tarkus Posted February 16, 2005 Share Posted February 16, 2005 The other thread "favorite keyboard solo" reminded me if I've heard anything good that came out in the last 10 years. Nothing memorable. Any takers? Anything I should be listening to? I'm talkin REAL Synth solos - excluding Dream Theater and other progs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synthoid Posted February 16, 2005 Share Posted February 16, 2005 Hmmm....I'm curious as well. Nothing so far. When an eel hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's a Moray. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krakit Posted February 16, 2005 Share Posted February 16, 2005 Excluding prog? Damn. I'm guessing that Fusion is out too, yeah? Perhaps you should listen to some Jamband (Gobi) stuff. Plenty of solos coming out in that genre. To be fair, I don't listen to any pop music, so I wouldn't know if there are any solos that meet your criteria there or not. Carl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeebus Posted February 16, 2005 Share Posted February 16, 2005 Define "good"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sven Golly Posted February 16, 2005 Share Posted February 16, 2005 Originally posted by tarkus: I'm talkin REAL Synth solos - excluding Dream Theater and other progs. I'm curious as to why the exclusion of Prog? Are we limiting this to just pop music? And define "REAL Synth" ... are we limited to Mini's, Jupiters, and Obies, or do Andy and Ion solos count too? (tongue in cheek here, obviously... ) Cheers, SG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben One Posted February 16, 2005 Share Posted February 16, 2005 Echolyn's "as the world" released in 1995 has an amazing synth solo by Chris Busby! And it is prog, but a different kind of prog from Dream Theater! Ben Eddie Jobson Tribute Projects Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tarkus Posted February 16, 2005 Author Share Posted February 16, 2005 Even in the 80's non-progs were jammin synth solos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tarkus Posted February 16, 2005 Author Share Posted February 16, 2005 I mean synth solo - identifiably synth. Not piano, piano bells, organ, organy, or flutish gibberish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeebus Posted February 16, 2005 Share Posted February 16, 2005 Air is a fairly recent band and have a some synth solos on their stuff. More like a tasteful lead or two, than all out synth wankery though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deadsy Posted February 16, 2005 Share Posted February 16, 2005 Check out "Wolf in the Bend" by Joy Electric. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niacin Posted February 17, 2005 Share Posted February 17, 2005 nup. Gig keys: Hammond SKpro, Korg Vox Continental, Crumar Mojo 61, Crumar Mojo Pedals Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tarkus Posted February 17, 2005 Author Share Posted February 17, 2005 Originally posted by niacin: nup. what is nup? It seems that the synth in melodic solo or intent had fallen out of favor in the early 1990's due to grunge and garage prominance. Its funny we are seeing a return to vintage analog within the industry and 'that seventies feel' is almost over in pop in fashion. Just like we saw a return to rocka-billy in the 80's. Today's audience are the children of the 70's kids. That'll be the driving engine behind the return of mono-synth leads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tarkus Posted February 17, 2005 Author Share Posted February 17, 2005 Ok - it doesn't have to be good. How about recognizable? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marzzz Posted February 17, 2005 Share Posted February 17, 2005 Originally posted by tarkus: Today's audience are the children of the 70's kids. That'll be the driving engine behind the return of mono-synth leads. ......or the return of Disco!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tarkus Posted February 17, 2005 Author Share Posted February 17, 2005 Originally posted by Marzzz: Originally posted by tarkus: Today's audience are the children of the 70's kids. That'll be the driving engine behind the return of mono-synth leads. ......or the return of Disco!? Disco only existed in comercial form from 1977-1980, (but it never really died). The myth that the 70's was the 'decade of disco' still prevails. I think Frampton Comes Alive was bigger than disco as well as Hotel California, or Steve Miller's Book of dreams. Two or three albums everyone had in their collection. But I digress..... My nephews search through my family's vast vinyl collection only to be perplexed by the Back cover of Tomita's Pictures At An Exhibition ("does he work for the phone company?"). After listening they laugh out loud at how weird it sounds but are focused on the panning effects that are non-existant in today's mp3 format muzak. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moj Posted February 17, 2005 Share Posted February 17, 2005 The Keyboard Corner Comps Vol. 7 and 8 There's some great solo's by our forum members. Check it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben One Posted February 17, 2005 Share Posted February 17, 2005 Originally posted by mojazz: The Keyboard Corner Comps Vol. 7 and 8 There's some great solo's by our forum members. Check it out. Do you know if copies of the past KC Compilations are still available? I tell you, I'm getting plenty of listening pleasure out of the latest one! Eddie Jobson Tribute Projects Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moj Posted February 18, 2005 Share Posted February 18, 2005 Ben, you can listen to Vol. 4 and 6 at the link below. As far as Vol. 1-3, they are no longer available and Vol. 5 (The Beatles covers) was hosted on a site, but I don't have the link to it anymore. http://www.artistlaunch.com/artist4.asp?artistid=4499 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben One Posted February 18, 2005 Share Posted February 18, 2005 Thanks so much for the link! I will head there! Ben Eddie Jobson Tribute Projects Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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