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In reply to the discussion: NAME a band that "went synth" and got BETTER. We KNOW Rush wasn't that band. But NAME one! [View all]Amerigo Vespucci
(30,885 posts)21. "The Yes Album" is still my favorite.
I like the whole album, but "Starship Trooper"...specifically the coda, "Wurm"...is the one that slays me every time. The problem with all future live versions is that they didn't follow the layered repetition of the original, which was the thing that made Howe's ending solo "pop." Initially, Wakeman would solo, then Squire had to have a solo, and it was all of these solos that just didn't deliver the same payoff. What made the original great is that it kept building and building and building, and you knew SOMETHING was coming, and there it was, tight, tasty and compact...one of my favorite guitar solos of all time, and DEFINITELY my all-time favorite Steve Howe performance.
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NAME a band that "went synth" and got BETTER. We KNOW Rush wasn't that band. But NAME one! [View all]
Amerigo Vespucci
May 2012
OP
"You only have to listen to solo ... to know that Pink Floyd were more than the sum of their parts"
fishwax
May 2012
#40
Believe it ot not, I know of them...very well...but have never heard them.
Amerigo Vespucci
May 2012
#14
99% of the praise for Antenna was "thank God they've backed off on the synths."
Amerigo Vespucci
May 2012
#9