GivenToFly Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 Clarence Clemons' solo on Jungleland is my favorite solo of all time (including guitar solos).What's your favorite non-guitar solos in rock songs? Piano, saxophone, drums, synth etc. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mansin Humanity Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 You know, I came into this thread thinking "oh man, gonna have to think for a while about this," but nope, my answer is also Jungleland. Christ, what a song. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rovim Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 I don't like sax, but I enjoy listening naked to the sax solo in Pink Floyd's The Gunner's Dream. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Facekicker Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 Light My FireRay Manzarek solo on Vox Continental with one hand while doing the bass line on a Fender Rhodes with his other hand. AmazingStory behind the song 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DR DOOM Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 (edited) As far as pop/rock music goes:Uriah Heep: Gypsy. Watch this guy called Gregg play along https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fvec4s75cDs (Holy Shit Gregg!)Led Zep- All My Love. John Paul Jones' synth solo is sublimeRoxy Music: the rendition of "If There Is Something" on Viva! Live and Eddie Jobson's electric violin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0UvZIZLUTo Edited April 29, 2014 by DR DOOM 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bran Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 i like the bass intro/solo to NIB by black sabbath a lot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhazUp Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 The live version of Kitty's Back by Springsteen on the Hammersmith 1975 live CD is pretty stellar 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LightningBolt Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 Yeah "Jungleland" is a winner.As far as I know, a lot of Zeppelin fans don't like "All My Love", but I like that little keyboard/synth solo or whatever it is. Just to add something different. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DR DOOM Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 As far as I know, a lot of Zeppelin fans don't like "All My Love", but I like that little keyboard/synth solo or whatever it is. Just to add something different.I just don't understand what's not to like about that song really. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OmarBradley Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 Basically anything Jon Lord ever did. Specifically, High Ball Shooter (Deep Purple) maybe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iron MikeyJ Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 I love All my love, and the whole album In through the out door. It gets a bad rap by "metal" fans. It might be zeppelin's softest album yes, but when you think about the things that Plant went through while writing that album, it shows something beautiful resulting from great tragedy. I know a lot of people on this forum prefer Presence over In through the out door, but not me. Presence is the album that all thrash/metal, 80's metal, and etc can be traced back to imo, even more so than anything Sabbath did imo. Achille's last stand single handedly wrote the metal blue print. Bands like Metallica, Iron Maiden, Megadeth, and many more completly copied the Achille's blue print. I'm not saying that's a bad thing, it just shows Zeppelin's massive influence. Everytime I listen to Achille's or the Presence album in general, I think to my self "man both Metallica and Iron Maiden owe their entire careers to this one album."Having said all of that, Presence is my least favorite Zeppelin album (besides Coda, but I don't really count Coda). It's a good album, but it lacks the "light and shade" as Page puts it, compared to the rest of their albums. In through the out door, by contrast is one of my favorites by them. They just really wrote 2 amazing songs on that album, All my love and Fool in the rain. Those two tracks are just beautiful pieces of music, I especially love fool in the rain. The rest of the album is pretty good as well, I really like South bound suarez and I'm gonna crawl. In the evening is also pretty good, but I have always viewed it as in the light part 2 (and I prefer in the light). But it's still a solid album opener. Carosumbrella is the only song on the album that I don't care too much for, It's a little too much JPJ for my liking.But back to the OP, John Paul Jones wrote a lot of keyboard parts on many Zeppelin songs that I just love. The live versions of Trampled underfoot and No Quarter come to mind first, along with his work on In Through The Out Door. I have one boot of No Quarter where JPJ plays about a 20 min piano/keyboard solo that is just amazing. All of JPJ's Zeppelin work would rank high on my favorite non guitar solo favorite solos. Even on songs like Stairway, his synth work adds so much to that song, yet most people don't even realize it. He just has ana amazing ability to really add beautiful layers to music. Axl should have given JPJ a call instead of Pitman for CD, it would have resulted in more beautful/tasteful layers. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snake-Pit Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 The saxophone in Gerry Rafferty's Baker Street 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZoSoRose Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 Shine on you Crazy Diamond's Sax solos are awesomeNo Quarter's keyboard soloArt of Life's piano solo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moreblack Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 Art Of Life piano solo is incredible.John Lord on Rat Bat Blue around 2:13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandallFlagg Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 One off the top of my head is the little keyboard solo in Opeth's The Lotus Eater it's fucking gnarly and comes out of nowhere at about 5:40 - 6:20 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iron MikeyJ Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 The saxophone in Gerry Rafferty's Baker Street Oh good call. Rafferty is a personal fav of mine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Val22 Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 Keyboards in the Doors " Light My fire" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thin White Duke Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 Clarence Clemons' solo on Jungleland is my favorite solo of all time (including guitar solos).I was thinking in that too.What about Bobby Jean? 3:08 onwards Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thin White Duke Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 Synth solo, the end of Ashes to Ashes by the one and only David Bowie. And it's cheesy, but I always loved the harmonica on Piano Man by Billy Joel. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Len B'stard Posted May 2, 2014 Share Posted May 2, 2014 Keith Moons drumming is one big solo really so that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DR DOOM Posted May 2, 2014 Share Posted May 2, 2014 (edited) Synth solo, the end of Ashes to Ashes by the one and only David Bowie.That's a brilliant performance/concert (BBC London,2000)...Chuck Hammer is the guy who played it originally.Roy Bittan from the E-Street band came up with and played the piano for that song too, useless fact for all you Bruce fans here.Bowie seems to get better with age.David Sanborn's sax in Bowie's "Somebody Up There Likes Me"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4a9ppLMx3Ithe same guy who plays saxophone on Roger Waters' The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking and heaps of other big name acts Edited May 2, 2014 by DR DOOM 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Len B'stard Posted May 3, 2014 Share Posted May 3, 2014 Sax solo on Long Tall Sally.The Doors have some cracking solos too, with Manzarek. Bass solo on My Generation.Toad by Ginger Baker Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgy Zhukov Posted May 13, 2014 Share Posted May 13, 2014 Jungleland of course. Toad is the one drum solo I can sit through. Moby Dick is great too but Toad beats it. Rick Wakeman's keyboards for Close to the EdgeAnd that beautiful harmonica solo by Dylan for Desolation Row and Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broskirose Posted July 6, 2014 Share Posted July 6, 2014 The glitch solo at 1:45 blows me away every time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDQLVLsrnv8 3:03 2:55 (some guitar does kick in later) 2:24 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Free Bird Posted July 6, 2014 Share Posted July 6, 2014 The keyboard/organ on House of the rising sun is great, even if I'm not a friend of keys in rock songs.Other than that I'll go with the harp. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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