Keyboard Intros and/or Solos in Songs - Album or Live

[Aluminny69]

 

[Aluminny69]

 

[Aluminny69]

Classic!

 

[Aluminny69]

 

[cullaville]

Any keyboard solo by Rick Wakeman or Keith Emerson.

 

[cullaville]

 

[nwhoopfan]

A little bit at the beginning (piano), then an extended end to the song. I'm not positive, but I think Hammond B3 organ? And I'm not ashamed to admit I actually like REO Speedwagon.

 

[TerpWomenFan]

 

[TerpWomenFan]

 

[nwhoopfan]

I don't think there was a whole lot of piano featured in 80s hair metal, but it's used quite effectively here.

Also Bobbie Brown is most famous for being in the Warrant video for "Cherry Pie," but she's in this one too.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Keyboards all the way until the first chorus, when the guitar kicks in.

 

[nwhoopfan]

There probably was quite a bit of synth/keyboards in 80s metal. Long intro on this one.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Okay, maybe a stretch but I felt like doing it. Do MLB stadiums still have organs they play over the PA system?

 

[nwhoopfan]

I'm also stretching from the OP, some of these aren't necessarily intro or solo, but featured throughout a song. Organ probably never really went away, but it certainly faded from being as prominent as it once was. Happy to hear it some new stuff.

 

[nwhoopfan]

I could pick just about any song by this group. Almost all of their songs have long intros. Lots of keyboards/synths. Seen them live a couple times. They have a nice trippy groove, good chill music.

 

[SVCBeercats]

 

[SVCBeercats]

 

[64Zcode]

Pretty sure that the original was by B. Bumble and The Stingers.
ELP - The Nut Rocker

 

[64Zcode]

After Supertramp Roger Hodgson had a couple of his own albums,

 

[SVCBeercats]

 

[64Zcode]

A couple from Saga, Canadian group from the 80s, still popular overseas from what I've read in the YouTube comments.
Someone Should

 

[64Zcode]

Don't Be Late

 

[SVCBeercats]

 

[SVCBeercats]

 

[SVCBeercats]

 

[Bricklayer]

oh boy - this is right in my wheelhouse - i love my keyboards...
let's start with "watcher of the skies" or "firth of fifth" by genesis - there are many more by tony banks.
then pretty much anything from keith emerson of elp, but perhaps "karn evil 9" is his best - on brain salad surgery, the only album that i had to buy twice, as i wore out the first copy.
alaska by the band u.k. - also many more by eddie jobson.
rick wakeman - solo or with yes - too many to mention;
"lingus" by snarky puppy - one of the great keyboard moments in recent music - do yourself a favor.
"spartacus" by triumvirat - love that album, even tho it's a rip off of keith emerson's sound.
jacob collier is an up and coming genius in the music world and it is disgusting how good he is at his age.
toujour l'amour by procul harem - and conquistador, of course.
a whole bunch of stuff by return to forever, ambrosia, zappa, tull (especially thick}, spock's beard (the light or the doorway) - not to mention the obvious ones - billy joel, elton john - and the classics, fats waller, oscar peterson...

 

[Bigboote]

Classic!

(Riders on the Storm)

I couldn't decide between Riders on the Storm and LA Woman from the same album. So here's LA Woman with the brilliant Fender Rhodes and tack piano.

 

[64Zcode]

I couldn't decide between Riders on the Storm and LA Woman from the same album. So here's LA Woman with the brilliant Fender Rhodes and tack piano.

Ooooooof....great tune, great cars in the video. As far as I know, Jim's Shelby is still missing.

 

[64Zcode]

Rachel Sweet recorded this before Pat Benatar recorded her version.

 

[UHF]

Starcastle.
Fountains.
1977.