Another one: Dennis Rollin’s Trombone solo on I Got It Goin’ On, by US3 (The Hand On The Torch album). That is one smooth jam.
You say “cheesy” like that’s a BAD thing.
Hiram Bullock’s solo on Sting’s recording of Little Wing blows me away. Stanley Clarke’s playing on School Days on the Live at the Greek recording. Jaco Pastorius on Continuum is great too.
Paul Yeah
The drum solo on Santanas ‘Heads,hands & feet’ check it out.
The sax solo on Hazel O’Conners ‘Will You’
John Coltrane & McCoy Tyner on “My Favorite Things”
Jeff “Skunk” Baxter on Steely Dan’s “Rikki Don’t Lose That Number”
Bonzo on “Moby Dick”
a fiddle player whose name escapes me on “All Along the Watchtower” during Bob Dylan’s 1978 tour
Jeff Beck on “Beck’s Bolero”
Fiora Purim’s vocal improvisations on Return to Forever’s “Spain” and “500 Miles High”
Charlie Mingus’ bass solo on “Bluebird”
Just about any solo Jimi Hendrix and Lester Young ever played
If bass is allowed too:
Geddy Lees short-break-solos on Rush’s YYZ.
My goodness, there will never be a better bass player.
Madpoet: Pastorius is fantastic, but he ain’t Geddy Lee. He ain’t Les Claypool either.
Coldfire
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"You know how complex women are"
- Neil Peart, Rush (1993)
It’s a great song, but the lead lines are all on John Entwistle’s bass. Unless you were referring to something else?
Catrandom
I haven’t heard this – wish I had – but didn’t John Entwistle do the above on “My Generation” in 1963?
Catrandom
“Jessica”, by the Allman Brothers. The whole song is one long collection of great solos.
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I don’t know if this really counts, but I love the piano solos in Ben Folds Five songs, like “Army” and the violin (or something solo) in “Boxing.”
“I was born in this town, I was raised in this town, and I’ll probably die in this town. Hell, I’ve already been hit by a car on this street, twice!”–if you recognize where this quote is from or who said it, please tell me.
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I don’t know if this really counts, but I love the piano solos in Ben Folds Five songs, like “Army” and the violin (or something) solo in “Boxing.”
“I was born in this town, I was raised in this town, and I’ll probably die in this town. Hell, I’ve already been hit by a car on this street, twice!”–if you recognize where this quote is from or who said it, please tell me.
I asked my husband about this one, and he wasn’t sure. He said if you’re referring to Bob Dylan at Budokan, he thinks it was a woman, named Scarlet something-or-other (he couldn’t remember either) and yeah, she was awesome.
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I’ve got to echo anyone who credited Pink Floyd.
Also Tom Morello has got to be one of (if not the) best guitar players out there, his solos are incredible.
Finally whoever the sax player in DMB is, I’m too lazy to look it up, he has an incredible solo on their cover of All Along the Watchtower. (sends chills down my spine)
Still later, Gerald did a terrible thing to Elsie with a saucepan.
Drum solo on Chicago’s-I’m a man
My two favorites:
The intro to “Riders on the Storm” and the intro to U2’s “New Year’s Day.”
Sax on Shine on You Crazy Diamond - Dick Perry (I think)
Lead Guitar on Have A Cigar - Gilmore
Both from Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Billy Joel’s piano on Angry Young Man.
Chaim Mattis Keller
ckeller@kozmo.com
“Sherlock Holmes once said that once you have eliminated the
impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be
the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible.
The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it that the merely improbable lacks.”
– Douglas Adams’s Dirk Gently, Holistic Detective
The guitar intro in “Purple Rain” (Prince).
The piano interlude in “The Last Resort” (Eagles)
And, finally, the very brief drum segment which has launched the careers of air drum players everywhere, from “In the Air Tonight.” (Phil Collins)
Jerry Garcia and David Grisman got together in the early 90’s and did a few sessions together, and one of the tunes (‘Arabia’, written by Grisman) made me put my guitar away in shame. I knew that Grisman was the God of the Mandolin, but beneath that drug-addled exterior that Garcia fella could actually play!
I’m also surprised that nobody mentioned David Bromberg in all of this. (Sigh. These kids today . . . )
Dr. Watson
“Man, if you gotta ask you’ll never know.” --Louis Armstrong
As if there was ever even a question about it!