Instrument that put a song over the top

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  • sda2mike
    sda2mike Posts: 3,131
    edited July 2010
    domflane wrote: »
    The drums in Jimi Hendrix's "The Wind Cries Mary". Mitch Mitchell was a monster . .

    i thought i read, 100 years ago, that jimi played all the instuments on that tune:confused:
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  • Joe08867
    Joe08867 Posts: 3,919
    edited July 2010
    I could see Jimi playing that song but not something like Manic Depression.
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  • Rev. Hayes
    Rev. Hayes Posts: 475
    edited July 2010
    that pizzicato violin(?) bit in Anne Peebles "I cant stand the rain"
    Sounds good to me...
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  • sda2mike
    sda2mike Posts: 3,131
    edited July 2010
    Joe08867 wrote: »
    I could see Jimi playing that song but not something like Manic Depression.

    house burning down is cool..got the sound of flames;)
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  • rayslifecycle
    rayslifecycle Posts: 511
    edited July 2010
    The fiddle in the Dave Mathews Band Song Ants Marching - starts around 3:24

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  • george daniel
    george daniel Posts: 12,096
    edited July 2010
    Richie Blackmores' guitar solo in "Child in Time",,from the Deep Purple in Rock LP.
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,137
    edited July 2010
    The banjo in Led Zepplin's renditions of "Gallows Pole."
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  • hockeyboy
    hockeyboy Posts: 1,428
    edited July 2010
    Billy Joels whistle in The Stranger.
    The dial tone in She's Tight by Cheap Trick.
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  • Fongolio
    Fongolio Posts: 3,516
    edited July 2010
    Dylan on harmonica in Like a Rolling Stone
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  • exalted512
    exalted512 Posts: 10,735
    edited July 2010
    A lot of these are good ones, but I have to say, none of them compare...

    ...compare to what the cowbell did for 'the reaper' by the blue oyster cult.

    Fellas, I've got a fever, and the only prescription...is more cowbell.
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  • shadowofnight
    shadowofnight Posts: 2,735
    edited July 2010
    Bagpipes....in this.....:D


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  • geebolt
    geebolt Posts: 215
    edited July 2010
    No Gilmour guitar in Comfortably Numb...
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  • Tony M
    Tony M Posts: 11,141
    edited July 2010
    The french horn in Pink Floyds' "Shine on you crazy Diamond"

    The voice synthisizer in Gary Wrights' "Do you feel like we do"

    Would "Stairway to Heaven" be the same without the plain guitar picking in the begining?

    I went to a yard sale and a girl was playing it out in the driveway in a louge chair and the sound from her amp ecoed in that culdesac and it was really, really excellent sounding and instantly recognizable. That solo is as well known as Obama is around the world I would think.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,733
    edited July 2010
    Nice bagpipes near the fadeout of the final track (Sleep) on Crack the Sky's eponymous debut album. The remastered CD inexplicably fades before the bagpipes, though :-( I am guessing there was an issue with the tapes.

    shadowofnight wrote: »
    Bagpipes....in this.....:D


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  • obieone
    obieone Posts: 5,077
    edited July 2010
    Trumpets in Stevie Wonders 'Superstitions'.

    Keyboards in ELP's 'Nutrocker'-also known as the original Bruins theme on TV38:p
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  • Ric5811
    Ric5811 Posts: 400
    edited July 2010
    Sting's voice in the intro to "Money for Nothing" ...
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,137
    edited July 2010
    tony millard wrote: »
    The french horn in Pink Floyds' "Shine on you crazy Diamond"

    . . . and the guitar hanging in air!
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,137
    edited July 2010
    shadowofnight wrote: »
    Bagpipes....in this.....:D


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  • audiobliss
    audiobliss Posts: 12,518
    edited July 2010
    There are two, I think, that make The Boxer by Simon & Garfunkel. Whatever it is they use for that whip-like snapping noise throughout the song, and definitely the trombone at the end.

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    And of course piano in just about any Billy Joel song (I Go to Extremes, The Entertainer, etc).




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  • Joe08867
    Joe08867 Posts: 3,919
    edited July 2010
    How about the telephone connection or the clearing of the throat in Pink Floyds Wish You Were Here.

    That weird whistle is awesome and adds a ton to the feel of the song.
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  • domflane
    domflane Posts: 653
    edited July 2010
    Cannons in music are always awesome. Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" and AC/DC's "For Those About to Rock." And I'm pretty sure that "The Wind Cries Mary" was recorded in London about the same time as "Fire" and with the rest of the Experience. The drum track is very Mitchell-esque too. Could be wrong though.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,733
    edited July 2010
    domflane wrote: »
    Cannons in music are always awesome. Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" and AC/DC's "For Those About to Rock." And I'm pretty sure that "The Wind Cries Mary" was recorded in London about the same time as "Fire" and with the rest of the Experience. The drum track is very Mitchell-esque too. Could be wrong though.

    There was great Calvin & Hobbes cartoon along those lines. C&H were listening to 1812 Overture. Calvin's observation vis-a-vis the use of real cannon: "And they perform this in crowded concert halls? Cool!"]

    EDIT: The "weird whistle" in the intro to Wish you Were Here is called heterodyne. It is caused by the "beat" (mathematical superposition) of two AM radio frequency carrier waves (of slightly differing frequency) whose difference frequency is audible. That wavering whistle is very familiar to those of us who spent our formative years "DXing" AM or SW :-)
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  • Joe08867
    Joe08867 Posts: 3,919
    edited July 2010
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    There was great Calvin & Hobbes cartoon along those lines. C&H were listening to 1812 Overture. Calvin's observation vis-a-vis the use of real cannon: "And they perform this in crowded concert halls? Cool!"]

    EDIT: The "weird whistle" in the intro to Wish you Were Here is called heterodyne. It is caused by the "beat" (mathematical superposition) of two AM radio frequency carrier waves (of slightly differing frequency) whose difference frequency is audible. That wavering whistle is very familiar to those of us who spent our formative years "DXing" AM or SW :-)

    Thanks, I never knew what it was called and will probably forget just as quickly but for the moment I feel smarter.:) Now what were we talking about???:confused:
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,733
    edited July 2010
    Back on topic, the theremin (one of the first "electronic" musical instruments) uses exactly the same principle to create... umm... music.

    Even more on topic - howzabout the great theremin in the Beach Boys song Good Vibrations, eh? :-)
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  • zombie boy 2000
    zombie boy 2000 Posts: 6,641
    edited July 2010
    Already mentioned, my good man. Twice. Though I feel you are already in on the joke.
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  • sda2mike
    sda2mike Posts: 3,131
    edited July 2010
    hearingimpared wrote: »
    . . . and the guitar hanging in air!

    howz about the water-filled crystal glasses at the beginining of that tune..gilmour used them again on the live at gdansk dvd
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,137
    edited July 2010
    The bass solo in Jethro Tull's "Bouree."
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  • Tony M
    Tony M Posts: 11,141
    edited July 2010
    hearingimpared wrote: »
    . . . and the guitar hanging in air!

    Ohhh yea...:D;)
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  • vc69
    vc69 Posts: 2,500
    edited July 2010
    Danny Tse wrote: »
    The late Tony Thompson's drums, i.e. Power Station's "Some Like It Hot" and Madonna's "Like A Virgin", amongst many others

    Jeez Danny... Tony is dead too? Sucks. That dude was a monster. So many bad **** tracks. I saw Power Station (with Michael Des Barres AKA Murdoc :eek:) back in the day.
    Tony Thompson was force to be reckoned with.

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  • mmadden28
    mmadden28 Posts: 4,283
    edited July 2010
    The Talk Box as used by:
    Peter Frampton-Frampton Comes Alive
    Bon Jovi-Living on a Prayer.

    And of course the fiddle:
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