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 19 2007 at 13:32
Originally posted by Anathema Anathema wrote:

My favourite solo is Steve Rothery's (Marillion) solo in Easter!


well if i went with a Rothery solo, i'd go with either This Strange Engine or Sugar Mice but yours is ok too...
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sometimes amateurs turn us on, even more...



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Points: 12 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 19 2007 at 13:24
My favourite solo is Steve Rothery's (Marillion) solo in Easter!
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Points: 1678 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 19 2007 at 13:23

prog: DT - Metropolis Pt 1- The Miracle And The Sleeper
non prog: Vinnie Moore - Lifeforce, Pearl Jam - Alive, Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird and virtually every Slash solo..
-music is like pornography...

sometimes amateurs turn us on, even more...



-sometimes you are the pigeon and sometimes you are the statue...
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Points: 1678 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 19 2007 at 13:20
Originally posted by Shakespeare Shakespeare wrote:

Mike Oldfield, he's a soloist.Wink


he does solo, true, but i've always considered him more of an instrumentation/orchestration kind of musician..

i'm sorry if i'm not making myself very clear but i don't know the english word...
-music is like pornography...

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Keys:
Tim Blake - "A Sprinkling of Clouds"
Richard Wright - "Shine on You Crazy Diamond Part IX"
Tony Banks - "Apocalypse in 9/8 (Supper's Ready)"; "Cinema Show"

Drums:
Bill Bruford - "Perpetual Change" (Yessongs)
Nick Mason - "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun" (not so much a "solo", but certainly a drum feature... love those tom-tom mallets!)
Ian Paice - "The Mule" (Made in Japan)
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Frank Zappa- Watermelon in Easter Hay
 
this solo is still so beautiful and is unparalleled by any other guitar piece ever!
 
Zappa's an underappreciated guitarist, even on PA!



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In the cage - genesis
robbery assault & battery - genesis
down and out - genesis
supperīs ready (apocalypse in 9/8 solo)
tunnel of love - dire straits
was it all worth it - queen
easter - marillion
cinema show - genesis
fountain of salmacis - genesis
octavarium - DT (final solo)
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Points: 2760 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 16 2007 at 21:30
I really like the flute and sax solos from PT's Don't Hate Me.
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All of the Above - Transatlantic (Roine's last Frippy Hacketty guitar solo)
Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd
All of the Above - Neal's first keyboard solo
Exiles - King Crimson - Sympathetic solo from Fripp at the end
A Smart Kid - Porcupine Tree (emotional guitar solo at the end, amazing)
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 15 2007 at 13:40
My favorite solo ever:
Jordan Rudess' solo in Home.
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