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What's your favorite solo in a rock song by any instrument other than guitar?


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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 sublime

Roxy Music: the rendition of "If There Is Something" on Viva! Live and Eddie Jobson's electric violin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0UvZIZLUTo

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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.

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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.

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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=A4a9ppLMx3I

the same guy who plays saxophone on Roger Waters' The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking and heaps of other big name acts

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Guest Len B'stard

Sax solo on Long Tall Sally.

The Doors have some cracking solos too, with Manzarek.

Bass solo on My Generation.

Toad by Ginger Baker

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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 Edge

And that beautiful harmonica solo by Dylan for Desolation Row and Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands.

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