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Ginger Baker Drum Solo

Blind Faith

"Do What You Like"

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piano solo in scenes from an italian restaurant.

seconded on jungleland.

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Intro (piano, then guitar) to Springsteen's New York City Serenade

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The intro to "Time" by Pink Floyd has always been my favorite.
Many of the intros to Ozzy Ozbourne.
80s music is like the king decade for music intros. So many good ones at from that time.

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Guitar solo in Heartbreaker by Led Zeppelin.

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The first 30 seconds - one fifth of the song - of Little Wing, by Jimi Hendrix
The intro to Gimme Shelter, by The Rolling Stones
The intro to 2000 Light Years from Home, by The Rolling Stones (especially the live version from the 1990 Madrid concert)
The intro to the Nina Simone version of Summertime
The interlude in Sinnerman, by Nina Simone
The intro to Locomotive Breath, by Jethro Tull (especially live, they do it several ways)
The intro to Money for Nothing, by Dire Straits
The Brian Eno/Phillip Glass/David Bowie version of Heroes
The intro to the extended version of Papa was a Rolling Stone, by The Temptations
Half a dozen Nine Inch Nails songs, like La Mer, Memorabilia, Slipping Away, or Ripe (With Decay)

Does the chanting in O Fortuna make the rest of it count as the instrumental part or a song?

Award for best riff: shared by Rocky Mountain Way, by Joe Walsh, Kashmir, by Led Zeppelin, and No One Knows, by Queens of the Stone Age

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The last five or six minutes of Dire Straits' Telegraph Road are as perfect as rock and roll gets.

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Opening for "Thunderstruck" by AC/DC is amazing, gets me pumped everytime.

I also love the opening for "Can't You Hear Me Knocking" by the Rolling Stones.

Free Bird solo obv

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lol, I actually can't stand the Freebird solo. Love the song, and then I always change the station when that solo comes on (the one at the end I mean, the repetetive one that has no variation, not the guitar work earlier in the song, which I think is brilliant)

I'd definitly agree with the coda of Derek and the Dominoes' Layla, thats what I first thought of.

And also agree with whoever said the piano solo (I'd add in the clarinet solo) in Scenes from an Italian restaurant, by Billy Joel.

And,

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Gqv_UNZVAmQ

Root Beer Rag, an intstumental by Billy Joel.

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King Crimson! After getting this brain nudge, I have to say the sax/guitar/bass/drum instrumental in "21st Century Schizoid Man" is crazy good. I listen to this and wonder how many takes it took to get it on tape.

It starts at 4:38 and goes to 5:25. Give it a listen if you've never heard it, it's incredible.
21st Century Schizoid Man



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Thanks! Love the song, but it's been quite a while since I've heard it, great stuff.