TaurusT Posted February 18, 2020 Share Posted February 18, 2020 What's your favorite MUST-LISTEN TO solo Rhodes song/performance? (solo Rhodes - as in, a full song played on only a Rhodes piano, so not a Rhodes solo in a bandcontext ) Post here now. GO! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnotherScott Posted February 18, 2020 Share Posted February 18, 2020 If you mean Rhodes as the foundational keyboard sound of the song (as opposed to literally solo, with no other instruments), I think I'd pick this as my favorite Rhodes-centric piece... [video:youtube] If it doesn't catch you right away, don't give up too fast, at least listen to the first two minutes before bailing, because there's so much variety within the first two minutes... Quote Maybe this is the best place for a shameless plug! Our now not-so-new new video at https://youtu.be/3ZRC3b4p4EI is a 40 minute adaptation of T. S. Eliot's "Prufrock" - check it out! And hopefully I'll have something new here this year. ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
motomike1961 Posted February 18, 2020 Share Posted February 18, 2020 For me growing up in the 70's, I love the Rhodes on Billy Joel's "Just The Way You Are". That was actually my wedding song also. Quote My Rig: Stage Piano: Korg Grandstage 73 - Organ: Hammond SKx - Amps: Motion Sound KP-500s - Mixer: Yamaha MGU10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dongna Posted February 18, 2020 Share Posted February 18, 2020 Off the top of my head, Still Crazy After All These Years would be in my team photo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonybanksfan Posted February 18, 2020 Share Posted February 18, 2020 Riders on the Storm is my fav. Quote Kurzweil PC3K8/ GSI Gemini Desktop/ ESI UNIK 8+ monitors/ QSC K8.2/ Radial Key Largo/ CPS Spacestation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BenWaB3 Posted February 18, 2020 Share Posted February 18, 2020 Too many to name, but a few of the faves: Herbie Hancock - Wiggle Waggle from Fat Albert Rotunda. Sly from Headhunters. and then the CTI Rhodes sound he & many others used when recording for that label. Deodato - Thus Sprach Zarathustra Stevie Wonder - You Are The Sunshine Of My Life Pretty much anything by Richard Tee Aretha Franklin - Bridge Over Troubled Water from Live At The Filmore (plus Billy Preston's superb Hammond playing on that track) Cedar Walton - Animation & Another Star from Animation. The Rhodes is out of tune but the we he plays makes it sound like an asset instead of a liability. Also the out of tune Rhodes on Monty alexander's Rass album. Like Cedar he makes it sound cool to be playing that out of tune scale. Many more, but don't want to go on too long. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hardware Posted February 18, 2020 Share Posted February 18, 2020 Thrust by Herbie Hancock. Butterfly/ Quote Magnus C350 + FMR RNP + Realistic Unisphere Mic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mauriziodececco Posted February 18, 2020 Share Posted February 18, 2020 I knew the Deodato Thus Sprach Zarathustra well before i knew what a Rhodes was, or who Deodato or Strauss were. It was used as a jingle by "Scuola Radio Elettra", an italian organization selling correspondence courses to adults and teenagers on Electronics. They add ads in TV and i when i was a kid i was dreaming of following their courses, thing that i did later; thing that pushed me toward analog electronics, then to analogue electronic instruments, then to electronic music (the Berlin School), and later to music, and finally i discovered what a Rhodes was, who Deodato and Strauss were, and where the jingle came from; the whole process took around 40 years, not too bad :->. Maurizio PS: yes, i know this do not answer the OP question, but i hope it can be interesting anyway. Quote Nord Wave 2, Nord Electro 6D 61,, Rameau upright, Hammond Pro44H Melodica. Too many Arturia, NI and AAS plugins http://www.barbogio.org/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malpaugh Posted February 18, 2020 Share Posted February 18, 2020 Thrust by Herbie Hancock. Butterfly/ +1 on that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bourniplus Posted February 18, 2020 Share Posted February 18, 2020 The Rhodes is out of tune but the we he plays makes it sound like an asset instead of a liability. Also the out of tune Rhodes on Monty alexander's Rass album. Like Cedar he makes it sound cool to be playing that out of tune scale. While on the topic, listen to this version of Mr. Clean by Groove Holmes and Weldon Irvine on Rhodes: https://youtu.be/nGXgVcnvWYI That Bb is so out of tune, I'm guessing it was intentional. None of my Rhodes ever needed any significant tuning, pitch-wise. The answer the OP's question, I'd say Spain by Chick Corea on Light as a feather. If he meant a Rhodes-ONLY song, I can't think of any that had some kind of commercial success. Quote "Show me all the blueprints. I'm serious now, show me all the blueprints." My homemade instruments Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shamanczarek Posted February 18, 2020 Share Posted February 18, 2020 Don't know of any songs with nothing but Rhodes but "Mean Mistreater" by Grand Funk comes close. One of my all-time favorite Rhodes songs is "Happiness is Just Around the Bend" by Brian Auger. [video:youtube] In one of my bands we sometimes do "Daniel" by Elton John which is mostly Rhodes with some Mellotron. Other predominantly Rhodes songs I have done occasionally are "I Wish" by Stevie Wonder and "Dancing in the Moonlight" by King Harvest. I regularly play "Riders on the Storm" and "LA Woman" in a Doors tribute band with left-hand bass on a 1973 Fender Rhodes Piano Bass. Right now I'm working on "Rhiannon" which has more Rhodes than you might think but is so buried in the mix that it was difficult to tell what's going on until I came across this Keys, Bass, and Drum mix which has helped immensely. There really is enough Rhodes here to carry the whole song. [video:youtube] Quote C3/122, M102A, Vox V301H, Farfisa Compact, Gibson G101, GEM P, RMI 300A, Piano Bass, Pianet , Prophet 5 rev. 2, Pro-One, Matrix 12, OB8, Korg MS20, Jupiter 6, Juno 60, PX-5S, Nord Stage 3 Compact Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morrissey Posted February 18, 2020 Share Posted February 18, 2020 This topic was discussed about 9 months ago: Link here: CLONK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricBarker Posted February 18, 2020 Share Posted February 18, 2020 Sound Chaser. Quote Puck Funk! Equipment: Laptop running lots of nerdy software, some keyboards, noise makersâ¦yada yada yadaâ¦maybe a cat? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Nathan Posted February 18, 2020 Share Posted February 18, 2020 [video:youtube] Quote Don't rush me. I'm playing as slowly as I can! http://www.stevenathanmusic.com/stevenathanmusic.com/HOME.html https://apple.co/2EGpYXK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zukskywalker Posted February 18, 2020 Share Posted February 18, 2020 At work right now so I can't post up examples, but no George Duke? There's a great story about how a Rhodes was put in front of him instead of a "real" piano and how in anger he decided to play it real hard out of spite and subsequently fell in love with "the Rhodes bark". And then there's Spectrum by Billy Cobham. Seminal Rhodes piece for me. (Would someone please tell me how that Rhodes solo was "bent"? Sounds nothing like pitch bend on faux Rhodes.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mate stubb Posted February 18, 2020 Share Posted February 18, 2020 And then there's Spectrum by Billy Cobham. Seminal Rhodes piece for me. (Would someone please tell me how that Rhodes solo was "bent"? Sounds nothing like pitch bend on faux Rhodes.) Maestro Ring Modulator. Quote Moe --- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
16251 Posted February 18, 2020 Share Posted February 18, 2020 Couldn't pick just one from this great album. [video:youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0mBcsQAJHw Quote AvantGrand N2 | ES520 | Gallien-Krueger MK & MP | https://soundcloud.com/pete36251 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Zeger Posted February 18, 2020 Share Posted February 18, 2020 Definitely Chick on 'Light As A Feather'. Spain? 500 Miles High? How about Captain Marvel. [video:youtube] Zawinul"s Rhodes. Maybe on Young And Fine. [video:youtube] Stevie [video:youtube] +1 for Just The Way You Are and anytime Richard Tee laid hands on a Rhodes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zukskywalker Posted February 19, 2020 Share Posted February 19, 2020 And then there's Spectrum by Billy Cobham. Seminal Rhodes piece for me. (Would someone please tell me how that Rhodes solo was "bent"? Sounds nothing like pitch bend on faux Rhodes.) Maestro Ring Modulator. Thanks Moe!! BTW: Spectrum is the name of the album. The song that I was referring to is called The Red Baron. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Coda Posted February 19, 2020 Share Posted February 19, 2020 Herbie from 02:18 ff ... [video:youtube] Chick .. [video:youtube] Herbie "Butterfly" and JoeZ "Young & Fine",- as already mentioned above,- too ! Hard to say anyway because there are so many great Rhodes recordings from giants like Joe, Herbie, Chick, Jan Hammer ... but also on Al Jarreau records and others. Jan ... [video:youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aYEv4RiP5s Minimoog blends well w/ Rhodes,- and the Rhodes sound itself is special being processed thru his Fairchild tube compressor(s) and whatelse. I love it ! A.C. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cedar Posted February 19, 2020 Share Posted February 19, 2020 I always considered the Rhodes solo in the middle section of the original version of Chameleon the ultimate Rhodes solo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tunaman Posted February 19, 2020 Share Posted February 19, 2020 Most of the Supertramp catalog... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tunaman Posted February 19, 2020 Share Posted February 19, 2020 Also Babe (Styx) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Zeger Posted February 19, 2020 Share Posted February 19, 2020 Most of the Supertramp catalog... Supertramp was known for the Wurlitzer piano sound. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Motif88 Posted February 19, 2020 Share Posted February 19, 2020 No links, just some of the first things that come to mind, a bunch of Chick Corea not withstanding, I know there are plenty more - Tom Canning (Al Jarreau) - Alonzo, Love is Real, Spain, Distracted George Duke - Anticipation, The Touch Greg Karukas - Blue Touch Quote Using: Yamaha: Montage M8x| Spectrasonics: Omnisphere, Keyscape | uhe: Diva, Hive2, Zebra2| Roland: Cloud Pro | Arturia: V Collection | NI: Komplete 14 | VPS: Avenger | Cherry: GX80 | G-Force: OB-E | Korg: Triton, MS-20 Sold/Traded: Yamaha: Motif XS8, Motif ES8, Motif8, KX-88, TX7 | ASM: Hydrasynth Deluxe| Roland: RD-2000, D50, MKS-20| Korg: Kronos 88, T3, MS-20 | Oberheim: OB8, OBXa, Modular 8 Voice | Rhodes: Dyno-My-Piano| Crumar: T2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drawback Posted February 19, 2020 Share Posted February 19, 2020 [video:youtube] Quote ____________________________________ Rod Here for the gear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Threadslayer Posted February 19, 2020 Share Posted February 19, 2020 Most of the Supertramp catalog... Supertramp was known for the Wurlitzer piano sound. And it always sounded to me like it was being played by a drummer. Quote Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. -Mark Twain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hacksaw Posted February 19, 2020 Share Posted February 19, 2020 +1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe P Posted February 19, 2020 Share Posted February 19, 2020 This has been posted before, but I've always liked it. Rhodes action really starts around 5:06: [video:youtube] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CEB Posted February 19, 2020 Share Posted February 19, 2020 Mr. Crowley is probably my favorite. Quote "It doesn't have to be difficult to be cool" - Mitch Towne "A great musician can bring tears to your eyes!!! So can a auto Mechanic." - Stokes Hunt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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