Do you prefer a guitar, sax, piano, flute or violin solo

candyliquor35m
candyliquor35m Posts: 2,267
edited October 2009 in Music & Movies
in your favorite rock (or other) songs?

Examples?

One of my all time favorites is the sax solo/accompaniment in Dire Strait's Your Latest Trick.

I'm sure I could find some other good ones like the violin licks from Kansas or the flute brilliance from Jethro Tull or a great guitar solo I heard the other day on the radio on a Journey song.
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  • madmax
    madmax Posts: 12,434
    edited June 2008
    B3 is where its at.
    madmax
    Vinyl, the final frontier...

    Avantgarde horns, 300b tubes, thats the kinda crap I want... :D
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  • mule
    mule Posts: 282
    edited June 2008
    When I was a kid I played sax, so I sat in front of the brass section. I think that is what shaped my taste in music. I like brass, something about the mid tones that I find appealing. Its like the contrast between the rythem of drums and upright bass or even bass guitar and that punch of brass.

    I try to listen to music that does not have guitar, I find it tiresome. It seems most guitar players think that if it is complicated or fast that it is good, I find it fatigueing and rather boring.

    Right now I like jazz based hiphop and what I think some people refer to as mushroom jazz.
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  • treitz3
    treitz3 Posts: 19,195
    edited June 2008
    Little Feat's "Dixie Chicken", "America" by Kansas and that very song you mentioned by Dire Straights. It's not so much a particular instrument but many instruments [or sounds] that make up the music. Pink Floyd would be a good example.

    I could go on for hours of the instruments and voices that rock my world but for now, I'll leave it at this. I love music that moves me. It doesn't have to be a guitar, sax, piano or flute. It just has to be well executed, well played music.

    ......Oh, well recorded too. :D
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  • madmax
    madmax Posts: 12,434
    edited June 2008
    I prefer the sex for sure but not solo.
    Vinyl, the final frontier...

    Avantgarde horns, 300b tubes, thats the kinda crap I want... :D
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  • janmike
    janmike Posts: 6,146
    edited June 2008
    For solo, the piano.
    Michael ;)
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  • BeRad
    BeRad Posts: 736
    edited June 2008
    +1 for Latest Trick sax.
    Also the intro from Romeo and Juliet (live) from On The Night is brilliant.

    Call me simple, but my all time favorite sax solo is from INXS - Never Tear Us Apart. I find it moving every time I hear it, no matter what kind of system I am listening to it on.
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  • Libertyc
    Libertyc Posts: 915
    edited June 2008
    SEX Madmax??? I'm sure its solo... :)
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  • fatchowmein
    fatchowmein Posts: 2,637
    edited June 2008
    Sax. Maneater. Hall & Oates. :p
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  • george daniel
    george daniel Posts: 12,096
    edited July 2008
    Guitar,, Fender Strat,,via Marshall stacks x 4,,now who you put behind the strat makes all the difference,, but I could name one or two. ;)
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  • Danny Tse
    Danny Tse Posts: 5,206
    edited July 2008
    I think it depends on the song. I love "Your Latest Trick" by Dire Straits and this is THE demo track for me on any component, even more so than "Money For Nothing" from the same album. I suppose Mark Knopfler could've easily crafted a tasteful and classy guitar solo for the song, but the sax solo just fits the song so much better.

    Same with Hall and Oates' "Maneater". Spandau Ballet's "True" not only featured a great sax solo, but also has one of the most memorable guitar riffs ever.

    However, I do prefer a melodic electric guitar solo above all.
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited July 2008
    Electric Pan Flute.
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  • zombie boy 2000
    zombie boy 2000 Posts: 6,641
    edited July 2008
    All shall bow down before Zamfir. Or so the prophecy goes...
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  • hockeyboy
    hockeyboy Posts: 1,428
    edited July 2008
    Guitar. Worship at the alter of rock and roll.
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  • kuntasensei
    kuntasensei Posts: 3,263
    edited July 2008
    For assessing how pleasing a system is to my ears, I like to use sections of Chris Thile playing mandolin solos, either with Nickel Creek or his latest albums with The How To Grow A Band and Punch Brothers.
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  • Sherardp
    Sherardp Posts: 8,038
    edited July 2008
    Trumpet then a Sax, followed by the Piano, a wicked Guitar Shred is always good stuff.
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  • LessisNevermore
    LessisNevermore Posts: 1,519
    edited July 2008
    Drum solos are a nice change of pace, depending on the tune.

    46&2 by Tool.
    La Villa Strangiato by Rush.
    Frankenstein by Edgar Winter.
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  • joeparaski
    joeparaski Posts: 1,865
    edited July 2008
    I love the sax...Paul Taylor's "Pleasure Seeker" is an excellent album.

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  • candyliquor35m
    candyliquor35m Posts: 2,267
    edited July 2008
    The piano solo on journey's Still She Cries (Trial by Fire, 1996).
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  • Knucklehead
    Knucklehead Posts: 3,602
    edited October 2009
    IMO nothing better than hearing Steve Harris kick **** on the bass guitar, you just dont hear that many bassists have a lead role in a band.
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  • zarrdoss
    zarrdoss Posts: 2,562
    edited October 2009
    as a former drum player, I love someone beating the crap out of the drums.

    Joey from Slipknot on the Disasterpices DVD drum solo.
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  • jtgranby
    jtgranby Posts: 887
    edited October 2009
    hugspismo wrote: »
    This is an interesting discussion. thank you for sharing

    Reported
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  • zarrdoss
    zarrdoss Posts: 2,562
    edited October 2009
    hugspismo wrote: »
    This is an interesting discussion. thank you for sharing

    A-Hole!
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  • danger boy
    danger boy Posts: 15,722
    edited October 2009
    Where did this thread get dug up from?
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  • zarrdoss
    zarrdoss Posts: 2,562
    edited October 2009
    danger boy wrote: »
    Where did this thread get dug up from?

    I guess that A-hole spammer did it
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