Whats your favourite synth solo of all time?

EXer · Post by **EXer** » Sun Oct 23, 2011 2:41 pm

I like the synthesizer solo of Queen's song "I want to break free".

It was played by guest musician Fred Mandel, who also progammed the synths for several Queen's albums.

EJ2 · Post by **EJ2** » Sun Oct 23, 2011 4:53 pm

Keith Emerson!
Toccata
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1P1RE5v_8FU
Takus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1fuEyUP ... re=related

Rick Wakeman's amazing keyboard solo!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGwUTDD0 ... re=related

Tom Shotz intro in Boston's Foreplay.

Jon Lord, trade off leads in Deep Purple's, Lazy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPM6ni4bQzc

Tony Banks of course...

And now the epic battle. I wish there was more. KE vs TB.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu3SZis7 ... re=related

Kontrol49 · Post by **Kontrol49** » Sun Oct 23, 2011 5:33 pm

For me there is only one ultimate Synth Solo...

A-ha-Take on Me

zzz · Post by **zzz** » Tue Nov 01, 2011 11:22 am

Brian Eno on Roxy Music's "Editions of you" from "For your pleasure" is the track that made me want to buy a synth. As they were the price of a house then (72/73), I had to wait a while before I got my first one - a casio!

jamsire · Post by **jamsire** » Tue Nov 01, 2011 12:05 pm

Everything on Al DiMeola's "Tour de Force Live"

Being that I'm a geetar maan, I had studied and jammed with this record endlessly as a kid. I love Jan Hammer's Moog work on here.

Kevin Nolan · Post by **Kevin Nolan** » Tue Nov 01, 2011 12:43 pm

Five come to mind:

Vangelis: "Bladerunner Blues" (performed on a CS80 or possibly a CS40M)

Vangelis: End section of "See You Later" track on album of same name (performed on CS40M).

JMJ: "Oxygene Part 5" (fabulous middle-eastern style lead line) - (NOT his recent live renditions of this which are not very good) (not sure which synth).

JMJ: End section of "Magnetic Fields II" on live "Concerts of China" version (on Moog Liberation).

Rick Wakeman, opening track from "Whiterock" album (best Minimoog lead line I've ever heard).

They don't make them like those any more.

Kevin.

iluvchiclets · Post by **iluvchiclets** » Tue Nov 01, 2011 1:54 pm

Jan Hammer: Play With Me (Jeff Beck and Jan Hammer - Wired)

Man, I forgot about that solo. And the playing over that whole album...brother, you have great taste!

Zeroesque · Post by **Zeroesque** » Tue Nov 01, 2011 2:54 pm

I can't pick a favorite, but what Matt Guillory does over "Toccata" from Encores, Legends & Paradox (ELP Tribute)...bad-ass.

RonF · Post by **RonF** » Tue Nov 01, 2011 4:09 pm

jamsire wrote:Everything on Al DiMeola's "Tour de Force Live"

Being that I'm a geetar maan, I had studied and jammed with this record endlessly as a kid. I love Jan Hammer's Moog work on here.

Plus one to this! Jan Hammer is sick! DiMeola is sicker!

Kontrol49 · Post by **Kontrol49** » Tue Nov 01, 2011 5:10 pm

Kevin Nolan wrote:JMJ: "Oxygene Part 5" (fabulous middle-eastern style lead line) - (NOT his recent live renditions of this which are not very good) (not sure which synth).
Kevin.

The original melody lines from the album are not from a synth,Its one of the Tabs off the Eminent 310,like so many other sounds he used off the 310 he didn't use it solely for the String ensemble section,like most beleive he also used sounds off it for Oxygene 2 and Equinoxe 4 Plucks as well as the floaty organ pad at the start of Oxy 5,even though he replicates them on other synths for concerts like the Memorymoog of recent times and the liberation for Oxy 5

vicz · Post by **vicz** » Tue Nov 01, 2011 5:28 pm

The many synth breaks and licks in 'Eve of the War'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8JLqsbK5V0

The haunting synth at the start of 'Shine on you Crazy Diamond' (and again at 06:30)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQYaVb4px7U

michelkeijzers · Post by **michelkeijzers** » Tue Nov 01, 2011 11:26 pm

Not really a solo but a world famous lick:

Final Countdown:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw8sNoodIDk

And: NO it is NOT my band.

zzz · Post by **zzz** » Wed Nov 02, 2011 12:23 am

Also Edgar Winter's "Frankenstein"....

blinkofanI · Post by **blinkofanI** » Wed Nov 02, 2011 12:50 am

One more vote for Tony Banks. Both "Riding the scree" and "In the Cage" solos from The Lamb. Good chops and very melodic at the same time.

Man, Genesis... I'll be 75 and i think i'll still listen to that music, if i can hear something at that time!!

Blink

Chriskk · Post by **Chriskk** » Wed Nov 02, 2011 1:20 am

Eddie Jobson's Mini Moog solo on Zappa's "I promise not to come in your mouth." To me, it is the most expressive synth solo of all time and the song has the coolest title.