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Demetrio
05-01-2009, 04:25 AM
Two wonderful prog songs come immediately to mind at the moment:

=> Death of Ra, by JADE WARRIOR (from the album "Way of the Sun")

=> Ice, by CAMEL (from the album "I Can See Your House from Here")

Which others would you also mention here?

Demetrio.

Hyfi
05-01-2009, 05:03 AM
I have always loved Santana's Europa.

Mr MidFi
05-01-2009, 05:27 AM
Two by David Gilmour spring instantly to mind; "Time" and "Comfortably Numb".

There's several layers of bittersweet built into the solo that ends Dire Straits' "Tunnel of Love".

J. Macis's solo on Dino Jr.'s "Get Me" cuts to the bone, also.

[edit]
I'm going to leave this post as-is. But for the record, I originally read "prog / rock" to mean "prog OR rock". Hence the presence of J. Macis in my post. And, arguably, Mark Knopfler as well.

3-LockBox
05-01-2009, 06:55 AM
I like the second solo in Camel's Lady Fantasy. Evidently, it has some deep personal meaning to Andy Latimer, who is overcome by emotion around the 5m30s mark of this '80s something performance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrg_B1pCors


Here's Camel - Ice, live (in Brazil I believe):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLarYtjkPRA&feature=related

Demetrio
05-01-2009, 07:30 AM
Just reminded two other greats:

=> The Bells of Notre Dame, by ELOY (from the album "Power and the Passion")

=> Easter, by MARILLION (from the album "Seasons End")

Demetrio.

Auricauricle
05-01-2009, 08:00 AM
C'est la vie on ELP's Pictures at an Exhibition

GMichael
05-01-2009, 09:01 AM
Another vote for Comfortably Numb here.
I also like Cygnus X-1 from Rush's A Farewell to Kings.

Auricauricle
05-01-2009, 09:31 AM
How about Epitaph from King Crimson's In the Court of the Crimson King?

Troy
05-01-2009, 09:51 AM
Steve Hackett- Firth of Fifth.
Roine Stolt- The Magic Circus of Zeb (starts at 3:10).
Todd Rundgren- Utopia (starts at 8:27).

BarryL
05-01-2009, 10:56 AM
Which others would you also mention here?

Demetrio.

Speaking of Camel, After All These Years on the After The Storm prog compilation is outstanding. Apparently it was on the Japanese release of Nod & A Wink.

Also, the demo titled Regal DIvers from the bonus disk of the Flower King's Unfold the Future.

I always loved Steve Howe's guitar solo in Sound Chaser by Yes from the Relayer album.

Slosh
05-01-2009, 11:02 AM
Sorta proggy I guess. This one rips (http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?mp9wmzyt1cm) and starts right at the start of the song.

What do I win? :rolleyes:

3-LockBox
05-01-2009, 11:10 AM
I always loved Steve Howe's guitar solo in Sound Chaser by Yes from the Relayer album.

Howe would have a few. His playing on Ritual. His solo at the end of To Be Over.

Mr MidFi
05-01-2009, 11:54 AM
C'est la vie on ELP's Pictures at an Exhibition

No it wasn't. Perhaps you're thinking of "The Sage". If so, good call.

Auricauricle
05-01-2009, 02:44 PM
Right you are, Mr. MidFi!

Geeze, I'm losin' my touch!

How 'bout Woman from Shawn Phillips' She Was Waiting For Her Mother At the Station in Torino and You know I Love You Baby But It's Getting Too Heavy To Laugh from Second Contribution?

Troy
05-01-2009, 02:50 PM
Sorta proggy I guess. This one rips (http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?mp9wmzyt1cm) and starts right at the start of the song.

What do I win? :rolleyes:

:rolleyes: yourself.

First of all, that mediafire site is about as counterintuitive and advertising laden as possible. What a confusing mess. I think yousendit.com has a similar feature and it's much easier to use.

And how is that Scorpions solo "heartbreaking" exactly?

bobsticks
05-01-2009, 03:37 PM
Mebbe veering slightly off-topic, but when I think of Prog and "heartbreaking" I'm thinking total package...

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3-LockBox
05-01-2009, 04:20 PM
^ Brave is such a good album innit

bobsticks
05-01-2009, 04:29 PM
Yup yup. Clearly I'm not really a progger but those guys always grab me.

Troy
05-01-2009, 04:55 PM
Steve Howe (Yes)- the end of "Gates of Delerium"
Andy Latimer (Camel)- The Hour Candle
Frank Zappa- Watermelon in Easter Hay
Steve Hackett- Spectral Mornings

RoyY51
05-01-2009, 04:55 PM
(aka: old) but one of the most evocative solos in rock was Eric Clapton's in "While My Guitar Gently Weeps". If that doesn't sound like instrumental crying, I don't know what does.

I know that this is not "prog rock" by today's yardstick, but it was for the time

Slosh
05-01-2009, 06:04 PM
And how is that Scorpions solo "heartbreaking" exactly?Lost in translation?

It has always been a favorite of mine. I just chose to ignore the heartbreaking part (and the prog part too :D)

Auricauricle
05-01-2009, 06:34 PM
Beauty, Roy! I still getta shivah listenin' to him do Let it Rain!

Hey, GMbo. What version of Comfortably Numb?

Demetrio
05-02-2009, 06:02 AM
I know that this is not "prog rock" by today's yardstick, but it was for the time

Roy, feel free to list whatever you want. In fact, when I said "into prog / rock" I meant "into prog AND rock".

Cheers,
Demetrio.

Demetrio
05-02-2009, 06:57 AM
A few more highly emotive guitar solos that come to mind at the moment:

=> Chris Rea, on "Where the Blues Come From" (from The Road to Hell & Back DVD)

=> Mark Knopfler, on "Local Hero / Wild Theme" (from Dire Straits' On the Night DVD)

=> Gary Moore, on "Trouble at Home" & "Parisienne Walkways"

=> Toshihiro Tanaka, on "Firefly" (from Bellaphon's Firefly)

Demetrio.

Demetrio
05-02-2009, 09:14 AM
Just reminded me of these two other greats:

=> Jeff Beck on "Two Rivers" (from Beck's Guitar Shop) and on "It's a Miracle" (from Roger Waters' Amused to Death)

Demetrio.

Demetrio
05-03-2009, 10:39 AM
A few more:

=> Peter Frampton, on "Greens", "Changing all the time" & "Can't take that away"

=> Sylvain Gouvernaire (IRIS), on "Obsession"

=> Roye Allbrighton (NEKTAR), on "Countenance" & "The Dream Nebula – Pt. 1"

=> Ian Bairnson, on "Cloudbreak" (from Alan Parsons' On Air)

=> Paul Speer, on "Adagio Dolente"

=> Stephen Stewart (THE ENID), on "Fand", "Jessica's Song", "Hall of Mirrors" & "Sheets of Blue"

=> Grant Jamiesen (THE ENID), on "Sarabande" (from Enid's White Goddess)

=> Lanvall, on "The Path of Love" & "My Will is my Way"

=> Michael Bearpark, on "Together we’re Stranger" (from No-Man's Together we’re Stranger)

Demetrio.

Demetrio
05-04-2009, 03:38 AM
These are absolutely brilliant too:

=> John Lees (BARCLAY JAMES HARVEST), on "Poor Man's Moody Blues" & "Suicide"

=> Roine Solt (KAIPA), on "Skenet bedrar", "Korstäg", "Awakening/Bitterness", "Blow hard all tradewinds", among others

=> Roine Solt (FLOWER KINGS), on "The truth will set you free", "Garden of dreams", "Afterlife", among others

Demetrio.

audio amateur
05-04-2009, 03:56 AM
Sorta proggy I guess. This one rips (http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?mp9wmzyt1cm) and starts right at the start of the song.

What do I win? :rolleyes:
You call that heartbreaking?

unleasHell
05-04-2009, 09:57 PM
Well, let's see there is:
Madhouse by ELOY, with one of the most insane guitar solos ever!
The Rocker by Thin Lizzy, the original version with Eric Bell ripping the guitar apart
La Grange by ZZ Top will destroy your ears if played too loud (what?)

Demetrio
05-05-2009, 10:34 AM
A few more wonderful solos to add:

=> Uwe Karpa (ANYONE'S DAUGHTER), on "Adonis", "Blue house", "Another day like superman", among others

=> Sylvain Gouvernaire (IRIS), on "Obsession" and "Crossing the Desert"

=> Bryan Josh (MOSTLY AUTUMN), on "The last climb", "Heroes never die", "The gap is too wide", among others

Demetrio.