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Great keyboard solos from popular music - 10/1/2008 9:58:51 AM
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DaveW
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btw if anyone does a keyboard solo thread I want to pre-submit Kieth Emerson's "Lucky Man" and Rick Wakeman's "Roundabout". lol Great idea.
I would nominate the vamp from Kieth Emerson's "Nutrocker."
Both the short and long organ solos from "Innagaddavida" - Iron Butterfly's Doug Ingle
"Get Back" by the Beatles - keys by Billy Preston
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RE: Great keyboard solos from popular music - 10/1/2008 10:34:52 AM
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The piano solo from The Allman Brothers' Jessica.
Billy Joel's Scenes From an Italian Restaurant, Miami 2017(Seen the Lights Go Down on Broadway), Piano Man.
Rick Wakeman's organ in Roundabout.
The piano riff from Sweet Home Alabama.
Billy Payne's (Little Feat) organ solo on Let It Roll, piano intro to Dixie Chicken.
Keith Emerson's Fanfare for the Common Man. One of the networks used it for years as the intro to their NFL pregame show.
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RE: Great keyboard solos from popular music - 10/1/2008 1:49:36 PM
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Styx - Fooling Yourself
Kansas - Carry On Wayward Son
Toto - Rosanna
Heart - Magic Man
Lynard Skynnard - Call me the Breeze
Simple but effective:
Steve Miller - Swing Town
Cars - Just what I needed
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RE: Great keyboard solos from popular music - 10/1/2008 9:25:38 PM
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"Burn Down The Mission" from Elton John's first live album 11/17/70.
Just about the entirity of Leon Russell's "Leon Live" album.
Tony Banks (Genesis) on "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway" or any number of other Genesis cuts.
And I agree with those who mentioned Keith Emerson, Rick Wakeman and Billy Powell (Skynyrd). All three are supurb.
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RE: Great keyboard solos from popular music - 10/2/2008 10:13:27 AM
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Kansas - Carry On Wayward Son
Heart - Magic Man
Steve Miller - Swing Town
Cars - Just what I needed I do not even remember any keyboard solos on these tunes.....
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RE: Great keyboard solos from popular music - 10/2/2008 10:13:42 AM
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How 'bout Steve Winwood in I'm A Man, Gimme Some Lovin', Low Spark of High Heeled Boys, Joe Cocker's With A Little Help From My Friends, or While You See a Chance?
John Evan's intro to Locomotive Breath. Instantly recognizable. So is Billy Joel's Piano Man.
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RE: Great keyboard solos from popular music - 10/2/2008 10:16:12 AM
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Kansas - Carry On Wayward Son
Heart - Magic Man
Steve Miller - Swing Town
Cars - Just what I needed I do not even remember any keyboard solos on these tunes.....
There was a very short organ solo in Carry On, another short moog riff in Magic Man, and a short moog thing in the cars tune. Don't know about Swing Town. I thought the same thing when I saw that post, but then I remembered. 
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RE: Great keyboard solos from popular music - 10/2/2008 10:26:52 AM
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Honky Cat - Sir Elton John
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RE: Great keyboard solos from popular music - 10/2/2008 12:59:59 PM
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There is a great keyboard improv in the middle of Edgar Winter's "Frankenstein."
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RE: Great keyboard solos from popular music - 10/2/2008 4:42:59 PM
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Keith Emerson's Fanfare for the Common Man. One of the networks used it for years as the intro to their NFL pregame show.
Any idea which network and when?
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RE: Great keyboard solos from popular music - 10/3/2008 10:19:17 AM
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Sorry, can't remember now. It was many years ago, though, since I haven't watched any football for years.
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RE: Great keyboard solos from popular music - 10/3/2008 7:36:18 PM
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The Hammond B3 and Piano in REO Speedwagon's Roll with the Changes (check out the version they did with Styx...best ever!)
Come Sail Away
Elton John's version of Pinball Wizard
Jessica
Hmmmm...I'm sure I'll come up with more....
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RE: Great keyboard solos from popular music - 10/4/2008 8:16:57 AM
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I can't believe it took me this long to think of the organ riff in "Won't Get Fooled Again".
The organ throughout the Animals' "House of the Rising Sun"
Ray Manzarek's intro to "Touch Me".
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RE: Great keyboard solos from popular music - 10/4/2008 7:19:58 PM
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I can't believe it took this long to remember that e-piano jam in the middle of Riders on the Storm by the Doors. BTW, the band did not have a bass player so the keys guy was playing the bass line on a keyboard as well.
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RE: Great keyboard solos from popular music - 10/5/2008 5:34:04 PM
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Rush "Tom Sawyer" very simple but catchy.
The Cars "Just what I needed" I love the moog.
ELP "Lucky Man" I know it was already said, but it's awesome.
Boston, the intro to "long time"
Steve Miller Band "Fly like an eagle"
Van Halen "Jump"
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RE: Great keyboard solos from popular music - 10/6/2008 6:40:41 AM
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Steve Miller Band "Fly like an eagle" I consider that I have really only heard that song once, and there was no keyboard at all. ( I do not count the endless times I have heard a radio-proccessed aproximation of the song) That was a live show in Nov '73, almost 3 years before it was on the radio. The 2 versions are so far apart it is like they are different songs by different artists.
One organ solo I totally do not understand: 'Time of the Season' by the Zombies (Rod Argent)
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RE: Great keyboard solos from popular music - 10/6/2008 11:21:02 AM
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Keith Emerson's Fanfare for the Common Man. One of the networks used it for years as the intro to their NFL pregame show.
Any idea which network and when?
According to the Wikipedia article for the song, it was for their CBS Sports Spectacular show (a series closer to the old Wide World of Sports series on ABC), though it's possible it could have been used for NFL as well (at one point, CBS had a near-army of music in the early 1980s)
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RE: Great keyboard solos from popular music - 10/6/2008 12:13:49 PM
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According to the Wikipedia article for the song, it was for their CBS Sports Spectacular show Okay, so I was close enough for jazz.
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RE: Great keyboard solos from popular music - 10/6/2008 9:11:10 PM
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Ian Paice's solo in Deep Purple's "Highway Star"
I dare anyone to listen to that song in the car and not feel the need to drive 100! 
So - are we talking about drum solos or keyboard? Ian is the drummer - Jon Lord plays keyboards.
And you're right about having to go easy on the gas pedal when it comes on!
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RE: Great keyboard solos from popular music - 10/8/2008 10:44:19 AM
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Billy Joel's Scenes From an Italian Restaurant
I LOVE "scenes from an italian restaurant"....
Also...
Bob Seger's "The Fire Inside"
Johnnie Johnson's "Tanqueray" (Johnnie was Chuck Berry's LONG TIME piano player...and did a few solo albums VERY late in life)
Chuck Berry's "You Never Can Tell" (piano played, of course, by Johnnie Johnson)
ANYTHING by Ramsey Lewis...
ANYTHING by Ellis Marsalis (Branford & Wynton's Dad)
What'd I Say by Ray Charles (and pretty much anything else by him, as well)
Iam sure there are LOTS more...but, those are the ones I could come up with right now
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RE: Great keyboard solos from popular music - 10/9/2008 9:48:40 AM
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The classic intro to Elton's "Your Song"!
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RE: Great keyboard solos from popular music - 10/9/2008 6:13:40 PM
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There is a great keyboard improv in the middle of Edgar Winter's "Frankenstein."
That would be my second favorite. My all time favorite is the solo in....drum roll please "Layla" by Eric Clapton.
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RE: Great keyboard solos from popular music - 10/9/2008 8:07:48 PM
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That would be my second favorite. My all time favorite is the solo in....drum roll please "Layla" by Eric Clapton.
Yeah, I used to really like that one, too. Even won a "talent show" playing it at a youth lock-in back in High School. Then, "classic rock" radio came along and played it every other hour and ruined it for me. It's still one of the most beautiful codas ever written for a rock song (I think, anyway), but after hearing it 1,000 times, it dosen't carry the impact it once did for me.
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