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Legendary Synth Solos
Some of my favorites.. I love Brian Eno in Editions of You Totally unmelodical. Then again, it is on a VCS 3. Or the synth intro into Hawkwind's Silver Machine. Wait that is a VCS 3 or an AKS there. I cant get a good view but watching the guy turn the knowbs, it has to be an AKS. Otherwise it would look like battleship. OR What do you want from Life - the Tubes. (sorry the video is cheesy on that one). Gotta wait on the solo here - worth the wait. I think they are using a 2600 on that one - you can hear the spring reverb. Frankenstein - Edgar Winters - another classic. I prefer the sounds of synths that sound like synths - not the ones that sound like violins or pianos. You? I already know there are gonna be Wakeman and Emerson fans galore. Hey diversity is the spice of life.
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RE: Legendary Synth Solos
2009/03/17 16:31:11
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Emerson Lake & Palmer....anything. Heart...Barricuda... no wait.... Magic Man....
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RE: Legendary Synth Solos
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RE: Legendary Synth Solos
2009/03/17 18:19:30
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Riding The Scree - Genesis, Lamb Lies Down. But then, anything Banks did was unique - all the more so when you consider that his only synth during that period was an ARP Pro Soloist - a preset little bugger with very little in the way of control.
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RE: Legendary Synth Solos
2009/03/17 18:30:57
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I always liked the synth sounds that Ultravox used, this is a favourite; Ultravox - Hymn
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RE: Legendary Synth Solos
2009/03/17 18:37:29
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Frankenstein - Edgar Winters +1 for Frankenstein. I also like the solo at the end Lucky Man (ELP)
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RE: Legendary Synth Solos
2009/03/17 18:56:54
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Frankenstein - Edgar Winters
+1 for Frankenstein. I also like the solo at the end Lucky Man (ELP)
OH YEAH! That's a Vox Continental, if I'm not mistaken! cool synth solo! edit; nope - moog.
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RE: Legendary Synth Solos
2009/03/17 19:02:41
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Frankenstein - Edgar Winters
+1 for Frankenstein. I also like the solo at the end Lucky Man (ELP)
OH YEAH! That's a Vox Continental, if I'm not mistaken! cool synth solo!
edit; nope - moog.
Frankenstein is an ARP 2600. Lucky Man is a Moog.
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RE: Legendary Synth Solos
2009/03/17 19:08:14
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yeah - I corrected it. thanks.
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RE: Legendary Synth Solos
2009/03/17 20:51:02
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Tony Banks in "Cinema Show" (@ 5:24 to 10:30), from Genesis' Selling England By The Pound. Very classy playing, understated, but lights up nicely @8:15
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RE: Legendary Synth Solos
2009/03/17 21:17:02
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I always liked the synth sounds that Ultravox used, this is a favourite;
Ultravox - Hymn
Wow... Blast from the past. I had forgotten that I had an Ultravox phase when I was kid in my late teens early 20's. I wore the same hair style, the pointy sideburns and even at times the thin mustache. I had the baggy pastel sky blue pirate shirt and the pants with the double belts. Man, what a great time the early 80's were. Men cleaned up, we were allowed to have a sense of fashion and style and colors were not burnt orange, brown, and depressing like the seventies. Its funny I was just thinking about them the other day while wondering what old music I had on tapes that should be replaced with CD. Cheers Shad
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RE: Legendary Synth Solos
2009/03/17 21:31:09
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I also like the solo at the end Lucky Man I read that was pure serendipity. Emerson was doodling in another studio while Lake was working on the song. Lake heard the synth bit, liked it and threw it on even though Lucky Man was already a finished mix. One of the most recognizable and copied synth leads was just an impromptu doodle. I like the clavioline solo in Del Shannon's "Runaway". For years I thought it was a Farfisa, turns out it was a one-of-a-kind custom synth.
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RE: Legendary Synth Solos
2009/03/17 21:51:12
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RE: Legendary Synth Solos
2009/03/17 22:01:17
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Tony Banks in "Cinema Show" (@ 5:24 to 10:30), from Genesis' Selling England By The Pound. Very classy playing, understated, but lights up nicely @8:15
I second that one. Brilliant writing, I think he did most of it on an Arp pro soloist...which by the way was just offered as a VSTi, very inexpensive and very true sounding. I just got the demo.
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RE: Legendary Synth Solos
2009/03/17 22:04:36
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Lee Michaels, Stormy Monday I saw Lee in 1969 at Selland Arena in Fresno, CA. Truly an experience - I was only 16 at the time, I was truly mezmorized. If you don't know about Lee Michaels, this is the music of two people - absolutely unbelieveable - it was Lee Michaels with Frosty on Drums. Frosty died two or three years ago, last time I heard, Lee was living in Madera, CA, about twenty miles from Fresno, where I live. One of a kind.
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RE: Legendary Synth Solos
2009/03/17 22:13:13
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Frankenstein - Edgar Winters
+1 for Frankenstein. I also like the solo at the end Lucky Man (ELP)
OH YEAH! That's a Vox Continental, if I'm not mistaken! cool synth solo!
edit; nope - moog.
Frankenstein is an ARP 2600.
Lucky Man is a Moog.
The dead give away is the cheesy reverb in the 2600. The Greys had something like too little signal being sent to the springs and too much amplification post, if i recall. I have a grey. The reverb is part of the characteristic sound. Not a good reverb, but a very memorable sound.
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RE: Legendary Synth Solos
2009/03/17 22:15:46
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Tony Banks in "Cinema Show" (@ 5:24 to 10:30), from Genesis' Selling England By The Pound. Very classy playing, understated, but lights up nicely @8:15 +100 for that one. My favorite solo ever.
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RE: Legendary Synth Solos
2009/03/17 22:23:09
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ORIGINAL: CLEAN
Lee Michaels, Stormy Monday
I saw Lee in 1969 at Selland Arena in Fresno, CA. Truly an experience - I was only 16 at the time, I was truly mezmorized.
If you don't know about Lee Michaels, this is the music of two people - absolutely unbelieveable - it was Lee Michaels with Frosty on Drums.
Frosty died two or three years ago, last time I heard, Lee was living in Madera, CA, about twenty miles from Fresno, where I live.
One of a kind.
16 in 69? That makes you - uh - 3 years older than me. OLD FART! Fresno/Bakersfield - which one is better? Been to both. Fresno only once. Bakersfield more times than I care to remember. And I was neither pickin nor grinnin
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RE: Legendary Synth Solos
2009/03/17 23:16:17
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Well, if my math is right, I was born in 1953 - yep, I was sixteen.   If you've been to Bakersfield once, you've been there more times than you need to. Yea, Fresno has a bad rap - but it's home.
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RE: Legendary Synth Solos
2009/03/18 00:48:45
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This may not be a synth solo, but wow Actually - the Hammond could be regarded as the first additive synth, so you're totally legit. And DAMN - boy's just rippin' the keys offa that thang!!! Thanks for that...
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RE: Legendary Synth Solos
2009/03/18 06:29:59
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quote:
Tony Banks in "Cinema Show" (@ 5:24 to 10:30), from Genesis' Selling England By The Pound. Very classy playing, understated, but lights up nicely @8:15
+100 for that one. My favorite solo ever. Even, if it's not a synth solo, I would add the intro of Firth of Fifth. "Selling England by The Pound" is in my top 10 album of all time.
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RE: Legendary Synth Solos
2009/03/18 06:35:41
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Or the synth intro into Hawkwind's Silver Machine. "This video is not available in your country." Rotters!
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RE: Legendary Synth Solos
2009/03/18 06:58:34
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I always loved the attitude of the "solo" in Nice n' sleazy by the Stranglers - it comes in here at about 1.30 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYqllpnyWrY Quite similar in some ways to Mr Eno's version on the Roxy track Andy
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RE: Legendary Synth Solos
2009/03/18 07:54:41
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Wakeman fan here, I love his keyboard work on "And you and I," a classic!
Well, the whole "Close to the edge" album is a classic, my favourite prog album.
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RE: Legendary Synth Solos
2009/03/18 07:55:13
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ORIGINAL: ricstudioc
Riding The Scree - Genesis, Lamb Lies Down. But then, anything Banks did was unique - all the more so when you consider that his only synth during that period was an ARP Pro Soloist - a preset little bugger with very little in the way of control.
He didn't have the Prophet 5 then? Also, wasn't he one of the 'lucky' ones to have the dual-manual Prophet 10?
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RE: Legendary Synth Solos
2009/03/18 08:02:43
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I also like the solo at the end Lucky Man
I read that was pure serendipity. Emerson was doodling in another studio while Lake was working on the song. Lake heard the synth bit, liked it and threw it on even though Lucky Man was already a finished mix. One of the most recognizable and copied synth leads was just an impromptu doodle.
I like the clavioline solo in Del Shannon's "Runaway". For years I thought it was a Farfisa, turns out it was a one-of-a-kind custom synth.
The other version I've heard about the solo at the end of Lucky Man was that Keith came in and added it after the track was done and further that Greg Lake wasn't exactly nuts about it but kept it.
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RE: Legendary Synth Solos
2009/03/18 08:45:12
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He didn't have the Prophet 5 then? Also, wasn't he one of the 'lucky' ones to have the dual-manual Prophet 10? Heavens no - "Lamb" was circa 73-74, the first Prophets didn't hit the streets 'tll.... 78? 79? And yeah - he did have a P10 at some point, don't know how long that lasted, not the best piece of hardware ever made....
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RE: Legendary Synth Solos
2009/03/18 08:50:17
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Riding The Scree - Genesis, Lamb Lies Down. But then, anything Banks did was unique - all the more so when you consider that his only synth during that period was an ARP Pro Soloist - a preset little bugger with very little in the way of control.
He didn't have the Prophet 5 then? Also, wasn't he one of the 'lucky' ones to have the dual-manual Prophet 10?
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RE: Legendary Synth Solos
2009/03/18 09:17:00
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I always loved the attitude of the "solo" in Nice n' sleazy by the Stranglers - it comes in here at about 1.30 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYqllpnyWrY
+1 for this and possibly anything by Dave Greenfield - the guy's a (seriously underrated) genius. Among my favourites are the solos in Straighten Out and Walk On By Steve
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RE: Legendary Synth Solos
2009/03/18 09:47:10
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Tony Banks in "Cinema Show" (@ 5:24 to 10:30), from Genesis' Selling England By The Pound.
I actually learned that one on marimba. Probably shouldn't have admitted that.
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