The title track to TD's Force Majeure has 3 or 4 of 'em: at about the 4:00, 7:00 and 12:00 marks, and 16:00 if you can count an outro.
The title track to TD's Force Majeure has 3 or 4 of 'em: at about the 4:00, 7:00 and 12:00 marks, and 16:00 if you can count an outro.
Oh, and I forgot the Lost Chronicles interlude in the middle of Hawkwind's Neon Skyline! That should have been one of the first ones I thought of!
TFK's & Transatlantic (throw in Spock's Beard too) were the first bands that came to mind for me.
I love these bands, and to my ears, they bring something fresh to the table. Sure, the tastes are familiar, but no less enjoyable.
ELP: middle section to Third Impression. I especially love the "trumpet" melody right after "Let the maps of war be drawn"
Yes: The Devil's Sermon part of Gates of Delirium. Love the melody in the third section, played first by Moraz, then Howe on pedal steel
...or you could love
The "Piltdown Man" guitar section of Echoes. Mindblowingly good.
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Gentle Giant - Playing The Game
This has vocals, so maybe it's considered a bridge?
From 07:13 and 5+ minutes on. There's just nothing else like this - not by a "rock" band anyhow.
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
I LOVE the studio version (which is live anyway), but the first guitar solo on this version is fucking genius. 9/8 groove too. This also shows how good Wackerman is.
EDIT: of course guitar solo no.2 is also pure genius. Imagine trying to transcribe this solo note-for-note, then learning to play it....that would give a huge insight on how amazing Frank's playing is.
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PS - RIDE MY FACE TO CHICAGO!!!!!
"Love In Our Hands" by Pinnacle - the classical intro, the entire middle, the long outro with Ebow - yes, it's my band, but I didn't write it - and it's the best thing Karl Eisenhart has ever written IMO.
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You probably know this already, but Frank said one time there's something like 13 edits in the "studio" version of Drowning Witch, some of which are only about half a minute long. He said the piece was never played correctly live, which is why he had to have so many edits in the basic track, and then he overdubbed all the "sweetening stuff. One would love to hear the original master tapes that the guitar solos came from, to hear how they actually sounded on the night. Frank would record a direct track of guitar, with no amp or effects, than run through whichever amp or effects he wanted in "post production". So on the record you might have a huge distorted Marshall amp tone with a flanger on it, but on the night, the audience may have heard a less distorted tone or a clean tone with just a little reverb or whatever.
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