Favourite 'other instrument' solos

[Guest]

I love the keyboard solo in this at 1:50.

 

 

[Bill Wy,Aye,Man]

1 minute ago, Bassfinger said:

I love the keyboard solo in this at 1:50.

 

 

I'd agree if Alan Price wasnt a Mackem lol

[4000]

The keys solo on Close to the Edge. Also, the one on the live version of Starship Trooper on Yessongs. Several on various Caravan tracks. And pretty much every flute solo ever.😉

[casapete]

33 minutes ago, Bassfinger said:

I love the keyboard solo in this at 1:50.

 

 

Great Eric Burdon documentary on BBC iPlayer if you haven’t seen it. He doesn’t speak too fondly of Alan Price mind......

[Guest]

And the electric piano solo from the original Zombies conversion of She's Not There.  Fits the song beautifully.

[MrCrane]

3 hours ago, Bill Wy,Aye,Man said:

Thanks for crediting Ray Jackson

I've loved the mandolin since seeing the lads back in the early 70s. Jacka and Rod (Clements, not Stewart 😉) are a couple of my musical heroes.

Edited June 13, 2020 by MrCrane

[Baxlin]

2 hours ago, Bassfinger said:

I love the keyboard solo in this at 1:50.

 

 

You beat me to it!  I’ve seen Alan Price live many times, always a good show

[Bill Wy,Aye,Man]

10 hours ago, MrCrane said:

I've loved the mandolin since seeing the lads back in the early 70s. Jacka and Rod (Clements, not Stewart 😉) are a couple of my musical heroes.

Mine too

[mikel]

10 hours ago, MrCrane said:

I've loved the mandolin since seeing the lads back in the early 70s. Jacka and Rod (Clements, not Stewart 😉) are a couple of my musical heroes.

Aye, two great musicians. I could mention one of Jacka's epic  harmonica solos from their Xmas shows. Any of them.

[Bill Wy,Aye,Man]

2 hours ago, mikel said:

Aye, two great musicians. I could mention one of Jacka's epic  harmonica solos from their Xmas shows. Any of them.

I've got to go to the next Christmas show, I've never seen them, I've played my vinyl Nicely Out Of Tune almost all the way through

[chris_b]

Hubert Sumlin's guitar solo on Spoonful. Only 6 bars but a perfect solo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0aIjyX7vwI

 

Hubert Sumlin again on Smokestack Lightening. No solo to speak of but 3 minutes of riffing that launched a million bands.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ri7TcukAJ8

 

[Bill Wy,Aye,Man]

45 minutes ago, chris_b said:

Hubert Sumlin's guitar solo on Spoonful. Only 6 bars but a perfect solo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0aIjyX7vwI

 

Hubert Sumlin again on Smokestack Lightening. No solo to speak of but 3 minutes of riffing that launched a million bands.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ri7TcukAJ8

 

I noticed he was using a guitar on both occasions, maybe if he had read the title of this thread he might have used a Ukelele

[Baxlin]

Surprised nobody’s mentioned Procol Harum’s Whiter Shade of Pale.  Was it Matthew Fisher playing the Hammond?  Not so much a solo though, more throughout the song!

[Barking Spiders]

Dunno why but I love the recorder solo in this gem at 1.41 from Julian Cope in his slightly barmy phase pre-off his trolley period.

 

[lowdown]

Too many to mention, I love solos!

Just before landing on Basschat tonight I was listening to 'Magnetic' by Steps Ahead.

Michael Brecker's Tenor solo on 'Trains' is fantastic. A great lesson in solo building. He even overdubbed harmonies on the solo. 

Victor Bailey on Bass put in a great shift as well. Actually, the whole band did. 

 

Tenor solo starts at 02:18

 

 

[Graham56]

The piano in this (solo from about 1.22), and how it works with everything else.

 

[davepb24]

The violin and piano bits in "Vienna" and the synth solo in OMD's "Messages" always been favourites of mine

[ezbass]

Mark Feltham’s solo @3:16 always raises the hairs on the back of my neck.

The drumming by Jeremy Stacey is pretty epic too.

Edited June 15, 2020 by ezbass